IOT 101

Well, the answer is simple - it’s another IoT platform and this one is developed by IBM. As you can read in our earlier post Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for IIoT Platforms in 2018 - IBM is in Niche Players Quadrant, but very close to Visionaries Quadrant. Recent IBM’s acquisition of  Red Hat for 34 billion USD will definitely help them in getting there and share the same Gartner’s Magic Quadrant with PTC, SAP and Hitachi. Red Hat will help IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Division for better positioning in cloud market and through OpenStack virtualization portfolio they will have a strong entry…

Goal of Wi-SUN (Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network) is to create interoperable Smart Utility and Smart City networks from multiple vendors, as stated in IEEE 802.15.4g - open wireless standard specification for Smart Utility Networks. Wi-SUN provides FAN (Field Area Network), a wireless mesh networks for AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure), distribution automation, home energy management and other large scale outdoor network applications (asset management, environmental monitoring, agriculture monitoring, health monitoring). Wi-SUN is developing testing programs not just for IEEE 802.15.4g compliance, but also for confirmation of interoperability with other vendors - Wi-SUN Certified. Thus large scale roll-outs are faster, easier to…

Lately there’s a lot of talk about blockchain usage in IoT world, so I decided to investigate what’s it all about and in this post I’ll share with you some of my findings. First of all, what is a blockchain?  Blockchain is a list of data records called blocks, each of them contains a cryptographic hash of a previous one, then timestamp and transaction data. Blockchain is design in a way that data records in a any block can’t be modified afterwards without modifying all the linked blocks and also there’s a anonymous peer 2 peer network community taking care…

There’s a lot of talk about IoT and AI, so in this post we will cover the basics - what is AI (Artificial Intelligence)? One of the definitions says: Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. AI is academic discipline since 1956. and it had its ups and downs - today it’s gaining popularity as great improvements were made in computing power, storage, big data and advanced algorithms. Traditional AI research are focused on: reasoning, problem solving, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception,…

Edge computing is when data collected from the sensors is not being computed centrally in the cloud, but rather stored and computed on the Edge devices (nodes) of an IoT network. Thus we can look at Edge computing as some kind of cloud computing optimization method, since some part of the IoT application is shifted on the Edge which is actually in contact to the physical world. Why would we now go back to computing on the Edge of the network when we have all moved to the cloud? There are numerous reasons, but one of them is definitely the…

I’ll give you one of the definitions I liked the most: “The digital twin is the virtual representation of a physical object or system across its life-cycle. It uses real-time data and other sources to enable learning, reasoning, and dynamically re-calibrating for improved decision making”. Digital twin concept is present since 2003. and it was used by NASA for pairing of technologies for its Apollo missions. Idea behind digital twins is to make sure that outages and system breakdowns are reduced to the bare minimum. How to achieve this? Well, this digital replica uses software analytics for all the historical and…