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Entrepreneur: The IoT Will Have Arrived When You Don’t Even Notice It’s There Connected Devices and IoT By Howdy Pierce I’ve got a new article at Entrepreneur magazine: “The Internet of Things Will Have Arrived When You Don’t Even Notice It’s There.” For most devices, Internet connectivity just isn’t that compelling. Really: How much do I care about my hot water heater? I certainly don’t need regular communications with it. I just want to know… View Article Details

The SSL/TLS Handshake Connected Devices and IoT By Bernard Vachon I was asked by ECN magazine to contribute an article about how SSL/TLS works: It doesn’t seem like too long ago when embedded devices were, by their very nature, somewhat immune to security treats. As we scatter embedded devices everywhere and connect them to the all mighty cloud, we not only increase our exposure to… View Article Details

Pro1 Enters Smart Thermostat Market Connected Devices and IoT By Howdy Pierce Our customer Pro1 — the second-largest thermostat vendor in North America — was featured in an article in the Boulder Daily Camera over the weekend: And thanks to a coordinated effort of businesses in Boulder County, Pro1 is looking to expand that market share with an “Internet of Things” technology that would compete with the… View Article Details

Some Predictions About the IoT in 2015 Connected Devices and IoT By Matt Osminer I generally am not a fan of the lists-of-predictions articles that tend to come out at the beginning of a year, but when I was approached by SiliconANGLE to make some predictions about the Internet of Things in 2015, I couldn’t resist: In 2015, we will see the proliferation of frameworks for communicating with and… View Article Details

Television’s Six Eras Video By Cardinal Peak Staff In order to explain the history of how people consume entertainment video, we worked up the following infographic: It’s also available as a PDF. Hope you enjoy it. Details

Sometimes, Noise Helps Image Processing By Mike Perkins I’ve been working on a fun problem lately that involves estimating a scalar parameter from a set of repeated observations. It turns out that in certain circumstances, the presence of noise in the system can actually make the estimate more accurate, which is a little counterintuitive and also kind of cool. In my case, I… View Article Details

EE Times: How to Build Video Devices for the IoT Connected Devices and IoT By Mike Perkins I’ve got a new blog post up at EE Times, talking about how to build video devices for the Internet of Things: Video cameras are uniquely compelling sensors because vision is our dominant sense. Video is invaluable for applications such as license plate recognition, robot navigation, and quality monitoring. Unfortunately, video is also one of… View Article Details

CurrentC and the Problem of Consortia Outsourced Engineering By Howdy Pierce Two friends — both evangelical acolytes of the Church of Apple — have been talking this week about the news that ApplePay and Google Wallet have been turned off by retailers who are backing a not-yet-released payment alternative called CurrentC. (And really, how dare RiteAid try to grab a few cents from each transaction? Clearly… View Article Details

When Will the Apple Watch Support Android? Connected Devices and IoT By Howdy Pierce I’m sipping coffee while listening to my sweet new U2 album, and I’m pondering the future of openness with the Apple Watch. I haven’t seen any commentary about the fact that at launch it will only work with a recent iPhone. I certainly could be wrong, but I don’t think this state of affairs will… View Article Details

Four Things to Consider About Code Re-Use Outsourced Engineering By Stefanie Diesi Software developers love writing new code. There’s something thrilling and exciting about designing creative, efficient solutions to new problems. Given the chance, many would rather write something new than reuse existing code, but despite what developers want, rewriting an entire codebase is not always good for business. At the other end of the spectrum, most… View Article Details

Inside-Out Security for the IoT Connected Devices and IoT By Matt Osminer I’ve got a new blog post up on the Altera system design blog. It’s about designing secure IoT devices: Many Internet of Things (IoT) devices are real-world objects like appliances and thermostats, and therefore network security should be a paramount concern for vendors of IoT systems. Nothing erodes trust faster than real-world and personal consequences:… View Article Details

Straddling the Boundary of Free and Proprietary Software Software Development By Dave Beal Cardinal Peak is currently developing an embedded product for a customer whose business is innovative lighting products. We have chosen to base the embedded system on Linux because it includes a wealth of infrastructure, it is open source and royalty free, and we have substantial experience with it. The embedded system is configured with an… View Article Details