Category: Internet of Things

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Rudy Chetty. For many people, getting a package delivered from Amazon is painless. However, problems can arise in access-controlled properties such as apartment complexes, condominiums, and businesses. This post tells how an Amazon team developed Amazon Key for Business to address this issue.Overview Amazon strives to make its package delivery process quick and easy for customers. However, sometimes an Amazon delivery associate can’t access a building for several reasons: The mail room is on a floor accessible only to authorized residents. The leasing office or business reception area is ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Craig Lawton. Industrial customers are increasingly using the AWS Cloud to meet their targets for predictive quality, predictive maintenance, and asset condition monitoring. For more examples, see the Top Use Cases for Industrial IoT Applications ebook. The first of these, predictive quality, is often strongly correlated with the level of safety in an operating environment.In this post, I describe a safety solution that harnesses AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass. It was created by Bigmate, an AWS customer. Bigmate has integrated these services with preexisting CCTV cameras placed ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Martin Sirull. There’s a new way for you to act on information discovered by AWS IoT Device Defender audits. Now you can create mitigation actions for audit results that automate a response to alerts from an audit.AWS IoT Device Defender customers often say that it’s invaluable for how AWS gives them visibility into potential malicious device activity. You can do the following: ·      Audit customer fleet to check for security best practices ·      Detect unusual activity by monitoring the behavior of your devices Using the auditing capability of AWS, ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Bryant Bost. AWS IoT Greengrass extends AWS managed services to edge device systems, providing security, message routing, and local state processing. It also provides a central hub for connectivity with other AWS services using AWS Lambda functions.Some edge systems with multiple devices produce high-frequency updates, such as device shadow updates. It can be difficult to determine the definitive state of the system at a particular point in time. It also may prove difficult to move data from the edge to the cloud for further processing. Pre-processing data from AWS ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Harshil Shah. The AWS IoT Analytics platform offers configurable dataflows for processing messages from IoT devices, which can be either uni-schema or multi-schema. When you have billions of messages and millions of IoT devices, you need efficient designs for message-processing dataflows.In this post, you do a deep dive into various aspects of designing dataflows. You learn about the types of dataflows, and then look at a simple use case and try to design a dataflow to match its example requirements. Overview This post discusses the following topics: Types of ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. Hardware and operating systems for edge devices are built and delivered to customers in a wide range of form factors, such as consumer gateways, industrial controllers, and in-vehicle infotainment systems.Original design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) building commercial off-the-shelf products decide which hardware and software combinations to use. System integrators (SIs) developing broad solutions and customers creating customized hardware solutions also design edge solutions. Depending on the target use case, they may decide to use a specific type of Embedded Linux distribution that provides core ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ashley Lyon. This post is contributed by Maureen Lonergan, Director, AWS Training and CertificationAWS Training and Certification now offers a new course through edX entitled AWS IoT: Developing and Deploying an Internet of Things. This self-paced digital course focuses on developing skills to build and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for industrial, commercial, or consumer applications. These solutions include Connected Home and Industrial IoT. The course was developed by AWS IoT experts and explains the following: What the Internet of Things is and how it works. How to ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Hannah Nilsson. The first-ever re:Inforce is almost here! As you plan your agenda, we don’t want you to miss any IoT sessions. These sessions will help you better understand the best practices and technology to prepare for, detect, contain, eradicate, and respond to potential threats to your IoT devices, connections, and data. To protect users, devices, and companies, IoT devices and their data must be secured. Here are sessions from this year’s lineup to help you plan your event agenda. For a full list of sessions, see the re:Inforce ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Dan Noal. Amazon FreeRTOS 201906.00 Major is now generally available. Amazon FreeRTOS extends the FreeRTOS kernel with individual software libraries, making it faster and easier to securely connect microcontroller-based IoT devices to the cloud.This major release provides significant improvements to several underlying libraries, as well as an update to overall Amazon FreeRTOS versioning: General availability of Bluetooth Low Energy support MQTT library v2.0.0 Amazon FreeRTOS folder structure changes CMake Improvements to other existing libraries Additional features Update to release numbering General availability of Bluetooth Low Energy support We moved ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Tanmoy Sen. Today, AWS announced general availability for Bluetooth Low Energy support in Amazon FreeRTOS. This release simplifies your development process to securely connect Amazon FreeRTOS devices using Bluetooth Low Energy to AWS IoT Core via Android and iOS devices. It also makes it easier to remotely update firmware on Amazon FreeRTOS devices using Bluetooth Low Energy.Millions of devices rely on Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, including fitness trackers, headsets, smaller, battery-operated sensors, and much more. Most of these devices can benefit from connecting to AWS IoT. Currently, to add Bluetooth Low ... Read More