Category: Internet of Things

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Dr. Markus Bestehorn. Gaining access to sensor data or telemetry of industrial machines is a key requirement for implementing high-value use cases around smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0. For instance, predictive maintenance or automated quality control is not possible without having such data at a high temporal resolution.Given the heterogeneous environment of modern industrial production lines with many different machine types, it’s difficult to access machine data because the machines’ interfaces may use different protocols. This post provides a detailed look at the conversion of industrial protocols and extracting ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Asim Kumar Sasmal. Post by Asim Kumar Sasmal, an AWS Senior Data Architect, and Vikas Panghal, an AWS Senior Product Manager AWS IoT Analytics offers two new features to integrate IoT data ingested through AWS IoT Analytics with your data lake in your own AWS account: customer-managed Amazon S3 and dataset content delivery to Amazon S3. Previously, your AWS IoT Analytics data could only be used with an Amazon S3 bucket managed by the AWS IoT Analytics service. This post describes a new end-to-end flexible, cost-effective, secure, and reliable solution to ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Asim Kumar Sasmal. Post by Asim Kumar Sasmal, Senior Data Architect, and Mark Gilbert, Senior Consultant in the IoT Global Specialty Practice of AWS Professional Services [Before reading this post, read Part 1 in the series.] In Part 1 of this series, you saw how to ingest data from industrial sites in a secure, cost-effective, and reliable manner using AWS IoT SiteWise (under limited preview). In Part 2, you learn how to: Model your assets from the data ingested in Part 1 using AWS IoT SiteWise asset modeling. Enable conditions monitoring ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Asim Kumar Sasmal. Post by Asim Kumar Sasmal, Senior Data Architect, and Mark Gilbert, Senior Consultant in the IoT Global Specialty Practice of AWS Professional Services Industrial IoT customers need a secure, cost-effective, and reliable end-to-end field-to-cloud solution that does the following: Ingests all their data from hundreds of industrial sites that have tens of thousands of PLCs/sensors. Reacts to the data by democratizing access in near-real time for unbounded analytics opportunities. Visualizes the analytical insights. In this two-part post, you walk through examples of using AWS IoT to solve ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Tanmoy Sen. Today, AWS announced general availability for HTTPS client support in Amazon FreeRTOS. Now you can use the HTTP/HTTPS protocol to connect your microcontroller-based IoT devices to AWS IoT Core and download files to those devices.You might want to use HTTPS on your IoT devices running Amazon FreeRTOS for a variety of reasons: To download new features, images, and security patches to your home appliances To add music files to your library To conform to existing HTTPS-based legacy systems For higher-bandwidth downloads With this release, you can download ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Dan Noal. AWS intends to provide long-term support (LTS) releases with Amazon FreeRTOS. We are communicating this intent before the first LTS release of Amazon FreeRTOS so that you can incorporate this information into your project planning.Device manufacturers adopting embedded OS solutions for their IoT projects consider software development life cycle implications from initial development through deployment and post-deployment support. They often choose LTS releases for product launches. LTS releases offer a more stable foundation than standard releases as manufacturers deploy and later update devices in the field. Adopting ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Nima Sharifi Mehr. The Internet of Things (IoT) solutions help transform your operations and customer experiences across a variety of industries and uses. That unlimited opportunity brings excitement, but it also brings security, risk, and privacy concerns.To protect customers, devices, and companies, every IoT solution should start and end with security.  The best IoT security solution offers multi-layered protection from the edge to the cloud, letting you secure your IoT devices, connectivity, and data. Ideally, you could rely on a publicly known and reusable list of security practices for ... Read More

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