Category: Internet of Things

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Hannah Nilsson. At AWS, we build technology to help customers and partners like Bose, Vizio, LG, British Gas Centrica Connected Home, Ayla, NXP, and more solve real world problems and unlock possibilities to create better business outcomes and new consumer experiences. Yesterday, IoT World named AWS IoT the “Best Consumer IoT Solution” for 2020. We are grateful to the IoT World team and panel of judges for this honor, and commend our ecosystem peers who were shortlisted. This award is an opportunity for us reflect on the journey we’ve forged ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Amanda Lowe. There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. Companies are discovering that these “things” not previously connected to the Internet can provide intelligence into new areas of their business. The result? All aspects of an enterprise can be data-driven, which leads to insights that they can use to improve the customer experience, increase operational efficiency, and fuel innovation. Companies can understand their business operations better and make accurate decisions about their products, processes, and customer satisfaction faster than ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Peter Atanasovski. Interview with Nihar Patel and Sarah CooperTogether with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and integration partner Siemens, Volkswagen is opening up the Industrial Cloud to other companies from the engineering and technology sectors. In an interview, leading managers Nihar Patel (Executive Vice President New Business Development at Volkswagen AG.) and Sarah Cooper (General Manager of IoT Solutions at Amazon Web Services, Inc.) explain the advantages of new partnerships and give an outlook on the further expansion of the cloud. Volkswagen and AWS have been working on the Industrial ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Amanda Lowe. Manufacturing industries only realize 20 to 30 percent of the value of their data. By consistently leveraging the value of their data, manufacturing companies could reduce product development costs by up to 50 percent and operating costs by up to 25 percent, while increasing their gross margins by one third[1]. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is a data lever – it brings machines, field assets at the edge, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve the performance and productivity of industrial processes. With IIoT, industrial companies can digitize ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Yuxin Yang. AWS continually evolves our edge computing offerings to provide customers with the technology they need to extend AWS services to edge devices, such as consumer products or manufacturing equipment, and enable them to act intelligently. This helps customers avoid unnecessary cost and latency, and empower customers with the ability to manage edge devices securely and efficiently.You can use AWS IoT Greengrass to extend a wide range of AWS cloud technologies to your edge devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Raleigh Murch. Customers use AWS IoT to analyze the data generated by their IoT devices to quickly gain meaningful insights about their business. This helps them solve a variety of problems, such as identifying required improvements to their manufacturing processes, predicting device failures, or quickly diagnosing and troubleshooting device issues for their customers.  However, before IoT devices can connect to the cloud and do useful work, devices need to be provisioned. IoT device provisioning refers to the process of configuring devices with unique identities (e.g. X.509 certificate and a ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. Enabling operational data connectivity to AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to the edge to provide tools to act locally on the OT data, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass and the Cirrus Link MQTT Transmission module on the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation, industrial data from PLCs, RTUs and sensors can utilize AWS Lambda functions, execute predictions based on machine learning models, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices. Here is the solution architecture. Configuring ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Mehdi Amrane. Organizations with large numbers of IoT devices need efficient solutions to track events occurring across multiple devices, in order to identify operational issues and act upon them. This post covers the use case of a fictitious organization AcmeTracker that offers services to track the geolocation of a wide suite of assets (such as vehicles), by using IoT devices to monitor and notify support teams when an asset is outside of its expected geolocation boundaries. The organization AcmeTracker uses AWS IoT services to manage the devices and its ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Rodrigo Merino. Industrial IoT (IIoT) bridges the gap between industrial equipment and automation networks (usually called OT, Operations Technology) and Information Technology (IT). In IT, use of new technologies such as machine learning, cloud, mobile, and edge computing are becoming commonplace. IIoT brings machines, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve performance, productivity, and efficiency of industrial processes enabling customers to turn to IIoT applications for predictive quality and maintenance and to remotely monitor their operations from anywhere.But realizing the value of IIoT is challenging and usually there ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Chris Snowden. IntroductionSolutions architects, developers, and system designers building IoT solutions need ways to properly secure data and functions that operate on data across the entire solution landscape. In this post, we describe a few design options for scaling authorization policies focused on multi-user and multi-device use cases with AWS IoT Core. We cover several scenarios, including varying levels of device-to-user cardinality and scale. This information is helpful for making security design and architecture decisions for solutions built on AWS IoT services. Security coverage is needed at each tier, ... Read More