Category: Internet of Things

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Milo Oostergo. Post by Milo Oostergo, Principal Solutions Architect and Doron Bleiberg, Senior Solution Architect, AWS Startups Introduction Monitoring IoT devices in real time can provide valuable insights that can help you maintain the reliability, availability, and performance of your IoT devices. AWS IoT Core provides integrations with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (“Amazon MSK”) to set up real-time streaming data pipelines. Amazon MSK is popular choice for customers who are familiar with Kafka, need infinite message retention, and are looking for the lowest latency ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming business operations and customer experiences across a variety of industries. This unlimited opportunity enables business transformation, but if not implemented correctly, it also brings security, risk, and privacy concerns, compromising your data and brand. In industrial facilities, OT (Operational Technology) environments are leveraging more IT solutions to improve production output and efficiencies. As digital transformation initiatives continue to accelerate IT/OT convergence, they also blend risks between the IT and OT environments. With the growing number of connected devices in consumer, enterprise ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. Introduction IoT applications and devices can be diverse and are used across industries such as utilities, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and consumer electronics. With the exponential growth of IoT devices and the increasing threat landscape, it also means that IoT security needs to be accounted for and designed into the solution from the ground up. AWS IoT Device Defender is a service that helps secure your IoT device fleet and can be used to audit and monitor your IoT devices at scale. By default, the service enables you ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ramesh Chinnasamy. This post was co-written by John Rotach, Sr. Application Architect at AWS; and Mike Ply, Associate Director, IoT at BISSELL Consumers in countries around the world are finding value in connected vacuum cleaners to tackle life’s everyday messes. As part of the Internet of Things (IoT), connected vacuums provide consumers enhanced functionality, value, and cleaning performance. Vacuum connectivity gives consumers the ability to remotely control and customize vacuum cleaner operations such as starting, stopping, or scheduling cleaning, tracking location, monitoring usage and battery charge, and overall enables ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Nils De Vries. Introduction In this blog, we discuss how University of Technology Sydney (UTS) took on the challenge of at-home rehabilitation for stroke patients using biomedical engineering and robotics, and AWS solutions such as AWS Internet of Things (IoT). Stroke is the third most common cause of death in Australia and a leading cause of disability according to the Australian Brain Foundation. A stroke occurs when blood clots or broken blood vessels cut off the blood supply to the brain. Rehabilitation helps someone who has had a stroke ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Katja-Maja Kroedel. AWS IoT Greengrass v2, announced on December 2020, is an open source edge runtime service that you can use to build, deploy, manage, and locally act on the data that your intelligent IoT devices capture. For example, you can run data prediction machine learning models, filter and aggregate device data as you desire, and use pre-built software components, features, and tools to effectively manage your device fleets at scale. With AWS IoT Greengrass components, which consist of application and runtime libraries, you can develop custom application code, ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Adam Rasheed. Every day, we hear from our customers about the desire to implement Digital Twins to improve operations, product offerings, and business value delivered to their own end customers. The concept of twins is not new and dates back to the early days of the space program. The Apollo 13 mission in the 1960s is an early use case of using twins to model the state of the damaged spacecraft and solve the problems necessary to return the astronaut crew safely back to Earth. In more recent times, ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Thomas Kriechbaumer. The Internet of Things (IoT) describes services and solutions to monitor and control real world objects, such as industrial equipment, light switches, thermostats, sensors and actuators. AWS offers the AWS IoT Core service that allows such devices to connect to the AWS Cloud. The AWS IoT Message Broker is the central point to securely transmit messages to and from all your devices and applications using the HTTPS and MQTT protocols. With devices deployed in a variety of different environments, locations, and scenarios, our customers want flexibility and ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. In this post we will provide guidance to help industrial customers respond to the recently disclosed Log4j vulnerability. This post covers how to identify if you are susceptible to the issue, and then how to address the vulnerability in OT and IIoT environments. The Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 3.1 base score of 10.0) in the ubiquitous logging platform Apache Log4j. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a remote code execution on the vulnerable platform. Version 2 of Log4j, between versions 2.0-beta-9 ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ali Benfattoum. Using firewalls is a common way to protect and secure access to IoT devices. Yet, it’s challenging to access and manage devices deployed at remote sites, behind firewalls that block all inbound traffic. Troubleshooting devices can involve sending technicians onsite to connect to those devices. This increases the complexity and the cost of device management. Secure Tunneling is a feature of AWS IoT Device Management that helps customers accessing remote devices over a secure connection that is managed by AWS IoT. Secure Tunneling does not require updates ... Read More