Benjamin Cabé's blog

About a year ago, we realized that although the IoT is on everyone’s lips, there is a huge lack of technical resources available for people interested in learning more and getting their hands dirty with the solutions available today. Our Virtual IoT meetup group is an attempt, pretty successful so...

One of the great strengths of LightweightM2M (LwM2M) is to be… ahem… lightweight! The fact that it relies on CoAP for the communication, and that all the standard resources are meant to be very concise really helps making very small implementations that can fit in constrained devices. In the video...

There are several ongoing initiatives that aim at standardizing protocols and interfaces in order to enable a truly interoperable Internet of Things. On the protocol front, I would certainly argue that the technology is already there and over the last decade standards organizations like OASIS, IETF or the Bluetooth SIG...

I’ve recently been playing around with Snappy Ubuntu Core, and I thought it would be a nice exercise to try and package Mosquitto as a so-called “Snap”. This blog post will give you a quick introduction to Snappy, and what it means to have a technology like Mosquitto available as...

We are happy to co-organize an IoT breakfast together with Eclipse Foundation member SQS, on May 21 in Madrid (Ayre Gran Hotel Colón). I’ve already been asked “An IoT breakfast? What’s that!?” – well, think of it as your regular meetup, only we’re doing it in the morning rather than...

At EclipseCon 2015, I spoke with Alex Blewitt from InfoQ, and gave an update on the cool stuff happening at Eclipse IoT. It is hard to believe that it is only two years since my last interview with Alex – so many new projects and companies involved today! Check out...

Last week I gave a presentation at Devoxx and shared the floor with my esteemed colleague Wayne Beaton. While he covered some of the very cool feature being baked into the Eclipse IDE for the upcoming Mars release, I did talk about the Eclipse IoT technology portfolio, in particular what...

Here is the recording of my presentation on Device Management with LwM2M at FOSDEM’15. Abstract: LwM2M is a standard for device management that solves many of the issues M2M and IoT solutions makers have faced in the past (or, let’s be realistic, are still facing), with custom protocols or even...

Oh boy, this has been a difficult call, but we are happy to finally be able to announce the three winners of our Open IoT Challenge! The challenge has been keeping our participants busy for two months, and I’ve already blogged about the ten awesome projects that actually completed their...

The Open IoT challenge ended earlier this week, and it was pretty exciting to see the final submissions coming in the form of blog posts and video during the last hours before the deadline. Below are the 10 projects who validated their participation to the challenge, together with the links...