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I am a big believer that the maker/open hardware community is and will be a huge engine of innovation for the Internet of Things (IoT). Devices like, Arduino, BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi’s make it so easy to prototype and create new IoT solutions. Of course with open source software for...

Last week I spoke at the IoT World event in Palo Alto. It was one of the best IoT events I’ve attended with lots of interesting speakers and attendees. Here are some links and highlights: 1. IoT Market Segmentation. Patrick Moorehead, an industry analyst, did a presentation on the market...

We have published the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2014. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey this year. The complete results and data are available for anyone to download [ xls] [ ods]. As in other years, I think the results provide an interesting perspective on...

We have launched the new www.eclipse.org web site. The goal is to have a more modern looking and simplified experience for individuals coming to eclipse.org. The feedback we received on the beta was very positive, so I think we have achieved the goal. I personally think the new site looks...

In just about a week is EclipseCon France, and here’s one more reason why it’s going to be awesome! This year you will all be actors of a real-world Internet of Things setup, that leverages several Eclipse IoT technologies. We’ve been wanting to do this for a couple years, and...

Interesting links for the IoT industry this past week. 1. Part of the recent Apple announcement was their entry into the home automation market with HomeKit. Lots of excitement from the Apple fans. I would expect Google with have something similar to announce at Google I/O later this month. Home...

Some interesting links to IoT articles and news from the last 2 weeks. 1. The Economist seems to be getting tired of the hype around the Internet of Things, and it is just getting started. The article titled ‘The internet of nothings’ focuses mostly on the consumer side of IoT...

Some interesting links from the past week in the IoT Industry: 1. Last week I attended the IoT DevCon. Two presentations that I didn’t get to attend but their slides certainly look interesting: – Understanding the Internet of Things Protocol comparing MQTT, DDS, AMQP, XMPP. Not sure I agree with...

As I mentioned before, we are in the process of re-doing the www.eclipse.org website. Thank you to everyone that has already provided feedback. Overall, the feedback has been very positive. It would seem the community is ready for the change. Our plan moving forward is to switch over to the...

I’m working out some of the queries that I’m going run to gather some stats for the Eclipse Luna release on June 25/2014. I’m starting with the Git repositories. The Git query is relatively simple, taking all commits that have occurred since the Kepler release on all branches into consideration...