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Links for the past week in the IoT and M2M industry. 1. 10 companies making the Internet of Things a Reality Interesting list of companies, especially since I have not heard of some of them, ex Schneider and Grundfos. The list is also missing some important companies, like GE, but...

James Governor recently blogged about his desire to have a good gender balance for his upcoming Thingmonk conference. This is something that I would like to see at our EclipseCon conferences. At the most recent EclipseCon Europe event we had only 27 women out of 589 attendees. Not very good...

If you’re using the task-focused UI from Mylyn, then you get a lot of help when it comes to assembling a message for your commit (if you’re not using the task-focused UI from Mylyn, then you need to re-examine your wasted life). Mylyn automatically populates the commit message in the...

Some IoT / M2M links from last week. 1. New Eclipse Project Proposal: Krikkit. Project proposal from Cisco about making edge devices smarter about IoT data. 2. New SmartHome Consortium including ABB, Bosch, Cisco and LG These companies should really look at Eclipse SmartHome. It would appear to help solve...

With the adoption of Git and Gerrit, and the implementation of the new Contributor License Agreements (CLA) as part of our social coding efforts, contributing to Eclipse projects has never been easier. While it is easier, there are still important requirements that need to be met.. We’ve implemented some extensions...

Weekly links from the IoT and M2M industry. 1. Good article on ‘ Why open hardware matters’ Interesting to see Arduino and BeagleBone collaborating. Lots of people think Raspberry Pi is open hardware but in reality it is just really accessible hardware. It also seems like the Raspberry Pi has...

At the beginning of October 2013, I delivered a draft of the next revision of the Eclipse Development Process to the Eclipse Architecture Council for their review and approval. The “delivery” was actually pretty uneventful as the council has been actively involved in the construction of this draft for several...

EclipseCon Europe starts is less than 2 weeks! As I am spending a lot my time on M2M and IoT I am really looking forward to the great line-up of M2M sessions. If you are interested in Eclipse M2M then it is definitely worth your time to attend. Bringing M2M...

Interesting links from the M2M and IoT world. IoT meets the Cloud – OpenIoT OpenIoT is a EU funded project to research IoT and the cloud. Not really sure what to make of it but something to watch. Comparing Protocols Another article comparing IoT protocols. Unfortunately it is missing CoAP...

What does it mean to be an interested party in an Eclipse project proposal? For an interesting party, come to EclipseCon Europe 2013! (Photo courtesy of Anne Jacko.) Interest. Really, that’s it. There is no implication beyond “I’m interested in this project and will watch its development”. It does not...