Blog Posts

    The Open IoT Challenge has officially started!

    by Benjamin Cabé

    The Open IoT Challenge has received an incredible amount of interest so far, and it is 45 projects in total who entered the challenge! They now have about a month to work on their solution and demonstrate why they deserve to win. We expect all the challengers to document the...

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    Thank you to our Friends in 2014

    by Anonymous

    The Friends of Eclipse program allows individuals to support and contribute back to the Eclipse community. Over the last several years, the program has been a great success and the donations help support many of the services provided by the Foundation. In 2014, participation in the Friends of Eclipse was...

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    Eclipse Ships Luna SR1a Git Security Release

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Several weeks ago, the Git community announced a new 2.2.1 release which fixed a serious security vulnerability. You can read more here and here. The Eclipse JGit project had their fix available the day that the vulnerability was announced. However, since the vast majority of Eclipse users get their Eclipse...

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    Open IoT Challenge FAQ

    by Benjamin Cabé

    The feedback following the announcement of the Open IoT challenge has been fantastic! The good news is that we’ve already improved the prize pool, and we are also happy to announce that the best applications will be eligible to get $150 worth of hardware parts required to build the final...

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    Announcing the Open IoT challenge

    by Benjamin Cabé

    2014 is almost over, and one of the first big events for Eclipse IoT next year will be EclipseCon 2015, March 9-12 in Burlingame, California. If you haven’t seen the EclipseCon program already, I highly encourage you to check out all the great sessions that we have selected as part...

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    ABCs of IoT Consortiums

    by Anonymous

    The Internet of Things industry has taken off over the last two years. One activity I have been monitoring is how industry consortiums have been responding to IoT. At Eclipse IoT we have a goal of implementing open IoT standards, so understanding how different consortiums, old and new, are serving...

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    Espruino Pico on Kickstarter: only 4 days to go!

    by Benjamin Cabé

    If you follow our regular IoT hangouts, you probably have seen this presentation of the Espruino Pico already: If you don’t, you really want to check out espruino.com! Espruino is an Open Source and Open Hardware project that provides a super-tiny implementation of Javascript that runs on micro-controllers. The Espruino...

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    Eclipse IoT by the numbers

    by Benjamin Cabé

    Three years ago, Sierra Wireless, IBM and Eurotech teamed up to create a Working Group that would help address Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) market fragmentation by promoting the use of open source implementations and open standards. It’s incredible how much our community has grown since then, and...

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    The Internet of Things Will be Built on Open Source

    by Mike Milinkovich

    This post was originally published on the Bosch Connected World Blog. The Internet of Things is poised to become the next wave of technology to fundamentally change how humanity works, plays, and interacts with their environment. It is expected to transform everything from manufacturing to care for the elderly. The...

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