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On Wednesday the Eclipse Foundation together with Grenoble’s Computer Science Lab ( LIG) organized an IoT day. It was a pretty cool event, with 100+ participants and really good presentations. In particular, I liked the mix in the attendance: people with a research background, people coming from the M2M and...

April 9 is Global IoT Day, so we have decided to organize a virtual conference, called IoTLive. In partnership with Postscapes (a great resource of IoT information) we plan to host a number of panel sessions on a variety of topics, including: The Business of IoT Industry Solutions (ex connected...

Last fall we started a process to update the Eclipse logo. The existing logo had not been change since Eclipse was launched and it was showing its age. I am happy to announce we have finished the process and am pleased to introduce the updated Eclipse logo. In December we...

I very well remember my first day at Sierra Wireless, when it was still a different company named Anyware Technologies. That day I wrote my very first Eclipse plug-in to customize the Console view, and I was almost immediately and genuinely amazed by the versatility of the Eclipse platform. Later...

During the weekend of February 1st, I had the opportunity to attend FOSDEM in Brussels. It was only my second year but it’s definitely one of the events I enjoy attending the most: the crowd is very diverse and very curious, there are tons of talks that you can attend...

We are in the process of renaming the Eclipse M2M initiative to Eclipse IoT. As I mentioned before, the working groups agreed to the change in December. It is a reflection that the tech industry is migrating to the more general and inclusive term ‘Internet of Things’ or IoT. I...

Weekly set of links from the IoT and M2M industry: 1. Cisco announces their IOx platform with the ‘catchy’ term fog computing. Stacey Higginbotham from GigaOm does a nice job explaining the significance. This is also a good video from Cisco explaining the announcement. 2. Microsoft seems to be now...

This past Tuesday we hosted a conference call for all of the Eclipse IoT project leaders. We have many industry experts working on open source projects at Eclipse so there is an amazing opportunity to learn from each other. We also want to create an environment to these experts can...

Time to get back to publishing some IoT links that I discovered during my weekly research. 1. 2014 Analyst Predictions for IoT/M2M – IDC – Machina Research 2. Lots of MQTT News – OASIS announce a 30 day public review of the MQTT spec meaning MQTT is getting close to...

Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) are important trends in the software and technology industry. As many know, Eclipse is building a great open source IoT community. One thing important for any new community is education. This is why I am very excited that we offering an opportunity for...