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Next year’s Eclipse simultaneous release name has been chosen by the community. In 2018, the simultaneous release name will be Eclipse Photon! Personally, I think it’s an awesome name #EclipsePhoton. I can’t wait to see the design we come up with for the official release! I’m sure Kat Hirsch has...

We are planning another Eclipse IoT Day, this time in San Jose, CA on March 20. It will be co-located with Eclipse Converge and Devoxx US. In San Jose, the schedule will be highlighting many of the new projects and participants in the Eclipse IoT community, including: A session on...

The micro:bit is one of the best IoT prototyping platforms I’ve come across in the past few months. The main MCU is a Nordic nRF51822 with 16K RAM and 256K Flash. A Freescale KL26Z is used for conveniently implementing a USB interface as well as a mass storage driver so...

As we are wrapping up the year, it is a good time to reflect on all the great things that have happened to the Eclipse IoT community this year. Eclipse IoT in 4 figures The 26 different open-source projects that are hosted at Eclipse IoT total 2.3M+ lines of code...

2016 has been an incredible year for the IoT industry and the pace of innovation looks like it will accelerate in 2017. Last week I participated in a webinar, organized by Canonical, on the IoT trends to watch in 2017. It was a really good discussion, so feel free to...

A couple of days ago, Google announced that they were essentially rebranding Brillo to Android Things (I do love that name, by the way!), and finally opening it for a Developer Preview. There are a few things I already like very much in Android Things: It is already supported on...

The third edition of the Open IoT Challenge officially started one week ago. More than 80 teams have submitted their entries and are now in the running to win the Open IoT Challenge 3.0! Participants have about three months to complete their solution and show the world how open source...

At EclipseCon Europe I spent a few minutes chatting with István Ráth from IncQuery Labs. He was demoing a pretty awesome set of development tools for safety-critical domains (here: railway inter-locking system), and showing how to use them in combination with some cool Eclipse IoT Projects such as Eclipse Paho...

AF3 (AutoFOCUS3) is an open-source, model-based, development tool for distributed, reactive, embedded software systems. At EclipseCon Europe 2016, I spent a few minutes chatting with Johannes Eder and Thomas Böhm from the project team to learn more about the project. You can check out the project website at http://af3.fortiss.org The...

Today we announced a collaboration between Bosch, Red Hat and Eurotech to begin the work to create interoperable IoT components for an IoT cloud platform. This is the first step towards creating an open source IoT cloud platform that I hope one day will become the defacto implementation for IoT...