IoT

Today we are announcing the Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds, a new initiative for driving adoption of open source and open standards in the industry. For more than five years, over 30 open source projects have been calling Eclipse IoT home. Yet, it doesn’t necessarily make it easy for people to...

In February & March 2017, we conducted the third annual IoT Developer Survey and 713 of you took the time to complete it! Thank you for contributing to this initiative. It might only a small sample, but it gives many IoT community, companies, and individuals a glimpse into what is...

In less than two weeks, we will be at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA.We’re really excited! We will be involved in many aspects of the conference including the Red Hat IoT Partner Showcase, where we will be demoing something very cool! Stay tuned for the details.Benjamin Cabé will...

Each month, I work with various technical experts to create and publish a new issue of the Eclipse Newsletter. The theme changes every month; this month it was Eclipse IoT! The articles feature four great IoT projects: Eclipse Hono, Eclipse ioFog, Eclipse Kapua, and Eclipse Vorto. Thank you to the...

In case you missed the Eclipse IoT announcement last week, the Open IoT Challenge 3.0 winners were announced!And the winners are… Congratulations to the InMoodForLife team for coming in first. Their solution analyzes and monitors the sleep patterns of individuals affected by bipolar disorder. The goal of the solution is...

Monday was a big day for the Open IoT Challenge participants. It was the day they had to submit their final solution after 3 months of hard work! 10 teams came through with some great solutions. Here are their final reports:AgriNodeAnti PollutionData GatorI-GreenhouseInMoodforLifekrishi IoTRetail IoTRHDSSergevasSmartwateringThree of the teams *AgriNode, krishi...

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...

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...