IoT

The IoT industry is slowly but steadily moving from a world of siloed, proprietary solutions, to embracing more and more open standards and open source technologies. What’s more, the open source projects for IoT are becoming more and more integrated, and you can now find one-stop-shop open source solutions for...

Come the end of the year and you usually want to look back at what you’ve accomplished during the past twelve months. For us, at Eclipse IoT, it’s been a pretty busy and successful year! So without further ado, here are the 5 most noteworthy things that happened in the...

It’s now been a bit more than 2 weeks since the second edition of the Open IoT Challenge has officially started. More than 80 teams have applied to be part of the challenge, and if you ask me, that’s really exciting! They will be working until end of February next...

We have some great Virtual IoT meetups lined up for the next couple months! They are a great opportunity to learn about existing and emerging IoT tech, as well as to engage with some of the key people that are actually building the Internet of Things. Please make sure to...

I am really excited that we are having a second edition of the Open IoT Challenge. Last year, more than 60 teams entered and we ended up with some seriously cool projects being built! So we are back, with more prizes, more sponsors, and more importantly even more cool ideas...

If you are attending JavaOne this week, I want to make sure you don’t miss out on the many opportunities to learn more about Eclipse IoT, and meet the people behind it. Eclipse Foundation booth You can find us at the Eclipse Foundation booth (#5710). There will be several IoT...

Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that they added the ability for their customers to manage IoT solutions. More specifically, they are offering a managed IoT platform that allows to connect your devices using HTTP or MQTT, and that integrates with other AWS services to simplify...

I was just asked how one can deploy a similar setup as the iot.eclipse.org MQTT sandbox, where MQTT over WebSockets is available on port 80, just like the rest of the website. There are actually two ways of achieving this. Mosquitto as the main frontend It’s a little-known fact but...

Now that the holiday season is over, we’re fully into “conference season” mode, as the fall is packed with IoT conferences (look at our Events Calendar to see where we will have a presence in the next couple months). Last week, the Eclipse Foundation was exhibiting at M2M Summit with...

When you prototype IoT solutions, it becomes necessary very early in your development phase to use an actual embedded platform to run your software, and to test it in an environment that is as close as possible of what you expect your production environment to be. As I’m sure you...