Benjamin Cabé's blog

After almost five years with the Eclipse Foundation , I have decided to resign from my current position and will now be looking for new challenges . The Eclipse Foundation—and the Eclipse community at large—are pretty much family to me, so this has been a tough decision. I am really...

Last week, we launched the fifth edition of our Open IoT Challenge . It is really exciting to be back, and I am really looking forward to seeing what people will be building! The Open IoT Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative applications for the Internet of...

Last month, we held our very first Eclipse IoT Day in Asia—Singapore more specifically, and it was a blast! Ian Craggs , one of our speakers, did a really great job of writing up his summary of the event and I don’t feel like I have much to add! It...

Spoiler alert: 162 million ! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code . But beyond this number...

So it’s been a while since the last time I blogged about a cool IoT demo… Sorry about that! On the bright side, this post covers a couple projects that are really, really, neat so hopefully, this will help you forgive me for the wait! UP Squared Grove IoT Development...

Executive Summary The IoT Developer Survey 2018 collected feedback from 502 individuals between January and March 2018. The key findings in this year’s edition of the survey include the following: Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure are the top 2 cloud services for IoT. Google Cloud Platform is failing to get...

It’s now been a bit over two months since the participants to the Open IoT Challenge have started to work on their projects, and like every year, I am pretty impressed by the creativity and the technical skills of all the teams. There are about 12 teams actively participating and...

For the past three years, we have been partnering with a number of organizations – IEEE, Open Mobile Alliance and Agile-IoT – to get a sense of the general trends in the IoT industry through an online survey . The fourth edition of this survey ends on March 5th...

Eclipse IoT Day is coming to the Bay Area on May 14, 2018 , and I really hope you will be joining us! We have opened a Call for Papers that will end on Feb 15th – so you have about 3 weeks to submit your talk! If you are...

There is a lot of buzz around cryptocurrencies – will BTC be over $20,000 by the time this blog post goes live? – these days, but beyond the hype, one thing is pretty clear: it enables a decentralized economy that is particularly interesting to look at from an IoT perspective...