Industry Watch

Building out the Smart Grid (PART 3)
Not Your Traditional App Store: Four Smart Grid Applications
by Brett Burger, National Instruments
December 2015
When the iPhone was first released, many questioned if it would work for the business user or be relegated to the consumer market. The wealth of productivity and enterprise levelRead More...

Building out the Smart Grid (PART 3)
Energy Harvesting Makes for a More Intelligent ‘Smart Grid’
by Sol Jacobs, Tadiran Batteries
December 2015
High voltage electrical power transmission lines form the backbone of America’s power grid: a vital asset that demands intelligent management and oversight to protect againstRead More...

Building out the Smart Grid
Help Wanted: Wind, Solar, and On-Grid Battery Storage [Part TWO of a Series]
by Brett Burger, National Instruments
November 2015
The benefits of a design platform extend beyond the first development cycle. Looking back at a smart phone, upgrading software is a fairly common and simple task. About once a year,Read More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
Security for the Internet of Things—Let’s Begin the Conversation.
by Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief
September 2015
Computer security has been a never-ending struggle over many years. The importance and urgency of security increases with the spread of technology and our dependence on it, with itsRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
How PRPL is Addressing Security Requirements
by Kathy Giori, Qualcomm
September 2015
When it comes to digital security, the world takes the matter seriously, and who wouldn’t? In today’s always connected world, data from our pocket phones reaches out and back to theRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
Embedded Hardware & Software Partnerships Provide Critical Path to Closing IoT Security Loopholes
by Jeff Sharpe, ADLINK Technology
September 2015
It is estimated that there could be between 25-50 billion connected devices by 2020, with more than six connected devices per person. The technologies that make up the Internet ofRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
IoT Security – A Holistic Approach
by Robert Andres, Eurotech
September 2015
I suspect many Internet of Things solution providers have a goal similar to ours – to maintain customer trust and confidence by ensuring the integrity, availability and confidentialityRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
OT and IT Coexist in a Secure IIoT World
September 2015
By 2020, Gartner predicts that there will be 26 billion connected devices. IBM estimates over 100 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the next 20 years. With the rise inRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
In IoT Security, We Trust
By Gregory Rudy, Green Hills Software
September 2015
As we come to the end of another summer news cycle, cybersecurity once again saturates the headlines. The summer of 2015 saw cybersecurity vulnerabilities result in the recall of 1.4Read More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
Basic Security Techniques Really Work
by Alan Grau, Icon Labs
September 2015
With the building wave of IoT products, services and media coverage, it’s no surprise that IoT security continues to make headlines. Some of the headlines are positive – companiesRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
How to Secure IoT Through the Home Gateway
Andy Weitzner, Ikanos Communications
September 2015
Just like a freight train barreling down the tracks, the Internet of Things can’t be stopped. Technologies that show promise to protect us and remove burdens from our lives areRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
Securing SoCs in the IoT Era
by Kevin McDermott, Imagination Technologies
September 2015
I was recently at a luncheon where the topic of conversation was around the possibilities and promise of the IoT. Can a connected world ensure better health and wellness for theRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
prpl is Pragmatic for Security
by Simon Davidmann, Imperas Software
September 2015
Most of the public discussion about security presents various aspects of the problems, or a high level view of risks/solutions, or an individual company’s solution to their slice ofRead More...

Security for the Internet of Things.
Solving IoT Security Problems with New Generation of FPGAs
by Tim Morin, director of marketing, Microsemi
September 2015
It can be extremely challenging to combat design cloning, reverse engineering or tampering in today’s IoT. FPGAs help by including security-focused features that add defense at theRead More...

Processors vs. FPGAs
Intel Architecture versus the FPGA: The Battle of Time, Complexity and Cost
by Matt Stevenson, WIN Enterprises
April 2015
“Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends.” -- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu FPGAs have no intended function when you buy them; but they gainRead More...

Chracterizing Solid State Drives
The Effects of Industrial Temperature on Embedded Storage
by Scott Phillips, Virtium Technology
March 2015
The ability to support ever-increasing amounts of data and higher functionality are definitely ongoing embedded system demands. Exploding capacity requirements of tens or hundreds ofRead More...

Small Board Prototyping
Creating an Application-Specific Operating System to Power an Arduino Robot
by Igor Serikov and Jacob Harel, Zeidman Technologies
February 2015
At Zeidman Technologies, we wanted to create a project using our SynthOS software tool, which automatically generates an optimized real-time operating system at the push of a button. Read More...