Hello from the heart of our secret IoT Evolution Fortress of Solitude. As we all try to save the world with our various IoT powers (mine mostly involve super sarcasm), thanks to Mirai and SSHowDowN, we’re seeing that with great power comes great responsibility.
In the first of our lead stories this week, Lexumo, developer of an automated service for continuously monitoring IoT code for critical open source vulnerabilities, announced that its cloud-based platform has been constantly protecting customers from the SSHowDowN vulnerability for quite some time. Now that’s a hero.
Meanwhile, The U.S. government is trying to do its part, too. The Department of Transportation announced this week that it is establishing an Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT), which will serve as a critical resource for the Department in framing federal policy for the continued development and deployment of automated transportation. And they need members, if you want to join up.
In a great guest post from Ian Browde, VP of Corporate Development at Lynx Software Technologies, we learned about a new weapon available for stopping evildoers. Separation kernel hypervisor (SKH) is a technology that can be thought of as a virtual motherboard sitting underneath the OS and applications, directly leveraging the chipset’s virtualization capability. It provides hard isolation between partitions or virtual machines, while separating security policy definition from security enforcement. Take that, Brainiac.
And now, the news:
Kimberly-Clark Professional has announced that it will dip into IoT technology to deploy a new smart restroom management system called Onvation Technology. The system is designed to provide up-to-the-minute monitoring of restroom conditions from any device or location, 24 hours a day.
Vodafone (News - Alert) has recently announced that it will launch NB-IoT, a low power network aimed at devices like smart meters, in four European markets. The markets are Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain, and the networks are expected to go live in the first quarter of 2017.
Semtech Corporation and ZTE (News - Alert) Corporation have together formally announced the launch of ZTE’s first IoT Demonstration Base dedicated to LoRa Technology in Nanjing, China. ZTE said it plans to deploy more than 30 bases across China by the end of this year.
Qualcomm (News - Alert) has announced that its LTE Cat M1 and NB-1 modem has scored some big design wins among the IoT’s leading module OEMs. These designs are an addition to the more than 100 designs announced last June using the Company's MDM9x07 LTE (News - Alert) IoT modems.
This week on the IoT Time Podcast, I sat down with Carl Piva, VP, Strategic Programs at TM Forum, an association for digital businesses like the IoT. We talked about standards, benchmarking, and, as gently as possible, politics. This episode is sponsored by the IoT Evolution Expo. To become a sponsor of IoT Time, please email or tweet me.
There’s plenty more to read, listen to and watch, so visit us on IoT Evolution World for all the IoT news, my friends. Now is the time to put into your calendar the next IoT Evolution Expo, to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Also, please get in touch with us when you have stories. As always, if you have questions, comments, complaints or compliments, please send them to me, editorial director Ken Briodagh at kbriodagh@tmcnet.com or on Twitter (News - Alert) @KenBriodagh.