MORE ABOUT IoT

On November 28th, 16:00 CET, Mouser and Elektor will jointly present a live webinar on Cellular IoT Development. This free of charge 60-minute Elektor moderated webinar will be presented by AVX and Nordic and will offer a live Q & A interaction with the presenters.

With the compliments of the Elektor Editorial and Labs teams, here is a 'fresh' article presented free of charge to all Elektor e-zine subscribers. This time we have author Somnath Bera discuss a frustration few of us like to admit let alone describe in detail tio an audience: buying cheap hardware from China and discovering it does not work as promised due to flaky software. In blog style, Somnath not only pinpoints the gross errors encountered, but pushes ahead and writes his own software.

Elektor recently co-sponsored "The Top 50 Who's Who" event, a night of networking and idea sharing in Munich, Germany. The start-up founders, engineers, and innovators in attendance took advantage of the gathering to exchange business cards, enjoy drinks, and discuss the future of technology and entrepreneurship!

Most IoT OSes originate from embedded OSes, whose kernels most likely come from RTOSes. Of course, there are IoT OSes that are original, like Android Things, Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core, and others. Here we present a "A Brief History of RTOS"!

This is a submission from Microchip Technology Inc. They introduced the industry’s first pre-provisioned solution that provides secure key storage for low-, mid- and high-volume device deployments using the ATECC608A secure element. Microchip’s Trust Platform for its CryptoAuthentication™ family enables companies of all sizes to easily implement secure authentication.

Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH and AP Memory Technology Corp. have entered into a global distribution agreement. The agreement encompasses all of AP Memory’s products and is already in effect. As a result of this partnership, Rutronik is the sole distributor of AP Memory IoT RAM products in the European market.

How much power does my connected device use? Does its sleep mode conform to the manufacturer's documentation? How long will the CR2032 battery last? If you're asking yourself these sorts of questions, here is a regulated power supply, dubbed MicroSupply, in the form of an Arduino shield, which measures very small currents. Thanks to a link with a PC application, you can see and log the power consumption of your device.

Often the easiest way to get acquainted with new technology such as IoT hardware and software is to apply it in a practical way to build something useful; that way learning gets to be fun. In this project the author builds a remotely controlled model for his grandchildren; they get lots of fun out of using the finished product and also helped him build the boat. It uses some empty drinks bottles, a couple of old PC fans and some small controller boards such as the ESP8266 to handle the control functions, set up a Wi-Fi network and even provide an MQTT broker service!

This is a submission from Rutronik on the new Nordic Semiconductor multi-sensor IoT prototyping kit Nordic Thingy:91 for IoT applications. With the nRF52840 for short-range radio connection and a broad collection of sensors and interfaces it is highly adaptable to many IoT-projects and enables rapid prototyping and proof of concept.

This video shows how to establish a peer-to-peer wireless LoRa communication. With a simple example based on Arduino, it explains how to update the data from a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor to the ThingSpeak cloud. Before being able to send data from sensors to a cloud server, a beginning developer may need targeted assistance to quickly learn LoRa and IoT technology. That's why Elektor has chosen the new Dragino LoRa IoT Development Kit. Soon you too will turn your ideas into practical applications on the Internet of your own Things.