In this blog we present a smart office environment with ZigBee sensors for monitoring the ambient conditions (temperature, humidity, pressure), and occupancy of shared spaces. Additionally, there are water leak sensors deployed to monitor the areas prone to flooding. AXESS, AXTRACT, and AXACT are used for configuration and management of the environment, and for monitoring both sensor availability data, and data about the monitored environment.

The predictions about IoT market made during its peak of inflated expectations phase about 10 years ago were quite optimistic and forecasted 50 billion devices in 2020 and total worldwide market revenues of around 1,8 trillion USD. However, based on predictions from 2020 and 2021, the current IoT landscape in 2023 connects around 15 billion devices, while the worldwide market revenues are around 290 billion USD. In this blog, we try to ascertain why these expectations remained unfulfilled and what are the current prospects for IoT.

The second part of the IoT Standards & Protocols blog covers the application protocols which can be divided into general application protocols and specialized application protocols for covering specific use cases.

Internet of Things (IoT) has undergone a wide adoption in many domains over the past years. The first thing that comes to mind when discussing IoT solutions are physical devices, hardware, either sensors that sense the environment or actuators which change the environment, and applications (software) through which IoT devices can be sensed and controlled.

In the previous blog, our Daniel Egger outlined some of the key differences between the TR-069 and USP (née TR-369) protocols and why USP provides a solid improvement. But (as you may have noticed), he also left a few strategic spoilers about some unique features which make USP truly awesome; and that’s what we’re going to address today.

In an increasingly competitive world, Internet service providers (ISPs) are constantly working to find new and expand existing offerings to clients, trying to improve the quality of the services and, at the same time, increase their operating profit. High-speed data transmission, interactive gaming, video-on-demand, videoconferencing, or telephony are just a few examples of these value-added services.

Often, building an authentication system requires some sort of deployment of IoT devices. At worst, every user needs a RFID device (similar to a key) to authenticate themselves. The idea proposed in this paper (Shi et al.) is to use present Wi-Fi infrastructure, which is very widely available (e.g. your local library has it, even the local candle shop likely has Wi-Fi).

I recommend checking it out just because its design is stunning. Of course, the topic is also very interesting - CPEs and Internet of Things (IoT) devices often have very low energy requirements. On the one hand, such devices are inherently small and require less energy.

Legacy provisioning applications, such as early Auto Configuration Servers (ACS), can lead to support overhead, dead-end roadmaps and limited feature and upgrade options under certain circumstances.

In light of the current pandemic, global technology market advisory firm ABI Research estimates that Connected Home devices could see a 30% year-on-year sales surge in the coming months.

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Get ready to start hearing a lot more about edge computing. Increasingly, it’s a critical part of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and how such devices work. Companies that want to provide IoT services must understand…

The IoT ecosystem holds incredible potential for the future of connectivity. We are quickly approaching a world where …

IoT is amazing. It is changing the way we work. Live. Play. And it will continue to do so for the course of my lifetime and beyond.