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LPWAN with LoPy (Part 1): Introduction
I find out about Pycom company, which created LoPy, from a Kickstarter campaign. This company had had an experience with the first generation of WiPy at that time already. And because at that time I was (and I still am) very interested about everything about IoT, I could not resist the temptation to try something new,…
IoT Platforms
We can see a growth in numbers of IoT platforms. It does exist hundreds of IoT platforms (about 400 according to iot-analytics in Q1 2017). Among platforms, which provide the most comprehensive services belongs platform Watson IoT from IBM, platform ThingWorx from PTC, platform Azure IoT from Microsoft, platform AWS IoT from Amazon and platform Predix from GE. Among the main watched categories of IoT platforms belong…
The Industrial Internet Consortium was founded in March 2014
Industrial Internet Consortium was founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM, and Intel in March 2014 and currently has 244 members as of 29 February 2016. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) will enable and accelerate adoption of the Industrial Internet which is essential to growth and competitiveness in key industry sectors, including: manufacturing, transportation, energy,…
Internet of Things standards, consortiums and alliances
There are many standards, consortiums and alliances concerning Internet of Things and the number will grow. Here is stated the most complete list on March 2016. In my opinion, the most promising standard for Industrial Internet of Thing is DDS and most promising consortiums are Industrial Internet Consortium and Open Fog Consortium. Source: How does W3C…
LPWAN with LoPy (Part 2): Components assembly
In the second part of the series, we will focus on the assembly of all components. There are not many parts to assembly, and the assembly itself is easy. We just need to pay attention to a few things. The following guide was inspired from the Pycom documentation and, if necessary, it is possible to…
LPWAN alternatives for the IoT
WiFi and ZigBee have limited range, and cellular can be too expensive and power hungry. So numerous alternatives for Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) have arisen to serve the needs of the Internet of Things (IoT). These alternatives include especially LoRaWAN, Sigfox a Weightless. Image Source: EDN.com – Copyright 2015 UBM Americas Source: Low…