IoT Platforms

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…

The Data Distribution Service (DDS™) is a middleware protocol and API standard for data-centric connectivity from the Object Management Group® (OMG®). It integrates the components of a system together, providing low-latency data connectivity, extreme reliability, and a scalable architecture that business and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications need. Source: What is DDS? Author: PP

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,…

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…