LPWAN alternatives for the IoT

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,…

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…

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…

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…