Microprocessors getting faster, cheaper and more energy efficient thus enabling more and more smaller devices to be equipped with smart technologies. As if that is not enough, experts now say, the classic battery has to vanish. Besides the question of how to power those devices, we’re facing another challenge: what software would work on such low-energy devices?
A serious security issue relating fully automated car washes made the headlines this week: Researches found a way to manipulate internet-connected drive-through car washes that could physically attack vehicles and their passengers. The problem: configuration of the machines could be changed online. A decentralized system could have avoided that.
With new ideas, new technologies and new smart products emerging every year, one big challenge for devices in the Internet of Things remains: How can we make them understand each other? A huge number of manufacturers and products using different protocols plus a wide range of platforms with non-interoperable networking technologies are making the IoT too complicated to handle.
Energy efficiency and optimal production processes are key success factors especially for small and medium-sized companies. However, unlike IT-systems, industrial machines cannot be exchanged every few years to keep up with state of the art production. At many companies, these machines are often decades old. 20 or 30 year equipment is not uncommon. So how can they keep up with today’s need for increased efficiency? What can companies do, to identify and eradicate problems, thus making the output more efficient? “Retrofitting” is the term summing up the answer. Equipping old machines with new sensors. However, that’s easier said than done.
Berlin’s annual conference “re:publica” has finally grown out of its infancy. What started as a blogger-event with a high nerd factor has finally become a serious annual gathering of, let’s say, a variegated tech society. Founders, inventors, politicians, activists and journalists met to present, network and discuss. While this year’s motto “Love out Loud” focused on the rise of internet hate speech, the spreading of fake news and how to deal with it, other tracks like “business & work” and the “global innovation gathering” brought together makers, hub managers and entrepreneurs from around the world.
The focus of this year’s Hannover Messe was on Industrial Internet of Things services and products. With over 6,500 exhibitors and more than 225,000 visitors it is the world’s largest industry fair. And with IoT being a main topic, our appearance was obligatory. Lemonbeat’s technology offers a flexible framework to quickly enable the “IoT-zation” of all kind of things: from sensors and actuators to products and machines for consumer and professional needs. Already in use in the field of Smart Home, Smart Building, Smart Energy and Smart Garden systems, Lemonbeat’s range of use is vast.
Let’s face it: Explaining the Internet of Things and the advantages of direct communication between devices can be a dry and theoretical topic. So we decided to literally spice the whole story up and add a little bit of gamification to the issue: In future events we’re going to demonstrate our technology with a smart game of dice that communicates its result to a vending machine, releasing a pack of Lemonbeat branded snack chips in case players sucessfully rolled the dice.
Phoenix Contact, a leading manufacturer of electrotechnology, and Lemonbeat bundle their strength to lift building automation to the next level. During the “E-world energy & water 2017”, Europe’s most successful specialist energy trade fair, both companies announced their cooperation. It’s goal: making building automation more intelligent and less complex. A first real life project is already underway.
We’re back in the UK. To be exact, at Olympia London for the two day #IoTTechExpo event. As one of the leading global IoT events, the IoTTechExpo brings together IT decision makers, developers & makers, OEM’s, automotive exec’s, operators, technology providers, and many more. It highlights advancements in technologies which are affecting the entire IoT ecosystem such as Smart Cities, Connected Living, Developing for the IoT, Connected Industry, Connected Services, IoT Innovations & Technologies and Data & Security. On the second day, Lemonbeat’s Project Manager Frank Reusch will talk about how to increase automation with intelligent devices in autonomous networks.
According to a recent study, 90 percent of the enterprises worldwide will increase their IoT spending over the next 12 months. 40 percent will raise their IoT-related investment by 25 to 50 percent, compared to 2016. This is the outcome of the current “Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things (IoT) Organizational Dynamics” survey performed by 451 Research, a US-based information technology research and advisory company that interviewed approximately 1000 enterprise IT buyers for their research.
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