There’s an often-impenetrable alphabet soup of protocols, standards and technologies around the Internet of Things. Here’s our attempt to wipe away some of the fog, in the hopes of making the language ...

In the race for time-to-market in the Internet of Things (IoT), proper security is inconvenient because it adds development and component cost and design complexity. While many traditional industries ...

Why the proliferation of wireless protocols is creating headaches for engineers. How multiprotocol wireless SoCs simplify IoT complexity and integration challenges. How innovations are tackling ...

The Internet revolutionized how people communicate and work together. It ushered in a new era of free information for everyone, transforming life in ways that were hard to imagine in its early stages.

As the Internet of Things continues to rapidly expand, more and more entrepreneurs and developers are working to create new IoT applications and take advantage of the booming industry. For developers ...

One glaring problem with IPv4 is that it supports only 4.2 billion possible addresses while, by some estimates, the number of internet-connected devices is expected to grow to 28.5 billion by 2022.

As the concept of the internet-of-things (IoT) was taking shape, the communications industry started addressing the anticipated need to connect these “billions of IoT devices” (Figure 1). Since these ...

The internet of things (IoT) is gradually hitting its stride across industries. Yet, despite its fast-growing adoption and all the bullish forecasts we’ve heard of, there’s another side of the ...

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The easiest way I've found for managing IoT devices is to put them all on one VLAN, which is then isolated from the rest of ...

IoT protocols and communication standards refer to the vast network of devices that are connected to the Internet and can exchange data with each other. Learn more about IoT software development ...