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Category: IoT Connectivity

Digitalizing Off-Highway Vehicles: A Smarter Approach to Connectivity, Modularity, and Uptime

Off highway vehicle software

For OEMs building off-highway machines—whether in agriculture, construction, mining, or materials handling—there’s a quiet transformation underway. These vehicles are getting smarter, more connected, and more complex by the year. But for engineering teams, that shift brings a real set of challenges: rising expectations for uptime, demand for remote diagnostics, tighter regulatory frameworks, and pressure to […]

A Handy Guide to Using NVIDIA AI for Dynamic Video Management

If you’re considering NVIDIA’s AI tools for a video-based AI project, you’re in the right place. Our recent experience building an AI-powered Video Manager for dynamic meetings taught us a lot about NVIDIA’s DeepStream SDK, how to get started, and what to watch out for. Here’s what we’ve learned so far and how you can […]

The Cyber Resilience Act and Device Makers

In an era marked by the rise of IoT devices, device makers face an escalating challenge in safeguarding their products against cyber threats. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), emerges as a regulatory game changer, fortifying cybersecurity across the European Union. But what exactly are the ramifications of the CRA for device makers, and how does […]

Mastering IoT Success: Key Strategies to Avoid Failure

Recently, Witekio CEO Samir Bounab sat down with Tom White at The IoT Podcast to discuss what it means to fail, and succeed, when developing IoT products.  If you’ve not had a chance to listen/watch the episode, you can here:   However, if you don’t have time to digest it all, but want to know […]

Best IoT Firmware Management Tool

Before we get started talking about which IoT firmware management tools let’s first outline what it is and why you might need it. What is an IoT firmware management tool? When you have an IoT device or product in the market, you’ll need to be able to remotely manage, monitor, and update your firmware to […]

Exploring the Top IoT Trends for 2023

As Internet of Things Software experts, we thought we’d put our knowledge to the test and talk about the upcoming IoT Trends in 2023. We’ll cover everything from key IoT tech to adopt, to the sectors we think connectivity will benefit the most. This subject isn’t new to us – in fact, you can see […]

IoT Ecosystem Security – Webinar Top Takeaways

In the first-ever Witekio – Pentest Limited webinar, we got straight to the very heart of the issue on everyone’s mind – IoT Ecosystem Security. More specifically, how to identify and secure threats on a connected device. With consumers demanding more and more connectivity and integration between devices, security threats are more likely. Therefore, at […]

IoT Connected Service Platform Builder ‘Kamea’ Launched at CES

Kamea launched worldwide after a successful three-month trial in France. Witekio, an embedded software expert and an Avnet company, has today announced the worldwide launch of its latest software accelerator at CES 2023. The accelerator, which is an IoT management platform builder for equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will help accelerate connected product and service innovation. The platform […]

IoT Connected Service Platform Builder Demo – Wind Turbine

As part of Witekio’s presence at CES Las Vegas, we wanted to create a brand new demonstration to showcase our IoT Connected Service Platform Builder – Kamea. The demonstration had to be compact (it needed to travel from Lyon, France, to Las Vegas easily), fit the topic for the 2023 conference: How Innovation is Addressing […]

Is Automated IoT Testing a game changer?

When you’re in the embedded software world, buzzwords and tech releases become linked to your memories, unlocking a specific moment in history when you talk about them (RIP Blackberry messenger ☠).  Having visited a few of the big tradeshows over the past year I can safely say automated testing is one of these hot topics. […]

Cloud Infrastructure – IaC deep dive with Terraform

Increasingly, connected, smart, and IoT device vendors are relying on cloud infrastructure to add value to their consumer and enterprise offers. Whether public or private clouds, the advantages of moving data and processing from the device or a vendor’s own servers to an infinitely scalable cloud platform are various and provide a compelling value proposition […]

How to choose the right IoT Connectivity Solutions?

Choosing the right connectivity options for your device is an essential step in delivering a product that not only makes it to market but finds its users, grows its footprint, and satisfies clients. Make the wrong connectivity choice and no matter how well the rest of your software and hardware work together, your product won’t […]

Device security from Edge to cloud – SIDO Lyon

Witekio VP of Engineering Marc Balme joined other IoT experts at SIDO Lyon on a panel dedicated to all things security, from edge to cloud. Speakers – Device Security: From the Edge to the Cloud Marc took the stage alongside Cybersecurity Business School founder Guillaume Collard, Sierra Wireless Marketing Director for Mobile IoT Solutions Benoit […]

How to secure your IoT device in the Cloud

There’s little doubt that security is a major concern of almost every IoT device owner, user, and manufacturer. With so many of today’s IoT devices connected to the cloud, security concerns have exploded, and device vendors have been forced to differentiate their products from the competition by pointing to their security bona fides. But what are we […]

Choosing the Best IoT Cloud Platform

At Witekio, we believe in working with the right tools to get the job done. Because of this, we don’t limit ourselves to a particular technology or platform – we’ve worked with a broad range of open source tools, IoT cloud platforms, and hardware so we know how to put the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that best suits […]

Three Considerations when Picking a Public Cloud for IoT Device Management

For many IoT manufacturers managing a fleet of devices, ensuring that you will be able to interact with, update, secure, and troubleshoot in-the-field devices is a critical part of business operations. The ability to remotely interact with devices can improve the user experience and save companies thousands to millions of dollars on device maintenance and additional development costs.  Some organizations, especially […]

Serverless computing – Let’s Compare The 3 Big Cloud Providers

When it comes to serverless computing there isn’t one giant cloud provider in the market, there are three: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Between them the triplet of US west-coast behemoths control more than half of the serverless computing market, with smaller players like IBM and Alibaba capturing the largest slices of what is left over. […]

The Future Of Serverless Computing: 5 Trends

Serverless computing has emerged as a new compelling paradigm for the deployment of applications and services. It represents an evolution of cloud programming models, abstractions, and platforms, and is a testament to the maturity and wide adoption of cloud technologies. I.Baldini et al in Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Open Problems In a first article, […]

Kubernetes, Knative, GitOps: 3 Key Serverless Technologies

So, let’s start by recapping what’s been covered in this series so far. We started with a history of serverless computing and compared the biggest Cloud providers in the domain.  Then we took a look at the future of serverless computing and the five trends that add up to good reasons to go serverless. In […]

AWS vs Azure: 3 keys to make your choice

There are plenty of cloud computing options for your IoT project, but two platforms have proved far more popular than the rest: Amazon Web Services’s and Microsoft Azure. The AWS and Azure cloud platforms represent a full half of the cloud computing market between them and are common choices for IoT developers seeking to add […]

3 Key Success Factors for Your IoT Project

Witekio’s latest white paper – How to Make Sure Your IoT Project is a Success – includes everything that you need to make sure your IoT project is planned, developed, and launched smoothly, efficiently, and with the greatest chance to make a market splash. 3 Key Success Factors for Your IoT Project We outline all […]

IOT NETWORK MANAGEMENT: THE TOP CONSIDERATIONS

At Witekio, we work with companies all over the world who need help connecting  everything from interactive screens to industrial equipment. In recent years, we’ve seen that powering the best customer experiences and most reliable applications means leveraging cloud solutions. This requires a strong strategy for IoT network management.   A FLEET OF IOT NETWORK […]

Connecting an Avnet MaaxBoard to Azure IoT

Recently, we wrote about how to connect a Raspberry Pi to AWS IoT and talked about how connecting hardware to the cloud can enable richer and more meaningful customer experiences. In this guide, we’d like to continue demystifying the process of connecting IoT devices to popular cloud services by helping you learn how to connect an […]

Adding Rollback to FullMetalUpdate

How we made sure your system cannot brick during an OTA update  FullMetalUpdate is the first open-source and fully integrated solution for updating your IoT devices flexibly and robustly Over the Air (OTA). Yet even with control and availability, an OTA update might still fail and a device may end up bricked, not only without the update but entirely out of […]

3 Technical Tips for your medical IoT Device Project

The market for the internet of things in the medical field is growing rapidly, with innovative applications ranging from remote medical data monitoring to medical adherence. Medical IoT devices represent the next generation of smart connected medical solutions. IoT (Internet of Things) is everywhere. Everything is IoT. Gartner predicts that, in 2020, IoT technology will […]

IoT Security: The Coming Certificapocalypse

From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Trouble: IoT security certificates It all began with a couple of programmers that just wanted a cold Coke. In 1982 computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon University finally got fed up with making their way up three flights of stairs to find a vending machine that […]

How We Built Witekio’s Connected Crane

The story of our connected crane started in October 2019. The Witekio team was commissioned by our parent company Avnet Embedded to create a demonstration for CES, the famed Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. The demonstration had to illustrate the breadth of the Avnet group’s entire IoT offer with a couple of strict technology […]

How to Connect Your Raspberry Pi to AWS IoT?

Can Raspberry Pi connect to Aws IoT Core ? At Witekio, we work with companies all over the world who need help building everything from interactive screens to industrial equipment. In recent years, we’ve seen that powering the best customer experiences and most reliable applications means leveraging cloud solutions like AWS IoT Core. For anyone […]

How Will 5G Impact IoT Devices?

The capacity to download a HD feature film in three seconds, mobile data streaming speeds that surpass home internet speeds, and a farewell to data limits on cell phone plans. If you’re like me then you’ve read a lot about 5G technology and the promise for consumers seems clear, but how will 5G technology impact […]

IoT Edge tutorial: build our own autonomous robot

An IoT Edge Demo instead of words! In my previous article I covered edge computing, edge IoT, why it matters, what is it, how it works and the benefits it can bring you. Now that we’ve talked quite a lot about the theory, let’s get down to brass tacks and try out Azure IoT Edge […]

Edge computing, Edge IoT, why it matters?

Perhaps have you already heard of Edge IoT? And Edge Computing? If not, stay with me, and we’ll have a look at it together. If you have, you can head straight to the practical part in the article: “IoT Edge – Demo instead of words“. But in any case, together we will see how the connected objects […]

IoT Dashboards : Thingsboard Examples

Thingsboard is an open-source IoT solutions platform for data collection, processing, visualization and management. It allows to create advanced dashboards. This tool offers device connectivity through industry-standard IoT protocols—MQTT, CoAP and HTTP—and supports cloud and on-premises deployment. Thingsboard combines scalability, fault tolerance and performance to ensure that you never lose your data. There are many […]

A Fully Integrated Device Software Update Solution

Over The Air software update is a crucial topic for IoT devices, especially now that IoT is entering the realm of complex devices and industrial processes. Updating means enhanced security, enhanced functions, enhanced customer experience. It is key for innovations life cycle, be it the update of middleware or applications. Existing device software update solutions […]

How A Datacenter Works, A Tour At Safe Host

In IoT (Internet of Things), we talk a lot about the Cloud. When we talk about the Cloud, we actually mean all the data stored on remote servers accessible via the web in datacenters. The term cloud is very present; we stock and process the data of all our connected objects on it. I visited […]

Blockchain Applied to IoT, Food For Thoughts

Blockchain is a bit of a buzzword right now. It’s showing up everywhere. One only need to look at the number of publications using this word in their titles. And if you’re looking for a new name for your business, don’t forget to include “blockchain” in it. For example, The Long Corporation has changed its name to Long Blockchain Corporation. Their […]

OSTREE Tutorial for your system updates

Whatever type of embedded system or IoT solutions you create today, you will need to update it tomorrow. Either because there are new security patches or simply for an improved version of your application. But a new system update could just mean one line of code was changed and ideally should not lead to a […]

Authentication Management: Focus On Keycloak

In today’s world, security is ubiquitous. At home, at work, on the road, on your phone: even your private diary is security-protected. For unlocking all this we use keys, passwords, security plans, fingerprints and even facial recognition. So many security systems, and so many passwords to be created! The “digital identity” was therefore created so […]

Serious IoT project: Key steps to a successful Proof of Concept

What are the key steps to a successful Proof of Concept in a serious IoT project? In my first article, we addressed the four pillars for a successful serious IoT project and the first steps to implement. Let’s dig now into the Proof of Concept phase adapted to IoT/embedded projects. Write the first line of code […]

LoRWan Network, a dedicated IoT protocol

Since the last few years, a rise of connected objects has taken place. It is even predicted that the world will have 30 billion connected devices by 2020. Developing a connected device is not easy, many smart device manufacturers face a shared technical challenge:  How to make devices communicate? There are today a multitude of technological […]

Patient Monitoring #3 – Cloud connected

The lack of physicians and health emergencies in rural or isolated areas is a cause of deaths that could be prevented with the help of technology. Indeed, health monitoring devices can help patients to continuously send their health data such as heart rate or body position to a remote health-care facility where physicians can get notifications, […]

Serious IoT, Beyond the Hype ! #1 How to start my BtoB IoT project?

Airbus connected factory to shorten Time To Market, Remy’s Martin connected bottle to avoid counterfeit, Schlindler’s elevator smart sensors to improve security, Cisco-IBM connected port in Colombia to enable predictive maintenance, these are some successful examples of B2B IoT creating value and business, and there are many more to come. MACKINSEY ASSESS THAT 70% OF […]

How to deploy Symfony application on Amazon Web Service

Amazon Web Service offers a very large panel of tools to manage Cloud services. The question is “how to keep server management simple ?”. I would recommend using PaaS service for Web Service and Web Site hosting. PaaS mean Platform As A Service. With this kind of solutions, your life is quite simple. You don’t […]