Industrial security firm Dragos came under attack

IoT news of the week for May 

Dragos, which provides security for industrial and operational technology, reported a cybersecurity event this week in which a known cybergang attempted to breach its internal network and its cybersecurity platform. They didn’t make it. But the attackers did breach the company’s SharePoint servers and contract management platform. 

They were trying to get into Dragos’ network in order to encrypt its devices and presumably hold them for ransom. This is not great, but it’s better than some nation-state actor trying to infiltrate Dragos as a precursor to industrial sabotage. 

The hackers got access to personal information from a salesperson who had recently been hired but hadn’t yet started, then used that information to impersonate the salesperson through an employee onboarding process. 

I get exhausted just trying to think about securing information and devices in today’s world. 

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NTT and Cisco Launch IoT as-a-Service for Enterprise Customers

 

NTT Ltd., a leading IT infrastructure and services company, and Cisco, a worldwide leader in technology, today announced a collaboration to develop and deploy joint solutions that empower organizations to improve operational efficiencies and advance sustainability goals.

• Powered by the latest enterprise-grade Edge and IoT technologies to support operational efficiencies and sustainability goals.
• Expanded Cisco partnership supported by NTT’s dedicated IoT business unit to accelerate 100s of use cases in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.
• NTT’s IoT managed services expertise complemented by Cisco’s IoT capabilities to transform utilities, such as water quality management, consumption, distribution, and maintenance operations.

Leveraging NTT’s Edge as a Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT capabilities, solutions developed by the two companies will offer real-time data insights, enhanced security, improved decision-making, and reduced operational costs through predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and supply chain management capabilities.

The companies will deliver solutions that combine NTT’s Managed Services expertise, automation capabilities at the edge, and the management of complex IT environments, with Cisco’s IoT capabilities, including Low Power Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN).

As part of today’s news, NTT has bolstered its IoT consulting and services business that brings together more than 1000 practitioners and 100 use cases in areas such as connected cars, fleet management, predictive maintenance, smart cities, digital twins, connected factories, utilities and more. NTT has already trained more than 500 Cisco sales experts to accelerate the companies’ combined capabilities and go-to-market efforts.

“We are accelerating our IoT business initiatives to deliver a powerful portfolio of repeatable services that can be tailored to meet customer demand for these kinds of solutions. We’re in a unique position,” said Devin Yaung, SVP of Group Enterprise IoT Products and Services at NTT.

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InPlay launches small Bluetooth SoC in WLCSP package

Irvine, United States – InPlay Inc., a provider of advanced IoT solutions, has announced the release of its NanoBeacon SoC IN100 in a wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP). The new package measures 1.1mm x 2.0mm x 0.35mm Bluetooth system on a chip (SoC).

“The release of the NanoBeacon IN100 in the WLCSP package is a testament to InPlay’s dedication to innovation and to meeting the evolving needs of the IoT market,” says Jason Wu, co-founder and CEO of InPlay Inc. “We are excited to see how this new offering will inspire our customers to develop novel applications and solutions.”

The NanoBeacon IN100’s small size makes it a better choice for a wide range of applications:

• Printable tags for asset tracking: The thin form factor of the NanoBeacon IN100 makes it a better choice for printable tags that broadcast location or sensor data, greatly enhancing the efficiency of asset tracking in various settings.
• Healthcare data broadcast: Wearable health monitoring devices, such as smart patches or wristbands, can leverage IN100’s small size to broadcast vital health stats to caregivers or health monitoring systems.
• Smart textiles: The integration of the NanoBeacon IN100 can allow sports gear or uniforms to transmit performance stats or environmental conditions to coaches or command centres, without the need for bulky hardware.
• Miniature drones: The small footprint and light weight of the NanoBeacon IN100 make it a great fit for drones, where it can broadcast location, telemetry, or other data.
• Smart jewelry: The NanoBeacon IN100 can be incorporated into jewelry or accessories, enabling them to broadcast user-defined data such as emergency contact info or health data, without compromising on style or comfort.

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Mindtree founders-backed Mela Ventures invests in IoT start-up

 

Doppelio, a leading IoT test automation platform provider, has raised $1.2 million in pre-series A funding from Axilor Ventures & Mela Ventures; funds to be utilised in product R&D and to expand in US and Europe.

Doppelio, a leading IoT test automation platform provider, has raised $1.2 million in pre-series A funding from Axilor Ventures & Mela Ventures.  

Founded in 2019 by Gaurav Johri, Sharmila Saha, and Rajesh Kathirvelu, Doppelio is already working with many Fortune 1000 companies from diverse industries, such as automotive, industrial engineering, manufacturing and connected products. 

The Bengaluru-based start-up enables companies to rapidly test IoT apps by virtualising and simulating devices at scale. The platform enables the testing of IoT applications for any device, protocol, and scenario.  

Fortune 1000 to emerging growth leaders across industries leverage Doppelio’s IoT test automation platform to reduce dependence on physical devices, reduce the risk of failure, faster time to market and lower the cost of quality. 

Incidentally, research organisations have estimated that the number of IoT devices will exceed 40 billion by 2026, with a strong CAGR. Further, the number of connected endpoints is expected to be even higher.  

Due to this extensive scale, it is imperative that organisations guarantee their products function seamlessly, minimise product recalls, and, most importantly, prevent any negative consequences on users.  

Lab testing of IoT applications, however, is time-consuming, expensive, and still insufficient, which, in turn, increases the time to market and the risk of failure of connected solutions. 

With Doppelio, companies can test a wide range of functionalities (including FOTA, remote command and control) and test for performance with up to a million devices. 

“The response we are getting from large global enterprises validates that we are solving an important problem for these companies. As connected products proliferate in the coming years, we expect Doppelio to become a critical piece in the IoT ecosystem, we are excited to have Mela and Axilor as investors and this funding will deepen our investments in the product and go-to-market,” said CEO Johri. 

Krishnakumar Natarajan, Managing Partner at Mela Ventures, believes that Doppelio is on a path to becoming the category leaders and become one of the game-changing global product company out of India. 

Mela Ventures is co-founded by Natarajan & N S Parthasarathy, and aims to put Indian B2B SaaS companies that are solving real-world challenges on the global map. In addition to investment, they also provide guidance and support to achieve collective goals defined by their portfolio companies. 

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BlackBerry launches new ‘IoT Center of Excellence’ in Hyderabad

 The company said that the Hyderabad facility, which is expected to be the second largest in the world for BlackBerry's IoT division after Canada

New Delhi: BlackBerry on Wednesday announced its new ‘IoT Center of Excellence, Engineering and Innovation’ in Hyderabad, which will recruit the country’s best-embedded software engineers to help build the next generation of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and advance innovation in other Internet of Things industries.

By the end of 2023, the company said that the Hyderabad facility, which is expected to be the second largest in the world for BlackBerry’s IoT division after Canada, is expected to house over 100 software engineers in a variety of technology positions and skill sets, including senior management, technical project management, product engineering, cloud software development, integration, and service delivery.

“We are pleased to expand BlackBerry IoT’s global software innovation network in Hyderabad, underscoring our commitment to serve our customers and partners and continue our rapid growth as an IoT software leader, especially in the automotive sector,” Mattias Eriksson, President of BlackBerry IoT, said in a statement.

Moreover, the company said that the teams will first use the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) evaluation hardware and software to design and accelerate the development of systems that are safe, secure and offer real-time performance, which is responsible for innovation, embedded software product development and engineering services.

“This facility will help BlackBerry IoT to co-develop and co-innovate more closely with our customers and partners based in India, giving talented developers and engineers the opportunity to build the best solutions for complex problems for automotive and other embedded software industries,” Eriksson added.

BlackBerry IVY software development is scheduled to begin in 2023, bringing developers and OEMs with operations in India closer to the innovation cycle and providing access to benefits such as optimised data processing via on-vehicle machine learning (ML).

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How Utility Companies Can Utilize Data Platforms as Part of Their IoT-Based Ecosystem

Utility providers need help to make their infrastructure more efficient, particularly their ability to capture, analyze and process data in real time

Last December's snowy weather bucked the general trend of 2022 as it was the only month with below-average temperatures. Now, as we come out of winter, it’s easy to forget the extreme heat we had to contend with last summer when the barometer hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit. 

It doesn’t take a considerable change in the weather for a rise in demand for power to heat or cool our homes, which puts our electricity grid under immense pressure. In March this year, the National Grid put coal plants on standby as an emergency backup when we faced the coldest night of the year.

 Apart from low wind reducing the ability to generate clean electricity, this level of energy insecurity is rooted in unreliable, dated infrastructure and the requirement for a better real-time understanding of demand and supply.  

IoT sensors are already proving their worth in the utility sector. They help to improve infrastructure by delivering data on shifts in usage or demand levels, sudden losses in power or communicate when the grid is at risk of overload. But more could be done.

Our utility providers need help to make their infrastructure more efficient, particularly their ability to capture, analyze and process data in real time. Their objective should be an IoT ecosystem powered by a data platform that can steer data closer to the point of acquisition and usage across an edge network. 

Technology partners can help the National Grid and other utilities by providing them with APIs that support and enable powerful applications to work in tandem with a modern data platform. Very quickly they will enjoy data ingestion and processing at speed and scale with resilience and guaranteed performance. These partnerships will also improve friction-related issues, implementation time, and cost. 

Regarding local or regional outages, real-time database platforms can span multiple data centers that enable uninterrupted access. As they deliver billions of transactions in real-time, the utility can provide resilience against localized platform hardware, network and software faults. 

The feasibility of IoT in utility companies relies on deploying a distinct but interconnected range of technologies. These include different IoT sensors and endpoint devices with real-time edge, core and cloud data infrastructure that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning competency within analytical tools. 

When assessing the main requirements of a data platform as part of an IoT ecosystem, companies should look for stability, availability and scalability without performance degradation. In addition, if the platform is customizable, it could include time series data which can be analyzed to reveal trends or specific patterns over time. Now is the time to support time series data which will have a significant part to play as data sophistication evolves.

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IoT Product Roundup: MIT, Siemens, Sateliot and More

 

MIT Develops Small-Scale Wake-Up Receiver to Extend IoT Sensor Battery

With IoT devices and the batteries that power them, becoming increasingly small in design, developing compatible wake-up receivers that keep the devices in low-power sleep mode has become an important task for engineers.

By using terahertz waves, the team from MIT was able to create a suitable small-scale receiver. Terahertz waves are around one-tenth the length of radio waves, allowing the device to be smaller. 

Applications for the receiver include environmental monitoring microbots, which are often deployed in small and hard-to-reach areas. 

“By using terahertz frequencies, we can make an antenna that is only a few hundred micrometers on each side,” said Eunseok Lee, lead author of the study. “This means we can integrate these antennas to the chip, creating a fully integrated solution. Ultimately, this enabled us to build a very small wake-up receiver that could be attached to tiny sensors or radios.”

Siemens Healthineers has selected Cognosos to provide real-time asset tracking and intelligence for its network of hospitals and health care facilities. 

Designed to track the location of critical medical assets, Cognosos’ technology enables users to streamline operations, avoid unnecessary costs and create greater transparency across a health care facility. 

“Enhancing our customers' ability to optimize operations and maximize productivity with real-time, room-level visibility of their assets using easily deployed, lightweight infrastructure will be a significant workflow and efficiency driver for healthcare providers,” said Ben Sperling, Siemens Healthineers vice president.

Cognosos’ real-time location services (RTLS) use wireless network technology and AI-enabled location tracking to provide widespread, consistent asset visibility.

“This collaboration will enable hospitals to quickly and easily implement RTLS while providing the intelligence needed to accelerate processes and streamline operations within their facilities,” said Braxton Jarratt, Cognosos CEO.

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