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| Infineon Invests in Voice-Interface Technology for IoT Infineon has made a strategic minority investment in XMOS Limited, a Bristol-based fabless semiconductor company that provides voice processors for IoT devices. Infineon leads the recent $15 million Series-E funding round. According to Infineon, cars, homes, industrial plants, and consumer devices are rapidly becoming connected to the Internet. Three years from now, 30 billion devices will belong to the IoT. While today the interaction between humans and machines is mostly done by touch, the next evolutionary step of IoT will lead to the omnipresence of high-performance voice control. Infineon Technologies wants to further develop its capabilities to shape this market segment. Eurotech announced that Fresenius Medical Care has chosen Eurotech's IoT Gateways, IoT device middleware ESF, and integration platform Everyware Cloud as the hardware and software building blocks for their IoT project to connect globally deployed medical devices. Given the confidentiality agreements in force, no further financial details were disclosed. Fresenius Medical Care and Eurotech have been collaborating closely to integrate Eurotech's IoT technologies with both Fresenius Medical Cares' products on the field and Fresenius Medical Cares' software applications on the IT side, with the goal of zero changes on both the products and the applications. |
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CENTRI has announced compatibility of its IoTAS platform with the STMicroelectronics STM32 microcontroller family based on ARM Cortex-M processor cores. CENTRI successfully completed and  demonstrated two proofs of concept on the STM32 platform to protect all application data in motion ---from chip set to public cloud---using CENTRI IoTAS. CENTRI Internet of Things Advanced Security (IoTAS) for secure communications was used in an application on a STM32L476RC device with connected server applications running on both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Clouds. The proofs of concept used wireless connections to showcase the real-world applicability of IoT device communications in the field and to highlight the value of IoTAS compression and encryption. IoTAS uses hardware-based ID to establish secure device authentication on the initial connection. The solution features patented single-pass data encryption and optimization to ensure maximum security while providing optimal efficiency and speed of data transmissions. The small footprint of IoTAS combined with the flexibility and compute power of the STM32 platform with seamless interoperability into the world's most popular Cloud services provides device makers a complete, secure chip-to-Cloud IoT platform. CENTRI demonstrated IoTAS capabilities at the ST Developers Conference on September 6, 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. CONTINUE READING
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U-blox featured a live Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT or LTE Cat NB1) demo at MWC Americas in San Francisco, featuring SARA-R410M-02B, a configurable LTE Cat M1/NB1 multi-mode module with  worldwide coverage. NB-IoT is a highly efficient type of spectrum and the globally preferred standard due to benefits like cost savings, extended battery life, and the ability to support a large number of connected devices. U-blox has partnered with Bluvision, a provider of highly scalable, end-to-end IoT platforms, to display Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring and Condition Monitoring using Bluvision's BluCell. BluCell, a narrowband gateway that uses Bluetooth to wirelessly monitor hundreds of beacons, each measuring temperature, vibration analysis, door openings, location, and movement. BluCell is connected via the U-blox SARA-R410M-02B to T-Mobile's network, expected to be the first NB-IoT network in North America. The module is expected to be certified and available in early 2018 for T-Mobile's NB-IoT network, which is expected to launch nationwide in mid-2018. UltraSoC has announced a significant global expansion to address the increasing demand for more sophisticated, 'self-aware' silicon chips in a range of electronic products, from lightweight sensors to the server farms that power the Internet. The company's growth plans are centering on shifts in applications  such as server optimization, the IoT, and automotive safety and security; all of which demand significant improvements in the intelligence embedded inside chips. UltraSoC's semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) simplifies development and provides valuable embedded analytic features for designers of SoCs. UltraSoC developed its technology as a chip development tool to help developers make better products. Now its positioning the technology to now fulfill much wider, pressing needs in an array of applications. These include safety and security in the automotive industry, where the move towards autonomous vehicles is creating unprecedented change and risk; optimization in big data applications, from Internet search to data centers; and security for the IoT.
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