Embedded Insiders

Send us a textAre you up to speed on digital twins? If you’re not, you probably should be, especially if you plan to play in the IoT space. I have to admit that I needed to be educated on this topic. I received that education thanks to Peter Thorne, a director for industry analyst firm Cambashi in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textAll smart phones have cameras now. But what they do with those imagers is quite different. Are they using them for facial recognition, for medical applications, or for things that many of us had not even dreamed of? These are just a few of the questions to threw at Sumat Mehra, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Xperi’s Mobile Division in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. https://www.xperi.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textMachine learning at the node is starting to become a reality, thanks to the availability of adequate processing capability. Moving this technology from the cloud to the Edge, a term that’s sometimes used synonymously with the node, provides a big leap in being able to process elements in near-real-time. This idea was the basis of the discussion I had with Brian Faith, President and CEO of Quicklogic in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. https://www.quicklogic.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textWhen it comes to autonomous vehicles, there are followers and there are leaders. QNX, a subsidiary of Blackberry, believes it falls into the latter class. To understand why, but more importantly to get the lay of the autonomous vehicle landscape, I spoke to QNX’s Senior Vice President John Wall in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. http://blackberry.qnx.com/en/solutions/industries/automotive/indexFor more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textWe keep hearing about over-the-air updates for the automotive space. Is this real or is it a pipe dream? I’m of the opinion that I can make a valid argument for each. However, Rick Kreifeldt, Executive Director of the eSync Alliance had a pretty firm stance. Hear his take in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. https://www.esyncalliance.org/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textAgile software development is a term we often hear about. But most folks that aren’t deeply into the thick of development don’t know what agile development is, or why they should be thinking about it. It’s not a new technique, but it is slowing gaining momentum. To get the real low-down, I spoke to one Bruce Douglas, a Chief Evangelist at IBM, and of the world’s recognized leaders in this space for this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textSmart technology is all around us. However, it hasn’t migrated to the industrial sector with nearly the speed that it could (or should). Why is that? That’s the question I asked of Ashish Syal, who is the Chief Engineer for IoT at Sierra Wireless in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. Ashish, being a technologist, has a great handle on this space. https://www.sierrawireless.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textArm recently put up a website challenging RISC-V technology that stirred up quite the hornet’s nest. After hundreds of comments from developers within a matter of hours, the site was promptly taken offline. Meanwhile, Wind River continues its evolution as a company beyond Intel’s shadow. The Insiders discuss these and other industry goings on in this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textUntil recently, Wind River was a part of Intel. Now that Wind is an independent company (you knew that occurred, right?), what does the future hold and where will the industry powerhouse go? Those are the questions I posed to Wind’s CEO Jim Douglas in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. https://www.windriver.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textOne half of the Embedded Insiders took to the Sensors Expo Conference this week, and the technology discussed there actually led to what happened in a real-life accident. You’ll likely recall the incident not too long ago where a woman was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle. Do you know why that happened? Listen in to find out.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textIndustrial IoT is a hot topic. If you question that, have a conversation with Alex Blochtein, the CEO of Contec, as I did for this week’s Five Minutes with…podcast. His company is on a roll, and I wanted to know why. If you want to know as well, give a listen. https://www.contec.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textLocation awareness is a term that’s in vogue. It’s sort of like positioning, but not exactly. And what’s the hop application for location awareness? Cattle tracking. Yup, you heard right. Cattle farmers have too much at stake (or should I say steak) to not invest in the latest technologies to maintain their investments. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I spoke to Dr. Jens Albers, the CEO of Nanotron Technologies where we discussed location awareness, cows, and a herd of other topics. https://nanotron.com/EN/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textIn the consumer space, a few of the industry giants have stepped up to take charge of the IoT, a la Google, Apple, and so one. But in the industrial space, that has not happened, for reasons that are discussed in this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast. Will it happen, and if so, who is the giant that’ll step up? Listen to the podcast and see if you agree with the “experts.”For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textThe Industrial Internet Consortium, aka the IIC, recently released a whitepaper titled Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT. Hence, I thought it was a great opportunity to speak to the Co-Chair of the IIC’s Edge Computing Task Group, Todd Edmunds, so I could get a better understanding of the IIC’s involvement in standard setting, and what the whitepaper might mean to a developer of industrial IoT systems. And that’s exactly what I discussed in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Todd Edmunds, who works for Cisco as a Senior Solutions Architect in addition to his duties with the IIC. https://www.iiconsortium.org/index.htm https://www.iiconsortium.org/pdf/Introduction_to_Edge_Computing_in_IIoT_2018-06-18.pdfFor more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textCan you determine location by hearing an object or person’s position? Sort of, and that’s the technology that’s deployed by PoLTE. The company uses a sensing technology over a cellular medium to very accurately determine location. Hear more about it in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Ed Chao, PoLTE’s CEO. https://polte.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textThe Embedded Insiders talk Google, for two separate reasons. Are those two things connected? We’ll let you decide. First, Google announced its Android Things initiative. What’s the end game? Getting more devices into the Google Cloud? Probably. Either separately, or if you’re into conspiracy theories, not separately, Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance. Not much detail here, so we were left to speculate, which is exactly what we did.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textAccording to Jothy Rosenberg, the Founder and CEO of Dover Microsystems, processor technology is not keeping pace with the security that needs to be implemented, particularly in the case of cyber security. The key to fixing that problem is to address security at the “root level.” In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, Jothy explains what that means, why it is the case today, and what needs to happen to remedy the situation. https://dovermicrosystems.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textThis week’s Five Minutes with…discussion has to do with artificial intelligence (AI), and the guest is Robert Gendron, a Corporate Vice President, in charge of power components at Vicor. Power and AI? Doesn’t seem like a fit, does it? Actually, these two technologies are tied much closer than you might expect. Listen to find out why. http://www.vicorpower.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textThe IoT is all about gathering data. Until recently, finding ways to gather that data was the hard part. With the proliferation of end devices, both in the consumer and industrial sectors, that’s not the case anymore. Now we have the other problem—what to do with all this data we’ve collected, and how to store it and keep it safe. Virtium is one of those vendors that helps in that focuses on storage needs of for the industrial embedded space. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I speak to Gary Drossel, the Chief Technology Officer at Virtium, and we get into what it takes to store, analyze, and secure the mountains of incoming data. http://www.virtium.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us a textLast week, the Embedded Insiders spent some time at IoT World. And it turned out to be a worthwhile experience, and there were lots of new technologies to see. Check out this week’s Embedded Insider podcast to hear about the highlights.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com