AAEON announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services...

TAIPEI, Taiwan － Advantech and IBM Japan today jointly announced that the two sides will collaborate on smart manufacturing solutions which will be based on the IoT technology. This collaboration will integrate with Advantech’s “WISE-PaaS ”, IBM’s “SoftLayer” cloud infrastructure services, and IBM “Bluemix”, allows users to have more complete IoT application development environment on this platform...

The GSMA announced the availability of new guidelines designed to promote the secure development and deployment of services in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. The document, ‘The GSMA IoT Security Guidelines’, has been developed in consultation with the mobile industry and offers IoT service providers and the wider IoT ecosystem practical advice on tackling common cybersecurity threats...

To further understand smart manufacturing patent portfolios of assignees and the possible impact on the industry, Taipei-based MIC (Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute) conducted a patent mining analysis based on the search results obtained from the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for patents applied during January 1, 1996 and June 30, 2015...

Without the right hardware, IoT is still a thing of the future and hard-to-grasp concept. AAEON is set to popularize this concept with the launch of AIOT-QA, AIOT-QG, and AIOT-QM IoT gateways. Running on the Intel Quark X1000 Series SoCs, AAEON’s trio of IoT-specific gateways are created and built to enable an IoT lifestyle both indoors and outdoors...

According to Machina Research that there are now 350 million cellular based connections worldwide, and this will grow to 1.3 billion over the next five years. However, the proportion of M2M connections accounted for by roaming is growing even faster...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Industry 4.0 is a good business, Adantech builds smart factory for Everest Textile in Tainan, penetrating into the textile industry. Chaney Ho, President of Advantech Taiwan stated that high-tech industry can learn from the traditional industries, “In the sense of initiative to welcome another Spring of the industry, and face the challenges from the rise of a ‘Red Supply Chain’ in China...