How to Lead a Successful Digital Transformation, IoT Applications in Weighing, Loading, and Marine Animal Tracking, and The Basics of MQTT Security
By: Michael Wedd
Tags: Internet of Things, Tech, IoT, Technology, Data Science

How to Lead a Successful Digital Transformation, IoT Applications in Weighing, Loading, and Marine Animal Tracking, and The Basics of MQTT Security

The best podcast episodes and articles from this week, curated by the IoT For All Team.

Our Latest Podcast Episode

E031 | How to Effectively Handle the Digital Transformation Journey

Sean Parham, Corporate VP of Product Management at ABB Ability, explains the short term changes companies are making to handle their digital transformation journeys effectively. He also discusses how the biggest changes throughout that transformation aren’t found in the technology but enabled by it. Listen Now.

This Week’s Best Reads

IoT Applications in Weighing and Loading

While flashier tech grabs the headlines, the humble scale’s own digital evolution could be cause for revolution across a number of industries, from private and military logistics to construction to transportation. Weigh scales are keeping pace with modern advances in technology in order to facilitate faster, more efficient, and seamless weighing operations.

The 3 Basic Concepts of MQTT Security

As IoT devices continue to proliferate, security becomes a major concern. When designing the network security for an IoT device, there are three basic concepts to keep in mind: identity, authentication and authorization. This article dives into security best practices and considerations when using the popular MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) messaging protocol.

IoT Applications in Aquatic Animal Tracking

Tracking marine animals can be extremely tricky, in part because GPS signals don’t can’t be transmitted and received well from underwater devices. Researchers and conservationists are now using IoT-like technologies — e.g. acoustic relays, mobile transceivers, light-based geolocators — to track our marine friends more accurately.

Five Things We’re Reading

1—RCR Wireless: Chinese vendor ZTE has already deployed tens of thousands of 5G base stations for Chinese carriers China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom.

2—MIT Tech Review: Researchers developed a system that could detect and respond to a cardiac arrest by analyzing your breathing with ML over an Alexa speaker.

3—RCR Wireless: Thread Group released its latest specification, which focuses on improving battery performance and enabling large-scale smart building projects.

4—Smart Cities Dive: Swedish researchers developed an optical nano-sensor that detects low levels of air pollution. It’s small enough to be mounted on streetlights.

5—Fierce Wireless: Alaska’s largest Telecoms operator, GCI, selected Ericsson to deploy 5G infrastructure starting in Anchorage but with plans for energy sector use cases.

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