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📊 55+ Emerging IoT Technologies you should have on your radar (2022)

The analyst team at IoT Analytics handpicked 58 of the most promising technologies relevant to IoT projects globally and ranked them according to their perceived maturity.

▫️ IoT Software. Eight IoT technologies are nearing maturity, including edge AI, IoT-based streaming analytics, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning.

▫️ IoT Hardware. Six IoT technologies are now classified as fairly mature or mainstream: CPUs, MCUs, GPUs, security chips, FPGA, and edge gateways.

▫️ IoT Connectivity. Four IoT technologies are close to maturity: eSIM, mesh networks, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6.

Three technologies stand out as the fastest movers that advanced the most in three years: Wi-Fi 6, GPUs, and intelligent sensors.

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📃 What Is Wi-Fi 7 ?

Great capacity, less latency—here's how IEEE 802.11be achieves both

Several new technologies—and some that debuted in Wi-Fi 6E but haven’t entirely yet come into their own—will allow Wi-Fi 7 routers and devices to make full use of an entirely new band of spectrum at 6 gigahertz.

▫️ Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) makes it possible for Wi-Fi 7 networks to operate around incumbents by preventing transmissions in bands that would interfere with nearby weather radar, radio telescopes, or others. At the same time, it frees up Wi-Fi 7 networks to broadcast at a higher power when they know there’s no preexisting spectrum user nearby to worry about.

▫️ Multi-link operations (MLO) will take advantage of the fact that Wi-Fi’s existing 5-GHz band and new 6-GHz band are comparatively closer than the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands are to each other. Wi-Fi access points have long had the ability to support transmissions over multiple wireless channels at the same time.

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📃 What are best practices for IoT system security?

Fierce Electronics reached out to experts on their best practices:

▫️ The latest software is the most secure. That’s because it addresses currently known threats (CVEs or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). CVEs are fixed first upstream (for open source) and in new software releases for proprietary software.
▫️ Open-source platforms are open to scrutiny and continually updated to counter latest threats.
▫️ A unique Root of Trust should be installed on every device.
▫️ ALL software on an end device should be updatable - we don't know what we don't know as we learned with Spectre and Meltdown. This includes secure boot firmware on Arm and BIOS on x86.
▫️ Device provisioning should be simple and not involve the end user. This means secure device onboarding.
▫️ The OTA (Over the Air) update platform itself must be secure, obviously! This includes The Update Framework (TUF).

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📟 Build your own IoT platform using node.js and ESP8266

In this article, you will learn how to build your own IoT minimal platform, that works over the internet. The platform will have three parts:

▫️ The User Interface (frontend)
▫️ Server (backend)
▫️ Hardware

And all three parts of the application should be able to communicate with each other in real-time by using WebSocket. WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.

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📃 5 things to know about IoT protocols

IoT Analytics surveyed 200 senior decision-makers on their IoT connectivity setup.

Here are five takeaways, from the report, that paint a picture of the IoT protocol landscape in 2022:
▫️ There is no one-size-fits-all IoT protocol
▫️ Protocols purpose-made for IoT are seeing increased adoption
▫️ Software is becoming more important to managing IoT connectivity
▫️ “Ease of use” and “reliability” are most important when choosing a new protocol
▫️ Decision-making for IoT protocols has become a multi-stakeholder exercise

The rise of IoT is bringing along radical changes in how devices communicate with each other, and IoT protocols will only increase in adoption and importance as the number of connected devices increases. The burden is on the adopters to plan well and decide on the most suitable IoT protocol to prevent an unwanted digital Babylon from happening.

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🧑‍💻 Embedded IoT Without Hardware: The Must Know Resources

The list of resources allowing to prototyping IoT projects without hardware

💻 Wokwi is an online Electronics simulator that currently supports several popular platforms including several Arduinos, ESP32, and Rasberry Pi Pico among others. There is a wide variety of popular components to also select from. Wokwi also supports debugging and network connections. You can actually connect to Wi-Fi and establish an MQTT or HTTP connection. Supports languages like MicroPython, CircuitPython and Rust!

📊 Planet Debug by MikroElektronika. With it the user gets to interact with real hardware through a live stream. This allows users to view a hardware development working in real-time.

💻 Allhardware provides remote access to real embedded platform hardware to program and debug.

💻 Arm Mbed Simulator provides access to a good amount of electronic components to connect and wire to the simulated hardware platform.

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🎬 ESP-NOW - a new protocol for Wi-Fi data transfer between ESP32 or ESP8266 ESP-NOW is a protocol ideally suited to sending out small amounts of data (up to 250 characters). In this video, author uses ESP32 as receiver and an ESP8266 as transmitter and demonstrates…
📟 ESP-NOW: Auto-pairing for ESP32/ESP8266 with Bidirectional Communication and Web Server

This guide shows how to build an ESP32 web server and use ESP-NOW communication protocol simultaneously. We’ll show you how to establish a two-way communication between the master (web server) and slaves, and how to automatically add boards to the network (auto-pairing).

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📰 The top 10 IT/OT convergence trends—as showcased at SPS fair 2022

Smart Production Solutions (or SPS), one of the leading industrial automation fairs, was back in action earlier this month. The event that took place from 8 November –10 November 2022 in Nürnberg, Germany, showcased once again the latest industrial automation developments. The conference remains a key show for industrial automation hardware and (increasingly) software.

IoT Analytics had a team of three analysts on the ground. They visited approximately 75 booths and conducted over 50 individual interviews to get a handle on the latest industrial automation trends with a special focus on IT/OT convergence. Then they noticed 10 trends that indicate a serious industry push toward IT/OT convergence.

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📊 IoT 2022 in review: The 10 Most Relevant IoT Developments of the Year

Throughout 2022, IoT-Analytics monitored significant developments regarding IoT technology. In their opinion, these are the top stories of IoT 2022:

▫️ Supply chain
The lack of supply chain visibility resulted in a sharp increase in interest in a number of supply chain technologies, such as visibility software, intralogistics robots, or IoT track-and-trace devices.

▫️ Biggest impact on the IoT job market: Tech layoffs
Fears of an economic slowdown saw a host of leading tech companies, such as Meta, Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft, HP, Tesla, Cisco, and others, shed some portion of their workforce.

▫️ Most surprising IoT divestiture: Google
The news rocked the IoT world, as some large corporations decided to base their IoT initiatives on Google Cloud. Those corporations suddenly found themselves having to re-architect their solutions, a process that can take weeks or even months.

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📊 Global IoT market size to grow 19% in 2023—IoT shows resilience despite economic downturn

The enterprise IoT market grew 21.5% to $201 billion in 2022, according to the January 2023 update. The market grew slightly slower than the 23% forecasted for last year and is expected to grow even slower in 2023. At this point, IoT Analytics forecasts the IoT market size to grow at a CAGR of 19.4% to $483 billion from 2022 until 2027.

▫️ Macro trends largely dominate the growth expectancy for an otherwise robust digital transformation phase for enterprises.

▫️ Lower-than-expected economic growth and general insecurity in 2022 and 2023 lead to cautious spending on digital transformation and IoT.

▫️ Tech layoffs largely spared IoT-focused companies.

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📟 Visualize Your Sensor Readings from Anywhere in the World (ESP32/ESP8266 + MySQL + PHP)

In this project, you’ll create a web page that displays sensor readings in a plot that you can access from anywhere in the world. In summary, you’ll build an ESP32 or ESP8266 client that makes a request to a PHP script to publish sensor readings in a MySQL database.

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📟 ESP32: How to Log Data (9 Different Ways)

In this article, you will learn nine different methods to log and save data with the ESP32. Would you like to monitor a specific sensor with the ESP32 and keep track of the data over time? Would you like to save all your data records but you don’t know how to do it or which method to use? Here we’ll show you different ways to save data permanently with the ESP32. We’ll show you methods that rely on third-party databases, services, hardware solutions, and others.

Throughout this article, we’ll cover the following methods to save data using the ESP32:
▫️ MicroSD Card
▫️ ESP32 Filesystem (SPIFFS or LittleFS)
▫️ Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Storage
▫️ InfluxDB Time Series Database
▫️ Deta Base: Free and Unlimited Database
▫️ Thingspeak Channels
▫️ Google sheets
▫️ MySQL on a Cloud Server
▫️ MySQL on a Local Server

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📟 Sending Email Alerts using ESP32 via SMTP Server

Emails are worldwide used as an essential part of digital communication. In this project, we are going to send emails (Plain text and HTML) using the ESP32 board.

The ESP32's built-in Wi-Fi connectivity enables it to communicate with the internet using SMTP servers for sending emails. This project has various benefits for various applications, such as delivering notifications, alarms, and alerts.

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📟 PyPortal Flight Tracker

Track and monitor aircraft positions on a live map with an IoT display that collects and visualizes real-time flight data

This project demonstrates how to build a visualization of this live flight data using an IoT display. The display presents a dynamically updating map that charts up-to-the-minute positions of aircraft flying within a user-defined area.

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📊 Top 10 IoT semiconductor design and technology trends

The semiconductor market saw its first market growth since 2021 amid continued trade tensions, slow economic growth, and chip shortages.

The market analysis shows several prominent trends that are propelling this revival:
➡️ The increasing demand for AI chipsets reflects the growing importance of AI in IoT devices.
➡️ Adoption of the open standard RISC-V architecture is on the rise due to its energy efficiency and security features.
➡️ Efforts to address thermal challenges and improve energy efficiency are crucial as chip technologies advance to smaller nodes.
➡️ The convergence of cellular and satellite connectivity solutions is expanding global coverage and enhancing IoT operations.
➡️ Localized AI processing at the edge is gaining traction for faster decision-making and enhanced data security.
➡️ Industrial hardware solutions are incorporating greater processing power for local data processing and analysis.

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📟 ESP32 board with 150Mbps 4G LTE modem also supports RS485, CAN Bus, and relay expansion LILYGO has designed another ESP32 board with a 4G LTE modem delivering up to 150 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds. The board also supports GPS, includes a 18650…
💻 ESP32: Send Messages to WhatsApp using SIM Card – LILYGO T-SIM7000G

Discover how to send 🌐 WhatsApp messages remotely using an ESP32 microcontroller and a SIM card in this comprehensive guide. With the LILYGO T-SIM7000G ESP32 board as the central component, learn how to establish internet connectivity and seamlessly dispatch messages via the CallMeBot API.

From creating custom notification systems to enhancing accessibility for remote users, the ability to send WhatsApp messages via a microcontroller provides a glimpse into the future of interconnected devices and personalized messaging experiences.

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🇬🇧 UK is the first country to deploy cybersecurity laws for IoT devices

The UK has recently implemented strict cybersecurity laws for IoT devices, aimed at protecting consumers from cyber threats and reducing cyber crimes. For instance, the new laws prohibit easy passwords like “admin” or “12345” and require manufacturers to ensure robust security measures for internet-connected devices.

This initiative addresses the high vulnerability of smart homes, which can face thousands of hacking attempts weekly. The law also mandates manufacturers to publish policies for reporting security flaws, set minimum periods for security updates, and provide secure software update mechanisms.

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⌚️ Open-Source ESP32-Based Smartwatch with LiDAR and Wi-Fi Scanning

This project is prominent for utilizing the 🇨🇳 ESP32 microcontroller to combine advanced functionality with environmental monitoring and IoT control. It also stands out with its capability to interact with various smart devices, offering a unique blend of practicality and technological innovation for enthusiasts.

Features of the smartwatch:
➡️Provides high precision timekeeping.
➡️Activates the watch based on motion.
➡️Tracks atmospheric conditions such as humidity, pressure, and temperature.
➡️Includes a VL53L1X distance sensor and a 5mW laser for precise measurements and presentations.
➡️Provides details on network signal strength and encryption levels.
➡️Control of IoT devices like door locks and light switchers.
➡️Recharges fully in 43 minutes via USB-C or magnetic charger.

The comprehensive features of this smartwatch and its quick charging capability make it a practical and exciting tool for innovative applications and daily use.

More information:
🔗 The main article
🔗 The official website
📺 The YouTube video

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🍓 Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is a newly launched development board featuring the RP2350 microcontroller, which offers dual-core processing options: Arm Cortex-M33 or RISC-V Hazard3. It provides enhanced performance and memory…
🎹 Enhanced Connectivity with Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W

This microcontroller is an enhanced version of the popular Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller, featuring integrated Wi-Fi capabilities. Developed by Pimoroni, this board builds upon the Pico 2 platform by incorporating the "Raspberry Pi RM2" module for wireless connectivity, marking a significant upgrade for IoT and embedded projects.

Features of the microcontroller:
➡️Integrated Wi-Fi functionality with the Raspberry Pi RM2 module.
➡️Powered by the RP2350B with 8MB of PSRAM and 16MB of QSPI flash storage.
➡️Compatible pinout with the Raspberry Pi Pico series.
➡️Includes Qw/St connector (Stemma QT) and SWD debug port.
➡️USB Type-C port for data and power.

With ample memory and a robust set of connectivity options, it's well-suited for IoT applications, data logging, and remote monitoring projects. The addition of the Clipper LTE 4G breakout board expands its utility further, offering cellular connectivity for applications that require reliable data transmission in areas without Wi-Fi coverage.

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📺 PCB Design Challenge: 3 engineers race to design a PCB in the fastest time Two months ago you might have seen a ✈️ PCB Design Duel posted on this channel. In a new episode of this show, there are three engineers racing to design the best PCB incorporating…
📺 ESP32 Software Battle: AWS IoT Core vs Blink for Cloud Control

Over a month has passed since the second ✈️ PCB Design Duel was posted on this channel. In a new episode, the format stayed the same but instead of hardware developers, the author has invited two embedded software engineers.

In his video, they compete to program an 🇨🇳 ESP32 microcontroller in just two hours, using AWS with PlatformIO and Blink with PlatformIO, respectively. The challenge highlights how cloud integrations differ between AWS IoT Core and Blink's user-friendly interface for IoT control.

Despite encountering setup and debugging obstacles, both participants successfully sync their ESP32 devices to cloud interfaces, demonstrating the unique advantages of each platform for real-time IoT applications.

⛓ https://youtu.be/-caKi39nF64

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