Long battery life is a frequent concern of people purchasing Internet of Things (IoT) products — especially those for remote or harsh environments. That’s an understandable concern. Excessive power consumption could negatively impact the … Read more
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Codemotion Partners with TIM for the Smart Spaces Hackathon
Hackathons have had a long history of bringing people together to develop technological solutions in response to specific problems and challenges. Hackathons can be in-house, focused on particular technology or spaces, a social issue, or policy … Read more
Never Be Bored with a Career in IoT
Table Of ContentsBut I'm not into hardware!What does it take to work in IoT?How can I learn about IoT? Tinkering! What About IoT Qualifications?Other great learning resources I sometimes hear the claim that the hype of Internet of Things is over - … Read more
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Take their Clouds to the Edge
It might surprise you to learn that the big three public clouds – AWS, Google Could Platform, and Microsoft Azure – are all starting to provide edge computing capabilities. It’s puzzling, because the phrase “edge computing” implies a mini … Read more
How has Software-Defined Networking Transformed Mass IoT Deployments?
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a method of decoupling the software and algorithms that define the networking control plane from the underlying hardware that manages the forwarding plane. SDN provides the industry methods to build, scale, and … Read more
ML at the Edge: a Practical Example
Machine learning is the primary methodology for delivering AI applications. In previous articles, I discussed the main reasons behind moving machine learning to the network edge. These include the need for real-time performance, security … Read more
IoT Innovation and Bluetooth® mesh networks
Bluetooth® mesh was released in 2017. It allows the creation of secure networks of tens of thousands of Bluetooth devices and the creation of truly smart, self-optimising buildings, with sensors, lights, air-conditioning units and more, all working … Read more
COVID-19 & Open Source: a Shared Global Approach to Emergencies
Table Of ContentsContact tracing in the worldCentralized and decentralized dataOpen source or not? The Italian 'Immuni' appWork in progress: 'Protetti', the (open source) appThe NoiApp team's philosophyHelping the global community: the case for … Read more
Smart City: IoT and Microservices to build Oracle Proxima City
At Codemotion Rome 2019, Gabriele Provinciali, Oracle Solution Architect, presented Proxima City, a project focused on IoT and microservices to improve our city and lifestyle. Proxima City could be the new frontier of services for smart cities. … Read more
The Convergence of IoT and Blockchain is Transforming Industries
If you step outside the notion of blockchain facilitating new currencies, it's fair to say that when you are looking for real-world use cases of blockchain technological, the combination of blockchain and IoT (and other technologies) offers the most … Read more
Tweet My Wedding Dress
This is the story of a unique wedding dress and her creator Jo Franchetti, Tech Engagement Manager at Trainline. Jo’s got 6 years experience as a front end developer and has worked in various parts of the tech industry from startups, agencies, … Read more
Codemotion Madrid Offers a Plethora of Diverse and Engaging Topics
Codemotion Madrid 2019 bought more than 60 internationally renowned speakers, hundreds of tech leaders, innovative business owners and community members together for a two-day event designed to take you on a step-by-step journey through every topic … Read more
IOT Development: the Snap4City way
During the last decade, application development has extended its borders far and beyond the classical web application paradigm. In particular, two main tendencies arose, namely Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things. Delivering applications on … Read more
How Snap4City can bring your vision of a Smart City to reality
Interoperability is such a crucial term when your mind gets enlightened with your smartest idea. You start thinking how to make it work and the more advanced and complex your project, the more you start realising that problems should be tackled one … Read more
Tutorial: connecting a raspberry Pi to the Snap4city network
Snap4City is the new platform for the sentient city. By using it you can get direct access to data from thousands of real sensors deployed on several cities, together with other types of resources such as static databases containing bus stops, wifi … Read more
Snap4City Dashboards: Overlook Your City
As we know from the article on sentient cities, Snap4City is an open-source, standard-based, data-driven, service-oriented and user-centric platform, enabling large-scale co-creation of applications and IoT/IoE services. As the name suggests, it … Read more