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Top Findings from Avnet’s 2022 Global IoT Survey

dychen

To keep up with the trends for the Internet of Things (IoT) market, Avnet recently conducted its annual Global IoT Survey and published the results. Respondents were asked a wide range of questions, from business-oriented to technical. The results we...
- 30 Jun 2022
Standard Serial over Bluetooth on Windows 10

ralphjy

I've recently been doing more work with BLE devices and communicating with them using my Windows PC. I've mainly been using WebBLE - most recently with the Nicla Sense ME. I've started using MIT App Inventor to create apps for my iO...
- 15 Apr 2022
Reading PIR sensor values with Thunderboard sense 2 and simplicty studio

Haythem

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting in the forum. So i am working with thunderboard sense 2 and simplicty studio. I want to use an external PIR sensor connected to the board to get PIR data in my PC. As in read the analog PIN and valu...
- 13 Apr 2022
Poll Have You Used The IOT Express Connect Tool?

rscasny

We would like to know how many community members have used the Avnet IOT Express Connect Tool. The Express Connect tool provides IoT developers and non-programmers the ability to quickly connect sensors and devices to applications and dashboards in m...
- 5 Apr 2022
Road Test notepad: Infineon Blockchain Starter Kit

Jan Cumps

This document is a scrapbook for the Infineon Blockchain Starter Kit road test. 1 (YES) see if it is possible to run a blockchain ledger on a Raspberry Pi Before applying (check this thread that shows several people moving...
- 14 Mar 2022
Blockchain - HyperLedger Fabric pt 3: web console

Jan Cumps

I wrote a series about HyperLedger Fabric blockchain services. IBM has provided an open-sourced web console to manage these services. Here I'm reviewing that The console explains how to do the setup for the Fabric network example. ...
- 13 Mar 2022
Researchers develop Bell analyzer, a giant leap for quantum networking

Catwell

This image shows Joseph Lukens performing experiments. (Image Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy) Thanks to quantum technology advancements, we're witnessing innovations masterminded by scientists, from computers more powerful tha...
- 9 Mar 2022
Migrating Things V1 Gateway to Things Stack V3

ralphjy

I've been following with interest this discussion Success connecting to Arduino Cloud / TTN with MKR WAN 13x0: share your experience where Jan Cumps and skruglewicz have been having issues connecting to the Arduino Cloud...
- 24 Feb 2022
Tracking CO2 in the Environment with XENSIV PAS Sensors

rscasny

A better environment contributes to improved health and productivity. Increasing environmental awareness has spurred the development of accurate and affordable monitoring solutions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors can sense rising CO2 levels allowing re...
- 12 Feb 2022
Xiao BLE Sense nRF52840

ralphjy

In my quest to find wireless IoT solutions, I find a lot of interesting and useful products manufactured by Seeed Studio. I posted about a WiFi dev board yesterday: Wio RP2040 Mini Dev Board. In addition to WiFi, I've been lo...
- 12 Feb 2022
Introduction to Massive IoT Applications

rscasny

The growing popularity of IoT use cases in domains that rely on connectivity spans large areas. The ability to manage a large number of connections has spurred demand for massive IoT (MIoT) technologies. MIoT refers to the tens of billions of devices...
- 7 Feb 2022
Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi SoC for battery-powered IoT devices

rscasny

What is the DA16200? The DA16200 is a highly integrated ultra-low power Wi-Fi system on a chip (SoC). It contains an 802.11b/g/n radio (PHY), a baseband processor, a media access controller (MAC), on-chip memory, and a host networking application pro...
- 7 Feb 2022
Take the Global IoT Survey 2022 and Get a Chance to Win an iPad

rscasny

The global IoT market is expected to have tremendous group in the coming years. A wide variety of industries and end users will use IoT Technology to improve their internal processes or deliver products and services that customers may not currently h...
- 14 Jan 2022
The Things Network is moving to The Things Stack

ralphjy

I just received an email reminding me that I'll need to migrate my LoRaWan gateway from The Things Network to The Things Stack. To quote from the Johan's email:"With excitement I announce that The Things Network is upgrading to the latest and gr...
- 26 May 2021
Meet One of the Most Cost-effective Arm Cortex-M33 MCU for your Next Generation IoT Design

leo_

I talked a lot about NXP's newest Cortex-M33 platform microcontroller series: LPC5500, since the first product's launch 2 years ago, NXP has been proactively launching different product families within the series to fulfill customer needs. There is t...
- 24 Feb 2021
Blockchain - HyperLedger Fabric pt 2: application using blockchain and smart contract

Jan Cumps

Blockchain can be used to build a trail of trusted actions. A chain of events built on trust or agreements between parties. In Fabric lingo: a smart contract. Post 2: test an application that calls some functions . I try to ...
- 3 Jan 2021
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 4b: link 3rd party library on Windows

Jan Cumps

Goal: use a 3rd party library in my c++ project, on Windows and Linux.Continuing from post 4a, where I configured the Linux build. I'm assuming here that the 3rd party provides a compiled lib and the necessary header files. And that you did ...
- 25 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 4a: link 3rd party library on Linux ARM

Jan Cumps

Goal: use a 3rd party library in my c++ project, on Windows and Linux.Example: the support library for a USB smart card reader.I'm starting from previous project, that's already set up for both platforms. I'm assuming here that the 3rd party pro...
- 25 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 3: debug on both platforms

Jan Cumps

Goal: debug the project from the previous blog.Both the Windows and Linux version, from the same Eclipse project on your Windows laptop.The Windows version as a local program - we're running eclipse on Windows and can debug locally.The Linux version ...
- 24 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 2: start multi-target project

Jan Cumps

Goal: build a project in Eclipse, on Windows, that builds binaries for Windows Intel and Linux Arm.When you create a project, you tell Eclipse what toolchain to use.In our case, we'll want 2 chains:GCC compiler for Windows (I'm using Cygwin + GCC)GCC...
- 23 Dec 2020
Build an application in Eclipse and GCC for Windows and Linux - supports external Libs, DLLs, Debug: Part 1: preview

Jan Cumps

Use case: Build an application that runs on a Windows Intel PC and on a Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi, BBB, ...), using 3rd party libraries.In my case: I want to use a USB NFC card reader that comes with precompiled Linux lib and Windows DLL.Let's say you ...
- 22 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 5: refactor, look back at initial design

Jan Cumps

Follow up on my project to create an object oriented framework for smart card use.In this article I want to add vendor-specific card functionality.That is when I I find out that I'd better relocate some functions away from the Reader classes, to avoi...
- 19 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 4: first meaningful ISO14443 / APDU conversation

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.This time I focus on the ISO14443_4 / APDU protocol. Getting results instead of focusing on Object Oriented Design. In contrast to previous posts, I&#3...
- 16 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 3: C++ Class to handle ISO14443 / APDU cards

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.This time I make a class that can deal with ISO14443 protocol. Specialised Interface for ISO14443 / APDU Cards I have a set of ISO14443 cards (fro...
- 16 Dec 2020
Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 2: first C++ program

Jan Cumps

In this article I make a c++ application for the D-Logic card reader and a set of smart cards.It's again a simple console program that checks the type of card is on top of the reader, and get the card ID. The purpose is to show that you can use it in...
- 15 Dec 2020