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IoT Security: How to Protect Your Connected Devices

How would you like to be locked out of your own house? Or have your heating turned off? These aren’t hypothetical what-ifs. With the penetration of IoT devices into our everyday life, these incidents are becoming commonplace. The risk of gaps in IoT device security isn’t just limited

The most important IoT stats for 2023

The most important IoT stats for 2023

We bid adieu to 2022 on a high, as the global spending on IoT reportedly surpassed USD 1 trillion. As we start off the new year, we are expecting some big changes. But before that happens, let us take a look at what the last year looked like for Internet

What to expect of IoT in 2023 after the death of IBM, Google, and SAP IoT platforms?

What to expect of IoT in 2023 after the death of IBM, Google, and SAP IoT platforms?

We ended 2022 with some rather big strides in IoT. But not all of them were positive. In the last quarter of the year, Google, IBM, and SAP all announced that they were retiring their IoT platforms soon. As IoT predictions look bigger and better for coming years, it comes

What are IoT Devices? And 10 Innovative IoT Device Examples

What are IoT Devices? And 10 Innovative IoT Device Examples

Did you think in 2012 that you would be able to monitor your stress levels, heartbeats, glucose, and more on the go? Apart from some tech visionaries, no one did. But that is the fascinating part about living in times where even the sky isn’t the limit for tech

Rumqtt release R19: Performance testing, public infra, and persistence

Rumqtt release R19: Performance testing, public infra, and persistence

Overview Today we’re making release 19 for rumqtt 🎉. It builds on the last release that focused on adding rich monitoring capabilities to rumqtt. Release R19 · bytebeamio/rumqttSignificant Changes Stress test router to against 10k connections (#511)Add prometheus data collection support (#522)Remove Connect from ConnectionError::StateError (#541)Support

What is IoT Device Management? and Top 5 reasons why your business needs it in 2023

What is IoT Device Management? and Top 5 reasons why your business needs it in 2023

If you ask us to envision Internet of Things, we’d probably say, just think of a huge network of devices—connected to each other and interacting with each other, all over the world. The ‘things’ portion of IoT is what connects the digital to the physical, and these devices

Top 5 IoT Trends to look out for in 2023

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Top 5 IoT Trends to look out for in 2023

It’s that time of the year again when you are bombarded with the speculations of technology trends! In order to only inform and educate, we have decided to keep it down to 5 trends that are emerging most strongly. But why should you care? Firstly, staying informed about the

Build your IoT projects with ESP32 and Bytebeam

Build your IoT projects with ESP32 and Bytebeam

More than half of IoT projects fail due to a lack of skilled personnel and difficulty in integrating hardware and software (Source: "Why IoT projects fail: A study of the top challenges," CIO, 2019). One of the key challenges in building an IoT project is finding the right client side

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and ByteBeam Part 3 - Handling Actions

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and ByteBeam Part 3 - Handling Actions

Learn to create and handle actions on your IoT devices using Bytebeam cloud Earlier in Part 1 and Part 2, we understood some basic concepts of bytebeam cloud that can be very helpful for your IoT application. In Part 1 we discussed device management and data visualization. In Part 2

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and ByteBeam Part 2 - Over the air updates

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and ByteBeam Part 2 - Over the air updates

Learn to provision over the air updates on your IoT devices using Bytebeam cloud In Part 2 of this multi-part series of tutorials, we will demonstrate how to do OTA firmware updates using the Bytebeam cloud console. Earlier in Part1 of the series, we learnt about setting up bytebeam espressif

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and Bytebeam Part 1 - Data Visualization

Getting Started with ESP32 IDF and Bytebeam Part 1 - Data Visualization

Learn about managing IoT devices and visualising device data using Bytebeam cloud In this multi-part series of tutorials, We will deep dive into the Bytebeam SDK for ESP-IDF. We will get familiar with the concepts of the Bytebeam cloud console and go through different analytics tools provided by Bytebeam. In

IoT Security in EU: The Cyber Resilience Act Explained

IoT Security in EU: The Cyber Resilience Act Explained

EU announced its Cyber Resilience Act in October 2022, in a bid to standardize security practices for digital products in the EU market. This could pave the way for similar laws across the world for IoT. The current IoT security framework is scattered. Some laws are in place but differ

Is IoT The Solution to The Looming Energy Crisis?

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Is IoT The Solution to The Looming Energy Crisis?

The world is now paying the price for ignoring climate change warnings for decades. But in some cases, we are literally paying a high price! Several parts of the world, especially in Europe, expect one of the coldest winters ever, and energy prices have already shot up. Add to that

Rumqtt release R18: Traceability, metering and native-TLS support

Rumqtt release R18: Traceability, metering and native-TLS support

Overview You cannot improve something you don't see or understand. MQTT brokers often handle thousands of device connections and millions of message pushes every day. This is why it is important to be able to see inside a broker and figure out what’s going on, and we realised that

What the Mandiant acquisition says about IoT security

What the Mandiant acquisition says about IoT security

This September, Google announced that it had acquired the cybersecurity firm Mandiant. While this may seem like a routine acquisition, we discuss the implications of this move on cloud security as a whole. As of July 2022, Google had acquired over 240 companies for over USD 26 billion. So when

What is Matter (1.0)? And Why Does it Matter?

What is Matter (1.0)? And Why Does it Matter?

The Connectivity Standards Alliance has officially released Matter 1.0, an application level protocol that makes security and interoperability much easier for smart home devices. We explain how Matter affects the industry and what we expect it to change. What was formerly known as Project Connected Home over IP, or

The Ultimate Guide to Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture

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The Ultimate Guide to Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture

The Internet of Things Architecture is a blueprint of how several components fit together. Understanding the basics of the architecture helps you understand how any IoT project functions, and how you can improve it. Are you trying to put together an IoT project? Figuring out the architecture is then the

AIS-156 EV Battery Safety Norms and Updates Explained

AIS-156 EV Battery Safety Norms and Updates Explained

As the government seeks to intervene in the recent battery fire incidents, the new battery safety norms were rolled out on September 1, 2022. Within a month, the Government of India rolled out updates to the standards with new timelines and a more structured implementation plan. The new EV battery

The Rust based MQTT broker (Rumqtt) gets new internals

The Rust based MQTT broker (Rumqtt) gets new internals

Overview Rumqttd was born out of our need for an extensible and performant broker to support the wide variety of IoT use cases that we solve at Bytebeam. We’ve always believed that open source is the right way to build core infrastructure components. Towards that end, we are now

A Brief History of Internet of Things (IoT)

A Brief History of Internet of Things (IoT)

Did you know that the first ever IoT device was created so that soda runs would become easier? When the first IoT device was invented, it wasn’t for a significant project or by a tech giant. A bunch of students at Carnegie Mellon University got tired of making soda

What does the Google IoT core shutdown tell us about IoT platforms?

What does the Google IoT core shutdown tell us about IoT platforms?

The Google IoT core shutdown may be a tactical move for Google, but it is symbolic regarding what it says about IoT platforms at large. Google’s IoT core, a service allowing users to connect IoT devices and manage them, was a boon for amateur developers and business folks alike.

How to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) application?

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How to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) application?

If we told you 30 years ago that we could have devices across the world all connected to each other, working and interacting together, what would you say? IoT has surpassed everyone’s expectations of how much it could change the technological landscape across the world. IoT applications have overhauled

What Is an IoT Platform—and Why Do You Need One?

What Is an IoT Platform—and Why Do You Need One?

According to a recent report, the IoT cloud platforms market is slated to grow up to USD 11.5 billion by 2025. If you're thinking about implementing an Internet of Things strategy for your company, it's important to understand what an IoT platform does and how it works. In this

Top 8 Challenges in IoT Development—and How to Overcome Them

Top 8 Challenges in IoT Development—and How to Overcome Them

In the United States alone, the IoT adoption rate is 94%, but what does it mean to invest in IoT? What are the challenges that come with this technology? The Internet of Things industry stood at over USD 389 billion in 2020, and it is only expected to grow from

The Beginner’s Guide to Internet of Things (IoT)

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The Beginner’s Guide to Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things is everywhere, but what does it exactly mean? Is IoT the watch you wear? Or is it the complex-looking sensor board you see in articles and videos? In this guide, we cover the basics of IoT, so whether you want to employ IoT in your next