This new member of the Raspberry Pi family may surprise you. With its tiny form factor (around 7 cm x 3 cm) and a relatively good variety of I/0 interfaces, this device promises to bring processing power and radio heterogeneity to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and IoT deployments. It is not risky to affirm that using ..read more

Today, I have attended a crash-course on “Selling Technology”, organized by the Catalan Agency of Competitiveness (ACCIO), in Barcelona. From my position at CTTC as head of the M2M Communications Department, this is always a nice skill to include in the personal continuous improvement cycle. The course has been pretty interesting, and I just wanted ..read more

Continuing with our series to help you boost your prototyping abilities, this time we will take a short glance at GNU Screen. Screen is an amazing tool that allows you to create a separate Terminal buffer, independent of the current Terminal session. That is, you may want to enter into Screen through the Terminal and execute some code ..read more

This post was originally posted at http://www.jesusalonsozarate.com on March 1st, 2017. The 2017 edition of the Mobile World Congress is over. It seems that this year all the numbers around the event have increased since previous editions ever since 2005 (12 years ago already); greatest economic impact into the city of Barcelona, largest number of accredited press, greatest ..read more

Let’s forget about what type of network technology you are using. Now, suppose you want to perform a benchmark for your new network topology, protocol, antenna, or other. Regardless of which of the aforementioned test you want to perform, it should be tested under realistic traffic sources. Also, it might be even better if these ..read more

The Internet of Things faces a chicken and egg problem: Europe is building a network for the Internet of Things before it really has the “things.” by Russ Juskalian July 19, 2016 With much industry fanfare last month, Dutch telco KPN announced that it had completed nationwide coverage of the Netherlands in a wireless Internet ..read more

Aalto University, in collaboration with Ericsson Research and EIT Digital, has successfully implemented a prototype for Narrowband Internet of Things (Narrowband-IoT) system, that can be deployed in GSM and LTE spectrum and is tailored for increased coverage, long battery life, low module cost, and large number of devices. The prototype is a narrowband version of ..read more

Hi all, I have just come across this very nice post by John Soldatos: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-things-tutorial-introduction-ch1-john-soldatos This post has a very nice introduction to the IoT. However, the nicest thing about it, to me, is the following collection of videos which different views on the IoT. Enjoy them: European Commission – Internet-of-Things Intel IoT — What ..read more

Aguas de Valencia is a company that manages the complete water cycle with headquarters in the province of Valencia. They manage over 1 million meters, including more than 600,000 automated meter reading devices. Communication is essential, and technology allows them to read meters 24 times a day. In partnership with Vodafone a trial was conducted ..read more

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the place where you meet everyone in the business of Mobile, in IoT and increasingly also other businesses that see the need to be part of the digital infrastructure transformation. Ten startups from EIT Digital Business Communities, and the one of Future Networking Solutions in particular, were represented ..read more