Introduction McKinsey research shows that a remarkable 70% of top tech executives are investing in digital twins, highlighting the growing momentum for this technology. Their goal is to achieve more agile and resilient operations, as digital twins offer a wide range of applications, from remote control and monitoring to complex system simulations, enabling a new era of efficiency and interoperability in asset maintenance. Digital twins are revolutionizing the way companies operate by creating a complete digital counterpart of physical assets, processes, facilities, and operations. By harnessin ..read more

Although mostly invisible, embedded systems are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, powering applications, such as smart home automation or industrial control systems. At the upcoming Embedded World 2024 trade fair, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will showcase its latest innovations and solutions in the field of Internet of Things (IoT), tailored towards the embedded industry. Join us as we explore the transformative power of the cloud in the embedded world and discover how AWS can accelerate your projects and time to market. Date: 9-11th April 2024 Location: Nuremberg, Germany Booth: Hall ..read more

Introduction The National Fire Protection Association records over one million fires each year. These fires rank as one of the top threats to urban safety in the United States. Currently, fire departments largely rely on traditional fire detection systems composed of in-home smoke detectors, fire call boxes, and public notification (calls) to receive their alerts. These systems may lack additional information, such as scope, scale, and location of the fire. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key technology that can help cities streamline their infrastructure to proactively detect fires and impr ..read more

With the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in regulated industries, such as healthcare, hardening IoT security devices has become a requirement. In addition to ensuring that backend systems are resilient, organizations increasingly invest effort to secure devices outside the traditional enterprise perimeter with zero trust principles. For example, fleet operators for connected medical devices need to ensure that the product does not exhibit anomalous behavior and function as designed. When a device’s security posture is compromised, it’s vital that these events are effi ..read more

As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices increase exponentially, enterprises need advanced tools that can leverage location data to manage their IoT fleets across different geographies. Knowing your devices’ location is important not only for asset management and theft detection, but also to dispatch timely remediation when your devices are non-operational. Moreover by combining location and device state metadata, you can derive richer insights about your IoT fleet, such as detecting location-specific connectivity issues or understanding usage trends by location. As an example, if you ..read more

Introduction At AWS, we work with customers and partners to build technologies that help solve real-world industrial problems like minimizing equipment downtime, improving process efficiency, maximizing product quality, and ensuring personnel safety. These customers are using AWS services to gain digital capabilities that help them to optimize their processes and make data-driven decisions. This transformation boosts competitiveness and lays the foundation for a more intelligent, agile, and interconnected industrial landscape. At the center of achieving this digital transformation is data. For ..read more

Modernize your Enterprise Data Historian with AWS Cloud Services Introduction At AWS, we work with customers and partners to build technologies that help solve real-world industrial problems like minimizing equipment downtime, improving process efficiency, maximizing product quality, and ensuring personnel safety. These customers are using AWS services to gain digital capabilities that help them to optimize their processes and make data-driven decisions. This transformation boosts competitiveness and lays the foundation for a more intelligent, agile, and interconnected industrial landscape. At ..read more

Introduction According to industry researcher IHS Markit, the estimated number of IP cameras deployed worldwide was approaching 1 billion by the end of 2021, and according to Gartner’s Emerging Tech: Revenue Opportunity Projection of Computer Vision report, enterprise computer vision (CV) software, hardware and services in key markets is expected to generate global revenue of $386 billion by 2031, up from $126 billion in 2022. Many on-premises deployments of IP cameras make use of a network video recorder (NVR) to handle recording, storage, and playback of video and audio from those cameras, a ..read more

Introduction Today, AWS IoT Core announces the general availability of self-managed client certificate signing for AWS IoT Core fleet provisioning. The new self-managed certificate signing capability allows you to integrate with an external certificate authority (CA), your own public key infrastructure (PKI), or popular CA services such as AWS Private CA, to sign certificate signing requests (CSRs) when provisioning your fleet.  This integration enables you to customize attributes of X.509 client certificates while using fleet provisioning, which is particularly beneficial for security-se ..read more

Introduction If you operate secure private networks—such as an assembly line’s operational technology (OT) network at a factory or government agency­—and intend to connect your devices to AWS, then you need to use X.509 client certificates for authenticating requests to AWS services—all while staying within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). In this post, we will demonstrate how to use the new capability, VPC endpoint (VPCe) for AWS IoT Core credential provider to manage component deployments into AWS IoT Greengrass-powered gateways running on private networks. Similarly ..read more