IoT and OSS Links — April 6
My weekly round-up of interesting news and links from the world of IoT and Open Source.
- Microsoft announces $5 billion in IoT.
The announcement is a bit short on details but this announcement definitely shows MS Azure is making serious money on IoT. This might be a sign that the IoT industry is moving beyond the proof of concept stage and large scale deployments are happening.
OMA is the standard group that produces LightweightM2M (LWM2M). IPSO as an advocacy group but also was working on a schema called SmartObjects. It looks like the two groups have decided to merge together.
3. Reasons Why Edge Computing is Relevant for Industry 4.0
This is a good concise article about the benefits of edge computing in manufacturing. Also interesting so see a new edge computing vendor, called Crosser.
Stacey on IoT also did a similar article about edge computing that identifies similar benefits.
Besides the creative headline, it is interesting to see SAP getting into the digital twin business. This announcement appears to be the release of software from a recent acquisition. I expect we will see a lot more digital twin announcements in the coming months.
Intel announced they would be contributing code from Wind River to the Akraino Edge project. Akraino is described as ‘the open source community creating an open source software stack that supports high-availability cloud services optimized for edge computing systems and applications.’ The other companies involved in Akraino are AT&T, China Mobile, Huawei plus others.
The next week Intel also announced they were selling Wind River to a private equity company. Not sure if these two announcements are related or what it means for the Akraino announcement. The sale of Wind River certainly looks like Intel is divesting of its IoT software.