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Send us Fan MailUntil recently, Wind River was a part of Intel. Now that Wind is an independent company (you knew that occurred, right?), what does the future hold and where will the industry powerhouse go? Those are the questions I posed to Wind’s CEO Jim Douglas in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion. https://www.windriver.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailOne half of the Embedded Insiders took to the Sensors Expo Conference this week, and the technology discussed there actually led to what happened in a real-life accident. You’ll likely recall the incident not too long ago where a woman was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle. Do you know why that happened? Listen in to find out.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailIndustrial IoT is a hot topic. If you question that, have a conversation with Alex Blochtein, the CEO of Contec, as I did for this week’s Five Minutes with…podcast. His company is on a roll, and I wanted to know why. If you want to know as well, give a listen. https://www.contec.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailLocation awareness is a term that’s in vogue. It’s sort of like positioning, but not exactly. And what’s the hop application for location awareness? Cattle tracking. Yup, you heard right. Cattle farmers have too much at stake (or should I say steak) to not invest in the latest technologies to maintain their investments. In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, I spoke to Dr. Jens Albers, the CEO of Nanotron Technologies where we discussed location awareness, cows, and a herd of other topics. https://nanotron.com/EN/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailIn the consumer space, a few of the industry giants have stepped up to take charge of the IoT, a la Google, Apple, and so one. But in the industrial space, that has not happened, for reasons that are discussed in this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast. Will it happen, and if so, who is the giant that’ll step up? Listen to the podcast and see if you agree with the “experts.”For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThe Industrial Internet Consortium, aka the IIC, recently released a whitepaper titled Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT. Hence, I thought it was a great opportunity to speak to the Co-Chair of the IIC’s Edge Computing Task Group, Todd Edmunds, so I could get a better understanding of the IIC’s involvement in standard setting, and what the whitepaper might mean to a developer of industrial IoT systems. And that’s exactly what I discussed in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Todd Edmunds, who works for Cisco as a Senior Solutions Architect in addition to his duties with the IIC. https://www.iiconsortium.org/index.htm https://www.iiconsortium.org/pdf/Introduction_to_Edge_Computing_in_IIoT_2018-06-18.pdfFor more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailCan you determine location by hearing an object or person’s position? Sort of, and that’s the technology that’s deployed by PoLTE. The company uses a sensing technology over a cellular medium to very accurately determine location. Hear more about it in this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion with Ed Chao, PoLTE’s CEO. https://polte.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThe Embedded Insiders talk Google, for two separate reasons. Are those two things connected? We’ll let you decide. First, Google announced its Android Things initiative. What’s the end game? Getting more devices into the Google Cloud? Probably. Either separately, or if you’re into conspiracy theories, not separately, Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance. Not much detail here, so we were left to speculate, which is exactly what we did.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailAccording to Jothy Rosenberg, the Founder and CEO of Dover Microsystems, processor technology is not keeping pace with the security that needs to be implemented, particularly in the case of cyber security. The key to fixing that problem is to address security at the “root level.” In this week’s Five Minutes with…discussion, Jothy explains what that means, why it is the case today, and what needs to happen to remedy the situation. https://dovermicrosystems.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Send us Fan MailThis week’s Five Minutes with…discussion has to do with artificial intelligence (AI), and the guest is Robert Gendron, a Corporate Vice President, in charge of power components at Vicor. Power and AI? Doesn’t seem like a fit, does it? Actually, these two technologies are tied much closer than you might expect. Listen to find out why. http://www.vicorpower.com/For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com