WIRED

Machinery in modern facilities relies on data more than operators to function. This reliance on data has sharply risen with the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing operations. IoT devices enable machine-to-machine (M2M) communication where devices in your facility can share information. IoT also enables the communication between devices and cloud computing

It’s no longer a question of whether your business will be attacked, but rather when it will be attacked. Cyber attacks, particularly those on public sector and utility businesses, are now a regular, often daily occurrence.

The new EIT Digital Innovation Activity, Approxim@ction, will create a digital platform solution for approximated embedded computing, that tackles the challenge of short battery lives of smart wireless devices found in many Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems – such as industry and smart cities.

Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has introduced its sixth-generation discrete LTE multimode chipset — the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X16 LTE modem, which is built on a leading-edge 14nm FinFET process — and the Qualcomm RF Transceiver, WTR5975.

In August, it was hard to ignore the Jeep hack carried out by a WIRED journalist, where he arranged for the car he was in to externally be taken control of whilst he drove a St. Louis highway. It was also hard to ignore the furore that followed. The story was shared over 200,000 times,