Category: Internet of Things

Connecting IoT devices securely to the cloud can be complex, but AWS IoT ExpressLink simplifies this by providing connectivity modules with built-in security from AWS Partners. Cardinal Peak used these modules to accelerate IoT product prototyping, avoiding hardware redesigns, simplifying firmware, using pre-installed certificates, streamlining manufacturing, and enabling efficient cloud onboarding. Overall, AWS IoT ExpressLink helped Cardinal Peak save over 6 months of engineering time.

In today’s industrial landscape, smart manufacturing is pivotal for sustainability and efficiency gains. However, organizations face challenges in gathering and consolidating data from multiple, often outdated sources on the manufacturing floor. LTIMindtree’s AWS-powered Digital Command Center (DCC) solution addresses this by enabling data acquisition, management, real-time KPI monitoring, and analytics-driven insights.

Cellular IoT offers reliable, low-power, wide-area connectivity and its rapid growth is driven by increasing connected device demand across industries. Producing IoT devices at scale requires months of preparation, and Semtech’s AirVantage Device Control leverages hardware roots of trust to enable zero-touch provisioning, seamlessly binding devices to AWS IoT Core. This lowers manufacturing costs through single global SKUs, improves security, and accelerates time-to-market by eliminating provisioning customization.

In the transportation and logistics industry, navigating large vehicles comes with challenges like bridge heights, travel restrictions, and compliance. A previous AWS blog explored efficient truck routing using Amazon Location Service and HERE Technologies. This new post explores the HERE Explore Truck map styles to help visualize routes in real-time. By combining this style with Amazon Location Service, companies can leverage safe, efficient, and compliant routing for improved fleet operations.

Women’s sports have lacked access to data analytics geared towards enhancing their performance. AWS and KINEXON collaborated to develop player tracking technology tailored for women, with key innovations including personalized load management plans based on an athlete’s cycle. This helps establish meaningful performance thresholds derived from data, and build a supportive community to advance equality through sports technology specifically designed for women.

Industrial IoT adoption is increasing the connectivity of operational technology to IT systems, necessitating better visibility into assets. Claroty Edge on AWS Snowcone enables asset discovery to build an accurate inventory and identify vulnerabilities. Combined with Claroty xDome, this provides comprehensive IT/OT asset management and vulnerability insights. xDome integrates with AWS Security Hub to simplify deploying asset visibility and enable organizations to defend and secure their connected environments.

As energy and utility companies transition to renewable energy, they face challenges with controlling costs and centralized IT that’s unable to scale. Sense Reply implements an IoT platform accelerator suite on AWS which enables faster time-to-market, microservice deployment, standardized IaC, and lifecycle management across environments and accounts. This allows companies to focus on business logic while leveraging a modular, scalable platform for diverse energy sector use cases.

Belden Inc. collaborated with AWS and Matterport to create a digital twin at its Richmond manufacturing facility. By capturing the plant environment with Matterport’s 3D camera and integrating sensor data through AWS IoT Core, they built a virtual representation of the assembly line. The digital twin enables Belden to gain insights, optimize operations, and improve asset performance in areas like employee training and preventative maintenance.

Kyndryl built an AI solution on AWS to detect pores in welding using acoustic data and a custom algorithm with voltage data. It’s an end-to-end solution that collects data from welding machines, processes it at the edge to detect pores, and streams it to the AWS cloud for historical analysis. Kyndryl’s pore detection solution on AWS increases quality and optimizes manufacturing, improving defect detection accuracy while increasing efficiency and reducing rework costs and customer churn.

The rise of IoT has brought a proliferation of connected devices, with more convenience and efficiency for enterprise and end users. Microcontrollers are pivotal to deploying and running AI at the edge, and AWs is collaborating with STMicroelectronics, a leading microcontroller manufacturer, and LACROIX, a leader in smart city solutions, to simplify Edge AI adoption. We’ll highlight the critical role of each partner in making edge computing commercially viable across use cases and industries.