Category: Technical How-to

Introduction Streamlining the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications can help your company stand out. It can also spur new innovations, such as connecting and leveraging data from countless devices to empower data-driven choices, optimized operations, and creative new offerings in today’s fast-changing world. As IoT adoption grows, one of the challenges that developers […]

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. […]

AWS IoT Device Management’s location indexing and geoquery feature allows you to search for devices based on their last reported location. You can list devices that are located within a specific geographic area, perform a proximity search relative to a reference location, implement targeted over-the-air (OTA) updates, derive location-specific device performance insights, and identify devices that are no longer in a desired geographic boundary. In this blog, you will learn how to get started with indexing location data and using geoqueries to support your day-to-day IoT fleet management operations.

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 […]

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 […]

Over the last few years, the industrial and manufacturing sectors have witnessed an accelerated transformation fueled by the advancement of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). At the heart of this transformation is data, which when harnessed effectively, can propel businesses to new heights of operational efficiency, innovation, […]

Today, we are excited to announce that AWS IoT FleetWise now supports vehicle vision system data collection that enables customers to collect metadata, object list and detection data, and images or videos from camera, lidar, radar and other vision sub-systems. This new feature, now available in Preview, builds upon existing AWS IoT FleetWise capabilities that […]

Introduction Honeybees live in swarms of tens of thousands, gathering nectar. In this process, they carry pollen from one flowering plant to another, pollinating them. ” Close to 75 percent of the world’s crops producing fruits and seeds for human use depend, at least in part, on pollinators[1]. ” As well as being one of nature’s key pollinators, bees transform […]

As part of the Manufacturing sector’s digitization process, Industry 4.0 automation drives real-time, data acquisition from industrial equipment on the plant floor. This data and immediate feedback have become a mission-critical requirement. In addition, recent supply chain disruptions have increased the lead time to procure edge hardware resulting in several months delays to modernization projects. […]

The new metric export feature of AWS IoT Device Defender provides a convenient and cost-effective way for you to export the device metrics from AWS IoT Device Defender to your data lake. With metric export capability, you can now export metrics with a simple configuration change without needing to make any changes to your device firmware. This blog gives an overview of how to configure this capability for new as well as existing workloads.