Category: Technical How-to

This post was co-written by David Walters, Sr Partner Solutions Architect, AWS IoT, and Pavan Kumar Bhat, Sr. Technical Product Manager, AWS IoT Device Ecosystem. Introduction Internet of Things (IoT) devices that fail to connect to the internet reliably or are vulnerable to security threats can be catastrophic to IoT device makers. An unreliable IoT […]

AWS IoT Events is a managed service that makes it easy to detect and respond to events from IoT devices. The detector model in AWS IoT Events monitors equipment for events and triggers actions. Finding issues with the detector model before its use is crucial. This blog introduces a troubleshooting feature to find issues with your detector model without using it.

AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2 was released for general availability during re:Invent 2020. AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) open source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage device software. Customers use AWS IoT Greengrass for their IoT applications on millions of devices in homes, factories, vehicles, […]

Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT Device Defender Machine Learning Detect and Mitigation (ML Detect), a new feature that automatically detects IoT device-level operational and security anomalies based on learnings from past device data. Customers can already use AWS IoT Device Defender’s Rules Detect feature to manually set static alarms. ML Detect […]

Note: SiteWise Edge is now generally available. Please see this blog post to get started with SiteWise Edge. From assembling automobiles to producing pharmaceuticals, successful industrial operations are fruits of continuous efforts to minimize equipment downtime, maximize product quality, and ensure personnel safety. Industrial IoT promises capabilities that can help manufacturers unlock insights quickly from […]

Introduction IoT product development crosses several domains of expertise from embedded design to communication protocols and cloud computing. Because of this complexity “end-to-end” or “edge-to-cloud” IoT security is becoming a challenging concept in the industry. Edge in many cases refers to the device as a single element in the edge-to-cloud chain. But the device must […]

AWS continually evolves our edge computing offerings to provide customers with the technology they need to extend AWS services to edge devices, such as consumer products or manufacturing equipment, and enable them to act intelligently. This helps customers avoid unnecessary cost and latency, and empower customers with the ability to manage edge devices securely and […]

UPDATE: The original blog post written on August 18th 2016 has been updated to this current version with the help of the author Michael Garcia (Principal Solutions Architect at AWS) and Anish Yadav (Cloud Support Associate at AWS). Whether it is in the context of industrial IoT or in connected homes, gateways are present in […]

Customers use AWS IoT to analyze the data generated by their IoT devices to quickly gain meaningful insights about their business. This helps them solve a variety of problems, such as identifying required improvements to their manufacturing processes, predicting device failures, or quickly diagnosing and troubleshooting device issues for their customers.  However, before IoT devices […]

Enabling operational data connectivity to AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to the edge to provide tools to act locally on the OT data, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass and the Cirrus Link MQTT Transmission module on the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation, industrial data […]