Category: Technical How-to

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 […]

Organizations with large numbers of IoT devices need efficient solutions to track events occurring across multiple devices, in order to identify operational issues and act upon them. This post covers the use case of a fictitious organization AcmeTracker that offers services to track the geolocation of a wide suite of assets (such as vehicles), by […]

Introduction Solutions architects, developers, and system designers building IoT solutions need ways to properly secure data and functions that operate on data across the entire solution landscape. In this post, we describe a few design options for scaling authorization policies focused on multi-user and multi-device use cases with AWS IoT Core. We cover several scenarios, […]

Across numerous types of implementations, a large portion of IoT applications collect large volumes of telemetry data. From industrial use cases to healthcare, and from consumer goods to logistics, IoT telemetry data points are highly time-dependent. In most IoT solutions, when the data is collected and reported matters for several reasons. For instance, in attribution […]

Many embedded architectures include a connectivity processor connected to one or more secondary processors that perform business logic. The ability to perform secondary processor over-the-air (OTA) updates is just as critical as updating the connectivity processor. This is because it allows for low-cost patching of bugs and security vulnerabilities as well as delivering new features […]