The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog

Category: Thought Leadership

Streamline the process of developing IoT applications with Toolbox for AWS IoT

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 […]

Unlocking Business Value through Digital Twins: The AWS and Bosch Collaboration

Introduction McKinsey research shows that a remarkable 70% of top tech executives are investing in digital twins, highlighting the growing momentum for this technology. Their goal is to achieve more agile and resilient operations, as digital twins offer a wide range of applications, from remote control and monitoring to complex system simulations, enabling a new […]

Embedded World 2024: Accelerate innovation from edge to cloud with AWS

Although mostly invisible, embedded systems are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, powering applications, such as smart home automation or industrial control systems. At the upcoming Embedded World 2024 trade fair, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will showcase its latest innovations and solutions in the field of Internet of Things (IoT), tailored towards the embedded industry. Join us […]

Use location data with AWS IoT Device Management to monitor and manage your IoT fleet

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.

AWS IoT Core now supports private certificate authorities with fleet provisioning

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 […]

Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise vision system data (Preview)

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 […]

Figure 1: David Gerber’s IoT enabled beehives (Neuchatel, Switzerland)

Streamlining agriculture operations with serverless anomaly detection using AWS IoT

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 […]

How to use the new metric export capability of AWS IoT Device Defender

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.

How to build a scalable, multi-tenant IoT SaaS platform on AWS using a multi-account strategy

When you set out to build an IoT SaaS platform where your customer, not you, determines how their IoT devices interact with the services, you will quickly understand that no single cloud architecture can be optimized for all scenarios. This blog post introduces an implementation strategy for building multi-tenant IoT SaaS platforms based on real […]

2023 year in review: digital twins on AWS for agile and resilient operations

McKinsey research indicates that 70 percent of C-suite technology executives invest in digital twins to build more agile and resilient operations. They see benefits across multiple use cases ranging from remote control and monitoring, asset maintenance and interoperability, to system and production simulation. These use cases need the ability to bring together Operational Technology (OT) […]