Category Archives: IoT

IoT Security for Developers [Survive IoT Part 5]

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Russell Doty

Previous articles focused on how to securely design and configure a system based on existing hardware, software, IoT Devices, and networks. If you are developing IoT devices, software, and systems, there is a lot more you can do to develop … Continue reading →

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Security by Isolating Insecurity [Survive IoT Part 4]

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Russell Doty

In my previous post I introduced “Goldilocks Security”, proposing three approaches to security. Solution 1: Ignore Security Safety in the crowd – with tens of millions of cameras out there, why would anyone pick mine? Odds are that the bad … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks Security: Bad, Won’t Work, and Plausible [Survive IoT Part 3]

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Russell Doty

Previous postsdiscussed the security challenge presented by IoT devices, using IP Video Cameras as an example. Now let’s consider some security alternatives: Solution 1: Ignore Security This is the most common approach to IoT security today. And, to a significant … Continue reading →

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Representative IoT Device: IP Video Camera [Survive IoT Part 2]

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Russell Doty

The previous article introduced the idea of implementing a production IoT system to really learn how IoT works. One of the most flexible, powerful, and useful IoT sensors is a video camera. Video streams can be used directly. They can … Continue reading →

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How I Survived the Internet of Things [Survive IoT Part 1]

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Russell Doty

Working with IoT from a software architecture perspective teaches you a lot, but leaves the nagging question “how does this really work?”. Theory is great and watching other people work is relaxing, but the time comes when I have to … Continue reading →

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Red Hat Improves IoT Communications

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Russell Doty

The just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 improves support for IoT by providing enhanced connectivity to IoT devices – better connection of “things” to the Intenet. To give a little context for this, IoT is based on machine to … Continue reading →

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IoT Gateways

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Russell Doty

After discussing the “thing” part of IoT in Devices – the “Thing” in IoT let’s take a look at overall IoT system design. IoT Gateways connect IoT Devices to IoT back-end systems. Gateways connect to devices using interfaces like Ethernet, … Continue reading →

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IoT Technology: Devices

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Russell Doty

Discussions of IoT often focus on the technology, so let’s start there. IoT consists of devices, which are the “things” that interact with the physical world and communicate with IoT Back-end systems over a network. There are two types of … Continue reading →

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The Internet of Things

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Russell Doty

There area lot of things to explore around IoT – what it is, technology, system architectures, security, implementation challenges, and many others. We will get to all of those, but a great place to start is how we got here … Continue reading →

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Embedded systems, meet the Internet of Things

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Russell Doty

An article in Military Embedded Systems magazine discusses the evolution of embedded systems as influenced by the Internet of Things (IoT): Embedded systems, meet the Internet of Things. The article notes: “In many ways, embedded systems are the progenitor of … Continue reading →

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