The IIoT is at the basis of the so-called Smart Factories, new advanced manufacturing units of the fourth industrial revolution. Smart sensors, super-fast connections, artificial intelligence ...

AnyWare handles both standard or custom protocols for hardware or software. Whether implemented in hardware or software, network protocol stacks are complex structures. As such, most are purchased ...

With over seven years of experience as a freelance technology writer and reporter, Tim Keary has a range of experience breaking down complex technologies into simple and accessible content. His work ...

Consider a smart home display that uses Wi-Fi, Bluetooth mesh and local voice recognition. The embedded processor manages the wireless protocols, runs the voice model and powers the user interface.

In decades past, communication security was the province of two widely separated domains. The task of authenticating users and ensuring security of the network channel was relegated to the network IT ...

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying the correctness of communications in distributed systems. Rooted in the notion of behavioural types, MPST ...

Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link, Mudbus, OPC UA are common in industrial automation. SNMP, REST, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, ODBC, OLE-DB and OPC UA (again) are protocols common in the IT space.

Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern. You know the routine: The IT industry, ...

Jini—Network Service Location Embedded network devices use infrastructures, like Sun's Jini, to locate network-based services. Jini thrives because most embedded devices support Java. Gateways provide ...