IoT- Far from Standard

internet of things- Far from Standard internet der dinge- Far from Standard IoT Far from StandardThe Internet of Things (IoT) and its close relative the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promise sensors on all manner of machinesfrom the industrial turbine to the smart meter monitoring your home electricity use to the coffee maker parked on your kitchen countertop.But neither IoT nor IIoT can function properly unless the sensors the attendant software also used by these systems can talk to each other using a common, standard language. The problem is, several potential standards and standards-setting bodies are now competing with each other and more may be joining the competition soon. How the race to set standards will shake out is far from clear at this point, though all interested parties agree that race will need to come to a definitive conclusion in the near future.Existing MethodologiesMany with their hats in the ring provide already existing standards or methodologies they wo uld like to see applied as the de facto IoT or IIoT standard. The stakes are high. Management consulting firm Accenture predicts the global Industrial IoT landscape will be worth $14.2 trillion by 2022.Appropriately enough, IoT applies to commercial use of this tied technology (like the coffee maker), while the IIoT will be called upon by large manufacturers and for industrial use (such as for the turbine example).Comparison of Web and IoT protocol stacks. Image Zach Shelby, SensinodeFor instance, some of the standards set by the Object Management Group are integral to and can be used for the IIoT, says Richard Soley, OMG chairman and chief executive officer. He spoke at the Industrial Internet Consortiums seventh meeting in June 2015. The Object Management Group is an international technology-standards consortium.The pertinent OMG standards play a role in the security, dependability, and efficiency for the IIoT and include OMGs data distribution service, system assurance, and syste ms modeling language.Consortiums on the RiseSeveral of the organizations interested in IIoT and IoT standards setting are consortiums. For instance, in December 2013, the Linux Foundation formed the AllSeen Alliance, which now boasts such powerful players as LG Electronics, Qualcomm, Panasonic, Sony, Cisco, and Microsoft, among others.AllSeens about 250-members-base untersttzung the AllJoyn, an open-source framework originally developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., which has contributed it to the AllSeen Alliance, says Noah Harlan, president of the AllSeen Alliance.Participating alliance members use the framework to create their own custom apps that bring devices onto a wifi network, he adds.Though the aim of the AllSeen Alliances isnt to establish AllJoyn as the IoT network protocol, with its impressive roster of members that could happen, Harlan says.Its just that with nearly 250 members the platform would apply to many devices, he says.Membe rs are committed to work together so their devices can interoperate across both the IIoT and the IoT, he adds.When you have two devices on a local network, how do they discover each other and speak the same language so they dont need to be programmed to work together? Harlan says. Well, with AllJoyn, any device that joins the network announces itself and its capabilities to the network.So switches and light bulbs that are on the same network can interoperate without any customization, Harlan says. They use a standard set of controls that have AllJoyn on them and those controls allow you to control that light.We believe interoperability is vitally important for IoT, were not going out on any deep limbs with that, Harlan says.Other potential standards setting bodies include the Industrial Internet Consortium formed in March 2014 by Intel, Cisco, ATT, GE, and IBM to develop standards specifically for the IIoT.For the IoT, a new networking protocol, Thread, has security and low-power fe atures that make it better for connecting household devices than other technologies such as wifi or Bluetooth, says Chris Boross, president of the Thread group.Meanwhile, in July 2014 Intel, Broadcom, and Samsun Electronics formed the Open Interconnect Consortium, which will develop standards and certification for IoT devices, according to a consortium statement. The standards will be based on the Constrained Application Protocol, a software protocol that allows simple electronics devices like low-power sensors, switches, and values to communicate interactively over the Internet.Confused yet?To use Harlans analogy, IIoT and IoT standardization is now at the same place HyperText Markup Language stood in the middle 1990s.When the Internet first appeared you had some alternate implementations of how to do browser-based Internet viewing, he says. Then people figured out it welches better if each browser interpreted the same code base and that the real business was in the chip and the ro uters and infrastructure on which all this passes.In other words, the race is on for standardization, but its also on to become the Cisco of the IIoT and IoT world.Jean Thilmany is an independent writer.Explore IoT hardware from the component to the system level at ASMEsIoT Connect For Further Discussion We believe interoperability is vitally important for IoT, were not going out on any deep limbs with that.Noah Harlan, president, AllSeen Alliance

Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks

Copyrights, Patents, and TrademarksCopyrights, Patents, and TrademarksThe lines separating copyrights, patents, and trademarks can be fine indeed on the surface, but these legal protections aredifferent and its important for entrepreneurs to understand how and why. You have to be able to protect your rights to your materials, inventions, products, ideas, and services. If youre not sure what type of protection youneed given the nature of your business, its always a good idea to consult with an attorney. You might want to do so even if you think youre sure, just to be positive that your understanding is correct. That said, you basically have three choices when it comes to protecting yourself against someone stealing yourinventions or intellectual property. Despite their similarities, these protections arent interchangeable. Each typically covers a different kind of property and businesses often use a combination of copyrights, patents, and trademarks to ensure that their rights are ful ly protected. Copyrights Copyright protects certain gestalts of expression. This includes works of art as well as written materials. It does not include an entire broad subject or topic, but rather only what you might express about that subject or topic. You cant copyright World War II, but you can copyright a book you wrote about it. Copyright is granted to the individual who creates a form of expression. It most often relates to intellectual property rather than a tangible creation. You can formally register a copyright, but you might also have automatic protection of your rights even without registering something you created. Patents A patent protects your rights to an invention- typically something tangible, but not always. Patenting is a legal process thats accomplished by submitting a formal patent application to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Fees vary depending upon exactly what youre trying to patent. A patent has to come from a governmental entity, and it basically prevents others from creating the same invention, then manufacturing and selling it under their own names and terms. Trademarks Trademarks are used to identify logos, designs, jingles, slogans, or even a single word or a series of words that identify and represent your company, product, or service. Think McDonalds golden arches or GEICOs chatty and personable gecko. Can you see either one of these things and not immediately think of the brand they represent? Trademarks are unique and specific things that represent and relate to you or your company, and theyre powerful when they take hold. If your storefront or business card includes an image of a woman twirling on one high heel and this is your image, youll want to protect it so no one else can spin it off into their own design. A trademark must be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office in the United States, and it can cost several hundred dollars.

Job Skills Might Be More Important Than a College Degree in the Future

Job Skills Might Be More Important Than a College Degree in the FutureJob Skills Might Be More Important Than a College Degree in the Future1require candidates to have a college or graduate degree today.But a new CNBC article is challenging the notion that a degree is really all that important to ones professional success. As it turns out, you might not even need a degree at all in the futureespecially if youre a freelancerThe Future of Work Wont Be About College Degrees, It Will Be About Job Skills is an eye-opening op-ed written by Upwork CEO Stephanie Kasriel. It focuses on the Freelancing in America 2018 survey, which found that freelancers are focusing on skills training rather than education. In fact, almost the entire 6,001 U.S. workers polled for the survey (93%, to be exact) stated that skills training was useful in comparison to the 79% who claimed that their college education was integral to the work they were currently doing.Kasriel brings up an important point in her pie ce. Too often, degrees are still thought of as lifelong stamps of professional competency, she wrote. They tend to create a false sense of security, perpetuating the illusion that work- and the knowledge it requires- is static. Its not. This means that many college students are taking on tremendous debt without any real guarantee of a financial payoff in the future.If you still think that a four-year college degree is your ticket to a cushy career and financial freedom, these eye-opening stats just might change your mind. Its estimated that 65% of children starting elementary school will have jobs in the future that dont even exist yet, according to the World Economic Forum. And the Upwork Quarterly Skills Index cites that 70% of the fastest-growing skills are new to the index.What does this mean for current college students, new grads, or people thinking about hitting the books again and continuing their education? Should they all skip school and focus solely on skills? Not necessa rily. But its important to keep in mind that the workplace is a living, breathing thing, not a fixed satzinhalt eines datenbanksegmentes that never changes. And as such, what you learn in school will only be a starting point towards getting a job, not something that will get you through the course of your career.Thats why job seekers, whether theyre graduates from an Ivy League school, graduates from their local community college, or dont have a degree at all, need to adopt a growth mindset when it comes to work. As Kasriel writes in her CNBC story The fastest-growing segment of the workforce- freelancers- have realized more than most that education doesnt stop. Its a lifelong process. Diploma or not, its a mindset worth embracing.This means accepting all of those things that previous generations in the workforce never had to deal with, such as career changing andchoosing to freelance rather than have a traditional full-time job. Youll also need to become a lifelong learner (and not assume that you learned everything you were ever going to need to know for your career in school), and focus your efforts on skills and experience rather than relying only on your education.Its about knowing that your career trajectory is probably not going to be a straight line, but rather a series of squiggles and curves that will ultimately allow you to have a career (and a life) that is at once fulfilling and meaningful.Want to test out your skills? offers free skills tests to members.