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from pixabay Professionals are interested in the growing business of the IoT. This month, PMI-Switzerland has published my article on this subject. You can read more here . MXCHIP IoT DevKit If you want to experiment IoT and make your first application, you may want to try MXCHIP  and some examples provided by Microsoft through its cloud platform Azure .  

From "Using Blockchain Technology to Secure the Internet of Things paper" Two weeks ago the CSA has released the white paper that should help companies in the IoT business to understand how to secure their IoT devices through the adoption of Blockchain technology. With this paper, CSA intends to suggest an architecture that overcomes the limits of these devices and solve their security problems. As you may know, IoT devices have limits in terms of memory, power consumption and CPU. Hence, they cannot be (as per today) nodes of a blockchain. With the proposed architecture these limits are bypassed. In fact, the blockchain nodes are maintained in the clouds, while the devices are provided by capabilities to secure enroll them in the network and to secure machine-to-machine communication. With this architecture, the IoT device manufacturer can assure a clean bootstrap into the blockchain network, and subsequently, other services like identity management, software update, ...

Paige Bailey on AI The second day at the Tech Summit has been quite intensive. Microsoft, like the competitors, invests a lot in AI and today the development life-cycle in Azure is straightforward. The application of AI in the industries is quite common for example to solve clustering problems. One of the interesting business cases is to use AI for recognizing defects in PCB assembly production. Paige Bailey has demonstrated this case with Jabil, a giant EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Service) provider. Another valuable point has been the support of Azure for IoT Devices. Here you can see how the platform and the related services can support enterprises that operate in the IoT space. The platform supports device twins and massive data exchange (e.g., 2 Million devices that send telemetry data every 2 minutes). Azure IoT Device Hub The last presentation that I find important to mention is about blockchain support in Azure. Stefano Tempesta made a good presentation...