Category : IoT News & Events
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Ayla is Your Digital Sherpa in the Post-COVID World
Companies of all sizes are rethinking and re-prioritizing their technology investments as they try to navigate these uncertain times, even with projects of a transformational nature. While the rethink makes near term financial sense, not staying the course may hurt companies strategically and...
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Interoperability Standards Will Pave Road to the Smart Home
As consumers, we expect that our smart home products will work together easily and automatically, regardless of the manufacturer, and without needing to have specialized technical skills. We also expect to use the same method to access and control all of our smart home devices, rather than having to juggle separate user interfaces for each connected device.
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The New IoT Security Paradigm - Brought to You by Ayla & Firedome
With over 25 billion devices projected to be connected by 2022, there’s no question about the growing buzz in the IoT space. Things ranging from smart plugs to jet engines are getting ‘smarter’, transmitting device data to the cloud, and opening up transformation opportunities in operational efficiency and business performance.
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Security and Privacy Challenges in the IoT Era: Part 2 — What Should Consumer IoT Privacy Look Like?
Consumers are becoming savvier about Internet of Things (IoT) data ownership and privacy issues and are more likely to ask questions. How secure is the privacy of smart home device data?
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Security and Privacy Challenges in the IoT Era: Part 1 — What is the State of Consumer IoT Security?
How secure are smart home devices? What do manufacturers of connected Internet of Things (IoT) products need to do to secure their products?
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Smart Dryers Turn Rage Against the Machine to a Rave
Do you rage against your laundry machines? We get it. The never-ending chore is not exactly fun. But smart washing machines do seem to be all the rage in “white goods” at the moment. And given that promising trend, can smart dryers be very far behind?
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This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes – In the Early 21st Century
Heard of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme “This is the way we wash our clothes?" From the earliest times, washing clothes and linens were performed communally by hand or with a washboard.
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The Smart Oven -- New Technology for Home and Hearth
Forever the heart of the home, our kitchens now are transforming into the core of smart home technology, where artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and augmented reality will change and improve the way we live.
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The Kitchen of the Future
Expert Michael Wolf, founder of the annual Smart Kitchen Summit and publisher of The Spoon newsletter made a handful of smart kitchen predictions for the next 10 years and offered his observations during a recent Ayla webinar.
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No Joke: Smart Fridges and Freezers Join the Runup to Smarter Homes
Telephone pranksters of yesteryear once trolled unsuspecting homeowners with the question, “Is your refrigerator running?” A yes answer would be followed up with the silly admonishment, “Well, then, you’d better go catch it!”
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What is a Smart Coffee Maker?
Coffee makers are a popular tool in kitchens around the world—whether they are simple, pour-over funnels, Keurig K-cup machines, or multi-function units that grind beans, froth milk and serve up a hot cup of morning ‘Joe’ or even a cold brew.
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What is a Smart Appliance - and How Do You Make One?
An appliance becomes a smart appliance when it is connected to a central system and able to be programmed or controlled remotely or operate autonomously, based on input from sensors detecting things like temperature, light levels, or activity.
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Designing Smart Home Products To Meet Real Consumer Demands
The promise of smart home devices to make our homes more convenient, safe, comfortable and entertaining is at an all-time high. Consumer adoption of smart home products continues to grow.
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What Does Today’s Smart Home Look Like?
Today’s modern smart home is one where devices are connected together so they can work harmoniously to offer convenience, comfort, and security to those living in and visiting the home.
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Ayla Protects Against Kr00k Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities
This post shares information on Kr00k, the new Wi-Fi vulnerability announced last month, as well as Ayla's assessment of this newly developing announcement.
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1000% Revenue Growth Places Ayla on Deloitte’s List of Cutting-Edge Companies
Ayla has been recognized as one of the companies in the 2019 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
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Diary of an Ayla Migration – Part 2
At Ayla, we frequently help our customers through an IoT journey that starts with a small-scale proof-of-concept and takes them to full-scale deployment with hundreds of thousands to millions of devices in the field. Large scale brings unique scalability challenges, which a VPC deployment can help.
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Diary of an Ayla Migration – Part 1
At Ayla, we frequently help our customers through an IoT journey that starts with a small-scale proof-of-concept and takes them to full-scale deployment with hundreds of thousands to millions of devices in the field. Large scale brings unique scalability challenges, which a VPC deployment can help.
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Ayla's Free Trial Program: The Zero-risk way to Experience the Power of IoT
IoT adoption is on the rise among consumer and commercial manufacturers, yet the rate of growth remains below expectations. Part of the reason is the sheer technical complexity of the hardware, software, and services needed to get going which creates barriers to adoption even if the business benefits are understood.
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Manufacturers Will Capture Recurring Revenue and Glean Info from Growing Connected-Home Products Market
Consumer adoption of smart home devices -- particularly lighting, home monitoring and security, and temperature control -- continues to grow. As global availability of such products increases, the analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts an annual growth rate of 16.9% between 2019-2023.
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Add Power to your Connected Products’ Analytics through Ayla Insights
If policymakers and businesses get it right, linking the physical and digital worlds could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025 (McKinsey Digital). This is made possible by applying data-driven decision making to new realms of business and human activity
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Ayla 3.0: IoT Economics has Turned the Corner
The IoT juggernaut rolls on, and it appears more than likely the estimated 20B-25B connected devices by 2020 will be easily exceeded. The advent of turnkey IoT platforms, low power cellular standards (LPWAN) with compelling data plans, and improved security have all contributed to the rapid, global rise of digitization and connection of new devices in the past couple of years.
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Ayla 3.0: Reducing Pricing & Business model Friction To Speed IoT Adoption
Ayla Networks was an early pioneer in the IoT market nearly a decade ago, with an ambitious vision to digitize assets and monetize their data. We were at the center of the early IoT buzz when enterprises initially embarked on digital transformation initiatives.
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Ayla Networks Cooks Up Appearances at Home & Kitchen Shows, showcasing the New AylaIQ Diagnostic Plug-In Solution for IoT
During February and March 2019, Ayla Networks will have a presence at three significant trade shows in the smart home and commercial kitchen spaces. Each show represents an opportunity to introduce our new AylaIQ diagnostic plug-in solution for the Internet of Things (IoT) to different segments of these important markets.
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Reflecting on re:Invent – A Founder’s View
This week I will be at AWS re:Invent along with several other Aylians, and it occurs to me that we continue to have an amazing ride as we evolve and grow our 6 year old cooperation with AWS.
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Ayla Networks Unveils ‘Alexa-as-a Service’
According to Parks Associates, a leading market research firm, more than 25% of US households with a broadband connection have a smart home device, while more than 60% of ‘smart’ households own more than one device including thermostats, networked cameras, smart lightbulbs and video doorbells.
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The Ayla Journey: From the Kitchen to High Growth
I like to say that before founding Ayla back in 2010, I came from a failed chip company. While I was working at the company – ZeroG Wireless – it became increasingly clear that while we were focused on the right market, we were trying to solve the wrong challenge.
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Ayla & Qualcomm: Collaborating on the Next Generation of Cellular IoT
At Ayla Networks, we’re all about delivering ‘easy buttons’ for creating and delivering enterprise-scale Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. As the IoT market expands and evolves, we keep finding new ways to achieve this big-picture goal.
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Ayla Supports Google Cloud Platform
The Ayla platform is soon going to add support for Google Cloud Platform, which means expanded cloud infrastructure options for all our customers.
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Bruce Sinclair, Speaks at Ayla Connect User Conference
Bruce Sinclair counts as one of the true veterans of the Internet of Things (IoT). He traces his IoT beginnings to 2008, when he was CEO of a networking company that sold a smart home-enabling platform to internet service providers.
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Bill Schmarzo, 'Dean of Big Data,' Previews His Ayla Connect Talk
William (Bill) Schmarzo, known as the Dean of Big Data, has the secret to making money from the Internet of Things (IoT): Transform from connected to smart.
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Meet Ashish Agrawal, Ayla’s New Senior VP of Engineering
Software and services veteran Ashish Agrawal has joined Ayla Networks as Senior Vice President of Engineering, overseeing our end-to-end IoT device, mobile, and cloud engineering efforts.
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What Will Ayla Do with Our Latest $60 Million Investment?
Ayla Networks just closed a $60 million Series D funding round to accelerate our growth. So what does that mean? On the surface, it means we have established a leadership position in a very large, fast-growing market. Gartner expects that spending on IoT devices and services will reach $2 trillion in 2017.
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Ayla Provides End-to-End Protection Against KRACK Attacks
Providing IoT security is an ongoing effort, not a one-time process. New threats will always emerge. The latest vulnerability to present itself is the Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK), which exploits a vulnerability in the WPA2 protocols that are commonly used on Wi-Fi networks. The vulnerability allows attackers to intercept and inspect data that was encrypted by the Wi-Fi network.
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Sunsea Investment and Partnership Poises Ayla for Dominance in China
Ayla has fostered in a global view of IoT since the early days of the company. Based in Silicon Valley, we have always had a strong presence in North America as we built out our business.
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Ask Ayla - Question 19 - What IoT Data Points are Most Valuable Post Product Launch?
Hi Ayla, What IoT data from a new connected product is most valuable following launch and during full production?
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Ask Ayla - Question 18 - How Can IoT Data be Used During Product Field Trials?
Hi Ayla, How do I use IoT data during field trials of my product?
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Recap of Cisco Live 2017: Superheroes of IT Unite!
Cisco called all “Superheroes of IT” to meet in Las Vegas at the end of June for the 2017 Cisco Live conference, and Ayla Networks was among the “caped crusaders” of the Cisco ecosystem in attendance.
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Ask Ayla - Question 16 - What is Ayla's Integration with AWS Greengrass?
Hi Ayla, Whats the latest on your relationship with AWS and their announcement of Greengrass?
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Join Us at CONNECTIONS: the Premier Connected Home Conference
Ayla’s Oliver Cockcroft, Product Architect, and Rod McLane, Senior Director of Marketing, will be among the industry executives discussing investment and growth opportunities for the smart home and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference.
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Selling Connected-Home Products: Ayla-Sponsored Parks Associates Workshop March 21 at San Francisco Airport Hotel
More than 26 million U.S. households own at least one smart-home device – an impressive increase of 35 percent since the beginning of 2016.
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Congrats to Hampton, Big Award Winner at 2017 NAHB International Builder Show
The Brink’s Home Security ARRAY smart lock from Hampton Products International was awarded “Best Indoor Living Product” at the International Builders’ Show (IBS), held in Orlando in January. ARRAY was chosen from among more than 400 entries in nine categories.
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Recap of CES 2017: Are We (Smart) Home Yet?
Emerging from the big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, we wondered, “Are manufacturers introducing anything that isn’t an IoT product?” As Stacey Higginbotham, CEO of Stacey on IoT, put it so succinctly, “At CES 2017, the concept of ‘put a chip in it’ was apparent everywhere.”
In the smart home segment of the Internet of Things (IoT) market, we observed huge growth just since last year. As in past years, Ayla Networks had a booth in the CES Smart Home zone. Last year’s Smart Home section felt like a small island in an enormous sea of exhibits; the CES 2017 Smart Home area took up half a floor at the Las Vegas Sands Hotel.
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Ayla and Cambridge Sound Management Aim to Break a New Kind of Sound Barrier
You probably don’t associate the colossal Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a good night’s sleep. But if Cambridge Sound Management and Ayla Networks have their way, that’s exactly the association you’ll make.
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What’s Cooking in the Kitchen of the Future? IoT Devices, of Course!
FirstBuild, a global co-creation community backed by GE Appliances (a Haier company) put on the event, and Ayla’s partner Renesas provided its development kit and Ayla’s IoT cloud solution. A four-person team from Ayla went to the event to provide development and support to the teams using the Renesas/Ayla solution.
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September and October Webinars - What Manufacturers Need To Know Before Creating 'Connected Home' Products
Creating connected home appliances requires more than just embedding a wireless chip or adding a sensor to an existing product. Manufacturers must clearly define use cases and additional services, prioritize security and privacy, design for usability, configurability and scale, add value, and differentiate their connected product.
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Showing off IoT at IFA 2016 - Ayla Demonstrates IoT Platform with Chinese Customers Changhong, Midea, TCL
In 1924, who would have imagined that the venue once known as the Berlin Radio Show would in 2016 attract 1500 consumer electronics exhibitors, and 240,000 visitors to see products and services straight out of science fiction?
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Smart Summit London’s Smart Pub Crawl: Tradition with a Modern Twist - Walking from pub to pub and toward the IoT future
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a 21st century technology. So what does it mean that the September 21-22 Smart Summit London—which brings together decision makers to discuss the impact of IoT on homes, cities and industries—is weaving its Smart Summit: After Hours “smart pub crawl” through a bunch of mostly 19th century buildings?
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Heads Up: Prepare Now for New EU Data Privacy Regulations - Part Two - Helping Customers Comply
This is Part Two on EU Data Privacy Regulations and our conversation with Craig Payne, Security and Privacy Officer at Ayla, to highlight some things you need to know as the 2018 GDPR deadline approaches.
In Part One, Payne explained what the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)is, who is subject to it, what the fines are for violating it and when it goes into effect (May 25, 2018).
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Heads Up: Prepare Now for New EU Data Privacy Regulations - Part One - Demystifying the GDPR
As if data privacy rules and regulations weren’t complicated enough already, the European Union has adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Be forewarned that the fines for violating the GDPR are substantial, and ignorance of the regulation is not a defense.
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Jetsons, here we come! Ayla announces C round of funding
Ayla was born just about six years ago in my kitchen. We had a theory that the Internet was on the verge of expanding to connect "things," and we saw a massive opportunity for a platform providing IoT software and services. Moore's Law, smartphones, infrastructure as a service and the massive rise of IP networking were all coming together to make the timing feel right.
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Cypress and Broadcom: A Powerful Force in IoT Market Under One Roof
The news that Cypress will acquire Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines for $550 million prompted Ayla Network’s CEO and co-founder Dave Friedman to comment that the “IoT requires seamless, simple integration between MCUs, sensors, best in class networking, and integrated software and services. So, Cypress' acquisition of Broadcom's IoT business will put the hardware and firmware components under one roof, making a powerful force in the market.”
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Getting a BBQ-Flavored Taste of the IoT
On March 17-19 several of my Ayla Networks colleagues and I weathered rain, sunshine, terrific oysters and some of the best BBQ ever at the Hearth, Patio and BBQ Expo in New Orleans—all in an effort to promote cloud IoT. Wait, what does IoT and cloud have to do with BBQ???!
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Where Is The Gold In The Smart Home IoT Market?
“There’s gold in them thar hills,” is the famous quote describing the California Gold Rush and 49ers. Today, companies talk about the smart home market as being a gold mine. But where is that gold located, exactly?
Wendy Toth, Ayla Network’s vice president of marketing, will be speaking about the smart home market and Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics at the upcoming Smart Home Summit in Frankfurt, Germany, April 6-7. She’ll provide the beginnings of a treasure map showing how to find smart home gold, which lies in the data generated by connected products.
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Ayla Moves into its New Home
Within this past year, Ayla Networks has more than doubled its employee headcount, and our growing staff needed more room to work.
This past weekend, Ayla moved into a new, bigger headquarters located at 4250 Burton Drive in Santa Clara, near Intel Corp. headquarters, the Great America theme park and Levi’s Stadium. We now have over 27,000 square feet of office space on the first floor of a two-story building.
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Ayla Insights’ IoT Data Analytics Service Wins 2015 IoT Excellence Award
Ayla Networks recently won a 2015 IoT Excellence Award for Ayla Insights, the IoT data analytics and business intelligence service for Ayla’s IoT platform. Sponsored by TMC and Crossfire Media, the 2015 IoT Excellence Award honors innovative products that support the availability of information being deduced, inferred and directly gathered from sensors, systems and anything else that is supporting better business and personal decisions.
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AHR 2016 Shows How Far the IoT Has Come
The 2016 AHR Expo took place just a couple of weeks after CES 2016, but the two shows couldn’t be more different in look and feel. CES is all about who can out-dazzle whom to wow consumers with the latest and greatest technologies. The AHR Expo, billed as the world’s largest HVACR (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration) marketplace, is a professional trade show, with more emphasis on proven solutions.
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Ayla’s Customers are Winners—Literally!
Ayla Networks is honored to have a stellar group of customers, who are leveraging our IoT platform technology to create products that highlight the value and the promise of the IoT.
That’s why it’s especially sweet when the world at large publicly acknowledges our customers’ work—which has happened with three of them recently.
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Cisco’s Jasper Acquisition Further Validates the IoT
February 3’s announcement that Cisco had acquired Jasper Wireless for $1.4 billion is good news for IoT.
As our CEO Dave Friedman will tell you, the next frontier of the Internet is "things." And just like Google's acquisition of Nest provided great value in the consumer space, Cisco's acquisition of Jasper is a statement of IoT value in the enterprise.
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Ayla Networks Impressions From CES 2016: The IoT is Maturing But Still Hot
Being at CES in Las Vegas can be overwhelming, as any of you who attended the 2016 show will know. An estimated 170,000 attendees and almost 2.5 million square feet of exhibits meant we couldn’t possibly survey even a fraction of what happened during the four-day extravaganza.
But from the vantage point of the Ayla Networks booth at the Sands Expo Center, our suite at Caesar’s Palace, and whatever we were able to catch in between the two and on food breaks, here are some of our impressions of CES 2016:
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Helping Manufacturers Create Connected Products: Dave Friedman Featured on Peggy Smedley Radio Show
Dave Friedman, CEO of Ayla, was a guest this week on the influential The Peggy Smedley Show, a weekly radio show that helps listeners understand connected devices—and how to make these devices a part of their everyday lives.
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IoT West Show Recap: Is IoT Security Even Possible?
At the recent IoT West show in Las Vegas, I was on a panel with Nolan Mondrow, founder and CEO of LockState, on the topic: “Is IoT Security Even Possible?” We talked about Internet of Things (IoT) security from two perspectives: the platform (me) and a manufacturer (Nolan).
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What Do New EU Data Privacy Rules Mean for IoT Companies?
Shock Waves Felt as Safe Harbor Ruled Invalid
European Union rules about handling data privacy and personally identifiable information (PII) are much more stringent than in the U.S. For 15 years, the U.S. has relied on the Safe Harbor framework, administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, to allow EU data to be stored legally in the United States — or, more specifically, in data centers outside of Europe.
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Ayla is the Onramp to AWS for the IoT. Turn here now!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made a slew of announcements at the AWS: Reinvent show in Las Vegas this week. In addition to something called AWS IoT, they introduced services with interesting names such as QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose and Snowball. If you’re a manufacturer that offers—or wants to offer—connected products for the IoT, what do all these AWS announcements mean to you?
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The Value is in the Data, Not the Thing
Today marks an important milestone in Ayla’s development: We are launching Ayla Insights , which will give our customers the ability to see and use data about their products in a whole new way. Ayla Insights is an extension to our IoT platform that will change how manufacturers design and deliver their products.
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Maintaining Brand Promises while Entering the IoT Market
Amidst the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT), it seems like everyone is marketing themselves as an IoT company, and even more, as an IoT platform company. Luckily, though, there are signs of sanity among some of the more serious IoT players.
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Ayla Networks Speaking and Exhibiting at IoT Evolution in Las Vegas
Ayla Networks, whose agile Internet of Things (IoT) platform provides comprehensive connectivity for any kind of product, will showcase its IoT platform and customer products at the IoT
Evolution Conference & Expo, to be held August 17-20, 2015, in Las Vegas. In addition, Ayla will participate two panels covering the IoT, highlighting how Ayla’s Agile IoT platform eliminates the hurdles involved in building great connected devices and bringing them to market.
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Parks’ Connections Show Highlights Maturing IoT Industry
Repeating participation at an industry trade show can be a great way to observe broader industry trends. Case in point: We recently experienced evidence of a noticeable maturing of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry at the recent Connection Conference in San Francisco.
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Silicon Valley IoT Meetup: IoT, Big Data & Edge Analytics
A while back I had the opportunity to participate in the Silicon Valley IoT Meetup (“IoT, Big Data, and Edge Analytics Opportunities and Challenges”) discussion hosted by Cisco VP/CTO Jim Greene and Ken Forster, COO of PLAT.ONE. Any discussion with Jim is an insightful journey rich with data-driven references. This time, the discussion had good IoT insights into business views, industrial dynamics, some interesting case studies and a serious non-apocalyptic view on security.
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How much money will be made from the IoT? Good question
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that’s used to cover everything from manufacturing to smart cities, connected cars, consumer wearables and fitness, healthcare, energy and utilities, beacons and smart homes—and probably will come to embrace applications that technologists haven't even thought of yet.
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SXSW Conference Indicates IoT is Hot, but Not Yet Fully Baked
Companies that manufacture Things that will make up the Internet of Things (IoT) don't have the expertise required to “do the infrastructure piece,” Dave Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Ayla Networks, warned a packed room of attendees during a panel at the recent South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, Texas.
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Ayla Percolates at the NESCAFE Startup Challenge at CES 2014
The world’s largest brand manufacturers are now realizing the full impact of what the Internet of Things can mean for creating long term connections to their customers, extending market share and profitability.
But with the cycle of innovation accelerating in a world of constant consumer adaption and the threads of connectivity so quickly interweaving across more of our everyday lives, how can these global brand manufacturers efficiently unearth innovations and opportunities that startups so often pioneer?
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IoT's Chic at Broadcom's GeekPeek13
Broadcom held its annual GeekPeek event this past week. Held at Tank18 in San Francisco, GeekPeek13 showcased Broadcom’s vision -- connecting everything -- with a focus on Internet of Things (IoT) applications demonstrated by Broadcom and its partners. The event was abuzz with industry analysts and a broad range of journalists. Glad to be representing Ayla Networks, I was honored to participate in this, and met fellow Broadcom ecosystem partners, all showing real end customer use cases and value with compelling connected product demos.
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Ayla CEO Defines Enterprise-Class Security Requirements for Protecting IoT
In this month's contribution to the IoT World community site, Ayla Networks' CEO, Dave Friedman, defines the need for strong security for keeping hackers away from the Internet of Things, including 7 enterprise-class security principles when considering an IoT platform to connect your products:
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Ayla CEO Becomes Regular Contributor to IoT World Community
Dave Friedman, Ayla Networks’ CEO, has become a regular contributor to IoT World, a publication and community tracking the development of the Internet of Things. Dave’s first post – Connectivity Costs Challenge the Internet of Things – examines a crucial question: how are manufacturers and IoT platform providers going to manage the cost of connectivity services?
