Category : IoT News & Events
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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?
