Advantech Enters Strategic Alliances with Intel and Wind River for IoT Applications, Part 2: Intel Intelligent Systems Framework

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 31, 2014

In a previous post, I covered Part 1 (Content of the IoT) of Advantech product engineer Ken Chang’s enlightening PowerPoint presentation entitled UTX-3115 for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications. Chang’s full presentation is available here. To address the challenges of IoT implementation outlined in Part 1, Intel introduced its Intelligent Systems Framework (ISF), the subject…

Advantech Enters Strategic Alliances with Intel and Wind River for IoT Applications, Part 1: Content of the IoT

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 24, 2014

Advantech product engineer Ken Chang recently gave an enlightening presentation entitled UTX-3115 for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications, available here. It details not only the design philosophy behind Advantech’s UTX-3115, but also how Advantech’s strategic alliance with Intel and Wind River made possible the delivery of a comprehensive IoT-gateway solution within the compact footprint of…

Stretching Display Formats with Panel-Resizing Technology

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 17, 2014

I’ve been helping a friend design a digital signage system for use at the many trade shows he attends each year on behalf of a technology publication. His goals for the display include that it be portable enough for him to transport in a small van, along with all his other exhibit gear and supplies,…

Advantech: Delivering digital signage where it does the most good – in your place of business

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 10, 2014

For years I took my vehicles to the same auto repair shop – until Antony, its owner, decided to retire. Last I saw of him, he was prepping a new-to-him motorhome for a year of travel. Good news for Antony; bad news for me! I don’t recall how long he’d been in business, I just…

Advantech: Putting the Customer in the Driver’s Seat of Digital Signage

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 3, 2014

Before the digital age, I worked with an ad man who had a long career in sales, followed by a long career in advertising. He had remarkable success in both disciplines and I was privileged to learn the art of closing the sale from him. I learned that it is one thing to understand that…

Making The Transition From Human-To-Human To Machine-To-Machine With The ADAM-2000

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 24, 2014

In its infancy, the Internet provided most users a new means of human-to-human communication. If I visited your company’s website, it was to see and read graphical and textual information about your company and its products, and to identify an email address or phone number by which to contact you. Next came e-commerce, or human-to-machine…

Securing the Internet of Things

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 17, 2014

I wrote recently about the consumer-IoT’s “basket of remotes” problem, the realization that the growing divergence of a “hodge-podge of ad hoc solutions managed through fragmented systems” risks needlessly complicating consumer’s already busy lives. Fortunately, industrial and commercial sources such as Advantech are already well ahead of their consumer counterparts in delivering comprehensive integrated IoT…

MI/O Extension SBCs: Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Custom I/O Challenges

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 10, 2014

You reported to work this morning and discovered that among the day’s challenges is configuring an embedded-computing solution that integrates two Gigabit Ethernet ports plus at least two RS-232 serial ports. Designing and building custom boards is expensive and time consuming, but what other option do you have? Where are you going to find an…

Solving the IoT “Basket of Remotes” Problem

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: February 3, 2014

My neighbor called from work recently to ask, first, if I was home and, if so, would I check to see if she’d left her curling iron plugged in. She’s a nurse who works a night shift, and the “would you check my …” call has become such a recurring theme that she long ago…

The Cure: A Patient Portal to the World

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: January 27, 2014

I visit a bed-ridden family member in an extended-care facility regularly. For furniture, the patient’s room is equipped with a traditional adjustable hospital bed, a narrow over-bed table, a small bed-side table, and several chairs for visitors. A desktop, corded telephone is on the bed-side table, together with assorted toiletries and other sundries. The over-bed…