The article provides a comprehensive overview of smart IoT devices, their connectivity options, configuration methods, and detailed testing strategies—including sensor, network, performance, security, and integration testing—to ensure reliable interaction between hardware and mobile applications.
The article reviews the latest IoT and edge‑computing trends, outlines Tencent’s multi‑layer IoT platform, edge solutions, LoRa network deployment, and how AI‑driven data analysis will transform the fragmented IoT market into a smarter, more integrated ecosystem.
Tencent Cloud IoT Hub powered a smart conference badge delivered through a WeChat Mini Program, letting attendees check venue doors, crowd density, and fire exits, while developers leveraged TCB’s serverless, auto‑scaling cloud functions and storage to cut setup time and seamlessly support nearly 1,000 concurrent users.
Alibaba has fully rolled out IPv6 across its services, explaining the protocol’s massive address space, the urgent need caused by IPv4 exhaustion, and how this transition will enable limitless IoT devices, smarter cities, and stronger security for a wide range of industries.
JD.com's intelligent retail technology, which integrates online and offline retail through digital technology, has won a special award for technological industrialization in intelligent retail innovation, marking the first time an e-commerce company has received this honor.
The article reviews twelve leading IoT platforms—such as Temboo, Ubidots, Cayenne, ThingSpeak, TheThings.io, Xively, Kaa, Google Cloud IoT, Azure IoT, IBM Watson IoT, Artik Cloud, and AWS IoT—highlighting their key services for data ingestion, device management, security, analytics, and integration to help developers build scalable, secure IoT projects.
This article explains how to design and implement a high‑concurrency, Netty‑driven push platform that supports device registration, authentication, message routing, and distributed scaling for millions of IoT connections, covering protocol design, channel management, load balancing, and monitoring.
The article examines how Alibaba’s 2009 Double 11 promotion grew into the world’s largest shopping festival, mirroring China’s transition from an investment‑export‑driven economy to a consumption‑led one, while spurring advances in cloud computing, IoT, and digital manufacturing over the past decade.
Alibaba’s senior IoT expert outlines how the company’s IoT platform enables device connectivity, edge computing, massive data processing, predictive maintenance, and application hosting, while addressing challenges of device integration, network stability, and scalability, ultimately fostering a collaborative ecosystem for diverse industry solutions.
This article explains how to design and implement a high‑performance, scalable push messaging platform using Netty, covering protocol design, registration/authentication, channel management, message routing, distributed deployment, load balancing, stateful connections, monitoring, and logging to support millions of IoT device connections.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the MQTT protocol, covering its origin in 1999, the problems it was designed to solve, its core requirements, and a detailed explanation of its fixed header, variable header, and payload structures.
MQTT is a lightweight, open‑source publish/subscribe protocol that powers the IoT’s global nervous system by delivering small‑header messages over TCP/IP with configurable QoS, low bandwidth, and optional TLS security, making it ideal for battery‑constrained devices, scalable deployments, and real‑time applications such as home monitoring.
This article walks readers through the complete process of preparing a Raspberry Pi, installing Raspbian, configuring system settings, and deploying a Node.js web development stack with Nginx, providing a practical foundation for IoT and backend projects.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the MQTT protocol, covering its origin, design goals, packet structure—including fixed and variable headers, control types, flags, remaining length, and payload—while highlighting its suitability for IoT and limitations for large data transfers.
The article translates and explains a typical IoT platform architecture, outlining its core Gather‑Analyze‑Act functions, common building blocks such as device interfaces, messaging brokers, storage and analytics layers, and highlights key differentiators like multi‑tenancy, protocol support, security, and extensible rule engines.
The article explains the fundamentals of IoT and the Web of Things, then uses a smart dog‑feeding system to illustrate six distinct WoT connection scenarios—including cloud, local network, Bluetooth, sensor, gateway, and cloud‑managed control—showing how they can coexist in real‑world applications.
The 2018 half‑year report of 360 Security reveals a 13.95% increase in revenue to 6.025 billion yuan, strong performance of its core security products, rapid growth in IoT hardware, a 24% rise in advertising revenue, and substantial R&D investment in AI, big data, and cloud technologies.
Fibonacci is JD.com's enterprise-grade serverless function platform combining container technology, serverless architecture, and event-driven mechanisms to provide high-availability, high-efficiency, and high-usability FaaS solutions.
According to recent Forrester and Forbes reports, 2018 will see AI overtaking big-data hype, driving five key trends—from heightened cybersecurity in healthcare to expanded IoT, plug-and-play AI solutions, the rise of chief digital officers, and smarter community policing—each reshaping how organizations leverage data.
This article highlights essential open-source platforms—Arduino, Home Assistant, Node-RED, Zetta, and Flutter—that empower developers to build robust IoT applications across various verticals, offering ease of use, extensive community support, and versatile integration capabilities.
This article reviews the evolution of blockchain from Bitcoin's inception to its current role in securing data flow, explores business models, IoT integration, insurance use cases, and emerging security threats, while highlighting expert insights from the 2018 Think in Cloud conference.
This article reviews five popular IoT development platforms—Azure IoT Suite, IBM Watson, AWS IoT, Oracle IoT, and Kaa—detailing their core features, data handling capabilities, security measures, and integration options to help developers choose the right solution for building connected applications.
The article examines how the rapid growth of IoT devices in 2018 raises significant security concerns, predicts large‑scale attacks and data challenges, and highlights a shift toward edge computing and tighter IT‑OT collaboration to manage the expanding data and protect networks.
Agent Tiny, a lightweight middleware for resource-constrained IoT devices, lets developers quickly connect Huawei LiteOS-powered terminals to the Huawei OceanConnect cloud via simple API calls, offering full LWM2M, CoAP, mbedtls, and LwIP support, reducing development cycles and simplifying cloud onboarding.
The iBaby infant sleep monitoring system combines real‑time temperature, heart‑rate, and posture sensing with Huawei LiteOS, LwM2M, and OceanConnect IoT to provide parents with instant alerts, detailed sleep analytics, and a browser‑based UI, addressing critical safety and sleep‑quality challenges for babies.
A hungry Alibaba engineer recounts how he leveraged visual‑recognition AI and IoT to build a robot that instantly identifies dishes on a tray, calculates prices, records nutritional data in the cloud, and won an IoT competition, promising a future of automated, data‑driven dining for thousands of employees.
NB‑IoT, a cellular IoT standard defined by 3GPP, offers ultra‑low power, massive coverage, and low cost, enabling diverse applications such as livestock monitoring, remote metering, smart locks, street‑light control, fire‑safety sensors, and asset tracking, thereby addressing the growing demands of the IoT market.
In this keynote, Alibaba's chief scientist explains how voice AI serves as the natural interface for IoT, detailing the company's strategy to connect billions of devices through cloud infrastructure, AI-driven perception, and multimodal interaction across consumer and industrial applications.
This article introduces the MQTT protocol, outlines its key characteristics, explains the challenges it poses for IoT messaging, and details how JMQ addresses these challenges through a layered proxy‑broker architecture, subscription management, quality‑of‑service handling, and real‑world JD deployment.
This case study examines the shortcomings of traditional smart gas meters and explains how NB‑IoT combined with Huawei's OceanConnect platform delivers a cloud‑based, low‑power, real‑time smart gas solution that improves meter reading, safety, billing, and operational efficiency.
This article explores how integrating blockchain with the Internet of Things enhances security, enables decentralized value exchange for devices, and drives innovative applications across industries such as manufacturing, smart homes, logistics, digital payments, and transparent voting systems.
SoftRadio is a remote online debugging system that enables end‑to‑end integration testing for NB‑IoT devices on Huawei’s OceanConnect platform, offering three‑layer functionality, REST‑based APIs, and CoAP over UDP simulation to improve development efficiency while remaining a test‑only feature.
The article explains how serverless computing, emerging since 2017, is being integrated with edge computing and Tencent Cloud services—covering its benefits for rapid, elastic application development, current IoT productization efforts, cloud-function use cases, and upcoming VPC connectivity to enable seamless access to backend resources.
This article examines the challenges faced by water utilities such as high leakage and meter errors, explains why traditional smart meters fall short, and details how NB‑IoT‑based smart water meters provide secure, low‑power, wide‑coverage solutions that enable real‑time analytics, cost reduction, and large‑scale digital transformation.
This article explains the fundamentals of blockchain technology, introduces IOTA’s Tangle as a DAG‑based alternative without miners, and discusses its claimed benefits such as decentralised security, quantum resistance, scalability and suitability for IoT micro‑payments.
This article explains how Serverless and cloud functions enable edge computing and AI by moving compute close to data, covering Backend‑as‑a‑Service, Function‑as‑a‑Service, IoT device deployment, edge AI scenarios, and future integration with CDN and VPC.
This article explains how a NB‑IoT‑enabled smart collar, dubbed “Little Shepherd,” replaces ZigBee, streams real‑time health and breeding data to a cloud platform, helping dairy farms monitor cows, avoid missed estrus periods, and improve overall livestock management efficiency.
In early 2018, twelve Alibaba scientists forecast how frontier technologies such as AI, quantum computing, IoT, edge computing, blockchain, autonomous driving, computer vision and speech interaction will impact society, industry, and daily life, highlighting key challenges, opportunities, and expected breakthroughs across these fields.
This article explains the two command delivery modes—immediate and cached—offered by Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform, details the TTL parameter, illustrates the command flow for various device modes, and describes five batch command strategies for large‑scale device control.
This article explores the growing complexity of AI adoption, the need for customized predictive solutions, and practical steps for enterprises to integrate machine learning without over‑hauling development teams, using IoT predictive‑maintenance as a concrete example.
This article walks operations staff through a complete, no‑code water‑meter integration on Huawei OceanConnect, covering account registration, profile creation, codec plugin setup, and device debugging, all without writing code, buying hardware, or installing development tools.
The case study details Donghua Software’s smart flood‑control and drainage solution, which integrates IoT sensors, NB‑IoT/eLTE networks, Huawei’s FusionSphere cloud platform, big‑data analytics, and GIS to provide real‑time monitoring, predictive warnings, automated gate control, and efficient emergency dispatch for urban water management.
This article compiles the most common NB‑IoT data‑reporting, developer‑portal, profile‑development, and SoftRadio troubleshooting questions, providing step‑by‑step solutions, useful demo links, and practical tips to help developers self‑service integration and debugging efficiently.
This article introduces JD's Smart IoT system, detailing its cloud‑mobile‑device architecture, the JOYLINK communication protocol, device provisioning methods, security mechanisms, service discovery, long‑connection strategies, standardized services, IFTTT engine, and open components for developers.
The article examines the growing security challenges of the Internet of Things, outlines a four‑step methodology for protecting devices and data, and highlights the difficulties enterprises face in managing and verifying billions of connected endpoints.
This article explores why Mobike bikes unexpectedly sing Christmas songs, detailing the electronic lock’s cloud‑based unlocking process, the evolution from kinetic to solar power, the hardware modules involved, and the massive IoT platform that supports millions of rides worldwide.
This article reviews the previous IoT development lesson, explains the OceanConnect cloud platform, introduces Huawei's Remote Lab with its 45 environments and new no‑code, one‑click, and device‑simulator features, and provides step‑by‑step guidance on reserving the lab and upcoming graphical‑profile training.
By 2030 the global population will exceed 8.5 billion, prompting a shift to smart agriculture that leverages IoT, cloud platforms, low‑power networks, and data analytics to boost yields, conserve water, reduce costs, and create new revenue streams for telecom operators and related enterprises.
In a keynote to Suning, Intel’s Jon Stine outlines the four retail‑driving forces and ten emerging technologies—ranging from AI and computer vision to 5G and IoT—that will transform stores into intelligent, data‑driven experiences for the next decade.
NB‑IoT, the narrow‑band IoT technology, is rapidly transforming smart water metering by offering low power consumption, deep coverage, and massive connectivity, addressing traditional meter challenges such as manual reading, network deployment complexity, and cost, while supported by strong government policies and industry adoption.
This article explains the principles of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), outlines the steps to open, configure, enable, and close a PWM connection on Android Things, and demonstrates a complete Raspberry Pi hardware example with Java code to control a servo motor.
The article analyzes the rise of unmanned solutions such as supermarkets, fitness pods, and toy cars, explaining how mobile payment, IoT, and AI enable them, while examining the shifting cost structure, operational benefits, and challenges of this emerging business model.
The 2017 China International Information Communication Exhibition highlighted NB‑IoT as a pivotal, low‑power, wide‑coverage technology set to dominate over 60% of IoT demand, while outlining China's policy support, deployment milestones, industry challenges, and recommended actions for secure, scalable growth.
This case study details how Shenzhen Fangger Technology leveraged Huawei NB‑IoT technology to replace traditional solar‑powered relay gateways with direct NB‑IoT communication, solving power, installation, and interference issues while reducing costs and environmental impact in smart road parking solutions.
A recent Eclipse Foundation survey of 713 developers reveals the most popular programming languages and operating systems across constrained IoT devices, gateways, and cloud platforms, highlighting C/C++ dominance, Java's rise, and Linux's prevalence in the IoT ecosystem.
Duoling Intelligent Technology recounts how its award‑winning smart‑lock solution leveraged IoT standards, Huawei’s OceanConnect platform, and innovative rental models to transform traditional hardware into a cloud‑connected security product, while offering practical advice for future Huawei Developer Contest participants.
This extensive essay traces the evolution of computer operating systems from the 1940s to today, analyzes the limitations of current OS architectures, and proposes a cloud‑native, container‑based future exemplified by the open‑source Elastos platform, highlighting security, interoperability, and new business models.
Goldwind transformed its global wind‑farm operations by adopting a cloud‑native, container‑based microservice architecture that tackles iteration speed, hybrid‑cloud deployment, and IoT big‑data challenges, enabling faster development, cost reduction, and advanced energy‑forecasting capabilities.
The CES Asia 2017 report summarizes the exhibition's new product categories, highlights breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, VR/AR, smart home, IoT and drones, showcases Suning's online experience hall, lists award‑winning innovations, and distills key industry trends and consumer insights.
The article examines why security is essential for the Internet of Things, outlines common vulnerabilities such as default credentials and unencrypted communications, and explains the economic, technical, and lifecycle barriers that hinder timely software updates and comprehensive protection.
From May 26‑28, the Huawei LiteOS Hackathon in Shenzhen gathered 200 onsite and 5,500 online participants, where teams built diverse low‑power IoT projects—ranging from visual doorbells to smart air purifiers—demonstrating edge‑cloud integration with Huawei LiteOS and OceanConnect, with winners announced and resources shared.
This article explains the fundamentals, use cases, challenges, and storage architectures of time‑series databases, illustrating how they handle massive IoT telemetry through log‑structured storage, sharding, and distributed designs while supporting high‑throughput writes and fast analytical queries.
The article outlines how the Internet of Things is rapidly expanding across industries—from RFID‑tracked logistics and connected cars to smart cities and wearable devices—driving trillions of dollars in economic opportunity and reshaping future technology ecosystems.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Connected Lighting workshop in Santa Clara emphasized industry collaboration on standards and testbeds, showcasing how LED‑based, data‑driven lighting systems can improve energy efficiency, enable new services, and integrate with IoT platforms for smarter building management.
Expanding IoT deployments pressure telecom operators with reliability, security, privacy, and system‑design challenges, requiring large, geographically dispersed networks, robust engineering, and coordinated legal and managerial frameworks to support diverse, large‑scale applications across industries.
The Linux Foundation introduced EdgeX Foundry, an open‑source, cloud‑native framework that unifies edge‑computing APIs and enables local processing of IoT data, reducing latency, network traffic, and enhancing security for a wide range of industrial and consumer applications.
The article summarizes Digoal's 2017 Gdevops talk, detailing PostgreSQL's advanced features such as block-level BRIN indexes, high‑efficiency range queries, asynchronous messaging, data pumps, real sharding, MADlib machine‑learning integration, FDW data federation, and large‑scale use cases in IoT, finance, and geospatial analytics.
The article explains how organizations can begin IoT projects by establishing interdisciplinary IT teams, ensuring integration, compliance and security, leveraging cloud infrastructure, and addressing ROI and industry-specific challenges across manufacturing, transportation, energy, and healthcare.
The article explains how everyday connected devices—from smart speakers and wearables to internet‑enabled cars—constitute the Internet of Things, outlines its rapid growth, and describes the operational, security, and strategic impacts IoT will have on businesses starting in 2017.
This article explains the differences between MQTT and CoAP, two lightweight IoT communication protocols, and provides guidance on when to use each based on network conditions, architecture compatibility, and deployment scenarios.
The article examines why IoT purchases are decentralized across IT, business, and operations units, identifies the true buyers, explains how IoT differs from traditional IT, and offers six practical best‑practice steps for vendors to successfully sell IoT solutions within complex enterprise environments.
The article explains how the extremely low current and voltage consumption of IoT devices creates difficult measurement challenges for battery‑life estimation, discusses the limitations of conventional oscilloscopes, and outlines low‑noise instrumentation, signal‑conditioning, and multi‑function approaches engineers should adopt.
The article examines the rapid growth of IoT, the security risks of centralized architectures, and how blockchain technology can provide a decentralized, tamper‑proof ledger to improve trust, reduce costs, and enable secure device communication, while also outlining the scalability, performance, storage, skill, and regulatory challenges that must be addressed.
The 2016 IEEE IoT developer survey highlighted JavaScript as one of the top three languages for IoT, and this article showcases leading JavaScript‑based IoT projects such as Tessel 2, Johnny‑Five, JerryScript, and Node‑Red, illustrating how JavaScript simplifies event‑driven programming and fuels a thriving developer ecosystem.
The article examines the fragmented landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) standards, highlighting the lack of a universal protocol, the proliferation of competing alliances such as Thread, AllJoyn, IoTivity, the Industrial Internet Consortium, ITU‑T SG20, IEEE P2413, and Apple HomeKit, and discusses the security, interoperability, and market adoption challenges that determine which standards may survive.
This tutorial explains what Android Things is, guides you through preparing a Raspberry Pi 3, flashing the Android Things image, wiring an LED circuit, and running a sample Blink application that uses a SeekBar to control GPIO‑driven LED blinking.
Industry 4.0, driven by IoT, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, represents a new manufacturing era; this article outlines its historical stages, nine supporting technologies, three core characteristics, strategic approaches, eight key factors, eight values, and the Chinese adaptation, illustrated through extensive visual content.
This article breaks down 5G for everyday users, illustrating how high bandwidth, dense connectivity, wide coverage, ultra‑reliable links, and massive device support translate into practical scenarios like seamless VR gaming, uninterrupted streaming in crowds, autonomous driving, remote robotics, and smart‑home IoT.
This article surveys the most notable open‑source operating systems for the Internet of Things, covering both Linux‑based and non‑Linux platforms, and highlights their memory footprints, power efficiency, modular networking stacks, security features, and real‑time determinism requirements.
The article explains how the rise of the Internet of Things is driving a new wave of edge computing and SDN technologies, which together enable real‑time processing, data aggregation, reliability, and security for massive device deployments across industries.
The Beijing Huawei LiteOS hackathon showcased how the OS's KB‑level kernel, low power consumption, and microsecond response enable rapid development of commercial IoT solutions, with winning teams demonstrating end‑to‑end device‑cloud integrations, lightweight onboarding, and the importance of user‑driven design.
The article analyzes how the 2016 SoftBank‑ARM deal marked the start of the IoT ecosystem era, outlines current penetration rates, identifies three development phases, examines industry, solution and developer ecosystems, and proposes a three‑stage roadmap for building a thriving IoT ecosystem.
The Huawei LiteOS Workshop in Beijing gathered over 130 online registrants and 100 on‑site developers for a day of hands‑on sessions covering mainstream chip porting, STM32 migration, rapid integration with LianShengDe chips, Keil MDK debugging, and a fun balancing‑car demo, followed by lively Q&A and community bonding.
The 2016 HDG Shenzhen finale recap highlights five expert talks covering developer journeys, Huawei's network acceleration API, AI‑driven maker spirit, cloud collaboration strategies, and the CloudOpera IES open‑API ecosystem, illustrating practical lessons for modern developers.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of IoT security, detailing the IoT architecture—including cloud platforms, mobile clients, and hardware terminals—while analyzing major security threats such as insecure data storage, weak server controls, unencrypted transmission, client injection, improper authentication, key protection flaws, session mishandling, and sensitive data leakage.
The 2016 Huawei Developer Competition showcased the third‑place IoT Smart Door Manager by Duoling, built on Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform, illustrating its technical framework, advantages over conventional smart locks, and guidance for integrating home IoT products with the cloud service.
The article examines how the acquisition of ARM by SoftBank signals the start of a fierce competition for IoT entry points, explains the two‑level entry model of infrastructure and applications, analyzes Huawei’s open‑platform strategy and API value chain, and argues that openness is essential for building a sustainable IoT ecosystem.
At the 2016 China Internet Application Innovation Conference in Shanghai, industry leaders and government officials outlined a collaborative, standards‑driven approach to smart‑home ecosystems, emphasizing open gateways, shared platforms, and operator‑led business models to accelerate nationwide adoption.
The 2016 Huawei Developer Contest concluded with 2,567 teams, and among the 20 finalists, Sanchuan Smart Water secured first prize by leveraging Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform and NB‑IoT modules to create an intelligent water management solution, which will be showcased over the next month.
NB‑IoT, a narrow‑band IoT technology standardized by 3GPP, offers ultra‑low power, extensive coverage, long battery life, and high capacity, making it the most suitable LPWA option for operators, with distinct features, commercial models, Huawei’s contributions, and diverse application scenarios detailed in this overview.
In his keynote at the Alibaba Cloud Conference, CTO Zhang Jianfeng explains how advances in computing power, AI, big data, and IoT are driving the digital transformation of retail, manufacturing, and services, enabling smarter products, personalized experiences, and a fully connected intelligent world.
The article argues that blockchain, rather than IoT, underpins the IoT era and explores application scenarios such as device address assignment, IBM's ADEPT system, supply‑chain cost reduction, QR‑code delivery verification, and a blockchain‑based DNS service for secure, low‑cost public networking.
In his Yunqi Conference keynote, Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng explains how soaring computing power, digitalization, AI, IoT and immersive technologies will transform retail, manufacturing and services into intelligent, personalized ecosystems, illustrating the vision with examples like a smart golf club and a city‑wide data brain.
This article introduces the open‑source Contiki operating system for IoT, detailing its history, core features such as memory management and network stacks, source‑level modules, as well as its advantages, drawbacks, and why its ready‑to‑use development environment remains valuable for embedded developers.
The article reviews the Node.js Interactive Europe presentation, outlining Node.js v7’s planned V8 upgrade, new language features like async/await, a beta release strategy, ecosystem stability tools, web standard adoption, IoT suitability, VM neutrality, and community inclusivity initiatives.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Internet of Things (IoT), covering its origin, layered architecture, diverse application scenarios such as smart cities and healthcare, market trends, and the key technical and business challenges that must be addressed for widespread adoption.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) industry chain, detailing the eight major segments—from chip and sensor suppliers to platform services and system integration—while highlighting the major global and Chinese companies driving each segment.
The article examines SoftBank’s £23.4 billion cash offer for ARM, exploring Masayoshi Son’s entrepreneurial mindset, the strategic reasons behind the deal, its implications for the Internet of Things, the broader semiconductor industry, and how competitors might respond to this transformative acquisition.
This article reviews Windows IoT, its lightweight Windows‑10‑based kernel, hardware requirements, supported development boards, developer resources, key features, and the platform’s strengths and weaknesses for IoT applications.
This article explains the rise of low‑power wide‑area networks, compares LPWAN technologies such as LoRa, SigFox, LTE‑M and NB‑IoT, details the standards evolution, advantages, deployment challenges, and potential IoT applications like smart parking, city infrastructure, and environmental monitoring.
