OpenSource For You
January 2025 Issue
Vol. 13 No. 3
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Internet of Things: Running Language Models on Edge Devices
Let’s delve into the technical aspects, challenges, and benefits of deploying language models on edge/IoT devices.
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Very Simple Control Protocol: Ideal for the Internet of Things Very Simple Control Protocol or VSCP is a free and open protocol suitable for automation tasks. Its simplicity, reliability and scalability make it excellent for building powerful and efficient IoT environments.
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IoT Services Offered by Microsoft Azure: An Overview Discover the range of services offered by Microsoft’s Azure platform for the Internet of Things, including IoT Hub and Digital Twins. |
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Using Open Source and Blockchain to Build Decentralised IoT Networks Explore how blockchain is being integrated with IoT to create decentralised networks. Find out how leading open source projects like IOTA and Streamr use blockchain to ensure data integrity, security, and privacy in IoT ecosystems.
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Popular IoT Operating Systems: The Role They Play IoT operating systems have emerged as the backbone of the Internet of Things, enabling the seamless integration of billions of devices into a connected ecosystem. Selecting the right OS is essential. | |
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Open Source IoT: A Primer for Everyone Open source IoT platforms promise to play a central role in shaping the future, making it possible for more people and businesses to benefit from smarter, more efficient solutions. We look at a brief history of this tech and explore emerging trends.
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Open Source AI Frameworks:Integrating AI with IoT Open source AI helps IoT devices learn, adapt, and automate actions based on real-time data, improving convenience and security. Here’s an overview of six key open source AI frameworks that help integrate AI with IoT, and the challenges they face. | |
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How Open Source Enhances IoT Security With IoT devices growing at a breakneck pace across the globe, building secure networks is of paramount importance. Open source solutions help with this, as they are backed by a vigilant community.
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Raspberry PI Pico: The Wonder Board for IoT Applications This hands-on tutorial with a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board will get you started on your IoT journey. | |
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Secure Boot: Ensuring Trust in IoT Devices Security of IoT devices is critical as they are ubiquitous in home and industrial environments today. Secure boot is a security feature designed to ensure that only trusted software runs during a device’s startup process.
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Mainflux: A Scalable IoT Platform As the world becomes increasingly connected, the need for robust, scalable, and secure platforms to manage IoT devices and data has never been greater. Mainflux stands out as a solution designed to meet these needs, offering a range of features that make it suitable for a variety of applications | |
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Building an IoT Application with Eclipse Kura Eclipse Kura is an open source IoT edge framework that helps design IoT systems. A project of the Eclipse Foundation, it supports interoperability across devices at the edge. Here’s a short tutorial on how you can install Eclipse Kura, and develop and deploy an application with it.
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Open Source Middleware Platforms for the Internet of Things: An Overview IoT middleware connects devices to applications and services, and has specific characteristics and architecture. There are quite a few open source IoT middleware platforms available for the job. | |
For U & Me - InSight
Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 Powering the Next Wave of Smart Connectivity Wi-Fi 6 leads with faster data rates and reduced latency while upcoming Wi-Fi 7’s backward compatibility will facilitate gradual upgrades from Wi-Fi 6, easing transitions. However, advanced features like multi-link operation (MLO) and ultra-low latency may command a premium, making Wi-Fi 7 suited for high-end applications.
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How Open Source is Making Quantum Computing Accessible to Everyone Open source initiatives are breaking down the barriers to quantum computing, making it accessible to everyone. Explore what quantum computing is, the challenges of traditional adoption, how open source platforms are democratising the technology, and how you can get started in this exciting domain. | |
For U & Me - Overview
Building the Backbone of AI with Scalable and Power-Efficient Infrastructure The AI revolution is being fuelled by continuous investment in infrastructure to handle vast and complex workloads. This includes moving towards distributed computing and using XPUs.
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Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Ionic Mobile apps are an intrinsic part of daily life today – we use them to order food, groceries, taxis, and more. As these apps need to work across platforms, developers are focusing on cross-platform app development so that they code only once to create apps that function on multiple platforms. Ionic is a framework that can help developers build apps faster than with native app development, while saving them time and money. Let’s learn how to install and deploy it. | |
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Socket Programming in Python This tutorial will teach you how to send messages between a client and a server using socket programming in Python.
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SageMath: A Second Glance at Cybersecurity The eighth article in the series on SageMath explores a classical encryption scheme called the Rail Fence cipher and introduces the concept of symmetric-key encryption. | |
Admin-How To
Using Container Structure Tests for Container Acceptance Testing Carrying out container acceptance testing early saves precious time, money and the cloud service provider’s reputation, and avoids hard-to-fix infra downtimes. Container Structure Tests have been designed for this purpose.
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How to Locate a Device Without Using GPS? SSID-based Wi-Fi locationing offers a precise method for determining locations using Wi-Fi signals, particularly in areas where GPS often proves unreliable. | |
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