We toss together our own PCB designs, throwing in a microcontroller here or there. Anything more demanding than that, and we reach for a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone (or an old Linksys router). Why ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the new kids on the block. It promises connection of sensors and actuators to the internet, for data to flow both ways, and once on the internet, to become part ...

Now that IoT now being discussed ad nauseum, we should have a look at something that has a good possibility of being its main underpinning – 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN networking. The choices you have for ...

You might not have heard of 6LoWPAN, an open standard supported by open-source code that lets developers use the Internet Protocol (IP) between wireless devices that use IEEE 802.15.4 radios. 6LoWPAN ...

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Until recently, extending IP out to wireless industrial networks was thought to be impractical, if not impossible. Vendors embraced proprietary protocols because they presumed that IP, which is memory ...

Sponsored by IDT: Energy-constrained IEEE 802.15.4 sensors and devices will form a major portion of the IoT and must meet IPv6 protocols. 6LoWPAN will make that happen. Linking all kinds of different ...

Developers and those interested in building Internet of Things applications and devices may be interested in a new range of development boards which has been created in the form of the SmartMachine ...