At the recent Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting FOSDEM that took place in Brussels, Belgium, two of Samsung's Senior Engineers- Phil Coval and Ziran Sun who have been active with Open Source Software development such as Tizen, IoTivity, etc demonstrated the implementation of IoT in regular devices...
The number of "Smart" bulbs and switches that are available out in the market is nearing infinity these days. These devices generally tend to cost a considerable amount of money, and for the price what you generally get is a device that can probably be controlled over bluetooth or WiFi...
The reach of IoT on our world is more profound than just connecting things to the Internet. It is about magic. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and what is IoT if not magic? It is a form of magic we can reproduce with consistency. What we are...
According to a report in the Korean media, Samsung Electronics is planning to merge the Tizen Operating System (OS) with the Internet of Things (IoT) IoTivity platform, In order to enhance the platform's competitiveness. No details have been disclosed of how technically this type of merger would take place...
The IoTivity project has recently reached an important milestone - its 1.0.0 release, which includes Getting Started instructions for Tizen. IoTivity is the reference implementation for the work of the Open Interconnect Consortium, who are defining a standard and a certification program for the device-to-device connectivity needs of the Internet of...
What is IoT? First, what is the Internet of Things? I will try to answer this question based on my personal research and experiments as a Tizen and IoTivity community contributor. Many analysts or programmers may feel the "IoT hype" is overrated, since it became one of top buzz word...
The Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch runs Tizen and in the following demos we can see how it connects to an Intel Edison development board, which is running Linux that is built using the Yocto Project. The Intel Edison board has quite a powerful 32-bit quark CPU which makes it...
Latest blockchain project connects shipping containers and industrial machines to blockchain technology through an internet of things (IoT) chip. Blockchain startup, Filament is behind this innovative use case. Containers and equipment, through a microchip, would be able to perform transactions or execute instructions on their own, through a software called:...
Samsung has been trying to bring as many developers as possible onboard to the Tizen development community which includes bringing C# developers as well. Hence, Tizen.NET was introduced last year to make it convenient for .NET developers to build Tizen apps. The Visual Studio Tools for Tizen.NET is currently in development and...
Samsung Electronics has made some breakthrough with semiconductor technology. It is estimated that over half of its operating profit for the second quarter of 2017 is from the semiconductor field. It announced today that its maiden Exynos-branded Internet of Things (IoT) solution, the Exynos i T200 chip, has gone into mass...
Samsung's Tizen Developers Conference 2017 (TDC), was held recently in San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California from May 16 to May 17 with over 30 partners in attendance. Those who attended the conference had a swell time as they were able to get firsthand experience of the new...
Commax, a smart home device manufacturer, announced their partnership with Samsung at the Tizen Developer Conference 2017 (TDC) to utilize the Tizen Operating System (OS) as a platform for their Internet of Things (IoT) devices. During the conference, hardware manufacturers and developers were shown how it was possible for them to...
Samsung's SmartThings is a home automation platform that allows users to use one app for all their smart home devices, including devices that work cross-platform with not only Samsung's Tizen OS but also Android, Windows, and iOS. When Samsung acquired SmartThings, the Korean giant promised to maintain its cross-platform compatibility...
Samsung's success, in large part, has been due to the power of its partnerships that it forges with other players in the tech scene, and this could be no truer than in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT), a field that connects everything, including door knobs and remote...
Its time for the Tizen Community to meet once again and discuss what is important to us all. This time the subject is going to be IoT on Tizen Wearables. As ever there is no special format for the discussion but it is hoped that we cover everything in the allocated 1...
The Internet of Things is set to get a big boost with the recent announcement of a merger between Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) which sponsors the IoTivity open source project, and AllSeen Alliance provider of the AllJoyn open source IoT framework. Both bigwigs would now exist under the sole OCF...
Samsung's single board computers- The ARTIK dev boards have been commercially launched earlier this year. The ARTIK 5 and ARTIK 10 boards have support for multiple OS and that includes the likes of Ubuntu, Fedora and of course Tizen. The development boards run Fedora out of the box and since...
The Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2016 in San Francisco was the largest conference of its type in Samsung’s history. This was also the first time that Tizen was featured so heavily throughout the conference and was also part of the keynote speech. Developers enjoyed so many sessions for the...
Samsung Developer Conference 2016 Not long to go now for what is billed as the biggest developer Conference in Samsung's history, and it is coming to San Francisco this month. This is going to be the place to learn about the latest Samsung technologies, services, and of course Tizen,...
The Linux Foundation yesterday announced the formation of the OPEN-Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O) at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Their aim is to bring the industry together to develop the first open source software framework and orchestrator to enable agile software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) operations. Early support for OPEN-O...
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