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Steven Max Patterson

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  • CIO.com

Past articles by Steven Max:

How SAP is making the shift to industrial IoT

SAP’s relies on its diverse ERP customers and experience to capitalize on the industrial IoT. → Read More

How Cisco drives its industrial IoT business forward

Industrial IoT development is complicated and slow growing. Cisco is seeing some success, though, thanks to its IoT ecosystem of customers, partners and expert innovators. → Read More

How the internet of sound eliminates billions of IoT sensors

Hackathon winners cleverly avoid the billions of IoT sensor truck rolls needed to help visually impaired people navigate by using sounds instead of sensors. → Read More

How to build low-cost IoT sensor networks

Researchers designed an IoT network using sound and motion sensors that estimates public space utilization. The ideas can be applied to other IoT sensor networks. → Read More

What the IoT industry can learn from Apple’s revival of the Mac

IoT growth depends on an open ecosystem. It cannot wait, nor can it be like Apple and take from the ecosystem without contributing. → Read More

Will machine learning save the enterprise server business?

Server makers may be turning to industry verticals such as machine learning to restore growth. → Read More

Pub/Sub model could connect IoT devices without carrier networks

The Publisher/Subscriber model could circumvent the long wait for ubiquitous IoT connectivity. → Read More

How Microsoft’s self-soaring sailplane improves IoT, digital assistants

Microsoft researchers built an autonomous sailplane to answer a scientific question that applies to building robust digital assistants, IoT devices and autonomous vehicles. → Read More

5 reasons why device makers cannot secure the IoT platform

Security standards will not protect the emerging IoT platform that will remain vulnerable until post-platform security arrives. → Read More

30 ways to improve IoT privacy

To improve IoT security and privacy, we need to create a security culture. Here are 30 ways IoT device makers and developers can do their part. → Read More

Using IoT to keep Mt. Washington hikers safe, predict weather

An early IoT adopter, the Mount Washington Observatory uses an ensemble of radios and sensors to monitor weather and alert hikers and observatory personnel. → Read More

This Mirai malware vaccine could protect insecure IoT devices

Researchers have created a white worm from the Mirai source code to defend IoT devices that have weak security. → Read More

This Linux tool could improve the security of IoT devices

Snappy, a software deployment and management system designed by Canonical for the Ubuntu operating system, could be a shortcut to building trusted IoT applications. → Read More

How to improve IoT security

The trend to create IoT devices and equipment is creating daunting security challenges. Researchers say the only way to address the issue is to create a security culture. → Read More

How to improve IoT security

The trend to create IoT devices and equipment is creating daunting security challenges. Researchers say the only way to address the issue is to create a security culture. → Read More

IoT hype cycle antidote: Sitting with the engineers

Internet of Things CTO Joe Biron explains how to engineer IoT for innovative customers now and in the future. → Read More

The IoT needs simulation to grow

Millions of simple IoT devices add up to a complex system that will need simulators to accurately design it. → Read More

LoRaWAN key to building full-stack production IoT networks

Senet’s chief engineer explains how to build networks within IoT's constraints. → Read More

Bluetooth Mesh networks: Is a standards body right for IoT innovation?

The Bluetooth Mesh specification is impressive, but a specification with an open-source project could accelerate IoT adoption faster. → Read More

Will IoT party like 1999?

IoT semiconductors and electronic design automation (EDA) may be the most accurate predictors of IoT development. → Read More