145 articles published
Edge Computing
FreeRTOS is the most widely deployed RTOS for microcontroller-based IoT devices. Here's what it actually does, when you need it, and how to get started on ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico.
24 July 2026
Embedded IoT
MicroPython and CircuitPython both let you run Python on embedded hardware — but they're optimised for different use cases. Here's how to choose between them for your IoT project, and what each does best in 2026.
24 July 2026
Edge Platforms
Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon brings WebAssembly-native serverless to one of the world's largest CDN networks. For IoT teams managing OTA updates and edge inference at scale, this changes the calculus significantly.
23 July 2026
5G & Connectivity
Private 5G networks are moving from pilot projects to production infrastructure across manufacturing, logistics, and utilities. Here's what the deployment landscape actually looks like this year.
23 July 2026
Smart Home & IoT
Matter 1.5 arrived in early 2026 with major additions: energy management, water sensors, and camera interoperability. Here's what the new specification actually enables, how the edge-local architecture works, and whether interoperability is finally living up to the promise.
22 July 2026
IoT Protocols
MQTT 5.1's QUIC transport layer support changes the performance and reliability equation for IoT deployments with unreliable connections, mobile devices, and high-latency edge networks. Here's what's changed and what it means in practice.
22 July 2026
IoT Protocols
LoRaWAN delivers low-power, long-range IoT connectivity without a SIM card or monthly fees. Here's how it works, when to use it over NB-IoT or LTE-M, and how to deploy with ChirpStack and The Things Network.
21 July 2026
Edge Applications
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication lets cars, traffic infrastructure, pedestrians, and networks exchange real-time safety and traffic data. Cellular V2X (C-V2X) over 5G puts the compute at the edge, reducing latency to the sub-10ms range needed for collision avoidance. Here's how the architecture works, what's deployed, and where the standard is heading.
21 July 2026
Edge AI
For edge AI inference in 2026, the Pi 5 with AI HAT+ costs under £100 and handles models up to 3B parameters. The Jetson Orin Nano starts at £200 and delivers production-grade 40 TOPS. Here's how to choose.
20 July 2026
IoT & Sensors
Bearing failures, gas leaks, and security events can all be detected acoustically — and edge AI inference means you don't need to stream raw audio to the cloud. Here's how to build acoustic monitoring into IoT deployments in 2026.
19 July 2026
IoT Connectivity
LTE-M, NB-IoT, and Cat-M1 are often treated as interchangeable LPWAN options. They're not. Each has distinct characteristics around latency, power consumption, mobility support, and data throughput that make them suited to different industrial applications. Here's how to choose.
19 July 2026
5G & Connectivity
3GPP Release 18 — the first version officially branded 5G-Advanced — is rolling out through 2026, bringing significant capabilities for Mobile Edge Computing. Here's what changes for IoT, industrial networks, and edge AI deployments.
18 July 2026
IoT & Sensors
Air quality monitoring has moved from expensive specialist equipment to deployable IoT sensor networks with edge AI inference, covering CO2, PM2.5, VOCs, and NO2 at building and neighbourhood scale. Here's how to build it.
18 July 2026
Industrial IoT & Edge
DDS (Data Distribution Service) is the messaging standard used in robotics, automotive ADAS, and aerospace — the middleware that makes distributed real-time systems reliable. Here's how it works and when to use it.
17 July 2026
IoT Protocols
Eclipse Zenoh is a publish/subscribe and query protocol designed to work seamlessly from constrained IoT sensors through to edge nodes and cloud, with zero-overhead on microcontrollers and high throughput for robotics data streams.
17 July 2026
Industrial IoT & Edge
EtherCAT achieves sub-100 microsecond cycle times over standard Ethernet hardware — making it the protocol of choice for motion control, robotics, and precision manufacturing. Here's how it works and when to use it.
17 July 2026
Kubernetes & Orchestration
KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) scales pods to zero and back based on external event sources — MQTT queues, Kafka topics, database row counts, and more. Here's how to use it for IoT data pipelines and edge Kubernetes deployments.
16 July 2026
Security & Networking
SPIFFE defines a standard for workload identity using X.509 certificates and JWTs. SPIRE is its reference implementation. Together they provide automatic mTLS and service-to-service authentication for IoT data pipelines and edge Kubernetes clusters without managing certificates manually.
16 July 2026
Industrial Networking
PROFINET and EtherNet/IP are the dominant industrial Ethernet protocols for factory automation and IIoT connectivity. Here's how they differ, which vendors support each, and how to factor them into edge computing architecture decisions.
15 July 2026
Embedded Systems
RISC-V has moved from academic curiosity to production silicon. Here's where the ecosystem stands in 2026, which chips are worth building on, and how it compares to ARM Cortex-M for embedded IoT and edge applications.
15 July 2026
Industrial IoT
Arduino Opta is a micro-PLC that brings Arduino's development experience and MicroPython to industrial control applications. Here's how it works, what it supports, and how it fits into modern IIoT architectures alongside cloud and edge platforms.
14 July 2026
IoT & Edge
Golioth provides OTA firmware updates, device state sync, remote logging, and time-series data pipelines for embedded IoT devices -- built around Zephyr RTOS but supporting bare-metal and other RTOS targets. Here's how it compares to building your own backend and when it makes sense.
14 July 2026
Platforms
AWS IoT SiteWise gives industrial operations teams a managed service for ingesting, structuring, and analysing equipment data at the edge and in the cloud. Here's how the asset model works, what SiteWise Edge handles locally, and where it fits against DIY time-series stacks.
12 July 2026
Edge Use Cases
Pharmaceutical shipments, fresh food, vaccines, and specialty chemicals all depend on unbroken cold chains. Edge computing and IoT sensors are replacing manual checks and after-the-fact reporting with real-time monitoring and automated alerts. Here's how it works in practice.
12 July 2026
Security & Compliance
IEC 62443 is the primary international standard for securing industrial automation and control systems — covering OT networks, IIoT gateways, PLCs, RTUs, and the entire industrial edge. Here's what it covers, how its security levels and zones work, and what it means for device manufacturers and system operators.
12 July 2026
Edge Platforms
The Yocto Project is the standard approach for building minimal, reproducible Linux distributions for embedded and edge devices. This guide covers layers, recipes, and machine configurations — and when Yocto makes sense versus lighter alternatives.
12 July 2026
Industrial IoT
5G network slicing lets operators carve out guaranteed network segments for specific industrial use cases. Combined with Multi-access Edge Computing, it enables low-latency, high-reliability IoT deployments that weren't achievable with Wi-Fi or 4G. Here's how it works and where it fits.
10 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
Akri is a CNCF project that makes IoT edge devices visible to Kubernetes as schedulable resources. Here's how it works and why it simplifies AI vision and sensor workloads at the edge.
10 July 2026
Edge Computing
DittoLive is a peer-to-peer sync SDK that keeps data consistent across mobile devices, edge nodes, and IoT endpoints without requiring continuous cloud connectivity. This guide covers how it works, how it differs from traditional cloud-sync architectures, and where it fits in edge IoT deployments.
10 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
Software-defined WAN gives distributed industrial operations centralised visibility and policy control over dozens of edge sites. Here's how SD-WAN works in edge IoT deployments, which use cases justify the investment, and how it compares to traditional MPLS.
10 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
Private 5G networks give factories, ports, and warehouses dedicated wireless infrastructure with guaranteed bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and security that public networks can't match. Here's how they work and when they're worth the investment.
9 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
Matter is the open, IP-based smart home standard backed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung that finally makes IoT devices interoperable. This guide covers how Matter works technically, what Thread adds, and what the standard means for commercial and industrial IoT deployments.
9 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
Grafana and InfluxDB are the most widely deployed open-source stack for IoT time-series monitoring. This guide covers the TICK stack architecture, InfluxDB 3.0 vs 2.x trade-offs, Telegraf for sensor data ingestion, and building production Grafana dashboards with alerting for edge deployments.
8 July 2026
Embedded & RTOS
FreeRTOS is the most widely deployed real-time operating system for microcontrollers, running on billions of devices from ESP32 to STM32. This guide covers task scheduling, queues, semaphores, and FreeRTOS Plus connectivity libraries for IoT projects, with practical C code examples.
7 July 2026
IoT & Connectivity
LoRaWAN has passed 125 million deployed devices and is accelerating — driven by smart agriculture, city monitoring, industrial predictive maintenance, and increasingly, on-device AI at the sensor edge. Here's how the technology works and where it fits in your IoT architecture.
7 July 2026
Embedded & RTOS
PlatformIO turns the pain of embedded development — board-specific SDKs, compiler juggling, library hell — into a unified experience across 1,300+ boards. This guide covers installation, project structure, library management, and CI integration for ESP32, STM32, and Arduino-compatible targets.
7 July 2026
Industrial IoT
AWS IoT SiteWise Edge lets manufacturers collect, process, and act on equipment data locally — with cloud sync when connectivity allows. Here's how it works, what it connects to, and when it's the right choice.
6 July 2026
IoT Development
MicroPython and CircuitPython both bring Python to microcontrollers, but they target different use cases, ecosystems, and developer audiences. Here's how they compare for IoT projects in 2026, covering hardware support, library ecosystems, performance, and when to choose each.
5 July 2026
Industrial IoT
CAN bus remains the backbone of automotive and industrial control networks, but connecting it to edge computing platforms unlocks real-time analytics, predictive maintenance, and remote monitoring. Here's how the integration works in practice.
4 July 2026
Industrial IoT
Water utilities are deploying edge computing to modernise ageing SCADA infrastructure, enable real-time leak detection on distribution networks, and reduce the attack surface of internet-connected operational technology. Here's what the architecture looks like in practice.
4 July 2026
Development Tools
PlatformIO brings modern developer tooling to embedded and IoT projects — dependency management, CI integration, and multi-board support all in one place.
4 July 2026
Edge AI
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ adds 26 TOPS of dedicated neural network processing to a standard Raspberry Pi 5 — making it a capable edge inference platform for computer vision, audio classification, and real-time sensor data analysis.
4 July 2026
Industry Use Cases
Ports operate one of the most data-intensive physical environments on earth — crane sensors, vessel AIS feeds, container tracking, yard management, and gate systems all generating continuous streams. Edge computing is becoming the architecture that makes this manageable without saturating backhaul.
3 July 2026
Industrial IoT
Edge AI is transforming predictive maintenance in manufacturing and industrial environments — running inference locally on sensor data to detect anomalies before equipment fails, without depending on cloud connectivity.
3 July 2026
Edge AI
FPGAs are the overlooked option in edge AI inference — less convenient than NPUs, harder to program than GPUs, but uniquely suited for deterministic low-latency applications that can't tolerate jitter or power spikes.
2 July 2026
WebAssembly
New Wasm runtimes like Atym and WAMR are making it practical to run WebAssembly on microcontrollers with as little as 256KB of memory, enabling OTA-updatable logic and TinyML on ultra-low-power IoT hardware.
2 July 2026
Edge AI
NVIDIA Holoscan is a streaming data processing platform designed for low-latency AI inference on sensor data — medical imaging, industrial inspection, robotics — running on Jetson AGX Orin and ConnectX SmartNICs. This guide covers the architecture, use cases, and how to evaluate whether it fits your edge AI application.
1 July 2026
Edge AI
OpenVINO lets you run optimised AI inference on Intel CPUs, integrated graphics, and Movidius VPUs — making edge AI practical on hardware that doesn't have a dedicated NVIDIA GPU.
1 July 2026
Industry Use Cases
How modern building management systems use edge computing to process occupancy data, control HVAC in real time, and cut energy costs — without routing everything through the cloud.
30 June 2026
Industrial IoT
IO-Link Wireless extends the world's most widely deployed industrial sensor protocol to operate without cables, enabling flexible manufacturing, rotating equipment monitoring, and mobile robotics — all within the IEC 61131-9 standard.
29 June 2026
IoT Standards
Matter 1.4, released in November 2024, added energy management device types including EV chargers, solar inverters, battery storage, and heat pump controllers. Combined with Thread 1.4's border router requirements, it marks a significant expansion of the standard into home energy management.
29 June 2026
Connectivity
SpaceX Starlink has become a practical option for connecting remote industrial IoT deployments. This guide covers use cases, latency reality, hardware options, failover design, and where satellite backhaul fits in the connectivity stack.
29 June 2026
Edge AI
Running computer vision inference locally on cameras and edge devices eliminates cloud latency and bandwidth costs. Here's how to architect and deploy edge AI computer vision pipelines in 2026.
28 June 2026
IoT Networking
Bluetooth Mesh enables many-to-many BLE communication across large deployments without a hub. This guide covers how it works, what it's good for in industrial IoT, and how to build and deploy a BT Mesh network in 2026.
27 June 2026
Edge AI & Robotics
ROS 2 brings standardised robot communication, sensor fusion, and navigation to edge deployments. Here's how to deploy ROS 2 on resource-constrained hardware, from Raspberry Pi 5 to NVIDIA Jetson, including micro-ROS for microcontrollers.
27 June 2026
Industrial IoT
UWB radio gives you centimetre-accurate indoor positioning without GPS. Here's how ultra-wideband RTLS works, which hardware to use, and where it fits in industrial IoT deployments in 2026.
27 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Industrial IoT gateways bridge legacy plant equipment and modern cloud platforms. This guide compares leading hardware from Moxa, Advantech, and Siemens across protocol support, compute, ruggedness, and total cost.
26 June 2026
Edge AI
Federated learning trains AI models across distributed edge devices without centralising raw data. This guide covers how it works, where it's being deployed in industrial IoT and manufacturing, and the frameworks available for implementation in 2026.
25 June 2026
IoT Connectivity
Three cellular IoT standards dominate LPWAN deployments: LTE-M, NB-IoT, and LTE Cat-1. This guide compares their bandwidth, latency, power consumption, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right one.
25 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Modbus TCP is decades old, but it's still running in nearly every industrial facility on the planet. Here's how it works, where it fits in a modern IoT stack, and how to bridge it to contemporary edge platforms without replacing your equipment.
24 June 2026
Industrial IoT
The Unified Namespace (UNS) is the dominant data architecture pattern for Industry 4.0, using MQTT as a central data hub and OPC UA for semantic modeling. This guide explains UNS principles, implementation approaches, and how it compares to traditional ISA-95 hierarchies.
24 June 2026
Edge Platforms
EdgeX Foundry is a Linux Foundation project providing a vendor-neutral, microservices-based middleware platform for IoT edge devices. Here's how it works, when to use it, and how it compares to alternatives like AWS Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge.
23 June 2026
Edge Hardware
Solar, thermal, and vibrational energy harvesting are moving from research labs into production IoT deployments — enabling genuinely maintenance-free remote sensor nodes in 2026.
23 June 2026
Edge DevOps
GitOps applies the same declarative, version-controlled approach that works for Kubernetes clusters to edge device fleets — with Git as the source of truth and automated reconciliation keeping devices in sync. This guide covers the architecture and how Flux CD implements it for edge IoT.
23 June 2026
Edge AI
ONNX Runtime is the open-source inference engine that lets you train a model once and deploy it everywhere — from Raspberry Pi to industrial gateways to Cortex-M microcontrollers. Here's a practical guide to getting started in 2026.
22 June 2026
IoT
Combining WebRTC with edge computing cuts latency dramatically for IoT video and sensor applications. Here's how the architecture works and where it makes the most sense in 2026.
22 June 2026
IoT & Connectivity
LoRaWAN enables IoT sensors to transmit data over kilometres on a single battery charge, making it the go-to connectivity standard for agriculture, utilities, and smart city deployments where cellular and Wi-Fi don't reach or aren't cost-effective.
21 June 2026
IoT & Edge
Memfault gives embedded teams the crash reporting, metrics, logging, and OTA firmware update pipeline that was previously only available to web and mobile developers. Here's how it works and what it takes to integrate.
21 June 2026
IoT & Edge Platforms
Home Assistant has evolved from a hobbyist smart home tool into a capable edge computing platform for IoT, offering local LLM processing, Matter/Thread support, a REST API, and 3000+ integrations — all running on your own hardware with no cloud dependency.
19 June 2026
Protocols & Connectivity
Choosing an MQTT broker is one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions for any IoT deployment. This comparison covers Mosquitto (lightweight, open-source), HiveMQ (enterprise Java), and EMQX (cloud-native scale) — with benchmarks, deployment models, and honest trade-offs.
19 June 2026
IoT & Edge Platforms
Tasmota is open-source firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32-based devices — smart plugs, switches, dimmers, sensors — that gives you local HTTP and MQTT control with no cloud account, no subscription, and no vendor lock-in. Here's how to get started in 2026.
19 June 2026
Protocols & Connectivity
Billions of Zigbee devices are deployed globally, and Matter 1.4 is now the industry standard. This guide covers when bridging makes sense, when replacement is worth it, and what you actually lose in the migration.
19 June 2026
IoT Architecture
Eclipse Ditto provides a digital twin framework for IoT deployments — a REST and WebSocket API layer that represents physical devices as queryable, stateful objects. Here's what it is, how it fits into an edge architecture, and when to use it.
18 June 2026
Data & Streaming
Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming platform written in C++ that runs on modest edge hardware — making it a compelling alternative to Kafka in industrial IoT and edge deployments where JVM overhead, ZooKeeper, and operational complexity are deal-breakers.
18 June 2026
Edge Computing
Durable Objects solve the hardest problem in edge computing: state. Here's how they work, what they're good for, and how they fit into a Cloudflare Workers architecture.
17 June 2026
Edge Infrastructure
Dapr's portable building blocks for service invocation, pub/sub, and state management make it a compelling runtime for edge microservices. Here's how to use Dapr in constrained environments.
17 June 2026
Edge AI
Moving AI analytics from cloud to edge devices is the defining industrial IoT shift of 2026. Here's how to pick models, optimise for edge hardware, and run production inference reliably in constrained environments.
16 June 2026
Edge Security
IoT OEMs are shipping hardware with ML inference built directly into the silicon — not as an add-on, but as a core function. Here's what that shift means for edge system architects and what's changed in the hardware landscape for 2026.
15 June 2026
Edge Security
Hailo's NPU chips deliver datacenter-class vision inference at edge power envelopes — 26 TOPS at 2.5W for Hailo-8, 40 TOPS at 3.5W for Hailo-15. This guide covers what they are, what they run, and where they're being deployed.
15 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Wi-Fi HaLow operates in the 900 MHz band, giving it range comparable to LoRaWAN and wall-penetration that 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi can't match — while supporting IP directly and up to 347 Mbps throughput. Here's how it works and where it fits.
15 June 2026
IoT Fleet Management
Mender is an open-source over-the-air update system designed specifically for embedded Linux devices — with atomic updates, automatic rollback, and a deployment management server that scales from a handful of devices to millions.
13 June 2026
IoT Messaging
NATS is a high-performance messaging system built for cloud-native and edge environments. With its JetStream persistence layer, NATS handles IoT telemetry, command delivery, and device coordination with far less complexity than Kafka or MQTT brokers.
13 June 2026
Platform Reviews
Balena solves one of the hardest problems in edge computing — getting code reliably deployed and updated across hundreds or thousands of devices in the field — with a developer-first approach that doesn't require you to build your own OTA infrastructure.
12 June 2026
Hardware Tutorials
The ESP32 powers millions of connected devices from smart home sensors to industrial monitors. This guide covers the current chip variants, development ecosystems, connectivity options, and practical patterns for production IoT deployments.
12 June 2026
Edge Infrastructure
Cloud inference for AI is expensive, slow, and creates privacy risk. Here's how edge operators are running language models locally using Ollama, llama.cpp, and purpose-built edge AI hardware — and when it makes sense to do it.
12 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Azure IoT Operations is Microsoft's new Kubernetes-based industrial edge stack — combining an MQTT broker, OPC UA connector, and Fabric dataflows into a unified platform for Industry 4.0. Here's what it is and when to use it.
11 June 2026
Edge Infrastructure
K3s packages Kubernetes into a single 70MB binary that runs on devices with 512MB of RAM. Here's how edge operators are using it to manage distributed fleets, what makes it different from full K8s, and how to get started with a multi-node edge cluster.
11 June 2026
Edge AI
A new generation of IoT chips with built-in neural processing units is bringing real-time AI inference to devices that cost under £5. Here's what's driving the shift and what it means for edge deployments.
11 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Ethernet APL brings standard Ethernet connectivity to field instruments in hazardous environments — refineries, chemical plants, water treatment facilities — using just two wires. Here's where adoption stands in 2026 and why it matters for industrial edge computing.
10 June 2026
Industrial IoT
EdgeX Foundry is a Linux Foundation project providing a vendor-neutral, open-source framework for industrial IoT edge computing — handling device connectivity, data collection, local processing, and cloud export across heterogeneous hardware and protocols.
9 June 2026
Edge Infrastructure
Fly.io runs Docker containers at the edge in 30+ global regions, with sub-second cold starts, persistent volumes, and Anycast networking. It's a practical middle ground between Cloudflare Workers' serverless model and managing your own Kubernetes clusters for latency-sensitive applications.
9 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Raw MQTT is flexible but unstructured — every team defines their own topic hierarchy and payload format. Sparkplug B adds a standardised topic namespace, protobuf payload encoding, and stateful session management on top of MQTT, making it the dominant open standard for IIoT and SCADA data integration. Here's how it works and when to use it.
7 June 2026
Edge Computing
Node-RED is a browser-based flow editor for wiring together devices, APIs, and services using visual node pipelines. It runs on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a Docker container, has native MQTT support, and is widely deployed for industrial IoT edge automation. Here's how to use it effectively and when to reach for something else.
7 June 2026
Edge AI
AIoT is moving beyond on-device inference to agentic systems — IoT devices that don't just process sensor data locally but reason, plan, and take action without waiting for cloud instruction. Here's what that shift means technically and operationally.
6 June 2026
Edge AI
Smaller, efficient language models are now deployable on edge hardware ranging from NVIDIA Jetson to Apple Silicon servers — without cloud API round-trips. This guide covers the tools, model selection, and deployment patterns for on-device LLM inference in edge and IoT environments.
6 June 2026
Edge Computing
SQLite is the most deployed database in the world, and it runs on hardware you'd never expect. This guide covers when SQLite makes sense on edge and IoT devices, how to configure it for constrained environments, and the patterns that work well for local data storage at the edge.
6 June 2026
IoT Protocols
Thread is the low-power mesh networking protocol that Matter runs on — but most developers and deployers know little about it. Understanding Thread explains why Matter devices behave differently to Zigbee and Z-Wave, why Border Routers matter, and how to design IoT networks that are genuinely resilient. This guide covers Thread's architecture, its role in the Matter ecosystem, and practical deployment considerations.
6 June 2026
IoT Architecture
Kafka has become the default message bus for large-scale IoT deployments. Here's how the MQTT-to-Kafka bridge pattern works, how to partition for device data, and when Kafka is actually the right choice.
5 June 2026
WebAssembly
WASI 0.3 brings native async/await to the WebAssembly Component Model, making networked IoT workloads and edge microservices far cleaner to write. This guide explains what changed, how the new future<T> and stream<T> types work, and what it means for your edge deployments.
5 June 2026
Edge AI
The Jetson Orin family brings serious on-device AI inference to industrial and robotics applications — up to 275 TOPS of AI performance in a power budget compatible with embedded deployment. Here's what it is, where it fits, and what you need to know to work with it.
4 June 2026
Edge Development
Embassy is a Rust framework for writing async, non-blocking firmware for microcontrollers — enabling the same async/await patterns used in server code on bare-metal hardware without an operating system. Here's how it works and why it's becoming the preferred approach for Rust-based edge devices.
4 June 2026
Edge Computing
MicroShift is Red Hat's minimal OpenShift distribution for edge and IoT deployments. It runs Kubernetes-compatible workloads on devices with as little as 2 cores and 2GB RAM — bridging the gap between full Kubernetes and no orchestration at all.
3 June 2026
Edge Security
WireGuard's minimal kernel implementation and fast key exchange make it an excellent choice for connecting edge devices and IoT gateways into secure mesh networks — without the configuration complexity of IPsec or OpenVPN.
3 June 2026
Security & Compliance
The EU Cyber Resilience Act introduces mandatory cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software products sold in Europe. For IoT and edge device manufacturers, the compliance requirements are substantial — here's what's required and when.
2 June 2026
Edge AI Hardware
Qualcomm's Q-8750 ships with 77 TOPS of edge AI compute and support for 11B parameter LLMs on-device. Here's what this means for industrial vision, smart cameras, and the next generation of edge deployments.
1 June 2026
Edge AI
Qualcomm's Dragonwing Q-8750 and IE-IoT expansion brings 77 TOPS of on-device AI to industrial and enterprise edge deployments. What's changed and where it fits alongside competing edge AI platforms.
1 June 2026
WebAssembly
WASI 0.3 landed in February 2026 with native async support and the Component Model. Here's what's changed, why it matters for edge and server-side Wasm, and how to start using it.
1 June 2026
Industrial IoT
Predictive maintenance using edge AI is moving from pilot projects to production floors in 2026 — here's how the architecture works, what sensors to start with, and what a realistic first deployment looks like.
31 May 2026
IoT & Edge
Balena combines a custom Linux OS, container-based application deployment, and a cloud management layer to solve the unglamorous problem of running and updating software across large fleets of IoT devices. Here's how it works and when it's the right tool.
30 May 2026
Edge Computing
Zephyr has moved from Linux Foundation curiosity to a serious FreeRTOS alternative. Here's what it offers, where it outperforms FreeRTOS, and the cases where FreeRTOS is still the right call.
30 May 2026
Edge Observability
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) enables deep network and system observability by running sandboxed programs directly in the Linux kernel. For edge and IoT deployments, eBPF provides packet-level insight and security monitoring without the CPU overhead of traditional agents.
29 May 2026
Industrial IoT
IEEE 802.1 TSN brings deterministic, sub-millisecond latency to standard Ethernet -- enabling industrial control systems, robotics, and factory automation to converge on a single network without sacrificing timing guarantees.
29 May 2026
Security
Confidential computing uses hardware-level trusted execution environments to protect data even from the infrastructure operator. At the edge, where physical security is weaker than in data centres, this matters a lot more than most teams realise.
28 May 2026
Observability
Cloud-native observability tools weren't built for edge and IoT environments -- intermittent connectivity, resource constraints, and thousands of nodes change everything. Here's how OpenTelemetry is adapting to make edge deployments actually observable.
28 May 2026
Edge Architecture
Moving compute to the edge while keeping data centralised creates latency you can't engineer away. Turso and Cloudflare D1 bring the database to the edge -- here's what that means in practice.
27 May 2026
IoT Operations
Managing firmware updates across thousands of IoT devices is one of the hardest operational challenges in production deployments. Here's how to do it reliably without bricking your fleet.
27 May 2026
Edge AI
Cloud inference is too slow for AI agents that need to act in real time. The March 2026 AT&T/Cisco/NVIDIA network-driven edge AI announcement shows where the infrastructure is heading -- and what it means for teams building latency-sensitive agentic applications.
26 May 2026
Industry Applications
Modern farms generate enormous amounts of sensor data -- soil moisture, weather, crop imagery, equipment telemetry. Edge computing processes that data where it's created, enabling decisions in seconds rather than hours. Here's how it works in practice.
26 May 2026
Edge Platforms
Serverless edge functions let you run code at CDN PoPs worldwide with sub-millisecond cold starts. Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Compute are the two most mature platforms -- here's how they compare in performance, pricing, and developer experience.
25 May 2026
IoT Standards
Matter promised to end the smart home fragmentation nightmare. Three years in, with over 1,100 certified devices and Matter 1.5 released, here's an honest look at where the standard actually stands.
25 May 2026
IoT Protocols
A technical and commercial comparison of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT for long-range, low-power IoT deployments -- coverage, power consumption, data rates, cost models, and use case guidance.
23 May 2026
Industrial Edge
Private 5G networks combined with on-site edge computing are becoming the default infrastructure choice for smart factories, ports, and logistics hubs. Here's how the stack works, who the vendors are, and what it costs to deploy.
23 May 2026
Industrial IoT
Direct-to-device connectivity is reshaping industrial IoT in 2026. Here's why more factories and field operations are removing the cloud middleman -- and what it means for your architecture.
22 May 2026
Edge AI
RISC-V isn't just a hobbyist architecture any more. With dedicated neural processing units appearing in industrial and embedded edge devices, it's becoming a serious option for edge AI deployments.
22 May 2026
Edge Computing
Five of Europe's biggest telcos just switched on a federated edge cloud covering 55% of the continent's population -- here's why that matters for UK organisations.
21 May 2026
Edge Architecture
Why WebAssembly (WASM) is replacing containers as the preferred edge runtime -- covering portability, WASI system calls, runtimes like Wasmtime and WasmEdge, and real deployment patterns on Cloudflare Workers and bare-metal edge nodes.
18 May 2026
Edge AI
How TinyML enables machine learning inference on microcontrollers like Arduino Nano 33, STM32, and ESP32-S3 -- covering frameworks, use cases, power budgets, and the full training-to-deployment pipeline.
11 May 2026
IoT Platforms
A practical comparison of InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, and Prometheus for IoT telemetry -- covering write throughput, query languages, retention policies, clustering, cost, and use-case fit.
5 May 2026
Hardware Tutorials
The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable hardware for many industrial IoT applications. Here's how to harden it, deploy it reliably, and know when to use something else.
28 April 2026
Architecture Guides
Everything IoT developers need to know about MQTT -- publish/subscribe model, QoS levels, choosing a broker, and what MQTT 5 adds over 3.1.1.
21 April 2026
Architecture Guides
Running full Kubernetes at the edge is usually wrong. Here's when K3s makes sense, how to deploy it on constrained hardware, and when to skip orchestration entirely.
14 April 2026
Edge Security
How to secure an IoT fleet in production -- device identity, network segmentation, firmware signing, and incident response for constrained edge devices.
8 April 2026
Platform Reviews
We deployed the same edge workload on all three platforms. Here's what the deployment experience, pricing, and operational overhead actually look like.
1 April 2026
Architecture Guides
A complete IoT data pipeline architecture guide covering MQTT ingestion, Kafka stream processing, InfluxDB and TimescaleDB storage, and cloud integration patterns.
25 March 2026
Architecture Guides
A technical comparison of industrial IoT protocols -- OPC-UA, Modbus, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and MQTT -- covering speed, security, and brownfield vs greenfield fit.
18 March 2026
Architecture Guides
Fog computing and edge computing are often conflated but serve different roles in distributed architectures -- here's where each layer sits and when to use it.
12 March 2026
Use Cases
How retailers are using edge computing for checkout-free stores, real-time inventory tracking, in-store analytics, and loss prevention -- with real ROI examples.
5 March 2026
Industry Use Cases
How edge computing is transforming manufacturing with real-time vision-based quality control, vibration analysis, and OEE monitoring -- plus architecture patterns, ROI data, and implementation steps.
26 February 2026
Use Cases
How healthcare organisations use edge computing for patient monitoring, compliant local processing, medical imaging analysis, and surgical robotics latency requirements.
19 February 2026
Industry Use Cases
How edge computing enables real-time smart grid management -- covering substation architecture, sub-10ms latency requirements, IEC 61850, distributed energy resource management, and deployments from GE, ABB, and Schneider Electric.
13 February 2026
Architecture Guides
What edge computing actually is, how to design a production-grade edge architecture, and the decision framework for choosing edge vs. cloud -- with real-world deployment examples.
6 February 2026
Architecture Guides
A practical guide to edge AI inference covering model optimisation techniques, hardware options, TFLite vs ONNX, and latency benchmarks for Jetson and Coral TPU.
30 January 2026
Architecture Guides
Why full Kubernetes fails at the edge, how K3s and KubeEdge compare, and how to handle container registries and OTA updates in low-bandwidth environments.
23 January 2026
Architecture Guides
A feature-by-feature comparison of AWS IoT Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge covering runtimes, ML inference, pricing, and which to choose for your cloud stack.
17 January 2026
Architecture Guides
How 5G enables multi-access edge computing, private 5G networks, and telco edge deployments -- and what ultra-low latency actually means for real applications in 2026.
10 January 2026