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danie10@squeet.me

FiberSense: Fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning, or measure earthquakes or even leaky pipes

"Vibration and sound all modulate strain in fiber," Englund explained, adding that even deeply buried fibers react to vibrations and sound. FiberSense has figured out how to measure changes in a fiber and deduce what made them.

The company can therefore detect things like passing traffic with sufficient accuracy to determine the difference between a truck and a cyclist, speed of travel, and even what lane a vehicle used. Leaky pipes can also be sensed, as can the geotechnical profile of spoil beneath fibers. Backhoes and jackhammers are easy.

At sea, FiberSense can detect an anchor dragging behind a ship – which matters when those anchors are about to pass over a submarine cable (as recently happened off the Australian city of Perth, resulting in a cable cut, a subsequent outage, and the arrest of the errant ship's skipper).

This is not just a vision thing: FiberSense is already present in several Australian cities, plus London, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Singapore.

See Fiber optic cables used as vibration sensors challenge IoT

#technology #fibre #fibersense #IoT #cabletheft

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Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done


https://gadgeteer.co.za/fibersense-fiber-optic-cable-can-sense-its-about-be-dug-and-send-warning-or-measure-earthquakes-or

opensciencedaily@diasp.org

SpaceX Takes on the Industrial Internet of Things


b'When Elon Musk decided he wanted to send the first rocket to Mars, he went rocket shopping. That’s when he found out the price of a rocket was astronomical, yet materials only accounted for 2-3% of the cost. So, he decided to build his own rocket and SpaceX was born. The end result is a […]'
https://www.nanalyze.com/2021/08/spacex-internet-of-things/
#iot, #satellites, #industrial, #space


danie10@squeet.me

A new open source operating system for embedded systems: RT-Thread Smart is working to open source the world of IoT and edge computing

There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent three years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart. It is a microkernel operating system aimed primarily at midrange to high-end processors such as RISC-V with a memory management unit (MMU) and provides a competitive software platform for all industries in the embedded space.

RT-Thread Smart is a professional, high-performance, microkernel operating system for real-time applications. It offers an open source foundation for embedded devices in any market, including security (e.g., internet protocol cameras), industrial control, onboard devices, consumer electronics, and anything else using embedded technology (which is increasingly coming to mean "everything"). It's significant because, unlike traditional IoT operating systems, a microkernel operating system can fill the gap between a traditional real-time operating system (RTOS) and a comparatively large operating system like Linux to achieve the best balance between real-time performance, cost, security, startup speed, and more.

See A new open source operating system for embedded systems

#technology #opensource #IoT #embeddedsystems

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There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent three years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart.


https://gadgeteer.co.za/new-open-source-operating-system-embedded-systems-rt-thread-smart-working-open-source-world-iot-and

garryknight@diasp.org

This nasty security vulnerability could turn millions of smart devices into spying tools | TechRadar

A security vulnerability has been identified in software deployed across millions of internet-connected devices with audio and video functionality.
According to researchers at Nozomi Networks, the flaw could allow attackers to effectively turn smart devices - such as baby monitors, home security cameras or smart doorbells - into spying tools.

I imagine that each of these millions of devices would need new firmware. Shouldn't take long to fix...

#technology #tech #security #privacy #hacking #malware #IoT

https://www.techradar.com/news/nasty-security-vulnerability-could-turn-millions-of-smart-devices-into-spying-tools

alien23@friendica.feneas.org

The thing about Mastodon is it rose to making up the single largest constitution of the federation/fediverse in basically no time and out of (seemingly) nowhere. One would think it a minor pop culture phenomenon if they weren't careful.
The thing is, is that much like a CryptoKittie, I'm still yet to know a single person in the physical that actually uses Mastodon.


Salinger 3 - 2021-05-14 00:32:21 GMT

Daily statistics from The #Federation / #Fediverse

Active users
Active users per platform and change from 30 days ago.

#Mastodon: 1094538 (share: 87.2%, value change: 20558)
#diaspora*: 57094 (share: 4.5%, value change: 992)
#PeerTube: 47923 (share: 3.8%, value change: 1998)
#Pixelfed: 19282 (share: 1.5%, value change: 888)
#Prosody: 12075 (share: 1.0%, value change: -88)
#Write Freely: 5763 (share: 0.5%, value change: 374)
#Friendica: 4952 (share: 0.4%, value change: 788)
#lemmy: 2671 (share: 0.2%, value change: 194)
#GNU social: 2326 (share: 0.2%, value change: 18)
#Hubzilla: 2183 (share: 0.2%, value change: -259)
#Funkwhale: 1578 (share: 0.1%, value change: 138)
#bookwyrm: 1052 (share: 0.1%, value change: 625)
#notestock: 948 (share: 0.1%, value change: 14)
#Juick: 924 (share: 0.1%, value change: -45)
#ejabberd: 811 (share: 0.1%, value change: 114)
#activity-relay: 348 (share: 0.0%, value change: 18)
#zap: 174 (share: 0.0%, value change: -118)
#Socialhome: 81 (share: 0.0%, value change: -4)
#corgidon: 65 (share: 0.0%, value change: -55)
#red: 42 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#Prismo: 26 (share: 0.0%, value change: -3)
#smithereen: 14 (share: 0.0%, value change: 13)
#epicyon: 10 (share: 0.0%, value change: -6)
#p3k: 2 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#aoderelay: 2 (share: 0.0%, value change: 1)
#socialtap: 2 (share: 0.0%, value change: -1)
#kroeg: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#solopor: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#martenblog: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#shadowfacts_blog: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#imaginarium: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)
#lubargw2: 1 (share: 0.0%, value change: 0)

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