Month: September 2020

Virtualised 5G security solution helps operators protect subscribers’ handsets and IoT devices

Avast, a global provider of digital security and privacy products, has launched Avast Smart Life for 5G, its smart home security solution for 5G, delivered as a virtualised network function (VNF).

Avast Smart Life for 5G enables operators to protect their subscribers’ smart home and all connected devices at the virtual router level, based on Avast’s artificial intelligence (AI) driven threat detection technology. The solution scans traffic and immediately blocks security risks on all of a customer’s devices, both inside the home and on-the-go.

The company offers products that protect people from threats on the internet and the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) threat landscape. The company’s threat detection network uses machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to detect and stop threats in real time. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, and SE Labs among others.

Avast Smart Life for 5G builds on the company’s decades of experience in protecting consumers and businesses. Carriers can integrate Avast’s consumer security solution as a VNF, protecting their subscribers’ devices seamlessly at the virtual router level. Avast Smart Life for 5G uses Avast’s AI-based threat intelligence technology to identify connected devices, malicious URLs and unusual network traffic. It can then alert the subscriber to, and block, unusual or unwanted activity at a network level. Parental controls also offer families the ability to filter the content and apps their children can access, including social media and videos.

“With family security, privacy, and online safety presenting significant concerns for consumers, delivering advanced security in the network is an opportunity for carriers,” says Nick Viney, SVP and general manager for Partner, Business Unit at Avast. “The ability to offer a converged protection across all customer devices from malware, network attacks, and fine-grained parental controls over access and content, will be a valuable differentiating service.”

Avast’s team has extensive experience in integrating consumer security solutions with carrier systems; partners such as WINDTRE already offer Avast security solutions to their subscribers.

Smart Life for 5G capabilities:

  • Home network protection: allowing users to discover which devices and people are connected to their home network. Smart Life will provide alerts if unusual behavior is detected on any device, and block attackers trying to access any device.
  • On-the-go security: extending Avast antivirus protection seamlessly to mobile devices, whether PC, Mac, Android, or iOS based, to secure them outside the home.
  • Parental controls: enabling families to filter the content and apps that their children can access, including social media and videos. Offering the ability to pause internet access, or individual services such as online gaming or video streaming at any time. Geo-location services can help keep track of children with the option to set alerts for when they leave or arrive at certain places.

Network operators can request a demo of Avast Smart Life for 5G, via Avast’s Partner team, here:

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Telent gets green light for traffic control extension with Transport for London

Telent, a UK technology and network services company, has received a year’s extension for its Traffic Control Maintenance contract with Transport for London (TfL).

Under the agreement, which Telent has held since 2014, the company will continue to supply, install and maintain more than 3,000 traffic control assets for TfL, including traffic signals, Variable Message Signs (VMS) and Over-height Vehicle Detection (OVD) systems. The Telent team will continue to work with TfL to develop the asset investment programme and identify ways to work collaboratively to deliver the best value for London. The renewed contract began in July 2020 and will run until 2021 initially, with the option for a further year’s extension.

“This contract extension enables us to build on the excellent results achieved with TfL during the initial term of the contract and we are proud to continue to support London with our committed and expert team,” says Adam Scriven, Telent, account director London Surface Communications, responsible for the contract. “We are looking forward to continuing to work closely with TfL, building on our already excellent relationship and supporting the changes in programme to accommodate social distancing following the Coronavirus pandemic.”

Over the length of the contract, one of the solutions Telent has deployed for TfL is its Plug and Play traffic signal system, which drastically reduces time spent on essential traffic signal installation works, minimising disruption to local residents and road users.

“Telent has an excellent track record of successfully delivering challenging, large-scale projects and we’re delighted that TfL has exercised the option to extend the contract with us,” comments Nigel Weldon, business development director for Telent’s Highways Business. “The recent Coronavirus pandemic has presented some extreme challenges for TfL and working together closely to thoroughly understand those challenges has enabled us to tailor the service that Telent provides to meet TfL’s needs exactly.”

This extension sits alongside Telent’s Transport business’s other maintenance contracts with TfL, the latest of which was awarded in January 2020. That contract will last for seven years and combines maintenance services, system design and upgrade works to TfL’s communications systems across a vast array of environments and sites, including all London Underground stations, depots and operational buildings, TfL office buildings, bus stations, river piers, cycle hire stations and the London Transport museum.

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Artificial intelligence plays a major role in the IoT

Businesses across the globe are leveraging the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in various industries to create new and optimised business opportunities.

To take the complete advantage of the IoT, says Harnil Oza, CEO of Hyperlink InfoSystem, it has been coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that help businesses arrive at sensible decisions without any human intervention.

The substantial growth of IoT has been observed many times now. However, the impact of AI on the personal and professional level is understated. Of course, the result is gigantic and will often flourish by combining it with the incredible concept of IoT.

Understanding the role of AI in the IoT revolution

AI is assumed to perform plenty of smart tasks like language translation, voice recognition, decision making, etc. without human intervention. On the other hand, IoT includes a chain of interconnected gadgets that transfer information over a network.

IoT gadgets have entered our lives and seek to bring an advanced level of comfort. These gadgets rely on web connectivity and produce incredible amounts of information relevant to user behaviours, preferences, personal details, etc. Thus, they cannot get overlooked. But, a lot of businesses are totally clueless about saving and processing such vast amounts of data. This is obstructing the growth and potential of IoT.

In this case, AI can hugely help to accumulate the bulk of data that is processed by the IoT gadgets. It can evaluate the data and make sense of it. Thus, AI is forecasted to be the chief driver to initiate the unusual growth of the IoT revolution.

This massive shift and ongoing disruption engendered by AI and IoT is absolutely redefining the technological landscape. It is anticipated to be significant in the emerging times. There is a burgeoning need for these technologies, with a rising number of organisations and industries always adopting and applying it in various situations.

Empowering evolving benefits for businesses

The developing frameworks of AI were only capable of managing a slim categories of tasks. They were not scalable and often required human intrusion. But, constant studies and advancements in technology have led to the transformation of AI in the IoT concept, which has given rise to smart machines.

Harnil Oza

Utilising the power and capability of AI, smart machines will ease the tasks by executing them in minutes, which could otherwise take weeks or months to finish. These machines will totally evolve the way most businesses do business, bringing a high comfort and ease.

The combination of the two evolving techs is anticipated to dramatically change the competitive landscape by needing all businesses to improve their product portfolios to emerging realities. This will bring new concepts across all the sectors.

Four fundamental changes that will get activated by the competitive situation are:

Greater revenues: The joint effect of AI and IoT will be advantageous for many sectors in terms of huge revenues and returns. IoT gadget manufacturers, IoT data providers, alongside businesses providing application services based on smart sensors, are anticipated to be at the winning edge.

Increased safety standards: With up-to-date monitoring, a strict check and failure prevention is possible. This will increase the overall safety and security standards, thus boost productivity. This will also help reduce the loss of lives and damage to assets.

Reduced expenses: Evaluating the devices by smart detectors, smart electricity meters, and sensors fitted domestic appliances, etc. will come to less operational expenditure for households and businesses both.

Better customer experience: Smart sensors come with plenty of opportunities for enhancing the customer experience. These detectors can know the user preferences and adjust their values accordingly. For instance, thermostats in smart homes can adapt to the suitable temperature settings of various users staying in that same home.

Impact on different industries

1. Manufacturing

All sorts of manufacturing sectors like automobiles, aircraft, household appliances, f&b, mining, and others sync smart sensors into their machinery to perform future analyses and increase productivity. They are seeking to develop an autonomous industrial unit, which will be the next rage. These sensors will help industries detect the areas with threats, and thus, lessening machinery falls.

2. Smart Homes

IoT has led to the rise of the smart home concepts where all the gadgets are linked to one another via a shared network. By integrating this with AI, all these devices can interpret their owner’s instructions and make smart decisions accordingly.

An intelligence home tech aims to make our lives better and comfy by presenting a chance to regulate the devices remotely, irrespective of the location. For instance, you can pre-plan the time when your coffee shall be brewed; your tv shows shall be turned on, etc.

3. Body sensors 

Smart detectors are highly instrumental in sensing different activities to balance proper health. A plethora of pharmaceutical companies are funding in medical sensors that can help the patients in tracking their tasks to better their health. For instance, these sensors can help evaluate blood sugar levels and release insulin at times of an emergency.

These sensors are getting used by construction companies to see the load capacity and their workers’ posture to avoid any sort of injuries and increase efficiency.

4. Airlines

Sensors are placed in aircraft that flawlessly monitors the importance of many risks and errors. These sensors forecast future errors and their degree of severity to lessen aircraft downtime and increase passenger safety. Airline companies can even use these sensors to spot the maintenance issues that can cause flight delays and cancellations.

5. Oil Rigs

Oil industries have to invest lots of funds in procuring oil drilling machinery. These machineries can cause a massive loss to the businesses. Oil companies can leverage smart sensors by attaching it to the oil machinery to make preventative maintenance analysis, and cut operational costs.

Wrapping Up

The joint effect of AI and IoT will undoubtedly reshape our personal and professional lives in ways that can’t be imagined by most businesses today. It will not only replace tiresome and boring human jobs but will vastly revamp the competitive scenario by giving a benefit to early AI adopters in terms of unique business opportunities.

The author is Harnil Oza, CEO at Hyperlink InfoSystem,

About the Author:

Harnil Oza is CEO at Hyperlink InfoSystem, an app development company
with offices in New York and India, which delivers mobile solutions mainly on Android and iOS platforms. He is a regularly contributor to IoT websites.

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Artificial intelligence plays a major role in the IoT

Businesses across the globe are leveraging the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in various industries to create new and optimised business opportunities.

To take the complete advantage of the IoT, says Harnil Oza, CEO of Hyperlink InfoSystem, it has been coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that help businesses arrive at sensible decisions without any human intervention.

The substantial growth of IoT has been observed many times now. However, the impact of AI on the personal and professional level is understated. Of course, the result is gigantic and will often flourish by combining it with the incredible concept of IoT.

Understanding the role of AI in the IoT revolution

AI is assumed to perform plenty of smart tasks like language translation, voice recognition, decision making, etc. without human intervention. On the other hand, IoT includes a chain of interconnected gadgets that transfer information over a network.

IoT gadgets have entered our lives and seek to bring an advanced level of comfort. These gadgets rely on web connectivity and produce incredible amounts of information relevant to user behaviours, preferences, personal details, etc. Thus, they cannot get overlooked. But, a lot of businesses are totally clueless about saving and processing such vast amounts of data. This is obstructing the growth and potential of IoT.

In this case, AI can hugely help to accumulate the bulk of data that is processed by the IoT gadgets. It can evaluate the data and make sense of it. Thus, AI is forecasted to be the chief driver to initiate the unusual growth of the IoT revolution.

This massive shift and ongoing disruption engendered by AI and IoT is absolutely redefining the technological landscape. It is anticipated to be significant in the emerging times. There is a burgeoning need for these technologies, with a rising number of organisations and industries always adopting and applying it in various situations.

Empowering evolving benefits for businesses

The developing frameworks of AI were only capable of managing a slim categories of tasks. They were not scalable and often required human intrusion. But, constant studies and advancements in technology have led to the transformation of AI in the IoT concept, which has given rise to smart machines.

Harnil Oza

Utilising the power and capability of AI, smart machines will ease the tasks by executing them in minutes, which could otherwise take weeks or months to finish. These machines will totally evolve the way most businesses do business, bringing a high comfort and ease.

The combination of the two evolving techs is anticipated to dramatically change the competitive landscape by needing all businesses to improve their product portfolios to emerging realities. This will bring new concepts across all the sectors.

Four fundamental changes that will get activated by the competitive situation are:

Greater revenues: The joint effect of AI and IoT will be advantageous for many sectors in terms of huge revenues and returns. IoT gadget manufacturers, IoT data providers, alongside businesses providing application services based on smart sensors, are anticipated to be at the winning edge.

Increased safety standards: With up-to-date monitoring, a strict check and failure prevention is possible. This will increase the overall safety and security standards, thus boost productivity. This will also help reduce the loss of lives and damage to assets.

Reduced expenses: Evaluating the devices by smart detectors, smart electricity meters, and sensors fitted domestic appliances, etc. will come to less operational expenditure for households and businesses both.

Better customer experience: Smart sensors come with plenty of opportunities for enhancing the customer experience. These detectors can know the user preferences and adjust their values accordingly. For instance, thermostats in smart homes can adapt to the suitable temperature settings of various users staying in that same home.

Impact on different industries

1. Manufacturing

All sorts of manufacturing sectors like automobiles, aircraft, household appliances, f&b, mining, and others sync smart sensors into their machinery to perform future analyses and increase productivity. They are seeking to develop an autonomous industrial unit, which will be the next rage. These sensors will help industries detect the areas with threats, and thus, lessening machinery falls.

2. Smart Homes

IoT has led to the rise of the smart home concepts where all the gadgets are linked to one another via a shared network. By integrating this with AI, all these devices can interpret their owner’s instructions and make smart decisions accordingly.

An intelligence home tech aims to make our lives better and comfy by presenting a chance to regulate the devices remotely, irrespective of the location. For instance, you can pre-plan the time when your coffee shall be brewed; your tv shows shall be turned on, etc.

3. Body sensors 

Smart detectors are highly instrumental in sensing different activities to balance proper health. A plethora of pharmaceutical companies are funding in medical sensors that can help the patients in tracking their tasks to better their health. For instance, these sensors can help evaluate blood sugar levels and release insulin at times of an emergency.

These sensors are getting used by construction companies to see the load capacity and their workers’ posture to avoid any sort of injuries and increase efficiency.

4. Airlines

Sensors are placed in aircraft that flawlessly monitors the importance of many risks and errors. These sensors forecast future errors and their degree of severity to lessen aircraft downtime and increase passenger safety. Airline companies can even use these sensors to spot the maintenance issues that can cause flight delays and cancellations.

5. Oil Rigs

Oil industries have to invest lots of funds in procuring oil drilling machinery. These machineries can cause a massive loss to the businesses. Oil companies can leverage smart sensors by attaching it to the oil machinery to make preventative maintenance analysis, and cut operational costs.

Wrapping Up

The joint effect of AI and IoT will undoubtedly reshape our personal and professional lives in ways that can’t be imagined by most businesses today. It will not only replace tiresome and boring human jobs but will vastly revamp the competitive scenario by giving a benefit to early AI adopters in terms of unique business opportunities.

The author is Harnil Oza, CEO at Hyperlink InfoSystem,

About the Author:

Harnil Oza is CEO at Hyperlink InfoSystem, an app development company
with offices in New York and India, which delivers mobile solutions mainly on Android and iOS platforms. He is a regularly contributor to IoT websites.

Comment on this article below or via Twitter @IoTGN

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Artificial intelligence plays a major role in the IoT

Businesses across the globe are leveraging the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in various industries to create new and optimised business opportunities. To take the complete advantage of the IoT, says Harnil Oza, CEO of Hyperlink InfoSystem, it has been coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that help businesses arrive at sensible decisions without any

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New Quectel whitepaper goes inside IoT’s earliest 5G use cases

Quectel Wireless Solutions has published a new whitepaper that sets out how six vertical markets are already demonstrating 5G’s value in IoT. The paper details the deployment status of 5G and its key attributes before detailing six verticals that are already benefiting from either the speed, low latency or high connection density of 5G. Some

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New Arm technologies enable safety-capable computing solutions for an autonomous future

Arm unveiled new computing solutions to accelerate autonomous decision-making with safety capability across automotive and industrial applications. The new suite of IP includes the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Arm Mali-G78AE GPU, and Arm Mali-C71AE ISP, engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design for autonomous workloads.

These products will be deployed in a range of applications, from enabling more intelligence and configurability in smart manufacturing to enhancing ADAS and digital cockpit applications in automotive. “Autonomy has the potential to improve every aspect of our lives, but only if built on a safe and secure computing foundation,” said Chet Babla, vice president, Automotive and IoT Line of Business at Arm. “As autonomous decision-making becomes more pervasive, Arm has designed a unique suite of technology that prioritises safety while delivering highly scalable, power efficient compute to enable autonomous decision-making across new automotive and industrial opportunities.”

Cortex-A78AE: High performance in safety critical applications

The new Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU is Arm’s latest, highest performance safety capable CPU, offering the ability to run different, complex workloads for autonomous applications such as mobile robotics and driverless transportation. It delivers:

  • A 30% performance uplift compared to its predecessor.
  • Supports features to achieve the relevant automotive and industrial functional safety standards, ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 for applications up to ASIL D / SIL 3.
  • New enhanced Split Lock functionality (Hybrid Mode) to offer maximum flexibility. Hybrid Mode is designed to specifically enable applications that target lower levels of ASIL requirements without compromising performance and allow the deployment of the same SoC compute architecture into different domain controllers.

Mali-G78AE: Redefining safety for embedded GPUs, with flexible partitioning

Mali is the number one shipping GPU worldwide, and the new Mali-G78AE is Arm’s first GPU to be designed for safety, delivering rich user experiences and heterogenous compute to safety-critical autonomous applications. The new Mali-G78AE enables:

  • A new approach to autonomous GPU workloads with Flexible Partitioning, with up to four fully independent partitions for workload separation for safety use cases.
  • GPU resources can now be utilised for safety-enabled human machine interfaces or for the heterogenous compute needed in autonomous systems. For example, an infotainment system, an instrument cluster with ASIL B requirements and a driver monitoring system can now all run concurrently and independently with hardware separation within an automotive application.

Mali-C71AE: An evolution in ISP safety

Autonomous workloads need to be aware of their surroundings, often through cameras that must operate in a wide range of lighting conditions. To support a broad range of vision applications across automotive and industrial, the Mali-C71AE offers:

  • The flexibility needed to support both human and machine vision applications such as production line monitoring and ADAS camera systems.
  • Enhanced safety features, supports features to achieve ASIL B / SIL2 safety capability.
  • Support for four real time cameras, or 16 buffered cameras, delivering a 1.2 giga pixel per second throughput.

Enabling the autonomous software ecosystem

As autonomous systems move towards more software-defined functionality, Arm is working to accelerate the development of software that will fully realise the benefits of these new technologies through initiatives such as Project Cassini, aimed at laying the foundation for the adoption of cloud native software paradigms across the entirety of edge computing.

Arm is also working with multiple open source communities and specialist software vendors to widely enable the autonomous software ecosystem, adopting innovations from the established cloud native ecosystem, and collaboratively driving new development to support the features required for autonomous workloads.

Find out more about this at Arm DevSummit.

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New Arm technologies enable safety-capable computing solutions for an autonomous future

Arm unveiled new computing solutions to accelerate autonomous decision-making with safety capability across automotive and industrial applications. The new suite of IP includes the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Arm Mali-G78AE GPU, and Arm Mali-C71AE ISP, engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design

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