Launch platform for battleships and startups

What do U.S. guided missile warships and your favorite entrepreneurs have in common? In this article from Raconteur in the London Sunday Times, learn how developers' familiarity with reliable, affordable, and secure open source technology from Red Hat makes it easier to implement Internet of Things solutions. Read the article.

The fascinating world of containers—and why the military should care

Read the second in a series of quarterly blog posts in Military Embedded Systems and learn about the advances in container technology. Read the blog post.

Is Red Hat ready for the Internet of Things?

See what the answer is in this ITWorld interview with Mark Coggin, senior director of Product Marketing, Red Hat. Read the article.


In Austria, the Social Security Chipcard Provider and Operator, or SVC for short, needed a secure, efficient communication platform between patients and their healthcare providers. See the role Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform played in ensuring that the personal data from electronic healthcards and their associated applications and communication were managed securely and reliably.


TechValidate recently conducted a survey of over 500 Red Hat customers about the Internet of Things. See how you and your organization compare.





Stop by and talk to us in the IoT Community area at Intel Developers Forum August 18 - 20, Moscone Center, San Francisco

James Kirkland will be speaking at the IoT Evolution Developer Conference on Thursday, August 20, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He'll be talking about how to build and deploy secure Internet of Things solutions for the embedded enterprise. See you there.

Don't miss us at IoT Solutions World Congress, September 16-18, in Barcelona. This conference is sponsored by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). Red Hat is a new, proud member of the IIC.



 

From Burr Sutter, senior principal product manager, middleware, Red Hat

Every year at Red Hat Summit, there is an all-out effort to outdo previous years' demos. This year, I was part of a team whose objective was to create a running, IoT-focused system, at some scale (hundreds of beacons, millions of events), based on a real-world use case to demo live on stage during the middleware keynote at Red Hat Summit.

Our team chose to demo asset tracking, where important machines, tools, or equipment (think mobile ultrasound machines in hospitals) need to be located on demand and tracked for their usage each day, week, month, and year. But, for our demo, instead of machines, we asked Red Hat Summit attendees to participate as our "assets" by wearing Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons to track their movement throughout the conference.

To learn how we built our sensor network, sent data to the cloud, visualized the data on our dashboard, and enabled real-time analysis and historic capture of event activity, visit my blogpost and catch the demo here. Then, just think about the possibilities. Being able to locate assets, in real time, while being able to record and analyze usage history is crucial for equipment tracking in so many industries. What was cumbersome and limited with the use of RFID can be simplified and data-rich with the use of IoT technology like Red Hat® JBoss® FUSE and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ.

I hope this gets all of you considering ways to take advantage of the IoT for your company. How many IoT solutions can you create with Red Hat technology?


Red Hat's chief architect for the Internet of Things is used to answering questions. If you need some advice on your latest IoT innovation or have something that's keeping you from achieving your own Internet of Things, James Kirkland is ready to help you out at iotquestions@redhat.com.

(And, there's a $20 Starbucks gift card waiting for you if we publish your question in our next issue of this newsletter.)






Epic Data develops software and hardware solutions for data collection and operations management for discrete manufacturing and warehousing control. When searching for an open source platform for their solutions, they chose Red Hat and an Internet of Things architecture to optimize their customers' business systems. Learn more.





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