AWS Advances IoT With New Services

IoT will be the next big thing in the world of technology. There is so much buzz around this technology. According to the statistics, Internet of Things is going to be the largest device market in the world. Owing to its popularity and importance, various sectors of business are recognizing its power and benefits arising from it.

Expectedly, IoT innovations will be embraced by the diverse sections of economy.  In this direction, Amazon web services have announced a new OS and IoT services to foster the deployment of Internet of Things. These services will ease down the work process involved in the configuration of IoT devices. What is really important in IoT technology is its data analysis gathered by IoT devices in real time. All of these services by AWS do analysis on the data collected by IoT devices

AWS’s new operating system named Amazon FreeRTOS is designed for low power devices such as smoke detectors, light bulbs. The problem with these devices is that they cannot have their own CPUs due to their small size. It will simplify to build in cloud support for manufactures.

As stated by Tara Walker,  technical evangelist for AWS, Amazon  FreeRTOS  holds a purpose of removing complexities in the development process and  deployment process. Also, it extends its support for the maintenance of microcontroller-based edge devices and their security.

AWS has introduced services such as 1-Click, Device Management, Device Defender, Analytics, and Greengrass ML Inference under AWS IoT platform. These services provide help in deploying IoT devices speedily with safe environment. The role  AWS IoT platform is to gather data and analyze from IoT devices, sensors. Further, it connects that data to AWS cloud applications. The analytics capabilities of these new services will make use of the massive amount of data collected by internet-connected devices.

AWS IOT 1-click is a service that allows customers to enable device with the AWS Lambda function. For it, they have to download a mobile app and do registration. And then they need to choose an AWS IoT 1-Click enabled device and associate this device with an AWS Lambda function.  For instance, sending SMS or email messages. This is intended to do normal tasks like reordering goods, tracking goods location etc.

Another service which AWS Greengrass offers a new feature of AWS Greengrass ML Inference. AWS greengrass service has machine learning abilities which provide tools to IoT devices to make use of  machine learning models that let these devices to make decisions more quickly. Still without access to the cloud, it offers these features. Customers can deploy machine learning models on IoT devices easily.

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Analytics from AWS IoT, is a preview version that cleans, processes, store and analyzes data from IoT devices at scale. AWS IoT Device Management is developed for helping firms to make onboarding easier, remotely manage, monitor devices, update software, troubleshooting and patching defective systems.

According to Amazon web services, Device Defender is expected to be available in 2018. It provides steady examination and monitors for security issues, such as traffic making way to an unknown IP address.

AWS Company has took this step for making IoT deployment  process simpler. As estimated ,IoT market will grow upto $457B by 2020 globally. The Internet of Things is reshaping almost every corner of life including homes, offices, city streets, businesses, economy and beyond.