Smart cities need the operational technology foundation of smart panels and transformers, the middle layer of connected devices with edge control self-management and the top layer of real-time insights that can optimize services. These three levels include an updated power utility system; access to building management systems; and expert analytics.
The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution is presenting smart building managers with a multitude of new cybersecurity challenges stemming from the rapid increase in the number of devices in most organizations’ networks. These devices are mostly unmanaged, come from a multitude of vendors, use non-standard operating systems, support a diversity of, often unencrypted, protocols, and may dynamically connect to other devices inside or outside the organization’s network. They also often lack security features, which means that vulnerabilities are discovered with increasing frequency. Additionally, bad security practices such as default or simple credentials, unencrypted traffic and lack of network segmentation remain common. As the scale and diversity of IoT devices grow, cybersecurity becomes an important focal point for any organization.
What is the internet of things? Steve Babb, IoT Solutions, examples the internet of things (IoT), and how it can be used in your building.
The smart-building industry is starting to consolidate. This increased maturation of the market will be good for many players, with fragmentation having held back the smart-building industry. The value proposition for smart-building technology is larger than that of energy efficiency, with the energy management sector, in particular, serving as a barometer for the smart-building industry as a whole.
Researchers detail the risk posed by insecure IoT devices, demonstrating how hackers could hide evidence of a physical break-in from operators of internet-connected cameras.
CommScope has extended its Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) portfolio with the introduction of its RD1322 2×2 Remote PHY Device (RPD). The new module installs directly into NC4- and OM4-series fiber nodes and will extend the benefits of DAA to both traditional segmented and fiber-deep architectures.
Network connectivity is the path to network reliability, and it requires special attention because the implications of poorly planned or executed network connectivity can seriously limit the potential of your organization and cause catastrophic system failures. From business applications and life safety systems to operational technology and user applications, connectivity enables the important functions of buildings and organizations.
As large data centers are quickly moving to 100GbE speeds, designers are now looking at the 400GbE options that are becoming available. The options for 400G are much more varied and complex than prior speeds. And whether it is 100G or 400G, there needs to be a cable plant designed to accommodate the technology. How does one go about determining the most cost effective solution with so many moving targets? Nexans has developed an addition to its popular “Own the Link” calculator to help data center designers answers these questions. This presentation will cover some of the specification requirements for 100GbE and 400GbE options and then introduce an online tool that can help determine the most cost effective options.
Viavi Solutions gave the first demonstration of protocol analysis for the recently completed PCI Express® 5th generation data communication standard at the PCI-SIG Developers Conference, June 18-19. PCIe 5.0 – the next revision of the ubiquitous serial computer expansion bus standard – will double the capacity over a PCI Express link to 32 gigabits per second per unidirectional channel or greater than one terabit per second across the common 16-lane bidirectional slot interface. This acceleration of speed correlates with the performance demands of emerging bandwidth- and compute-intensive applications such as 400-Gigabit Ethernet, IoT, hyperscale and AI.
The Open Eye MSA aims to accelerate the adoption of PAM-4 optical interconnects scaling to 50Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps, and 400Gbps by expanding existing standards to enable optical module implementations using optimized clock and data recovery (CDR) based architectures in addition to existing digital signal processing (DSP) architectures.
