With the recent explosion of the IoT industry, businesses are seeking to not only identify their IoT strategy, but also manage the business implications that accompany it.

Exosite’s Taiwan operations were recognized as the Outstanding Enterprise of the Year in the small and medium enterprises (SME) category at the 16^th Annual Golden Peak Awards. The presentation ceremony was held on September 26^th in Taipei, Taiwan, and was attended by both Vice President Wu Den-yih and Vice Secretary-General Lin Wan-Fa.

Exosite hosted its inaugural Boot Camp on October 20th and 21st at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis. The two-day session provided an overview of IoT/M2M solutions, from physical devices and networking to servers and applications. It also included discussions about developing with Exosite's technologies and tools, ideas for creating new and more efficient applications, hands-on labs, and access to senior Exosite engineers for real-time questions and discussions.

When car alarms go off, no one ever looks. It almost never means that a car is being stolen. On the other hand, when a smoke alarm goes off, everyone responds.

I've been working on updating our Arduino Library. If you haven't heard of Arduino yet, it's a really cool embedded development and prototyping ecosystem. It consists of both hardware development boards and an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with many useful libraries to quickly and easily create embedded electronic devices. Exosite has created a library that makes getting your Arduino project talking to the cloud easier than ever.

Welcome, ghouls and banshees, to Exosite's spooooky Halloween performance report! Prepare to scream and quake as you read all of our hair-raising aggregate statistics and bone-chilling – Y'know what? I can't keep this up. Let's start over.

We software engineers find nothing else quite as satisfying as a snappy, crisp web experience. Every time we shave a few dozen milliseconds off a pageload, life gets better for us and for our users. And that's not just our opinion. Studies show again and again that faster page loads mean higher user engagement and higher productivity. Higher productivity: that's what we want for our users.

From the Press Release:

Exosite (www.exosite.com) announced today that Microchip Technology Inc. (www.microchip.com) selected Exosite to be an "Embedded Cloud" design partner. The collaboration enhances Microchip’s Internet of Things solutions with out-of-the-box device management, remote monitoring, data analytics and data visualization capabilities.

TI CC3000 is a new Wi-Fi module for embedded systems. It's Simple Link Wi-Fi solution minimizes MCU software requirements and provides SmartConfig^TM technology that allows users to use their smartphones (iPhone / Android phone) to configure Wi-Fi passcodes/SSID in 2 steps: enter a passcode, and click start.

We happened to catch a video of Avnet Electronic's Jim Carver showing off their Wi-Go platform connected to Exosite at Sensors Expo 2013. Jim is the technical director of advanced architectures at Avnet and helped design the hardware and software of the Wi-Go platform, an IoT WiFi platform based on the Freescale Kinetis KL25Z MCUs.  The platform includes temperature, air pressure, altimeter, magnetometer, ambient light, and accelerometer sensors in addition to supporting Lithium Polymer batteries.  It's an impressive little platform and we wanted to share the demonstration.

The Exosite team is excited to be a part of the Verizon nationwide Connected Technology Tour (CTT). Exosite is presenting in the Breakout Session entitled "Constructing an M2M Solution" and exhibiting in the Solutions Expo. The CTT launches today and features a series of interactive seminars showcasing the compelling benefits of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions.

Exosite had the privilege of hosting the first Internet of Things Twin Cities / Minnesota Meetup (IoTTwinCiteisMN) last week. A group of around 20 people, some from M2M industry, some who are simply just interested attended. Mark Benson gave a presentation called 'Introduction to the M2M Ecosystem: Emerging Trends' and we were lucky enough to have Drew Johnson here, a co-organizer for the IoTSiliconValley meetup. We want to thank the team from Aeris Communications for providing food and organizing this meetup group.

We just put some finishing touches on The Web Leaderboard for our web-enabled Foosball Table - Internet of Things gaming!

Exosite's Foosball Avatars

The Dr Micro RX blog over at Renesas has several great posts on Cloud Connectivity using Exosite.

This summer we have been working with Synapse Wireless and Arrow Electronics to bring M2M kits to the market that are a great starting point for developers and product companies that have a need for local wireless devices (2.4 GHz or 900 MHz) communicating through a gateway to a cloud data/device platform and have a web UI attached to it. (Yes, that's a mouthful.) We've always found the Synapse RF engines and SNAP operating system / application framework to be really useful and easy to pick-up, so we were excited to do this combined effort and take some of our work on the RF Engines and E10 gateway and get it out there for developers.