IoT news of the week for June 15, 2018 – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
Resin.io gets $5 million: Startup Resin.io, which puts containers on devices running ARM-based chips, has scored $5 million in funding. I wrote about the company a few months back, explaining why what it was doing was important for the internet of things. It’s basically making it easier to manage and write software to a large swath of connected devices. That way, developers used to the ease of deploying software in the cloud can turn their skills to the internet of things. Making developers’ lives easier is a good way to get money. (GeekWire)
Amazon launched a $250 camera for the edge: Amazon is now shipping a camera that helps developers build computer vision applications. Amazon’s DeepLens camera ships with access to a variety of AWS services, the idea being that developers can run computer vision models at the edge. The camera comes with several models already installed, such as face detection, cat and dog detection, and even things such as head pose determination. So using the camera, a developer could build an application that recognizes a person in a restricted area and then triggers an alarm. Or in one of my favorite ideas, recognizes a dog on the couch and then triggers a speaker to tell the animal to get off. (Engadget)