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Monday, March 26, 2018 Guest blog from The Qt Company  Today, Industry 4.0 and the IIoT have introduced a whole new set of challenges: There will be more connected devices, which will generate more data, that in turn will lead to even more complex software applications.  The playing field will change at an exponentially accelerating pace, including the state of device infrastructure, application complexity, and development. To address this, architects came up with a common infrastructure design for the future of IoT: Within this design, Qt and Toradex play in the field of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Edge devices/controllers. There, Qt's strengths such as cross-platform, user experience, the large number of libraries and tools, can be used without restriction. The Qt Company sees challenges like scalability, interoperability and performance requirements when creating smart devices as well as HMI solutions. As the implementations vary within the field of Indus...

Monday, August 21, 2017 Introduction Cloud services have been a reality for some years already. Right now, one of the biggest concepts in the field is the  Internet of Things , or IoT for short. When we electronics folk think of the cloud, the first thing that comes to our minds is connecting several devices to it and uploading data to be visualized, stored and analyzed - among other possibilities. Of course, other uses may come to mind, too: cloud services can also be used for storage and processing power, particularly in software-as-a-service applications and personal usage; IT professionals and sysadmins may take advantage of cloud-based VMs and databases. One thing we don't always realize is that the cloud can be much more than simply an IoT tool, or something only large corporations have access to. We can make use of the cloud for everyday tasks, too. As a matter of fact, that's the motivation behind this article - taking a time-consuming task and using the cloud ...