This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features the latest implementations for the Internet of Things (IoT), and a new cloud platform for connected devices.

IoT design winners

STMicroelectronics, Inc. announced the winners of the STM32 Internet-of-Things Design Challenge in EMEA. The contest centered on the Internet of Things inventiveness and challenged participants to unleash their creative products that that contain STM32 and other ST products for IoT use.

The winners are Maja from Poland and Blinker 2.0 from Ukraine. Maja is based on an STM32Nucleo development board and is equipped with sensors for movement, sound, temperature, humidity, and weight sensors. This system can be connected to an online database through a GSM/GPRSE modem and can create local sensor networks.

As for Blinker 2.0, the main part of the design is the Cooler Blinker, a small board with an STM32 microcontroller, low-energy Bluetooth module, buzzer, battery, green, yellow and red LEDs. The Cooler Blinker acts as a smart tag, which can be attached to food and once it is activated it determines how long a food can be stored.

“The contest results clearly demonstrate the importance of the STM32 ecosystem ’embedding’ other ST products, providing flexibility and easy-to-design approach to the technical community, including the new generation of ‘Makers’, the youngest developers participating to the ‘new industrial revolution’. The journey has just started: fortifying its leadership by the recently announced world’s first ARM Cortex-M7 microcontroller, the STM32 F7 series, ST will continue to unleash and support creativity and lead developers towards outstanding performance,” said Jacky Perdrigeat, EMEA Region Vice President, STMicroelectronics.

Fujitsu’s Human-Centric IoT platform

Fujitsu Ltd. announced the availability of its Human-Centric IoT platform which will give its customers and business partners access to a broad range hardware and software to middleware, networks and sensors. The platform will act as a testbed for proposed products from customers as well as for Fujitsu’s own technologies. This platform will also allow vendors to test and verify their products before general release.

According to Fujitsu officials, users will be given six months of free use of the platform to run proof-of-concepts, validations, and other tests. The company will also create an ecosystem around the platform which customers can use to get their business off the ground. For vendors, once their product is validated, they will be given support to get their products to market.

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