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from the next-up-are-mcot-msofa-and-mrecliner dept.
Reported last week at the BBC, CNet and IEEE Spectrum is the news that ARM is launching a new OS targeting low power, low footprint devices.
The operating system, called mbed OS, is meant to resolve productivity problems that arise from fragmentation—where different devices in the so-called “Internet of things” (IoT) market run on a hodgepodge of different protocols. ARM is looking to consolidate those devices under a single software layer that's simple, secure, and free for all manufacturers to use.
(Although the IEEE article reports that "this is the first operating system ARM has ever developed", that slightly glosses over the history of RiscOS by Acorn, of which ARM was a subsidiary.)
The software comes as a free "mbed OS" and a licensable "Device server". Although parts of the OS will be open source:
ARM says it wants to retain control of other parts to ensure mbed remains unfragmented
More technical details at the mbed developer site. One oddity is the Online Toolchain, which provides the device IDE and version control online.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @05:42PM
So if, like me, you want to see the internet of things fail miserably and go away, all I need to do is
needlessly fucking about
The good news is I'm pretty good at that, but the bad news is I don't think its quite that simple.
Then again it'll probably fail all on its own without anyones help.
(What I don't like about IoT is the full formal name will be "Internet of Things controlled by the NSA and russian botnets, not you, although you paid for it all and the only way to un-pown your basement furnace will be to buy another")
Anecdote time: My mother in law has the most secure smart TV I've ever heard of... she doesn't have internet. It was on sale and cheaper than the equal size dumb TV, weird as that sounds. Model year clearance or maybe she got a 720 instead of a 1080, her sight isn't so great so it doesn't matter anyway, donno.