Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced that it is making major leaps in the Internet of Things (IoT) security landscape, with the advent of mechanisms that identify and prevent new age threats born from the rise of connected things.

As the development of IoT products continues to gain pace, and the market expands, a new era of security and privacy challenges rises. To counteract this concern, Huawei has focused its energies on adaptive learning techniques that acquire sophistication from existing attacking mode databases, and snuff out new dangers.

At a latest ACM Asia Conference held in China, two Huawei security experts shared insights on the new threat environment, shedding light on existing security defense technologies no longer capable of resisting IoT-led attacks.

Today, with IoT adoption growing, businesses are suddenly faced with the challenge of securing anything that can send and receive data – and that’s basically anything that can have a sensor or chip put in it – which is essentially everything.

With greater efforts needed to study and specify international IoT security standards which are more secure and easier to implement, Huawei is dedicated to this mission and is always open to collaboration with all parties interested in this subject area.

With this in mind, Huawei recently published “The Global Cyber Security Challenge – it is time for real progress in addressing supply chain risks” – a whitepaper that focuses specifically on threats that arise through the manipulation and evolution of the supply chain – another core area that IoT will heavily affect

“While there is still no simple answer or solution to the cyber security challenge, it is increasingly apparent that there are steps the global community can take – as well as individual organizations – to drive demonstrable progress in reducing cyber security risk,” said Ken Hu, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Global Cyber Security and User Privacy Committee of Huawei.

“With this in mind, Huawei is committed to working with a network that is recognized through earned trust and validation in its endeavor to construct a set of laws and principles the industry can follow.”

In order to understand these threats, Huawei has also made a war cry for businesses to work together in the education space. . The whitepaper “The Global Cyber Security Challenge -- It is time for real progress in addressing supply chain risks” discusses such a network that shares global best practices, and encourages information flow between businesses.

Research and Advisory Firm, Gartner recently highlighted how IoT will impact business from a logistics point of view. The way businesses access information, manage flow, and communicate throughout the supply chain will significantly change as more and more devices, machines, and people become connected.

Huawei Drives Openness, Collaboration, and Shared Success to Enable Digital Transformation and Build a Better Connected World. Recently launched the Open ROADS to a Better Connected World as part of its commitment to meeting user demands for a "ROADS" experience (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social) in the digital era, the company strives to enable agile innovation, build an open ecosystem, expand business partnerships, and help carriers succeed in their digital transformation.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new breed of measurement challenges for engineers trying to calculate the battery life of their products, an expert will tell attendees at the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston.

“The oscilloscope you have in your lab today may not have low enough noise to make the kind of measurements you need,” Mike Borsch, an applications engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, told Design News. “When you’re measuring micro-amps or micro-volts, noise can be a real problem. Many of today’s scopes haven’t been built to make these measurements. A lot of things can go wrong.”

The problem can be a tricky one, not only for the engineers who design the IoT devices, but for the creators of electronic components that get used in those IoT devices. Device developers need to know the current draw of their products, and to do that, they need accurate characterizations from manufacturers who create the processors, ASICs, WiFi chips and other components that go into them. Only then can they make accurate assessments of device battery life.

The act of measuring has become more complex in latest years, however, because IoT devices burn so little current. “It’s really difficult measuring low currents and voltages on scopes,” Borsch said. “The noise in the instrument can cover up very small voltages and currents. So instead of measuring just the signal, you end up measuring the noise. It becomes difficult to assess – am I seeing the actual signal or am I also getting scope noise in the measurement?”

To make accurate assessments, modern instruments first and foremost need to have low noise. But engineers also need to know how to mitigate those low levels of noise through such techniques as averaging, signal conditioning and filtering of the signal, Borsch said. So-called “dynamic re-referencing” techniques can help stabilize the signal while engineers make measurements, he added.

Borsch also recommended that IoT device engineers use instruments that incorporate multiple capabilities in a single box, rather than employing separate spectrum analyzers, power meters and oscilloscopes. Doing so, he said, allows engineers to view simultaneous events in one place.

“A scope has to be able to do a lot more these days than just measure voltage versus time,” Borsch said. “Your instrument has to measure current and voltage and things like signal content in a frequency domain.”

Adding to the complexity is the fact that components may behave differently in lab tests then they will after integration into a product with other components, Borsch said. “You may know how much current a device is supposed to use in a certain state of operation, but when you integrate all the components together, and it goes out into the field, the conditions change.”

For IoT products, the biggest area of concern is sleep states, Borsch said. There, the measurement challenges are greatest, because the current consumptions are so miniscule. Moreover, end products may have multiple different sleeping modes. “Typical IoT devices have software algorithms built in to control how the sleep states operate,” Borsch said. “Some of these devices have 15 different sleep states. Depending on what the device is doing, it may have certain components energized or not energized.”

The bottom line is that product and component designers need to be aware of the tools and instruments that are available to them, especially when dealing with IoT products, Borsch said. What’s more, they need to know the best practices for using those tools. “Scopes have a lot of tools available,” Borsch told us. “But you have to know how to set up the instrument correctly to give you the most accurate and precise numbers.”

Senior technical editor Chuck Murray has been writing about technology for 33 years. He joined Design News in 1987, and has covered electronics, automation, fluid power, and autos.

Samsung’s latest book-style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 5, ended up in the hands of Zack from the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel. We all know what that means, another durability test. Spoiler alert! The Galaxy Z Fold 5 actually managed to do an outstanding job in this durability test.

The Galaxy Z Fold 5 does a great job in a brutal durability test

You can watch the entire test in the video provided below the article, though we’ll talk more about it here, of course. The video itself has a duration of almost 8 minutes, so let’s get started.

Let’s start with the cover display. It started scratching when confronting a level 6 pick, as expected. This is the Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection, which means the display is really well protected.

In regards to the main display, it’s very easy to scratch, as expected. There’s a layer of plastic applied to it, as this is a foldable display. You can do some damage with your fingernail, even, so keep that in mind.

The frame is made out of aluminum

The phone’s frame is made out of aluminum, which Zack proves in this video. The only part around the phone that is made out of plastic is the portion with the 5G antenna. Glass is included on the black, the same one as on the front, which is good.

The plastic on the main display started melting after 10 seconds. That’s a test that Zack does for fun only, it’s not something you should worry about. The fingerprint scanner on the side did find scratches to be an obstacle, but it still worked to a degree. Zack did scratch it up really well, though. In general, it works really well.

Dust, sand & rocks didn’t harm the device, while it also didn’t break during the bend test

He also decided to pour a ton of dust, sand, and rocks on the phone, and its hinge. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 is not dust resistant, so if it broke from this, that would be understandable. Not only did it not break, but that did not affect its functionality at all.

The last test he did, as per usual, is the bend test. The phone did a brilliant job. The phone did flex a bit when pressure ended up being applied from the back (when unfolded), but it did not break, nor was its functionality affected. It simply reverted back to its original form. The Pixel Fold did break, by the way, as did the Motorola Razr+.

Data and intellectual property are at risk in virtually every Internet of Things (IoT) project, but it needn’t be so, an expert will tell attendees at the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference in Boston.

Shawn Prestridge, US field applications engineering team leader for IAR Systems, will say that engineering teams often underestimate the risk of intrusion, while overestimating the difficulty of installing preventative measures. “They think that security is either too hard or too expensive,” Prestridge told Design News. “We want them to know that there are tools out there to make it easy.”

Prestridge said that the ingenuity of thieves can run the gamut. Some, he said, simply use positions of trust to make copies of intellectual property, while others find amazing ways to hack into private networks. He cited an example of data thieves in Las Vegas who gained access to a secure Wi-Fi network through a thermostat in a fish tank on a casino floor. The thieves eventually downloaded a list of the casino’s high-rolling customers, then published it on the Internet.

Shawn Prestridge of IAR Systems: “They think that security is either too hard or too expensive.” (Image source: IAR Systems)

People will do it just because they can,” Prestridge said. “Then they’ll figure out what to do with the data later. And by the time you figure it out, the horse has already left the barn.”

Prestridge divides the security breaches into two categories. The first is intellectual property – theft of product software and algorithms, often by overseas manufacturers authorized to produce a company’s device in a distant locale. Those thieves sometimes over-produce the product and simply re-sell it, he said. “Whenever someone comes up with a hot new idea for the IoT, it’s not very long before someone else starts copying it,” Prestridge said. The second type of security breach is theft of data off a device, or theft of data as it’s being transmitted.

Either way, such theft is preventable, Prestridge told us. Using a security development environment called Embedded Trust, engineers can employ a certificate builder that lets them control limits on manufacturing, thus enabling product developers to protect IP. They can also leverage the secure hardware built into next-generation microcontrollers for IoT solutions, limit the number of people with access to application security, and encrypt applications to deter hackers.

At the session, titled How to Secure Your IoT Project, Prestridge will also discuss General Data Protection Regulations in Europe and pending legislation in the US that would affect IoT security. In addition, he will address ways for developers to be compliant with that legislation.

Such measures, he said, are rapidly becoming a necessity for IoT developers. Too often, he said, those developers mistakenly believe there’s no need for security because they see no obvious reason for hackers to want their data. But that reasoning is faulty, he said, because developers can’t always imagine why thieves might want data.

“Five years ago, people would say, ‘Why would anyone want to do that?’” Prestridge told us. “Now, they’re starting to realize that doesn’t matter. Sometimes people will do it just because they can.”  

Senior technical editor Chuck Murray has been writing about technology for 35 years. He joined Design News in 1987, and has covered electronics, automation, fluid power, and auto.

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Huawei Technologies Co unveiled the royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi, and internet of things patent license programs on Thursday, part of its broader push to share cutting-edge innovations with the world and support the common, sustainable development of industries globally.

The move came as Huawei now holds more than 120,000 active patents, and the company has become one of the largest patent holders in the world after decades of heavy investment into research and development.

To date, Huawei has entered into almost 200 bilateral patent licenses. In addition, over 350 companies have obtained licenses to Huawei’s patents through patent pools. Under these licenses, Huawei’s total past royalty payments are about three times its royalty collections, and its 2022 licensing revenue amounted to $560 million. In comparison, its total revenue hit 642.3 billion yuan ($89.7 billion) in 2022.

Huawei said royalty rate caps for 4G and 5G handsets are $1.5 per unit and $2.5 per unit, respectively. Huawei’s royalty rate for Wi-Fi 6 consumer devices, meanwhile, is $0.5 per unit. For internet of things devices, the rate for IoT-Centric devices is one percent of the net selling price, capped at $0.75, while the rate for IoT-Enhanced devices ranges from $0.3 to $1 per unit.

Artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things (IoT) have been revolutionising several sectors such as manufacturing and retail. Here’s one solution for agriculture that is going to radically transform the way soil is tested. This would help farmers and agricultural scientists to quickly identify the deficiencies, if any, and take corrective measures.

At the core of this fully automated system is an Android app. It is connected to the platform, which can conduct 12 key soil parameter tests and provide results in just 30 minutes. It will immediately send the summary of results in a soil health card to the mobile devices of various stakeholders.

“Compare this with 3-4 hours of testing time that is in vogue,” Brajendra, a Principal soil Scientist with IIRR, who is involved in the development of the system, said.

pH value, other features

The 12 parameters tested by the machine include pH value (acidity or alkalinity); electrical conductivity ( a measure to test the ability of a substance to conduct an electrical current. In soil testing, EC is used to measure the amount of soluble salts in the soil); organic carbon, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, nitrogen and zinc. The 45x37x44 cm machine, which weighs 12.55 kg, is priced at ₹2.12 lakhs (including a GST of ₹32,400).

The Bhu-Vision platform, which is also known as Krishi-RASTAA Soil Testing Equipment, was launched by R M Sundaram, Director of the Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), which is an arm of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research) here on Thursday.

Bhu-Vision (Krishi-RASTAA) is jointly developed by ICAR-IIRR and KrishiTantra, manufactured by HiMedia Laboratories, and marketed by BhoomiSeva (HCF Tech Services Pvt Ltd). 

During the event, 25 Bhu-Vision devices have been handed to over the IIRR team by HCF Tech Services.

“There is a need to strengthen the relationship between private partners and the institutes to develop and commercialise products that can benefit farmers not only in India but also in other SAARC and South-East Asian countries,” Sundaram said.

P Muthuraman, a senior scientist with IIRR, said farmers need to be given training in testing the soil to identify its health. “The IIRR can serve as a platform to offer such initiatives,” he said.

HCF Tech Private Limited Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Melind Deshpande spoke about company’s plans to take this technology forward. He illustrated a ‘shop-in-shop’ model adaptable by village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs).

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 are the company’s latest foldable devices and one question users are probably asking is “how is the reliability of things like the hinge?” Well, Samsung is here to answer some of those questions.

The company has published a video on its official Samsung Newsroom Korea YouTube channel that goes over the “rigorous” reliability tests that each device was subjected to. It’s a rare look into what goes on in the labs when testing these devices. And a potentially great source of information for anyone looking to buy one.

Naturally, people are going to want to know how the screen and hinge hold up. Understandable, since these phones will be folded over and over and over. To that end, one of the many tests that Samsung conducts is a folding test. In one of its labs, rows of Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 phones are lined up and secured into machines to test the folding reliability. These machines then fold the phones and unfold the phones continuously. Samsung says phones are Bureau Veritas tested and certified for 200,000 folds. This test happens at a room temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit or 25 degrees Celsius.

So there you have it. Each phone is folded 200,000 times. Samsung tests the phones in other ways too. All to give consumers peace of mind that they can stand up to daily use.

The folding test is an obvious one to do, since these are foldable phones. It’ll be a natural everyday motion that all users are going to be doing with their devices. But Samsung’s testing goes far beyond just folding.

This includes IPX8 and IPX4 water resistance tests. Which subjects the phones to submersion in water and being pelted with water from numerous high-pressure jets from multiple angles. Samsung also puts each phone type in tumble boxes. A series of other tests includes continuous use of the S Pen on the screen, a drop test, and a steel ball test. Where a small steel ball is dropped onto the unfolded display over and over.

If you’re curious to watch the tests yourself, you can see them in Samsung’s brief video below. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip are both available for pre-order as of this week, and will be launching in the near future.

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