Other initiatives, like device virtualization that enable a single phone to be partitioned between work and personal lives, seem likewise aimed at more formal corporate customers.
Gartner predicts that by the end of 2017 more than a fifth of organizations will have digital security services devoted to protecting business initiatives using devices and services in IoT.
"The rule that came out today is a victory for patients, hospitals and clinicians," said Josh Rising, director of Pew Charitable Trusts' medical device initiative.
The timing of the launch prompted headlines that the initiative was a device to bypass Amazon, but Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, says she never had any intention of competing with the internet company.
Our research was limited by its focus on one patient safety initiative of one device.
The Connected Devices initiative was part of that push, with a stated mission to, Influence the design of the devices and protocols that make up the Internet of Things to ensure that they embody the values enumerated by the Mozilla manifesto, including openness, accessibility, decentralization, interoperability, security, privacy and individual empowerment.
In Ohio, Eric D. Fingerhut, who recently stepped down as chancellor of the Ohio State universities, led a state effort called Third Frontier to raise $700 million for alternative-energy and biomedical device initiatives.
This work is part of the ENACT project which is funded by the ZonMw Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) call under project registration number 104002003.
Mozilla's push to grow beyond browsers hit a major hurdle this week as the Firefox-maker dissolved its Connected Devices initiative, laying off what CNET reports as around 50 people in the process.
We have shifted our internal approach to the IoT opportunity to step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial products to one focused on research and advanced development, dissolving our Connected Devices initiative and incorporating our IoT explorations into an increased focus on Emerging Technologies.
