In the wake of CES, This week in IoT has some interesting highlights. We saw the public announcement of Microsoft’s Connected Car initiative, built from an initial partnership with a Renault-Nissan. The Kissenger iPhone device allows you to “kiss” strangers over the internet. And though not expressly IoT, it turns out that Ultrasound tracking can be used to bypass anonymity systems. So here’s this week’s roll:

In The News:

• States Wire Up Roads as Cars Get Smarter
• Microsoft launches a new cloud platform for connected cars

Product Highlight:

*AWS Green Grass

Blogs:

• The Elements of Things Systems - Vasters
• Using Azure IoT Hub to Visualize Plant Floor Data - Berry
• Learning PLCs with LogixPro Simulator - Iman
• Azure IoT Hub Routes - Gallant

The Internet of Shit:

• Kissenger - kissing people over the internet with your iPhone …

Papers:

The Strobe Protocol Framework

Security Spotlight:

Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

Who to Follow:

• Sarah Cooper

Book of the Week:

• Group Privacy- Collects interdisciplinary and comprehensive analyses of theoretical and applied problems concerning group profiling, Big Data and predictive analyses.

Humor: