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IoT Trends Can 5G Help the Environment? Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 April 03, 2021 As 5G networks roll out, the benefits will be enormous across many different sectors, including energy and resource management. Anything that can be optimized to run better, faster and with fewer resources will have a positive impact on the environment. This article explores ways in which 5G can have a positive impact.
Technical Insights How Do IoT Devices Communicate? Rob Faludi Rob Faludi, Head of Product, Perceptive Things
 March 26, 2021 Internet of Things (IoT) devices communicate is dozens of different ways, using hundreds of different protocols. In this article we cover the common elements in an IoT device network and provide examples of how devices send and receive data.
IoT Trends What Is 5G Network Architecture? Harald Remmert Harald Remmert, CTO, Cellular Solutions , Digi International
 March 19, 2021 In this article we provide an overview and everything you need to know about 5G network architecture, including the capabilities 5G architecture makes possible and how connected applications can benefit from it.
Applications The ROI of Remote IoT Device Management Kim Griffin Kim Griffin, Director Product Management, Enterprise Software, Digi International
 March 13, 2021 As adoption of the Internet of Things continues to accelerate and broaden, the costs of managing and maintaining networks of sensors, modems, and other connected devices can escalate. For that reason, you need a management strategy that provides a "single pane of glass" to monitor, manage, troubleshoot and update those devices.
Technical Insights Zigbee vs. Bluetooth: Choosing the Right Protocol for Your IoT Application Eugene Fodor Eugene Fodor, Software Engineering Manager, Digi International
 March 05, 2021 Both Zigbee and Bluetooth wireless protocols are widely used for local communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and there are some trade-offs to review in choosing the right one for your application
IoT Trends Partnering with AT&T and FirstNet on Extended Primary Communications Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 March 02, 2021 Extended primary subscribers are an extended community that help support our first responders, from the mitigation, remediation, overhaul, clean up and restoration to the provisioning of other services required an emergency or its aftermath.
Technical Insights New Updates in Digi Remote Manager Kim Griffin Kim Griffin, Director Product Management, Enterprise Software, Digi International
 February 23, 2021 The latest release of Digi Remote Manager® introduces the Automations functionality in the new UI and enhancements focused on subaccount management. The features in the previous release were focused on ongoing support of FirstNet® certification.
IoT Trends Can Drones Be Hacked, Tracked, and Used to Carry Passengers? Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 February 20, 2021 Drones are developed with increasingly diverse use cases over time. From toys to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used for everything from movie making to military surveillance and combat to a huge range of uses in commercial markets, drones have come a long way since their inception.
Technical Insights Selecting the Right Enterprise Router and the Right Location to Install It Digi International Digi International
 February 11, 2021 Enterprise routers come in many different levels of performance, with many different features. Selecting the right one is important, as is optimizing that performance with correct placement in your building during the installation process. This article covers both of these topics.
Technical Insights Wait! Don’t Deploy Connected Devices Without This Brandon Moser Brandon Moser, Manager, Professional Services, Digi International
 February 05, 2021 How you configure connected devices prior to deployment can make all the difference in your ability to gain critical insights and rapidly distribute firmware updates and security patches.
Applications FirstNet Ready™ Digi TX54 Mobile Communications Router for First Responders and Extended Primary Users Steve Mazur Steve Mazur, Business Development Director, Government
 February 03, 2021 Digi TX54 cellular routers for ITS and transportation systems support Band 14 capability operated by AT&T and FirstNet®, enabling priority and pre-emptive communications when they are needed for public safety and emergency response.
Technical Insights Secure Networks and Private APNs: How Digi Professional Services Can Help Nathan Kurtz Nathan Kurtz, Implementation Manager, Digi International
 January 29, 2021 Digi’s Professional Services regularly advises companies who provide remote monitoring to their customers to ensure they are deploying secure and robust solutions that can be monitored and maintained over time.
IoT Trends How the Pandemic Accelerated the Need for IoT Solutions Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 January 15, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has created conditions for accelerated adoption of communications technologies and automation that draw on the capabilities of the Internet of Things across every business, industrial and government landscape. 
IoT Trends What Is Clean Tech and How Is IoT Enabling It? Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 January 06, 2021 The adoption of IoT-enabled clean tech is increasing as municipalities seek to improve air quality and businesses seek to improve their stewardship of the environment. Technology advances are driving massive improvements in environmental practices, supporting initiatives that contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable world.
Looking Back, Looking Forward - Digi CEO Insights Moving Into 2021 Ron Konezny Ron Konezny, President and CEO, Digi International
 December 29, 2020 The year 2020 brought a life-altering pandemic, but the Digi International team responded well - shifting gears, making major adjustments to protocols and the work environment, and ultimately coming out strong.
Technical Insights XBee vs. Zigbee: A Simple Comparison Guide Rob Faludi Rob Faludi, Head of Product, Perceptive Things
 December 23, 2020 In this article, we provide a simple and clear comparison between XBee and Zigbee, including how and when to use them, and the relationship between them.
Applications NYC Intelligent Transportation Project Wins ITS-NY Award, Advancing ITS Steve Mazur Steve Mazur, Business Development Director, Government
 December 17, 2020 Digi congratulates the New York City Department of Transportation for winning the 2020 ITS-NY Project of the Year Award, in the category of ITS Communications Systems. The project involved an enormous infrastructure upgrade across all five NYC boroughs, including installation of Digi cellular routers at every intersection.
IoT Trends An Introduction to Smart Transportation: Benefits and Examples Steve Mazur Steve Mazur, Business Development Director, Government
 December 09, 2020 Smart transportation supports management, efficiency, and safety, using new and emerging technologies to make moving around a city more convenient, more cost effective and safe.
IoT Trends Remote Worker Update: BYOR Is the New BYOD Digi International Digi International
 November 30, 2020 Many remote workers today are connecting to email, corporate servers, Zoom and other videoconferencing services over our home Wi-Fi routers. In many cases these home routers are being pushed to the brink between remote work, online school, Netflix, YouTube and other streaming services, resulting in productivity and security issues.
IoT Trends NEW! Digi Remote Manager Enhancements Kim Griffin Kim Griffin, Director Product Management, Enterprise Software, Digi International
 November 19, 2020 The latest release of Digi Remote Manager greatly enhances the user experience of data streams by introducing this functionality in the new UI, enhancements focused on Subaccount Management, and many other usability enhancements
Applications Industrial IoT: Connectivity for Rugged Applications Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 November 12, 2020 Selecting the connectivity solution for an application in a challenging environment requires some thought. In this article we review the available features in Digi industrial-grade cellular routers, so you can identify the right product for your Industrial Internet of Things application.
IoT Trends 5G and the Future of Telemedicine and Remote Surgery Harald Remmert Harald Remmert, CTO, Cellular Solutions , Digi International
 November 06, 2020 We are at a turning point for telemedicine (also known as telehealth). For hundreds of years, interactions between doctors and patients have been mostly face-to-face in medical offices, hospitals, homes and care facilities. But today, new technologies and faster networks like 4G LTE and 5G are changing the face of healthcare. 
Technical Insights Solving 5G Antenna Design Challenges Digi International Digi International
 October 23, 2020 5G antenna design is by far the most confusing part of the process of developing 5G solutions, as it is almost entirely dependent on the end device form factor and OEMs’ preferences. In this blog, we offer insights on the 5G User Equipment (UE) device antenna design.
Technical Insights Dual APN in Transit Applications: Passenger Wi-Fi and Security Benefits Steve Mazur Steve Mazur, Business Development Director, Government
 October 22, 2020 Modern transit systems incorporate cellular routers, which utilize access point name (APN) technology. The methods built into the router to facilitate both public and private communication via APN are important to understand, as they have important implications for your transit agency's cost of doing business, as well as the ability to securely support passenger Wi-Fi.
IoT Trends Smart Cities are Better Cities: Supporting Mobility and Inclusion Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 October 16, 2020 To transform their municipalities around better traffic and transit flow – a movement now widely known as mobility – cities need better technologies can improve public transit ridership, encourage rideshare systems and reduce dependence upon single-rider gas-powered vehicles.
IoT Trends Top 12 Smart Cities in the U.S. - Smart Cities Examples 2020 Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 October 09, 2020 Smart Cities in the U.S. are deploying connected technologies and IoT solutions for everything from enhanced critical infrastructure and public safety to intelligent lighting, water treatment, energy usage and traffic flow. This article explores 12 smart cities that are getting it right.
Digi XBee Digi XBee: The Ecosystem for Wireless Development Martin Schulte-Hobein Martin Schulte-Hobein, Manager, Field Application Engineer Embedded & RF, Digi International
 October 02, 2020 Digi XBee modules have been deployed in millions of applications around the world. This blog provides an overview of the module families, the developer tools and the applications for Digi XBee.
Technical Insights Custom Gateways and Routers: When, Why and How Kevin Eichhorst Kevin Eichhorst, Senior Principal Solution Architect, Digi International
 September 25, 2020 Developing a custom gateway or router for an IoT application can be the right approach under certain circumstances such as when you need to meet specific certification requirements for highly regulated industries. This article covers those circumstances and how Digi Wireless Design Services can help.
Digi International 2020 Golf Event & Fundraiser Recipients Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 September 18, 2020 Digi International holds an annual team building golf event and fundraiser, and each year identifies two impactful organizations to receive the event proceeds. In 2020, amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, Digi found a way to hold the event safely and raised a record-breaking amount for two community organizations.
IoT Trends Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and 5G Harald Remmert Harald Remmert, CTO, Cellular Solutions , Digi International
 September 11, 2020 The symbiotic nature of edge compute and artificial intelligence is interesting because artificial intelligence requires the extremely fast processing of data, which edge computing enables; meanwhile AI enables higher performance of compute resources at the edge.
Technical Insights What Is Zero Touch Configuration? Brandon Moser Brandon Moser, Manager, Professional Services, Digi International
 September 03, 2020 Zero-touch configuration is the process of configuring IoT devices and pushing updates out to the network from a central location. Zero-touch configuration enables IT teams to configure, or modify, hundreds or even thousands of devices remotely.
Applications New! Digi Remote Manager Enhancements Kim Griffin Kim Griffin, Director Product Management, Enterprise Software, Digi International
 August 27, 2020 The August 2020 release of Digi Remote Manager includes updates such as sub-account management, usability enhancements, and a new feature: the Notification Center. We are working on enhancements every day, including new APIs and UI functionality. We are also creating training modules focused on the usability of Digi Remote Manager.
IoT Trends Digi vs. Digi-Key: Who's Who and Where to Buy Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 August 20, 2020 People often ask if Digi International is related to Digi-Key Electronics. Does Digi own Digi-Key? Does Digi-Key own Digi? Are the two companies in business together in some way? Here are answers.
IoT Trends Secure, Scalable IoT Device Management Digi International Digi International
 August 14, 2020 The IoT enables corporate, industrial and public sector organizations to control equipment and deliver services in ways that were not even possible a decade ago. Millions of IoT devices are now deployed around the world. And IoT device management is a critical component of those solutions.
IoT Trends 5G IoT and the Future of Connected Vehicle Jayna Locke Jayna Locke, Senior Marketing Manager, Digi International
 August 07, 2020 5G networks and other new technologies are promising to make self-driving cars a reality, and it’s happening faster than most people think. In this article we’ll look at how cities are adapting to enable connected vehicle technology and autonomous driving.
Technical Insights The 4 Stages of IoT Architecture Alec Jahnke Alec Jahnke, Sales Engineer, Digi International
 July 31, 2020 Iot applications produce data. And where there’s data, there needs to be an IoT architecture that tells the data where to go, what format to use, how to get there and what actions to take based upon this data.
Technical Insights IoT Architecture: Topology and Edge Compute Considerations Quinn Jones Quinn Jones, Senior Strategic Account Manager, Digi International
 July 22, 2020 Internet of Things (IoT) projects can be complex, as there are many decisions to make. For any IoT project, you need to acquire communication devices such as radios and gateways, connect those devices using one or more connection methods and protocols, and ensure the devices function as required. An IoT architecture is the end result of these decisions. 
IoT Trends Digi International Inc. Celebrates 35 Years of IoT Innovation Elizabeth Herberg Elizabeth Herberg, Director of Marketing, Digi International
 July 15, 2020 Digi is celebrating 35 years of being in business, delivering M2M and IoT solutions to customers worldwide, with a relentless focus on driving innovation and helping our customers to deploy mission critical solutions.
IoT Trends Digital Signage: Solving Challenges with Technology Brian Kirkendall Brian Kirkendall, Vice President, Product Management, Digi International
 July 02, 2020 Digital signage is a dynamic and growing market, supported by the growth of high-speed networks, improved communications technologies, and the ability of digital signage to engage and inform. The key to success in this industry is in solving the challenges of speed, reliability and security.
IoT Trends What Is Edge Computing? Digi International Digi International
 June 26, 2020 Edge computing is an Internet of Things (IoT) methodology that solves the challenges of latency and inefficiency in the process of transferring data between millions of connected devices and the cloud or data center. The simple idea behind edge compute is to manage data where it’s generated.
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