It’s Memorial Day, so pay respects where due and officially start your summer. What do many do when the sun gets hot? Go to the movies! Top Gun: The Later Years zoomed onscreen already. Coming soon: another Thor movie, the 15th and last film of the Jurassic World trilogy, and Brad Pitt as a retired assassin called Ladybug forced to do one last job on a Bullet Train in Japan. Now enjoy these trailers, er, hot newsbits, before the show starts.

From Finland we get the new Bittium Cellular IoT Solution that can upgrade the 2G or 3G connectivity of existing devices to 4G or 5G. It can also skip the gateway and go straight to the cloud if that’s a better option.

Need a development board with GPS and Wi-Fi onboard? Check out the new IoTFi board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 from DIY Electronics of London, now on Kickstarter and over-funded 7x already.

Readers in the Pacific region may already know that Indonesia’s IoT market is expected to reach $30 billion this year, with strong showings in the manufacturing, agriculture, and natural resources sectors.

From Indonesia to Indiana, this article from RCR Wireless covers a panel discussion at Purdue University between mayors of three Indiana cities about their smart city progress. Good news for citizens of South Bend, Columbus, and Fishers.

If you need to spy on spy gadgets, Lumos is the tool you need. Developed by some engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, the software works on a phone or laptop to identify and locate Wi-Fi connected devices like cameras for privacy-minded hotel and Airbnb guests. Sounds useful for finding rogue IoT devices at customer sites as well.

IoT helps even in Ukraine, as ELKO Ukraine becomes an Actility channel partner and provides LoRaWAN IoT management through the ThinkPark Enterprise platform.

Yes, rents are up at apartments and other multi-dwelling units (MDUs). Parks Associates found that 34% of U.S. broadband households are MDU residents, and property owners and managers are justifying higher rents by providing smart home devices. At least you get something for the extra cost, and 43% of MDU residents already have at least one smart home device.

Smart Buildings Technology highlights one of the maturity landmarks of IoT: the increasing need for network resiliency in OT just like in IT. Yes, you now must worry about your building getting hit with a DDoS attack.

Also from Parks Associates: telehealth and medical devices and wearables remain a growth industry. 55% of U.S. broadband households already own at least one connected health device, a 30% increase from 2020.

Smart Buildings Technology highlights one of the maturity landmarks of IoT: the increasing need for network resiliency in OT just like in IT. Yes, you now must worry about your building getting hit with a DDoS attack.

Kajeet, with managed IoT solutions in over 3,000 businesses, just launched Sentinel Insights, a cloud-based analytics tool that enhances its Sentinel IoT management platform.

KORE moved to a new location in Pittsford, N.Y., to expand its worldwide IoT Connectivity-as-a-Service operations as well as add additional space for its managed service business.

From our friends at Hackster.io:

Gamers, video editors, artists, and developers in many areas love, love, love macro keys to automate some operations. Build your own custom MacroPad hardware device with lighted buttons to speed those operations, powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico.