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The photographers and sources behind the pictures on Internet of Things News, and how the illustrations and diagrams are made.

The cover illustrations on this site, the social-sharing images and the diagrams inside the guides are drawn in code from the site's own palette; no stock art is involved. The photographs on the home page, the section pages and at the top of the guides are the work of the photographers below, published on Unsplash under the Unsplash License, which allows commercial use without attribution. We credit them anyway, because it is the right thing to do.

  • Solar panels and a telecommunications tower under a cloudy sky

    Solar panels and a communication tower

    Photo by ran liwen on Unsplash. Used on: home page hero.

  • Electronic components, a microcontroller board and sensors laid out on a table

    Flat lay of a circuit board and components

    Photo by Robin Glauser on Unsplash. Used on: learn index.

  • Close-up of a single-board computer on a dark table

    Single-board computer close-up

    Photo by Jainath Ponnala on Unsplash. Used on: ai meets things index.

  • Radio and cellular towers silhouetted against a sunset

    Towers at sunset

    Photo by Mario Caruso on Unsplash. Used on: news index.

  • Robotic arms assembling a car body on a factory line

    Robotic arms on an assembly line

    Photo by Lilian Do Khac on Unsplash. Used on: jobs index.

  • Network cables and servers in a data center rack

    Cable network in a data center

    Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash. Used on: glossary index.

  • Blue industrial robot arm on a factory floor

    Blue industrial robot arm in a factory

    Photo by Homa Appliances on Unsplash. Used on: industry use cases (home, learn index).

  • Aerial view of a dense city skyline by a lake

    Chicago from above

    Photo by Pedro Lastra on Unsplash. Used on: smart cities (home, learn index).

  • Drone spraying rows of green crops in a field

    Drone spraying a crop field

    Photo by DRONE EFT on Unsplash. Used on: agriculture (home, learn index).

  • A hand adjusting a digital wall thermostat

    Adjusting a wall thermostat

    Photo by HUUM on Unsplash. Used on: smart home (home, learn index).

  • A small white motion sensor in front of green foliage

    Motion sensor in front of foliage

    Photo by User_Pascal on Unsplash. Used on: sensors and devices (home).

  • Tall blue warehouse racks filled with cardboard boxes

    Warehouse racks

    Photo by Jacques Dillies on Unsplash. Used on: logistics (home, learn index).

  • A person checking the heart-rate monitor on a smartwatch

    Heart-rate monitor on a smartwatch

    Photo by Nik on Unsplash. Used on: guide: bluetooth low energy.

  • Close-up of a blue printed circuit board with chips and components

    Blue printed circuit board

    Photo by Umberto on Unsplash. Used on: guide: coap (and device constraints).

  • Rows of electricity meters stacked on a wall

    A wall of electricity meters

    Photo by Han-Hsing Tu on Unsplash. Used on: guide: device management and ota updates.

  • An engineer looking at a CAD drawing on a computer monitor

    CAD drawing on a monitor

    Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash. Used on: guide: digital twins.

  • Fibre-optic cables plugged into a network switch in a rack

    Fibre cables in a network switch

    Photo by Kirill Sh on Unsplash. Used on: guide: edge computing.

  • City high-rises disappearing into thick fog

    City in the fog

    Photo by Gian-Reto Tarnutzer on Unsplash. Used on: guide: edge vs cloud vs fog.

  • Strands of optical fibre glowing white and blue in the dark

    Optical fibre strands

    Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot architecture layers.

  • Several cellular towers against a cloudy blue sky

    Cellular towers under a cloudy sky

    Photo by Mudit Agarwal on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot connectivity overview.

  • A lattice tower carrying cellular antennas, seen from below

    Cellular antenna tower

    Photo by David Arrowsmith on Unsplash. Used on: guide: nb-iot and lte-m.

  • Analytics charts on a laptop screen

    Analytics dashboard on a laptop

    Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash. Used on: guide: the iot data pipeline.

  • A red padlock resting on a black computer keyboard

    Padlock on a keyboard

    Photo by FlyD on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot security fundamentals.

  • A small padlock and a set of keys resting on a keyboard

    Padlock and keys on a keyboard

    Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash. Used on: guide: device identity and pki.

  • A beige 1980s Apple computer with keyboard and mouse

    A 1980s personal computer

    Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash. Used on: guide: a short history of iot.

  • A wind turbine emerging from the fog at dawn

    Wind turbine at dawn

    Photo by Sander Weeteling on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot in energy; home page.

  • A bedside medical monitor showing vital signs

    Medical monitor with vital signs

    Photo by Jair Lázaro on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot in healthcare.

  • A modern glass building with a row of European Union flags

    European Union flags in Brussels

    Photo by paws and prints on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot security regulation.

  • A rural landscape with trees and a radio mast in the distance

    Radio mast in the countryside

    Photo by Nikolai Kolosov on Unsplash. Used on: guide: lorawan.

  • A black smart speaker on a table

    Smart speaker on a table

    Photo by Howard Bouchevereau on Unsplash. Used on: guide: ai agents for the smart home.

  • A small smart speaker next to a phone showing a home app

    Smart speaker and phone

    Photo by BENCE BOROS on Unsplash. Used on: guide: matter.

  • A white LED light bulb on a white table

    LED light bulb

    Photo by Ian Talmacs on Unsplash. Used on: guide: zigbee.

  • A touchscreen control panel on an industrial production machine

    Control panel on a production line

    Photo by Homa Appliances on Unsplash. Used on: guide: ai agents on the factory floor.

  • Two bullet surveillance cameras mounted on a concrete wall

    Two surveillance cameras

    Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash. Used on: guide: on-device computer vision.

  • Close-up of black metal gears on an industrial machine

    Industrial gears

    Photo by Isis França on Unsplash. Used on: guide: predictive maintenance.

  • Tweezers placing a tiny microchip on a green circuit board

    Placing a microchip with tweezers

    Photo by Vishnu Mohanan on Unsplash. Used on: guide: tinyml.

  • A yellow robotic arm with a mechanical hand

    Robotic arm with a mechanical hand

    Photo by Enchanted Tools on Unsplash. Used on: guide: what is aiot.

  • A bundle of blue network cables plugged into a switch

    Blue network cables

    Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash. Used on: guide: mqtt.

  • A server room with rows of network cabinets

    Server room with network cabinets

    Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash. Used on: guide: iot platforms.

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Headlines are set in Source Serif 4 by Frank Grießhammer for Adobe, released under the SIL Open Font License. The same typeface is embedded in the generated sharing images.

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