In targeting the IoT, ARM has gone well beyond its usual remit and is attempting to create an entire platform for its customers, incorporating development tools, multiple levels of security and the cloud-based mBed OS system to tie all the sensors, devices and gateways together, and secure them. It knows the real IoT power will lie in such frameworks and is keen to tie this to its processor platform, rather than ceding that point of control to Intel, or to a player higher up the stack, such as Canonical. The full release of mBed OS is not due until October, but the underlying mBed software and developer tools have been around for a while and will be implemented on various…