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IoT Design 2016, BeagleBoard.org: Expanding Possibilities for IoT Maker Pros, Build an Internet-Connected Wearable with Arduino and Cordova, Understand Risk in the Internet of Things: Why Would Someone Hack my toaster? AWS IoT: The Battle for the DeveloperTRANSCRIPT
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Design GuideBEGINS ON pg. 36
AWS IoT The battle for the developer
pg. 12
AVNET PG. 2
AYLA NETWORKSAyla IoT Platform for OEMs PG. 47
LeddarTech PG. 46
BeagleBoard.org: Expanding possibilities for IoT Maker Pros
pg. 16
Build an Internet-connected wearable with Arduino and Cordova
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Understand risk in the Internet of Things Why would someone hack my toaster?pg. 8
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TRANSFORMYOURIoT IDEAS
INTOREALITY
Cloud
12 Amazon enters battle for the developer with AWS IoT
platform, partnerships By Brandon Lewis, Assistant Managing Editor
Maker Pro
16 BeagleBoard-X15 keeps easy things easy, makes hard
things possible for IoT Maker ProsInterview with Jason Kridner, BeagleBoard.org
18 Crossing the DIY barrier: Your path to product
By Bill Pearson, Intel
20 How to build a smart home thermostat with WyzBee
By Apurva Peri, Redpine Signals
24 Build an Internet-connected Bluetooth wearable
with Arduino and CordovaBy Ian Jennings, PubNub
wearables
28 7 rules for designing wearable devices
By Kevin Kitagawa, Imagination Technologies
DEVICE MANAGEMENT
32 Moving toward plug & play:
Top 5 considerations for enterprise IoT integrationBy Jim Brandt, wot.io
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Security Understand the risk associated with the Internet of Things: Why would a hacker attack my toaster?By Thomas Cantrell, Green Hills Software
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COLUMNS
7 Watts new in wearablesBy Brandon Lewis, Assistant Managing Editor
35 WEB WIRE
IoT design guide
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Cloud
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Development Kits
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Industrial
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IoT Platform
43
Operating Systems and Tools
44
Protocol Stacks
45
Rugged
46
Sensors
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Smart Home
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Market analysis: I’d hate to burst your IoT bubble By Brandon Lewis, Assistant Managing Editor
The expansion of a semiconductor contraction By Ray Zinn, former Micrel CEO
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* provided by Red Hat certified partners
Control data
Intelligent gateway tierThousands of instances
Device tierMillions of instances
Sensors Controlpoints
Businessanalytics
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Man
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Man
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Business rules
Enterprise integration
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Other applications
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Data transport
Enterprise integration
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Man
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Red Hat Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JVM
The Red Hat® distributed architectural framework and stan-
dards-based solutions can help you transform big data gen-
erated by the Internet of Things (IoT) into meaningful and
usable information that increases productivity and deliv-
ers business results. The architectural framework addresses
design issues and technical challenges and helps your solution
meet the stringent scalability, reliability, and security require-
ments of IoT. The components within the framework use stan-
dards-based protocols and open source software for ultimate
flexibility and interoperability.
DEVICE TIER where Standards-based wired and wireless net-
working protocols are employed for connectivity, and stan-
dards-based data transport and messaging mechanisms are
used to forward raw data and exchange control information.
GATEWAY TIER acts as an intermediary that facilitates com-
munications, offloads processing functions, and drives action.
It also analyzes tactical data and executes business rules and
issues control information downstream.
DATACENTER AND CLOUD TIER performs large-scale data
computation and acts as a repository for data storage and
strategic analysis.
RED HAT’S IoT FOUNDATION INCLUDES:
• Red Hat JBoss® Middleware. Red Hat’s standards-based
middleware portfolio helps you accelerate IoT application
development, deployment, and performance, efficiently
integrate data and applications, and automate business
rules and processes.
• OpenShift by Red Hat. Red Hat’s flexible Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS) solution lets you quickly develop, host, and
scale IoT applications in a cloud environment.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. The world’s leading enterprise
Linux distribution creates a solid foundation for intelligent
systems solutions.
• Red Hat Storage Server. Red Hat Storage Server manages
unstructured data in physical, virtual, and cloud environ-
ments, combining file and object storage with a scale-
out architecture to manage petabyte-scale data growth
economically.
See www.redhat.com/en/insights/internet-of-things for more
information on building an IoT foundation with Red Hat open
source technology.
Extending the datacenter to the IoT
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RH0049-3
Internet of Things Red Hat Architecture
Management and SecurityRed Hat SatelliteRed Hat JBoss Operations NetworkRed Hat Enterprise VirtualizationIdentity ManagementRed Hat CloudFormsOpenShift by Red Hat
* provided by Red Hat certified partners
Control data
Intelligent gateway tierThousands of instances
Device tierMillions of instances
Sensors Controlpoints
Businessanalytics
Datacenter/cloud tierHundreds of instances
Data management
Dataintegration
App server
Datastorage
Datastorage
Hardware
Operatingsystem
Real-time data caching
Man
agem
ent
Business rules and BPM
Enterprise integration
Data transport
Hardware
Operatingsystem
Real-time data caching
Man
agem
ent
Business rules
Enterprise integration
Data transport
Datastorage
Control data
Mobile application platform
Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ,Red Hat Storage Client
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JVM
Analytics and BI*
Red Hat Storage, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid,Database*
Red Hat JBossData Virtualization
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
Red Hat JBoss BRMS,Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite
Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ,Red Hat Storage Client
Red Hat Storage
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
Red Hat JBoss BRMS
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ,Red Hat Storage Client
Other applications
Other cloud services
Handhelds
Hardware
Data transport
Enterprise integration
Operating system
Man
agem
ent
Sensors
Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Red Hat Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JVM
The Red Hat® distributed architectural framework and stan-
dards-based solutions can help you transform big data gen-
erated by the Internet of Things (IoT) into meaningful and
usable information that increases productivity and deliv-
ers business results. The architectural framework addresses
design issues and technical challenges and helps your solution
meet the stringent scalability, reliability, and security require-
ments of IoT. The components within the framework use stan-
dards-based protocols and open source software for ultimate
flexibility and interoperability.
DEVICE TIER where Standards-based wired and wireless net-
working protocols are employed for connectivity, and stan-
dards-based data transport and messaging mechanisms are
used to forward raw data and exchange control information.
GATEWAY TIER acts as an intermediary that facilitates com-
munications, offloads processing functions, and drives action.
It also analyzes tactical data and executes business rules and
issues control information downstream.
DATACENTER AND CLOUD TIER performs large-scale data
computation and acts as a repository for data storage and
strategic analysis.
RED HAT’S IoT FOUNDATION INCLUDES:
• Red Hat JBoss® Middleware. Red Hat’s standards-based
middleware portfolio helps you accelerate IoT application
development, deployment, and performance, efficiently
integrate data and applications, and automate business
rules and processes.
• OpenShift by Red Hat. Red Hat’s flexible Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS) solution lets you quickly develop, host, and
scale IoT applications in a cloud environment.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. The world’s leading enterprise
Linux distribution creates a solid foundation for intelligent
systems solutions.
• Red Hat Storage Server. Red Hat Storage Server manages
unstructured data in physical, virtual, and cloud environ-
ments, combining file and object storage with a scale-
out architecture to manage petabyte-scale data growth
economically.
See www.redhat.com/en/insights/internet-of-things for more
information on building an IoT foundation with Red Hat open
source technology.
Extending the datacenter to the IoT
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Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show edition of IoT Design Guide. I’m excited to be heading back to one of the world’s biggest tech bonanzas, and this time to have a print companion that proves I actually cover the technology there and don’t just show up to play with cool new toys.
At CES 2015, wearables were all the rage. In fact, most of the Sands Expo & Convention Center at The Venetian was dedicated to fitness trackers, health monitors, and early iterations of the smart watch, among other wearable tech, leading to high expectations for this new niche of personal computing devices over the ensuing year.
However, as 2015 progressed, that excitement was tempered. With the flop of Google Glass and a decidedly underwhelming reception for Apple’s iWatch, the market sputtered and all of a sudden we began to raise a sobering question: Are we solving problems that don’t exist? So far, the answer seems to be “yes.”
Take the smart watch, for example. Not to diminish the pioneering achievements of Apple and Samsung as the nature of technological evolution means we have to have the Motorola brick before we can fire up our iPhone 6s, but the problem with current smart watches is that they are extremely limited versions of the smartphones they tether to just a few inches away. In large part these restric-tions are the result of power limitations onboard the wearable platform itself, where more advanced sensor applica-tions such as voice recognition, indoor navigation, and new forms of medical or environmental monitoring require increasingly complex sensor processing algorithms, which in turn demand more
MIPS (or millions of instructions per second of processor performance). Of course, the more MIPS executed, the more power used by a wearable’s system-on-chip (SoC), meaning less time between charges for systems that currently only have an average battery life of “18 hours after an overnight charge,” like the Apple Watch.[1]
With energy harvesting still in its early stages (as discussed in my March 2015 column in Embedded Computing Design), this means that power consumption must be addressed at the SoC and algorithm levels. One way to achieve this is through multi-core SoCs with certain cores optimized for and dedicated to sensor processing, while others are reserved for general-purpose tasks. For example, the QuickLogic EOS3 sensor processing platform includes an ARM Cortex-M4 MCU, front-end sensor man-ager, and microDSP-like Flexible Fusion Engine (FFE), the latter of which handles the bulk of algorithm processing to free up the ARM core for a solution the company says provides 70 percent more compute performance at one-third the power of a typical Cortex-M4-based MCU (quicklogic.com/eos). One of several reasons this is possible is that the specialized FFE doesn’t move data between a register and the memory, which consumes 40 percent of the power on load/store MCU architectures like ARM. Using a similar technology leveraging QuickLogic’s FFE and optimized SenseMe algorithms, fitness wearable vendor Runtastic (recently acquired by Adidas) was able to achieve an average power consumption of 75 µW on its Moment watch, extending the battery life of a coin cell to six months.
Watching for wearable innovation at CES 2016For those interested, QuickLogic will have a presence at the MEMS Industry Group booth located in the Venetian (booth number 70536) and meeting suite MP25660 in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). As for myself, I’ll be zigzagging the LVCC and surrounding area January 6-8. Drop me a line at [email protected] to talk wearables, smart home, automotive, or other Internet of Things tech.
1. Apple. “General Battery Information.” November 9, 2015. http://www.apple.com/watch/battery.html.
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Security
Why would a hacker attack my toaster? This question came up recently from an individual trying to discount
security and the Internet of Things (IoT). Is it reasonable to think that a hacker would attack a toaster, or does it
verge on the absurd?
Understand the risk associated with the Internet of Things: Why would a hacker attack my toaster?By Thomas Cantrell linkedin.com/in/thomascantrell
The IoT contains security-critical nodes, such as those running power grids, medical devices, and automobiles. Clearly, we should demand that security be considered in these designs. Yet, it also contains consumer electronics that don’t appear to have the same safety and security concerns. Should consumers and manufacturers be concerned about security in these devices as well?
Let’s explore this topic further by ex ploring the threats presented to a hypothetical Internet-enabled toaster and ask three questions:
1. Are toasters and other consumer IoT devices exploitable?2. Why would a hacker attack my toaster?3. Is it a problem if a hacker attacks my toaster?
It’s definitely worth addressing the question of whether toasters and other consumer IoT devices are exploitable. This is certainly the case because current devices have numerous vulnerabilities and frequently remain on the Internet unpatched many years after the vulnerability’s discovery.
Current consumer devices on the IoT have numerous vulnerabilities, validated by a 2014 study by HP’s Fortify Division. The team picked ten of the most popular
consumer IoT devices and found an alarming number of vulnerabilities on each device. In fact, 70 percent of the devices didn’t correctly encrypt com-munications to the cloud; 60 percent raised security concerns with their web interface; and 60 percent didn’t use any encryption when downloading software updates. This study demonstrates how serious vulnerabilities are on today’s consumer IoT devices.
Second, consumer IoT devices fre-quently don’t receive critical updates. Devices with known vulnerabilities may continue to be vulnerable on the Internet for 5 to 15 years after the vul-nerability is discovered and could be fixed. For example, a recent vulnerability known as Misfortune Cookie allowed
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Opportunistic attacksOpportunistic attacks are those that are focused on where the attackers believe they can get the biggest economic gain. The attacks on Target, stealing information from 40 million credit cards, fall into this camp. The attackers likely didn’t care what spe-cific organization they attacked, but rather were looking for economic gains. The economic gains turned out to be substantial, as each credit card sold on the black market for $25 to $40.
Another area of opportunistic attacks is related to malware-infected machines used to send spam. These machines are joined together to create networks of infected machines, known as botnets. One botnet, the Srizbi botnet, has about 450,000 infected computers that are believed to send 40 to 60 percent of worldwide spam. For every machine, it doesn’t really matter whether the infected computer is running air traffic control at a busy airport, the desktop machine of a Wall Street trader, or is used for e-mail by a grandma. The botnet attackers don’t care about the purpose of the machine; it’s simply an infected node on the Internet.
Given this definition, it’s actually plausible that a hacker would infect a toaster. Truthfully, the attacker doesn’t really care that it’s a toaster at all, but rather that it’s a device that can be easily exploited on the Internet and can bring economic gain.
The economicsSince opportunistic attacks are about underlying economics, it’s important to under-stand whether the economics of the situation justify the attack. How much money could an attacker expect to make through a single infected toaster, and how can an attacker make money from attacking a toaster? There are two obvious ways – obtaining personal information inside the home network, and using the toaster to send spam and conduct denial-of-service attacks.
First, there’s value by obtaining personal information inside the home network. However, personal information is worth far less on the black market than many would think. A social security number is worth only about $5 on the black market. The login to a bank account is worth only 2 to 4 percent of the balance. And access to a webcam is only worth $1. The price of these things on the black market is quite low.
Second, there’s value by the attacker remotely controlling the toaster along with a network of infected machines to send spam and conduct denial-of-service attacks.
an attacker to remotely control an em- bedded system. The web server vendor introduced the vulnerability in 2002 and fixed it in 2005. A recent Internet scan found that of the 133,660 publicly accessible hosts running the affected web server, more than 50 percent still ran vulnerable copies of the code. Ten years later, these devices remain unpatched and vulnerable on the public Internet!
These two reasons cause security expert Bruce Schneier to remark, “We’re at a crisis point now with regard to the secu-rity of embedded systems, where com-puting is embedded into the hardware itself – as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there’s no good way to patch them.”
Consumer IoT systems today are sadly vulnerable. However, this may be of little concern if consumer IoT systems aren’t an interesting target. So the next ques-tion that needs to be asked is, “Why would a hacker attack my toaster?”
To explore, we will classify attacks into two categories: targeted and opportu-nistic. Targeted attacks are those where the attacker targets a person or an orga-nization of high value, such as the recent hack of Sony Pictures. As best as we know, hackers targeted Sony due to the impending release of the movie “The Interview,” which mocked the North Korean government. The hackers had no interest in hacking other studios at the time; they hacked Sony because the particular organization was of high value to the attackers.
Other attacks demonstrate this same theme: Stuxnet was targeted at the Natanz nuclear plant in Iran; it was designed to ignore other industrial control systems. Various celebrities in the United States have had private photos leaked; the same attackers were not interested in leaking photos from random people. In both of these instances, the person or organization was of high value to the attackers. Given this definition, it’s unlikely to see any reason that an attacker would target an individual’s personal toaster, as this would not be of high value to attackers.
Figure 1 | The Misfortune Cookie vulnerability introduced in 2002 and fixed in 2005 is still running on more than half of the publicly accessible hosts using the affected web server more than ten years later.
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Such a network is known as a botnet. Renting a botnet on one black market site costs $200 per day for 1,000 infected hosts. This means that a single toaster would be worth 20 cents a day or $6 a month. Assuming the toaster would be infected on average for six months, the total value would be about $36. Again, this value is low.
Combining the ability for an attacker to monetize personal information and the toaster running as a botnet, a reason-able estimate is that the toaster is worth $50 for an attacker. This is clearly not valuable enough for an attacker to target.
The cost of an attacker’s time to design an attack is likely thousands of dollars. Therefore, attacking a single toaster doesn’t make good economic sense for the attacker.
However, if the attacker can attack many Internet-enabled toasters of the same brand, the economics change. If a manufacturer sells 500,000 of a certain model of Internet-enabled toasters, then things become interesting. If the attacker were able to infect 5 percent of them, there is now $1.25M to be gained. If the attacker were able to infect all of them, it would be $25M. An attacker, therefore, has the incentive to attack many toasters and join them together.
In short, hackers have an incentive to create an army of malware-infected toasters. The key to this attack is scale. Just as the Szribi botnet, many infected nodes on the IoT can bring a large amount of value to the attacker.
Since there’s an economic case for a hacker to attack an Internet-enabled toaster, it still can’t be taken for granted that this is an actual problem. Maybe a malware-infected toaster will just be “infected” and nobody will be the wiser. This is one possi-bility, but there are a number of other options that could also occur. The toaster could:
õ Slow your Internet õ Steal your personal information õ Fail to turn on õ Burn your toast õ Be publicly known as “hacked” õ Fail to run safety software and start a fire
For a consumer, these scenarios range from those unlikely to cause the toaster to be blamed (slows your Internet, steals your personal information) to those that are downright scary (publicly known as “hacked,” fails to run safely and starts a fire). These scenarios could be very much a problem.
One scenario deserves special attention: the toaster fails to run safely and starts a fire. A colleague experienced this when his toaster jammed and erupted in flames, scorching the kitchen. This was a mechanical failure, but as toasters are added to the IoT, the heating elements will increasingly be controlled by software. If an attacker infects a toaster, the attacker could even cause a house to burn down. This scenario is scary for both the consumer and the manufacturer.
If we consider the above outcomes for the consumer, we can see two possibilities: nobody notices the device is infected or people notice that the device doesn’t func-tion correctly or is infected and they demand a correction of the problem. In the former situation, the likely outcomes are the slowing of your Internet, theft of your personal information, or nothing. In the latter situation, the outcomes might be the toaster fails to turn on or off, you’re publicly known as “hacked,” or safety software fails to run and a fire starts.
How expensive could this second scenario be for the manufacturer? There are four likely expenses that might occur: warranty replacements, product recalls, brand tarnishing, and possibly product liability losses. Rough estimates of the costs:
õ Warranty replacements – $1.75M, if it costs $70 to replace 5 percent of the toasters.
õ Product recalls – $22.5M, if it costs $60 to recall 75 percent of the toasters. õ Brand tarnishing – $12.5M to $40B: If the brand is tarnished, the manufacturer
will be forced to discount the price to sell the same quantity. The manufacturer might only need to discount all toasters for the next year ($12.5M), or possibly discount all products ($40B).
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Figure 2 | Attacking a single Internet-enabled toaster may not make economic sense for an attacker given the low value of personal information and spam.
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Figure 3 | The ramifications of a compromised Internet-enabled toaster can range from slowing your Internet connection to starting a fire.
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many similar devices rather than targeted attacks of individual devices. Opportunistic attacks are likely the greater threat for most Things in the IoT today.
We live in the convergence of massive growth in the IoT and a steady increase in cybercrime. Given this convergence and our analysis, it’s important to consider any Thing as a potential target. It’s also important to consider that the device could be exploited simply because it’s connected to the Internet, as enough connected devices bring value to an attacker. Therefore, it’s critically important to consider and think deeply through security for any device on the Internet of Things. And thus we can prevent the otherwise-inevitable army of malware-infected toasters.
Thomas Cantrell is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, and an expert in networking protocols and embedded security. During his tenure at Green Hills Software he was a member of the company’s IoT Security Advisors team. He has taught both at industry conferences and in the classroom, serving as an adjunct lecturer for computer
science classes at Westmont College. Thomas holds a bachelor’s in computer science from Westmont College, and an MBA from UCLA.
Green Hills Software www.ghs.com @GreenHillsPR linkedin.com/company/
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õ Product liability losses – Hard to estimate, but could be extremely costly. This number is especially big if it includes liability related to fires started by infected toasters.
Given these costs and risks, it seems wise for Internet-enabled toaster makers to care about the toaster being hacked. Given the risks, a consumer of Internet-enabled toasters should care as well.
Coming back to our original questions, we must conclude three things: toasters and other consumer IoT devices are cer-tainly exploitable. A hacker does have an incentive to attack many toasters as part of an opportunistic attack. It’s likely a costly problem for both the consumer and the manufacturer if a hacker attacks many toasters from that manufacturer.
Beyond toastersAn Internet-enabled toaster is only one example. It helps illustrate the reasoning behind opportunistic attacks infecting
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Amazon entered an increasingly crowded space with the launch of its AWS IoT platform, but through acquisitions,
industry partnerships, and its inherent size and scale, the company is well positioned to become the cloud
backend of choice for Internet of Things developers and enterprises.
Take a close look at the activities of big tech companies over the past 18 months and you begin to see strategic posi-tioning across the Internet of Things (IoT) value chain. Organizations like Apple and Google continue work on smart home interoperability frameworks like HomeKit and Thread, while Microsoft, IBM, and Facebook revamp their OS (Windows 10), analytics (Watson), and SDK (Parse) offerings, respectively. Many of them control an entry point into our daily lives with their own smartphone, tablet, or mobile app, and almost all of them have an undeniable presence in the cloud. A little connecting of the dots, and it’s becoming clearer by the day who’s fighting for what, and where.
However, one notable omission from the list has been Amazon, whose Web Services (AWS) platform is widely consid-ered the 800-pound gorilla in the cloud computing space. AWS is comprised of a suite of compute, networking, storage, management, analytics, and other tools delivered to users via an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model that boosts scalability while dramatically reducing costs. Given the already widespread integration of AWS products like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) with business sys-tems across the world, packaging these capabilities in an IoT developer offering that eases device-to-cloud connectivity would seem like a no-brainer, right?
Apparently. This October Amazon announced a beta release of its new managed cloud platform – AWS IoT (http://aws.amazon.com/iot).
AWS IoT: The architectureOne of the foundations of the AWS IoT architecture is MQTT, a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol that Amazon acquired expertise in through the pur-chase of 2lemetry last May. Within the context of AWS IoT, MQTT com-municates with an AWS IoT message broker (also referred to as the AWS IoT Device Gateway) that sends messages related to a specific topic to all clients subscribed to that topic, including the AWS IoT cloud platform. Based on the
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Partnership: The value prop for “thing” developersSo what does this mean for IoT developers? The obvious benefits are the size and global presence of AWS, which can support IoT rollouts at massive scale (billions of devices and trillions of messages, according to the company) and across geographies (AWS servers are located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as in Brazil and Australia). AWS IoT pricing also helps reduce barriers to entry for makers while remaining affordable for growing IoT businesses with an entry-level tier that provides 250,000 free 512-byte messages per month for one year, and enterprise plans starting at $5 per 1 million messages (depending on region).
But beyond cloud connectivity and services, Amazon offers little support for IoT devices or tailored platforms for specific vertical markets. To fill these gaps, Amazon partnered with several vendors in the embedded engineering space leading up to the AWS IoT announcement, including microcontroller vendor Renesas (http://am.renesas.com) and real-time operating system (RTOS) supplier Micrium (www.micrium.com). Both companies’ relationships with Amazon are a result of the 2lemetry acquisition, but according to Christian Légaré, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Micrium, today’s partnership is about showing “customers a complete path from the end device up to whatever backend services, and then back to the end device.”
data within a particular message, the AWS IoT Rules Engine can then be used to facilitate interactions between “things” and various backend AWS ser-vices, which can be integrated on an à la carte basis (Figure 1). For example, developers can create rules that route messages to a DynamoDB table; push notifications can be issued with Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS); real-time data processing can be performed using Amazon Kinesis; functions can be invoked from AWS Lambda.
Another powerful feature of the AWS IoT platform is “Thing Shadows” through which virtual copies of devices regis-tered to AWS IoT are stored in a JSON document. This enables persistent states to be maintained across systems, for instance during periods of intermittent device connectivity.
All communications over AWS IoT are protected by enterprise-grade mutual authentication, meaning that a dual SSL connection must be established between servers and clients before messages can be transmitted.
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“When Amazon launched AWS IoT they wanted to have compatible products avail-able so that makers or hobbyists or developers that wanted to connect something to AWS IoT could do that,” says Légaré. “This is why Micrium worked with one of our silicon partners, in this case Renesas, to develop a kit available on amazon.com that comes preloaded with Micrium software and allows you to connect to AWS IoT in an evaluation system.
“There’s a lot of work we’re doing to improve or add enhancements to this ser-vice offering,” he continues. “Right now we’re working with the Amazon SDK that was designed for large platforms, so we had to massage it so it works well with an embedded device. This is normal because the IT guys view the world as if it were a Wintel world, meaning Windows and Intel, or a Lintel world, meaning Linux and Intel. In the embedded space there’s no such thing as Wintel or Lintel. There are all kinds of hardware from the silicon vendors, and there are all kinds of peripherals and tools and compilers and real-time operating systems, so it’s not the same thing. Now, we’re really helping Amazon get their offerings in a format that’s helpful for the people designing and developing embedded devices that will become “things” in the IoT. Besides adapting the SDK, we’re going to be working on adding firmware over the air capabilities, adding device lifecycle management provisioning, registering, and all that to show how you can simplify the embedded device, connect it to AWS, pick the services you want in AWS, and then build your end-to-end system, including mobile apps.”
The AWS IoT-enabled kit from Renesas and Micrium is the Renesas Demonstration Kit (RDK) for the RX63N microcontroller, which includes multiple communications and I/O interfaces, a MEMS accelerometer, onboard LCD, and smart home gateway demo running on Micrium Spectrum software, says Semir Haddad, Marketing Director, MCU and MPU Products and Solutions, Renesas Electronics America (Figure 2). The combination of AWS IoT with a platform that provides low power, connectivity, data processing, security, and software “makes for a kit that is relevant to the IoT,” he adds.
“The takeaway from the AWS announcement is that the business model seems attractive and all the tools are available from Amazon at a very limited cost,” Haddad says. “They provide a platform the same way Renesas and Micrium provide a platform with our products and the Micrium Spectrum software. It makes it easier and lower cost to develop IoT applications, and this is going to spark the development of new IoT solutions.”
Enabling the enterprise IoTOutside of makers and entry-level developers, AWS IoT yields substantial gains for professionals and the enterprise as well. In addition to the Amazon cloud investment that saves organizations from building and managing their own server infrastructure, AWS IoT also enables businesses to focus on core competencies that add value for their customers. For example, Ayla Networks (www.aylanetworks.com) is an AWS technology partner that leverages Amazon’s backend in its IoT Cloud Fabric, an agile application enablement solution designed for OEMs building connected systems (Figure 3). Using AWS and, now AWS IoT, as a baseline, Ayla combines pro-ficiency in embedded resources, mobile development, and DevOps with knowledge of Amazon services in commercial-grade IoT platforms for manufacturers who may not be well versed in cloud development or edge connectivity protocols like MQTT, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi.
“When we started Ayla, the recognition we had was that if you leave each part separate for the Internet of Things, the market won’t take off,” says Dave Friedman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ayla Networks. “The view was an embedded developer doesn’t do cloud, they don’t do big data and certifications, and they typically don’t understand Berkeley sockets and networking.
“Say you’re building a connected ‘fill-in-the-blank,’” he continues. “The typical team at a company might have very similar capabilities in working on micro-controllers and adding in sensors and LCDs and so on, but not a lot of these other parts. As Amazon has always done, AWS started as a set of basic capabilities that they keep building out, and they’re providing more of those parts now that can be woven together to create a fin-ished product. Microsoft Azure is doing a lot of the same things as AWS, but Amazon is putting more parts together so each developer doesn’t have to start from scratch.”
It’s the Amazon focus on infrastructure and cloud services that permits Ayla to create differentiated products and services. The result is a mutually benefi-cial partnership that also advances the IoT industry.
“If Amazon didn’t exist, Ayla would have been spending $5-10 million a year more,” Friedman explains. “The investment from the IaaS guys allows us to focus on the high-value-add capa-bilities for our end customers. When you get into the real complexity of how to make multiple different radios talk, like a ZigBee and a Z-Wave and a Bluetooth and a Wi-Fi, there are additional net-working challenges that companies like Ayla will solve long, long before the infrastructure-as-a-service guys do.
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Figure 2 | The RDK for RX63N development kit from Renesas and Micrium offers a range of expansion capabilities, supports the Micrium Spectrum software stack, and is compatible with the AWS IoT cloud.
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getting that much fuller. But for devel-opers, the more alternatives the better, especially with so much room to grow for “things” in the IoT.
“A lot of people are asking themselves, ‘How should I do IoT?’ Now you can test your idea with this at zero cost for the cloud services,” Légaré says. “Amazon is able to abstract complexity and they have a nice user interface on each of their products. If you just want the MQTT broker from AWS IoT you can do that and put rules in the engine and it’s fairly easy to do. So Mr. and Mrs. Developer at home can do a proof of concept, and large corporations that want to deploy a large-scale commercial service can do similar things with the exact same tools. It’s a nice way to get into IoT.”
Additional resources:Hands-on cloud connectivity, debug, and management. www.embedded-computing.com/25956-hands-on-cloud-connectivity-debug-monitoring-and-management.
Amazon launches IoT platform, embedded responds with off-the-shelf dev kits. http://iotdesign.embedded-computing.com/2445-amazon-launches-iot-platform-embedded-responds-with-off-the-shelf-dev-kits.
“It’s a good, solid partnership for us, but also for them as they aim to get into IoT. Since 100 percent of the transactions on Ayla’s platform are AWS transactions, it cre-ates a great partnership because we’re not competing. We have a similar and singular goal to get every manufacturer in the world running on Amazon,” he adds.
The battle for the developerWith the release of AWS IoT, the new Amazon Echo smart home gateway, and the possibility of Kindles running as mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) platforms, Amazon’s intentions are becoming apparent, and the crowded IoT space looks to be
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About Ayla NetworksAyla Networks provides the leading application platform–as–a–service (PaaS) for the Internet of Things. It is a comprehensive software solution that transforms everyday products into intelligent, interactive products quickly, easily, and economically.
The Ayla IoT Platform combines innovative software and networking technologies with cloud-based platforms and digital information services, and supports best-in-class hardware from leading component vendors.
Our streamlined approach allows manufacturers to integrate Ayla connectivity into products without substantial design modifications or changes to existing business models, and in a way that consumers will understand and appreciate.
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Figure 2: End-to-End Architecture of the Ayla IoT PlatformFigure 3 | Ayla Networks’ IoT Cloud Fabric is a configurable IoT application enablement platform designed for OEMs that provides connectivity to any type of product. IoT Cloud Fabric is based on the AWS cloud infrastructure.
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BEAGLEBOARD-X15 keeps easy things easy, makes hard things possible for IoT Maker ProsInterview with Jason Kridner @jadon | github.com/jadonk | linkedin.com/in/jkridner | youtube.com/user/jadonk
One of the most successful families of open-source hardware for Internet of Things (IoT) prototyping,
BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, BeagleBoard, and BeagleBoard-xM have been joined by the BeagleBoard-X15,
a high-performance yet flexible addition equipped with the cores and connectivity to show developers what’s
possible on modern commercial hardware. In this interview with BeagleBoard.org Co-Founder and Board Member
Jason Kridner, he explains the impetus behind the new Beagle, a new logo licensing program that is expanding
the BeagleBoard.org community, and the role of DIY platforms as building blocks for IoT.
How do you see the maker and IoT markets coalescing?
KRIDNER: There are a lot of integration challenges when it comes to the IoT world; last-mile challenges that exist both in the home and in the industrial/enterprise space. The DIY move-ment is allowing people to prototype a lot of different solutions ahead of time for that last stage.
A complete IoT system often involves cooperation among many different businesses. As a solution provider in the DIY or maker space, we enable individuals to produce something on their own and make something fun to play with, but for the professional developer it means they can actually try out an integrated solution before making all the necessary business deals to make it a commercial reality.
The other part of it is just building awareness and demand. IoT is a new market space, and not everyone knows why they might want an Internet-connected toaster. When people start publishing these DIY projects that automate their home air conditioning system and add certain features, it allows us to see where connectivity is actually adding value. By testing the waters first in the maker movement and building up demand for the features, there’s room for professional developers to come along and put the finishing touches on connected devices and pull together those experiences that the end consumer really wants.
Also, it’s not in a vacuum or an either/or situation where you’re either a hobbyist making stuff in your basement or you’re a professional building end products. You see the professionals reaching out to the community to help in the product defini-tion and to move the technology forward. A good example is Autodesk who has done this with their recent Ember SLA 3D printer design based on BeagleBone Black’s open hardware design. There’s a huge connection between the hobbyists and
engineers. I think the alpha engineers and alpha makers are one and the same. They make the product definition decisions, resolve the engineering challenges, and really lead the way in our industry. These alpha nerds love their job so much that they’re going and playing with the technology on the week-ends. So it’s certainly more than just hobbyists getting involved in the maker movement.
BeagleBoard.org recently announced the BeagleBoard-X15. What’s new over previous generations of Beagles, and how do some of those new features suit the IoT developer?
KRIDNER: We’ve had two product lines at BeagleBoard.org for some time, the BeagleBoard line and the mint-tin-sized BeagleBone line. The BeagleBoard-X15 is really the “what if?” machine that updates our BeagleBoard line with a huge leap in processing power and connectivity. We built on our experience with people building IoT products with the BeagleBone Black and our history with the BeagleBoard.org community. We really tried to give them a tool that solves all of the “what if” ques-tions. It removes all the barriers. So if it’s compute performance, we’ve jumped up now to dual 1.5 GHz Cortex-A15 cores, and that’s a really big jump in performance, especially for code that doesn’t parallelize well. By having these very fast cores that are also power-efficient ARM processors we’re boosting the general CPU performance. If you have something does that parallelize well it’s probably going to run really nicely on a DSP, so we’ve got two fast floating-point DSP cores on there and we’ve made them easy to program with OpenCL. If you need ultra-low-latency we have four programmable real-time units (PRUs) with 5 ns latency that are fast enough to create soft-ware peripherals. For a lot of control tasks people want the Cortex-M4 processors so we have those on there. We’ve got 2D, 3D, and video graphics accelerators. There’s pretty much a core for any task. We put a whole bunch of cores in here to be able to tune to whatever job you need done.
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We don’t think you have to be a professional by any means to utilize the BeagleBoard–X15, but there are a lot of expert-level hobbyists and this is about making the technology more accessible to all levels of experience. We’re very much about keeping the easy things easy and making the hard things pos-sible. You’ve got a whole lot more processing capability in here and a whole lot more connectivity as well with PCI Express, USB 3.0, eSATA and mSATA for storage, and dual Gigabit Ethernet.
It would be really easy for a hobbyist to pick this up and turn it into an ultra-high-performance media center, but an expert is going to pick this up and turn it into a self-driving car. The tools are there to do it, and we’re using essentially the same tech-nology that’s used in automotive safety and entertainment sys-tems. When you need that analytics and interfacing at the IoT end node, the –X15 is that gateway, the home server or indus-trial server that really allows you to do the number crunching and handle all of the network traffic and aggregation. We’re now exposing that to the individual user.
How else is BeagleBoard.org growing into the IoT space?
KRIDNER: The Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT program announced that the BeagleBone Black and Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green are compatible with the Microsoft Azure IoT suite. Also, a Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green starter kit bundles several sensor modules specifically for the Amazon Web Services IoT platform. So you see that, for the vast majority of IoT solution providers out there, we’re giving them a place to consolidate support. We have a huge list of IoT ecosystem part-ners, and if you look in the wild pretty much everyone out there supports BeagleBone Black. Whether it’s PubNub or Weaved or Bug Labs, they’re solving somewhat different problems. For example, resin.io solving the distribution of images and con-tainer technology or Canonical with the Snappy Ubuntu Core taking the container technology to another level by creating an app market so essentially anyone develop an app store for their devices. They’re all using BeagleBone Black as a reference.
We are now extending access to this huge open ecosystem with our logo-licensing program. System developers are able to build off of our open hardware designs, work with us to verify design compatibility, and integrate support in our community-developed software images. Once it’s sufficiently verified we essentially pronounce compatibility through a logo license. The first BeagleBoard-compatible logo licensee you see out there is the Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green, and other folks are now coming in and doing similar things where they can add innovation through the community but still let people know that BeagleBoard experience is going to be there, which really adds a lot of value.
What are your five-year predictions for the relationship between maker and IoT?
KRIDNER: When you come to the integration stuff it is very much about standards. Without the IEEE and various standards bodies we would be in some horrible situations if we couldn’t
receive TV signals or communicate on our cell phones or plug in USB devices and have them just work. In the IoT space there’s a lot of room for de facto standards and things that just work. So you get into this situation where there may be a great Internet-connected thermostat and an alarm system that knows when I’m moving around in the house, but they don’t talk to each other. When people can build their own, they’ll replace their alarm system with one that does know how to talk to their thermostat by replacing that one component that’s bad or not communicating with the rest of the system. In the IoT space the gaps are so glaring and the need is so prevalent that when you empower individuals to make those things, they’ll get made, and the de facto standards will start to emerge.
Like with the open-source software movement, they were solving their own problems. We’re providing people with the tools to also solve their own problems. Heck, we’re less than two years out from Beagles printing Beagles. So we’ll see that maturity come in the DIY space where they essentially become building blocks for connectivity within the home, the car, the enterprise, and in industry.
Jason Kridner is Co-Founder and a Board Member of the BeagleBoard.org Foundation.
BeagleBoard.org www.beagleboard.org @beagleboardorg linkedin.com/grps/BeagleBoardorg-1474607 facebook.com/beagleboard
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Additional Resources:Books specifically on BeagleBone Black: bit.ly/bbb-books.BeagleBoard-X15 information: beagleboard.org/x15Autodesk Ember: beagleboard.org/project/emberBeagleBoard.org logo license program: beagleboard.org/logo
Figure 1 | The BeagleBoard-X15 includes processor cores ranging from dual 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A15s and dual Cortex-M4s to two 750 MHz Texas Instruments C66x DSP cores and four programmable real-time units (PRUs) to go along with a variety of connectivity and expansion options for IoT developers.
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Programming and portabilityIf you’ve been cruising around the Arduino world during your prototyping efforts, moving from prototype to product is where you might start running into some issues. Arduino-based code is great for doing proofs of concept, and to a limited effect it can be used commercially. But things become more complex in commercial product design, where security, connectivity, manageability, and hardware all become critical components in the process.
A variety of programming languages and integrated development environments (IDEs) work throughout the Intel product line, but the most important point to under-stand is that having transferable code will prevent you from reinventing the wheel when moving to the end-product stage.
Both the C/C++ and Python languages have advantages in IoT, particularly on the sensor level. A majority of the time, sensors and other base connections are going to be up and running in C/C++ or Python without significant fuss, and Python also works well moving data from the hardware to other destinations, or even pushing to Node.js server-side web applications. Beginning your path to product firmly entrenched in C/C++, Python, or Node.js will pay great dividends when moving to a product phase.
Connectivity contrastConnectivity is the next major issue in the transition from DIY to commercial platforms, as many DIY solutions have rudimentary connection types. On the DIY level, you will generally experience basic sensors that are hardwired and localized, whereas on the commercial level you will see that going hardwired is more difficult due to proximity
Crossing the DIY barrier: Your path to productBy Bill Pearson @billpearson linkedin.com/in/billpearson2
Over the last couple of years the Internet of Things (IoT) world has become increasingly easier to navigate. We’ve seen great attempts at products that show much promise, and this ability to innovate, to prototype with ease draws many to the IoT domain. However, a common issue in the IoT community is the process of scaling a great project from prototype to secure, commercial-grade solution.
We have engaged with many DIY enthu-siasts who started their journey using an Intel Edison or Galileo board. While prototyping means much more than getting sensors to work, prototyping an IoT solution on one of these boards is easy, as a wide range of sensor libraries, debugging options, and fairly universal Yocto Project and Arduino support make for an extensive development toolbox at this level. For many, Arduino support alone makes for an easy entry into IoT.
What happens when you want to take your prototype to product?Programming language selection, con-nectivity architectures, and hardware design are all quite important early on the path to an IoT product, and each can derail the development process. Without careful consideration, these can result in the need to create a second prototype before porting over to com-mercial equipment.
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Programming a DIY board is usually fairly simple, since you typically run simple code on a single processing thread. What happens when that one thread is not enough? Commercial-level gateways regularly employ four-core processors with the RAM to match for real-time analytics and increased sensor density, as trends continue to show a demand for more data processing performance at the edge.
Cloud(less)IoT solutions need not follow the external cloud paradigm. By using Intel IoT Gateways and edge devices, you may be able to keep your data local without ever touching an external cloud, saving you time and money. Look to pathways that keep your data within the system, can provide web support, and still provide live information in a timely manner.
Completing the pathNow that you have moved to a commercially viable, working prototype, what do you do with all the data? With the right solution there is so much to do. Proper planning from the start will both streamline and simplify your prototyping efforts, and hope-fully prevent the creation of several prototypes where only one is necessary and cost effective. Understanding the commercial IoT world is important when you are trying to productize your ideas. Choose your solutions wisely for a smooth path to product.
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and availability. Commercial-level sen-sors may not function in the same way as a base DIY model because, for instance, a simple temperature sensor can present significant coding, power, connection, and security challenges in a wireless remote model. Furthermore, wiring a home is much easier than a fac-tory, so sensitivity to where sensors will be deployed is also quite important.
Hardware disparity at scaleScalability is one of the most important factors in the development process, and a key problem area when trying to move a DIY-based solution to the product level. Therefore, it is important to ensure that your design and hardware are a rea-sonable match.
On commercial solutions such as an Intel IoT Gateway, hardware is also designed differently. Generally, there are no I/O headers available to pin or solder to, though other connection options may be available for physical hardware. Power requirements may also be higher, as some gateways operate on as many as 24 volts.
Your Internet of Things (IoT) needs reliable building blocks. We have them.RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures a complete suite of robust, scalable board-level and system-level IoT solutions. Our comprehensive products give developers the tools they need to link valuable data to the people who need it. Whether it’s off-the-shelf or completely custom – for your embedded IoT needs, RTD is a one-stop shop. Visit www.rtd.com to learn more.
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Maker Pro – Smart Home
The following steps describe how to effortlessly build an end-to-end application that remotely monitors and
controls heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems (HVAC) using WyzBee and its add-on THINGS.
The remote thermostat application utilizes WyzBee’s inherent multiprotocol wireless abilities and advanced
optimization techniques to achieve design efficiency.
How to build a smart home thermostat with WyzBeeBy Apurva Peri linkedin.com/in/apurva-peri-575a1248
WyzBee is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform that includes hard-ware boards with integrated sensing, computing, communication, and power management; an application develop-ment environment; cloud software and services frameworks; as well as a product synthesis solution for creating intelligent connected systems, such as a smart home thermostat.
Building a smart home thermostat in - cludes provisioning WyzBee over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and configuring the Wi-Fi parameters so WyzBee can connect to the selected network. Once on the
network, WyzBee can periodically transmit data collected from its onboard temperature sensor to the cloud. The cloud runs user-defined logic to determine how the incoming data compares with user-defined parameters and alerts the user of breaches in thresh-olds via phone call or email. The user can now use the application on his or her mobile device to send control commands to WyzBee. WyzBee can process these commands and use a relay communicate them to the HVAC system via a standard two-wire interface.
To develop a WyzBee-enabled thermostat, developers will need:
õ WyzBee board – A multiprotocol wireless IoT platform that includes onboard sensors
õ Display THING – A capacitive touch display õ Relay THING – A power relay to electrically control the HVAC system õ Battery THING – A rechargeable battery to provide power to the system õ WyzBee Workbench – Tools for optimization and quick debugging õ A smartphone
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THING integrationThe WyzBee THING expansion headers accommodate a host of symbiotic devices, with a number of peripherals – called “THINGS” – including speech, GSM, GPS, capacitive touch display, rechargeable battery, and additional sensors.
Integrating the Display, Battery, and Relay THINGS with the WyzBee board is as simple as plugging one into the other based on the pin configurations (Figure 1). API’s to initialize the THINGS and interface with WyzBee for communication over digital and analog peripherals are required and can be downloaded from www.wyzbee.com/downloads-and-support/downloads.
WyzBee’s onboard temperature sensor collects temperature data continuously over I2C, which will eventually be transmitted to the cloud.
Device provisioningFundamental to any IoT device is connectivity, and the WyzBee platform natively incorporates wireless interfaces. The WiSeMCU on WyzBee runs an embedded TCP/IP networking stack with SSL/TLS/HTTPS security, apart from complete Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, and ZigBee stacks. It also integrates physical unclonable function-based (PUF-based) hardware security block that provides for unique, individual device entities – ensuring that each IoT device can be individually authenticated. This means software/ commands that are directed at a particular IoT device are verified on that device and cannot run on any other device.
WyzBee is made to boot up in a multiprotocol BLE + Wi-Fi operating mode from a saved configuration that enables device provisioning. A mobile application designed by Redpine Signals (the WyzBee Configurator) can be downloaded from www.wyzbee.com/downloads-and-support/downloads in order to interact directly with the WyzBee
module stack. Upon launching the app, a smartphone will scan for BLE devices in the vicinity and render a list of available systems, including the WyzBee platform (Figure 2). Once WyzBee is selected, the user is automatically prompted by the app to have WyzBee scan for Wi-Fi networks. After scanning for available Wi-Fi networks, WyzBee relays this information over BLE back to the mobile device. WyzBee can now connect to a user-selected network and is ready to function as a thermostat.
Cloud connectivity and analyticsData from the temperature sensor is periodically transmitted over MQTT using TCP/IP sockets to the Redpine cloud, though it is possible to integrate other clouds as well. The Redpine cloud supports data interface protocols like HTTP and MQTT for data exchange with the WyzBee device (Figure 3).
The cloud server continuously runs logic to compare the received stream of temperature data against a prede-termined threshold value assigned by
Figure 1 | WyzBee THINGS can be added by simply plugging them into the WyzBee board, which provides power to the add-on THINGS.›
Figure 2 | Using the WyzBee mobile app, users can connect the WyzBee module stack to the cloud by scanning for available Bluetooth devices, then selecting WyzBee and configuring it to a Wi-Fi network, all from their smartphone.
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“THE USER, UPON RECEIVING AN ALERT INDICATING A
THRESHOLD BREACH, CAN USE THE WYZBEE APPLICATION ON HIS
OR HER MOBILE DEVICE TO REMOTELY CONTROL THE SITUATION.
HE OR SHE CAN EITHER MODIFY THE TEMPERATURE THRESHOLD
OR REMOTELY OPERATE THE HVAC SYSTEM BY SENDING AN
APPROPRIATE COMMAND BACK TO WYZBEE VIA THE CLOUD ...”
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the user (Figure 4). Any breach in the threshold, and the user is automatically noti-fied via a phone call, text message, or an email. Users can create an account on the Redpine cloud and customize his or her own dashboard to view the desired analytics. Contact details of the mobile recipient can also be configured directly on the cloud to help streamline the process of threshold alerts. WyzBee can also be easily con-figured to integrate directly with Twitter, Twilio and other such networking sites as alert mechanisms (sample applications demos are also available at www.wyzbee.com/downloads-and-support/downloads).
Furthermore, the Enhanced IoT debugger, which incorporates a graphical user inter-face, enables the developer to observe, decrypt, and analyze secured exchanges between WyzBee and the cloud. This allows for uncomplicated troubleshooting and the ability to ensure correct, error-free transmission.
Control system integrationThe user, upon receiving an alert indicating a threshold breach, can use the WyzBee Configurator application on his or her mobile device to remotely control the situa-tion. He or she can either modify the temperature threshold or remotely operate the HVAC system by sending an appropriate command back to WyzBee via the cloud, communicated to WyzBee over MQTT, to turn the HVAC system on or off. WyzBee fulfills this command by transmitting a corresponding value to the integrated relay over a general-purpose peripheral, which in turn directly controls the AC appliance.
OptimizationAfter the integration of the Sensor and Relay THINGS on the WyzBee stack and sub-sequently implementing the required APIs, the Power Profiler can be used to analyze and optimize factors like duty cycles and periods of operation in different parts of the design at different stages in the software code execution. This allows the user to reduce the power consumption of the system through optimal use of components such as the wireless radio, microcontroller, and sensors. Detailed Information about the Power Profiler is available at wyzbee.com/wyzbee-workbench/power-profiler.
Be a part of the billionsIDC Research predicts that the number of IoT devices installed worldwide will double to a total of 22 billion by 2018[1], and one of those will be your WyzBee-enabled smart thermostat!
Apurva Peri is an Applications Engineer at Redpine Signals, where she plays an active role in the development and marketing of WyzBee. She has a Bachelor’s in Telecommunications Engineering from R.V.C.E. Bangalore, and a Master’s of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a specialization in Communications Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Redpine Signals www.wyzbee.com @RedPineNews linkedin.com/company/redpine-
signals facebook.com/Redpine-
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1. IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital
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Figure 4 | The cloud runs logic against the WyzBee sensor readings to alert users when their defined temperature threshold has been breached.
›Figure 3 | Using MQTT as the transport protocol over a Wi-Fi network, WyzBee is able to transmit readings from its onboard temperature sensor to the cloud.›
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1 Note: This hardware list uses a Nordic Bluetooth Low Energy chip. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is designed to provide similar features to Bluetooth with reduced power consumption.
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Have you ever wanted to create your own Bluetooth app?
Bluetooth is one of the most popular protocols for wireless
communication between devices. Bluetooth powers a countless number of devices, from Bluetooth speakers,
to smartwatches, headsets, fitness trackers, and more. This tutorial will walk you through how you can create
your own Bluetooth fitness tracker using Arduino and Cordova. You might not have any experience with
Arduino or Cordova, but don’t worry! Both technologies are extremely simple and we’re not even going to wire
anything! In fact, we’ll be talking to our Arduino over Bluetooth before we even have to write a line of code.
Build an Internet-connected Bluetooth wearable with Arduino and CordovaBy Ian Jennings @sw1tch | github.com/ianjennings linkedin.com/in/ianjablonowski
What you needFirst things first, this ain’t your momma’s software demo. We’re gonna need some real hardware for this one. Everything here should cost you just less than $100 and at the end of it all you’ll be communicating wirelessly between your phone and an Arduino like magic.
We’re going to be using TinyCircuits products for the Arduino side of things. Why? Because TinyCircuits is a totally awesome miniature Arduino platform about the size of a quarter. The shields snap together like LEGOs, leaving us nothing to wire.
Even better, the TinyDuinos are so small that they can function as a fitness band them-selves! No need to ship your schematics off to China. Just strap these babies onto your wrist and you’ll be a self-gamified cyborg in no time.
Here’s the list of stuff you’re gonna need:
õ An Android or iOS device õ The respective syncing cable for above device õ TinyCircuits TinyDuino Basic Kit õ TinyCircuits Accelerometer TinyShield õ TinyCircuits Bluetooth Low Energy TinyShield1
õ A micro-USB cable with data capabilities for TinyDuino
I’m betting you already have an Android or iOS device on you. I found all the TinyDuino stuff at my local Fry’s Electronics near the Arduino gear. If you don’t live near a Fry’s, you can order the products online at www.tinycircuits.com.
Getting startedLet’s get it started in here. Pop open the clamshell packaging that the TinyDuino com-ponents come in. We’re going to be working with the Processor and USB shield for now.
Stack the components one on top of the other like this: 1) USB; 2) Processor.
Now you’ve got a super tiny Arduino platform! In fact, once you’re done pro-gramming the TinyDuino you can throw a watch battery into the Processor shield and remove the USB shield altogether! Not yet though, we still have business to take care of.
Open the Arduino IDE on your com-puter, plug the micro-USB cable into the TinyDuino, and load the normal Blink sketch. Choose “Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3 V, 8 MHz).”
If you need more help getting Blink run-ning on the TinyDuino, TinyCircuits has a great getting started guide.
Once you’ve got Blink running you’re ready for the next step!
Arduino BluetoothAlright, let’s get to the fun part. Snap the TinyDuino Bluetooth Low Energy shield onto the top of your stack (Figure 1). It should look something like this now: 1) Bluetooth; 2) USB; 3) Processor.
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If your Arduino is powered on, you should see a device called “URT” available. Tap on that device, and then a console should appear on your phone (Figure 2). Your phone will pair with your Arduino project and you should see the message “Connected to URT.” If you’re having trouble connecting, make sure your Arduino is powered on, Bluetooth is enabled on your phone, and the Arduino device is within range. Check the Arduino serial output on codebender for more debug information.
Once you’ve connected, you can type into the text field below and begin to send mes-sages to your Arduino! As you send messages via your phone, you should see them echoed within the codebender console as well as in the NRF UART log.
At the end of this short test, my serial console had the following log:
Evt Device Started: Standby Advertising started Evt Connected Evt Pipe Status Evt Pipe Status Evt link connection interval changed Pipe Number: 11 4 bytes: test 4 test
Congratulations! You’ve created a basic Bluetooth device!
Add the accelerometer to the TinyDuino stackNext, we’ll be adding an accelerometer to the Arduino and creating our own app to graph accelerometer data. An accelerometer measures acceleration in three axes (x, y, z) and will help us track our steps for our fitness tracker.
We’ll be using the TinyDuino accelerometer module, which fits right on top of the rest of our Arduino project. The accelerometer also includes a temperature sensor,
At this point we’re going to step away from the Arduino IDE and instead use an online tool called codebender. code-bender is an awesome cloud-based Arduino programming interface that allows us to program our board using the browser. TinyDuino distributes their examples via codebender. You will need to install an extension to interface with your Arduino, but trust me, it’s worth it.
Close the Arduino IDE (important!) and load the codebender sketch at codebender.cc/sketch:91073. Select “TinyDuino” under board and find your Arduino USB location. Finally, click “Run On Arduino.”
Fire up the serial monitor on code-bender and select 115200 Baud. The example will update you with Bluetooth logs throughout the connection process.
After a few seconds you should see the following messages in the serial monitor:
Evt Device Started: Standby Advertising started
Use your phone to talk to the Arduino Once you’ve confirmed that the Bluetooth sketch is running, you’re ready to make your first connection! You may not see the Arduino within the Bluetooth devices connected to your phone, but don’t worry. This isn’t how you’ll be con-necting to the device.
Instead, we’ll connect through our appli-cation. Before we use our own appli-cation, we’re going to use an official application for debugging purposes.
Download the NRF UART 2.0 app for Android or iPhone and launch it. Tap the button marked “connect.”
Figure 2a and 2b | After downloading and connecting the NRF UART 2.0 app for Android or iPhone, tap the “URT” device to pair your phone with the Arduino project.›
Figure 1 | Continue adding to your TinyDuino stack by attaching the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) shield on top of the USB and processor boards.
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but we won’t be using that right now. Snap the accelerometer into the top of the TinyDuino stack.
Test the accelerometerNext, we’ll test the accelerometer. Run the code in Figure 3 on your TinyDuino and then look at the serial log for the X, Y, and Z acceleration.
Shake the Arduino around (but not too much!). You should see the X, Y, and Z acceleration move all over the place. The Y acceleration will always read around 9.8 due to the gravity of earth. Cool, huh?
Send the accelerometer data overWoohoo! Our hardware build is com-plete. No soldering required! Now to get this accelerometer data onto our phone.
Remember our Arduino Bluetooth sketch from page 25? We're going to take the example code we just ran and merge it with the Bluetooth sketch. Then, when we open the Bluetooth console on our phone we’ll be able to see the acceler-ometer data.
Upload the sketch from codebender.cc/sketch:147004#TinyShield_NRF8001_BLE_Example.ino onto your TinyDuino and then connect to your Arduino using the NRF UART 2.0 app for Android or iPhone just as you did before. Now, whenever you send a message to the Arduino, the Arduino will respond with its current accelerometer data!
This is what the serial log will look like:
Evt Device Started: Standby Advertising started Evt Connected Evt Pipe Status Evt Pipe Status Evt Pipe Status Evt link connection interval changed Pipe Number: 11 4 bytes: test 4 test Pipe Number: 11 4 bytes: test 4 test
Creating a Bluetooth app with CordovaLet’s build our phone app! Don’t worry, it’s super easy. We’ll be using Cordova, a package that allows anybody to create apps for iPhone and Android using HTML and CSS. And best of all, all the code is already ready for you! Just make sure you have Node.js (nodejs.org/en/down-load/package-manager) and Cordova (cordova.apache.org/#getstarted) in- stalled on your machine.
Now, clone the pubnub-bluetooth repos- i tory at github.com/pubnub/pubnub- bluetooth. Within this directory, run the following commands:
$ cordova platform add android ios $ cordova plugin add com. megster.cordova.ble $ cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/
cordova-plugin-whitelist.git#r1.0.0
$ cordova run
Great! Your app should now be run-ning on your Android or iOS device! Note that you won’t be able to connect through Bluetooth using an emulator – you’ll need to deploy it to a live mobile device.
Connect to the ArduinoLaunch the app on your device and look for your Arduino Bluetooth module (Figure 4).
Click on your Arduino device, and you’ll be presented with a live chart graphing the X, Y, and Z accelerations, as well as a window showing all the messages being sent and received through Bluetooth. Swing the accelerometer around to make the chart move up and down!
How it worksThe accelerometer records acceleration on the three axes. That data is sent to the Bluetooth module and broadcast over the air to your phone. Your phone receives the data and rebroadcasts it over the Internet using the PubNub data stream network. Then, we graph the Internet data using a spline chart (Figure 5).
Maker Pro – Wearables
#include <Wire.h>#include "BMA250.h"
BMA250 accel;
void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600); Wire.begin(); accel.begin(BMA250_range_2g, BMA250_update_time_64ms);//
This sets up the BMA250 accelerometer}
void loop() { accel.read();//This function gets new data from the
accelerometer Serial.print("X = "); Serial.print(accel.X); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print("Y = "); Serial.print(accel.Y); Serial.print(" "); Serial.print("Z = "); Serial.print(accel.Z); Serial.print(" Temperature(C) = "); Se-rial.println((accel.rawTemp*0.5)+24.0,1); delay(250);//We'll make sure we're over the 64ms update
time set on the BMA250
Figure 3 | Run this code on your TinyDuino stack to test your accelerometer and then check the serial log for X/Y/Z axis acceleration data.›
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It’s important to note that because we broadcast the data over PubNub, this wearable is Internet connected! You can see the live acceleration from any device with Internet access.
The live chartThe live chart is powered by PubNub’s Project EON. EON graphs data pub-lished over PubNub in a nice embed-dable chart. Because we’re working with data streams, all the accelerometer data is being published over the Internet. This means you can embed the chart anywhere, including multiple phones or even in a web page.
Try it out. Stick this code into an HTML file on your local machine and watch your accelerometer data there too (Figure 6)!
The final productI thought this was a wearable! Right now we’ve just got a small computer, but it’s nothing some creative engineering can’t fix. Head over to Sports Authority and grab yourself a sweatband. Then, take a ride over to RadioShack and get a CR1632 coin cell battery for the TinyDuino. Cut a slit in the armband and slide the TinyDuino in there. Boom, now you’ve got your own Internet-connected wearable!
Ian Jennings is a developer at PubNub who specializes in building Internet of Things prototypes. Based in Austin, Texas, Ian enjoys cycling, hiking, drumming, and cooking.
PubNub www.pubnub.com @PubNub linkedin.com/company/pubnub facebook.com/PubNub
plus.google.com/+Pubnub bit.ly/PubNubYouTube
Figure 4 | Launch your Cordova app by selecting the “URT” device from the PubNub Bluetooth menu.
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Figure 5 | Once you’ve selected the Arduino device, you’ll be presented with a live chart of your X/Y/Z a accelerometer readings, as well as messages being sent and received via Bluetooth!
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<div id="chart"></div><script type="text/javascript" src= "https://pubnub.github.io/eon/lib/eon.js"></script><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href= "https://pubnub.github.io/eon/lib/eon.css" /><script type="text/javascript"> var __eon_pubnub = PUBNUB.init({ subscribe_key: "sub-cfb3b894-0a2a-11e0-a510-1d92d9e0ffba", ssl: true }); chart = eon.chart({ pubnub: __eon_pubnub, channel: "pubnub-bluetooth-2", history: true, flow: true, rate: 750, limit: 20, generate: { bindto: "#chart", data: { type: "spline" }, transition: { duration: 0 }, tooltip: { show: true }, point: { show: true } }, transform: function(message) { var message = eon.c.flatten(message); var array = __eon_cols.map(function(arg){ return [__eon_labels[arg] || arg, message[arg]]; }); return { columns: array }; } });</script>
Figure 6 | Insert this code into an HTML file and open it in a browser to view your accelerometer data on a web page!›
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Wearables
The past year has certainly been an exciting time for the semiconductor industry. The shared enthusiasm among silicon companies has been on the rise based on the recent level of interest and demand for new products that complement the mobile experience typically based around smartphones and tablets.
A main driver behind this phenomenon is wearable technology. Familiar items such as clothing, glasses, jewelry, and watches are being fitted with sensors, processors, and displays – technolo-gies you wouldn’t have expected to find inside these everyday objects before. The potential for this market is quite impressive; ABI Research projects that 32 million sports and fitness wristbands will have shipped in the past twelve months alone.
So if wearable devices are what everyone is raving about, why does it seem like so few companies actually know how to design them? This guide outlines how to address the current issues facing the wearables market for designing the next generation of wearable technology.
AUGMENT, DON’T REPLICATE
An important aspect of wearable devices is the user experience and inter-face. Designing interfaces for wearables should be based on how consumers will use them, not on replicating smartphone or tablet experiences.
Even though using a popular, off-the-shelf operating system like Android might sound like a quick and easy fix for devices with a screen, it’s best to design a customized, fully skinned interface that fits within the confines of a miniature dis-play surface.
More importantly, wearables should augment other mobile devices, not try to replace (part of) their functionality. Trying to cram features in by using a checklist approach will lead to under-powered devices that users will quickly abandon.
Instead, designers should focus on optimizing user and machine interfaces to ensure that wearable devices work well together and with other mobile devices.
DESIGN, DON’T REUSE
Every engineer has heard of the “design and reuse” approach. However, the prin-ciple can only apply to devices that have proven to work universally; this is not the case for wearables.
Even though wearables are mobile devices at heart, they have different and specific requirements to smartphones and tablets (more on this later).
Reusing mobile SoCs for every wear-able category out there (smart watches, smart glasses, smart wristbands, etc.) is unsustainable not only because these devices come in distinct shapes and sizes, but mainly because their power profiles can vary radically.
Today’s wearable devices are generally a magnitude off in terms of battery life. Most current wearable fitness devices usually last for two to three days when they should last weeks or months. Reports have placed some smart watches at battery life of less than one day; most consumers would expect at least one week. People have different expectations
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Depending on the application area, designers can also include dedicated hardware to support a gyroscope or motion sensors.
Output wearablesOutput wearables are devices such as smart watches or smart glasses that provide quick and easy at-a-glance access to immediate information. This information usually can fit on a small screen and is available to the user quickly and in real-time. Output wearables are aimed at accelerating daily tasks, and offer a more intuitive way of interacting with technology.
When it comes to designing chipsets for output wearables, designers need to make sure that each processor inside the SoC is used as efficiently as possible. Low power is still the dominant factor when architecting the underlying system but the focus should be on creating a general-purpose platform that performs a subset of the tasks a smartphone or a tablet might do.
An example of such a platform for smart glasses can be designed by pairing a low-power, high-performance CPU with the smallest available OpenGL ES 3.0/OpenCL GPUs, H.264-capable hardware video transcoders, a configurable OpenVX-ready ISP pipeline, and a connectivity processor that supports Wi-Fi 802.11n 1x1 and Bluetooth.
THINK ALWAYS ON, THINK LOW POWER
The small form factors of wearable devices dictate the use of extremely small bat-teries, which limits the battery life of these devices. Because of this, wearables need smart technologies that implement low-power methodologies in various points of the design. This is to ensure that the processors operate as efficiently as possible and in ways that suit short bursts of intense activity followed by longer periods of idleness. Designers must implement (or choose processors that already implement) advanced power management techniques such as automatically enabled clock gating, the ability to intelligently turn power on/off for specific cores or clusters, and intelligently using the Microkernel firmware to offer lower latency workload feedback into the DVFS and power management decision process.
To complement the hardware, wearables need to support the appropriate low power standards that enable a prolonged “always on” functionality. Although there are many options to choose from, the main contender to the title is Bluetooth LE.
between smartphones/tablets and wear-ables and don’t usually factor a charging regimen into their daily habits for a these ultra-portable devices.
Plus, if a smart watch is supposed to act as a regular watch during the day and a sleep health monitor at night, when would users charge them?
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
Wearables have different features and require specific types of SoC. If you are creating computing platforms for smart devices, there are two main categories to consider:
Input wearablesInput wearables are devices such as fit-ness bands, heart rate monitors, sleep monitors, and Near Field Communication (NFC) rings. They are essentially smart, connected sensors with minimal or no displays that have extremely low power requirements. Their main role is to col-lect raw data, then filter and send it to a central hub, be it a mobile device (smart-phone or tablet) or a residential gateway in your connected home. On the hub, this data is translated into usable infor-mation. Additional functionality can then enable automatic actions or alerts based on that information.
For this category, the essential element is designing for the lowest power con-nectivity possible. These devices typi-cally require a high-performance 32-bit MCU-class processor for fast, efficient processing, ideally a compact-footprint, unified MCU/MPU and DSP embedded processor core. Designers will also need to select a solution for baseband com-munications; combining Bluetooth LE (low energy) with FM in one small, inte-grated radio solution is ideal for ultra-low-power wearable applications.
“... WEARABLES NEED TO SUPPORT THE APPROPRIATE
LOW POWER STANDARDS THAT ENABLE A PROLONGED
“ALWAYS ON” FUNCTIONALITY. ALTHOUGH THERE
ARE MANY OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM, THE MAIN
CONTENDER TO THE TITLE IS BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY.”
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Bluetooth LE is a power-friendly version of the Bluetooth wireless technology designed to provide practical connec-tivity for the mass market. The power efficiency of Bluetooth LE enables devices needing to run off a tiny battery for long periods of time; even better, Bluetooth is compatible with existing smartphones and tablets for device-to-device communication.
SECURITY ABOVE ALL
Wearables require multiple layers of security due to the sensitive nature of the data they have access to:
õ Device security: Wearable devices need to run operating systems and applications securely; this requires support for multiple secure environments
õ Link security: Transmission of information between wearables and a central hub must be protected and encrypted
õ Cloud security: Storage of personal information is another delicate area; consumers want to know that their details are kept away from unwanted intruders
These security layers should be enabled both in hardware and software and can scale from the core level all the way up to the system level. An example of implementing core-level security is a virtualization-based approach where multiple operating systems can co-exist in multiple security contexts, thus supporting secure content delivery, secure payments, identity protection and more, across multiple applications and content sources.
BUILD A VIABLE ECOSYSTEM
More and more companies are waking up to the reality of how important a developer ecosystem is to the success of any consumer platform. The same rule applies to wearables: Developers need to see the value added factor of wear-ables, otherwise they won’t create more than a few apps.
Another important element in creating a thriving environment for wearables is an open approach to APIs and device intercommunication. For example, lim-iting compatibility to only certain brands of devices means consumers will have no incentive to buy a wearable unless they own that particular brand. Efforts such as the recent AllSeen Alliance are steps in the right direction in order to create an open standard for platforms and APIs.
GET THE PRICE RIGHT
Finally, wearables need to adopt a three tier pricing model similar to their smartphone and tablet brethren that makes them accessible to the largest possible number of consumers. There is so much buzz around wearables that even fashion brands like Nike are get-ting in on this new product category. By creating entry-level, mid-range and high-end devices, companies can create an instant, compelling, and complete line-up of devices that addresses the growing consumer demand.
Designing the future of wearablesThe sensible approach when design- ing SoCs for any market is to use proven solutions. For the past decade, Imagination Technologies has been cre-ating multimedia, processor, and con-nectivity IP that has shipped in billions of mobile and embedded devices from some of the industry’s leading silicon vendors. Imagination provides all the required IP, design services, and soft-ware tools and platforms required for
building connected devices. On top of these IP system-optimized technologies, Imagination can offer value-added solu-tions like FlowCloud – a platform that helps companies deliver a complete IoT-ready solution, including all the security/device-to-device and device-to-cloud communication/back-end services.
Given their potential, there is a clear opportunity for wearable devices to succeed considering everyone from chip makers and OEMs to consumers and carriers believe this category of devices will be in high demand in the coming decade. Once it reaches critical mass, wearable technology will become embedded within every aspect of our lives, allowing us to do everything better, faster and simpler.
Kevin Kitagawa is Director of Strategic Alliances at ARM, and the former Director of Strategic Marketing for Imagination Technologies.
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Device Management
As an enterprise embarks on any new Internet of Things (IoT) initiative, the pro-totype phases tend to be fairly smooth because the systems supporting the surge in IoT are becoming more mature. There are several prototyping platforms available that include a flexible hard-ware device, software development kits (SDKs), pre-integrated data services, and connectivity, allowing a developer to go from idea to working prototype in a matter of a few hours. This is a huge part of the excitement around IoT: thousands of previously unimaginable ideas can be developed into working, testable models very quickly. In many cases, advanced degrees in engineering aren’t even required. Just look at the proliferation of the Maker Faire movement around the world and you’ll see that something that was once in the realm of high school sci-ence project can become a commercial reality. The technology is all there today to make this part not just possible, but simple. We live in interesting times.
However, moving from a science project to bench test to commercial production continues to be a larger scale project with more sophisticated considerations. In addition to sourcing and deploying hardware, the new devices and device management platforms (DMPs) must be integrated with enterprise-grade data services and the existing enterprise IT infrastructure. This may involve integra-tions across many systems, often using new technologies and protocols. These integrations can add significant cost and time to the IoT project, delaying the implementation and the return on investment (ROI) initially envisioned.
Systems are emerging to address this challenge, providing reusable integra-tions and new deployment strategies to reduce data service installation and activation. In addition, emerging IoT environments are integrating with cur-rent enterprise IT vendors who pro-vide interoperability with the existing
enterprise data center. All of these can help reduce IoT deployment costs and timelines.
The following discusses five of the major considerations that engineers and product managers need to evaluate when designing IoT solutions in the next year to save time and money while generating measurable value from IoT deployments.
1. ArchitectureThere are many components to any IoT deployment, just a few of which are:
õ Devices, possibly a combination of sensors and gateways
õ Connectivity solutions õ Device management platforms õ New data services like
data storage, stream process- ing, scripting, visualization, analytics, etc.
õ Existing enterprise data services
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and control messages back to devices to change settings, update configuration, or even update software. Similarly, some data services primarily accept a one-way flow of data (like a data store), while others that might be operating on the data may produce a result for each message. The directionality of each integration and the nature of the data in the communication is important to each integration point.
As you evaluate your architecture and consider integration points, the volume and nature of the data you are collecting can impact your decisions. Some technologies will not be a good fit for some flavors of IoT data.
3. ConnectivityGetting new devices connected and sending data is the first challenge. A prototype system built on a lab bench typically avoids connectivity issues because network access is readily available. For deployment, connectivity must be established, either with wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi, cellular, or satellite. Even with available wired or Wi-Fi connec-tions, networking details and firewalls need to be addressed. Finally, once the device has network connectivity, it needs to be provisioned and managed via a DMP.
Many of these challenges can be alleviated by working with vendors who have formed partnerships and know that their systems work together. Many device manufacturers
Each of these components requires some sort of integration to allow data to flow, and each integration has the potential to create new challenges for a deployment. Adding to the complexity may be previous IoT implementations, although they may not have been called that when they were installed. To get full value from the systems you specify in your IoT deployment, all of these com-ponents need to communicate effec-tively and reliably.
What’s more, in many cases, tradition-ally there’s a tendency for data to exist in silos within the enterprise (Figure 1a). Consider opening up the architecture of the entire IoT ecosystem and moving away from a siloed approach (Figure 1b). In doing so, you increase efficiencies, allow data from one group of devices to be operated on by a range of data ser-vices, increase interoperability of all the technologies, and more generally allow greater visibility into the entire eco-system. All of this saves time, money, and resources, allowing you to focus on cre-ating value from your IoT deployments.
2. The nature of IoT dataThe nature of your IoT data can vary widely depending on the use case, and this can influence integrations. In some applications, the accumulated data from thousands of sensors can be very high volume, best supported by streaming protocols with persistent connections. As you collect this data, you may need systems to aggregate the large volume of readings, search for the signal in the noise, and filter it for downstream consumers.
Other applications have lower volume, high-value data that may require acknowledgements and high levels of assurance for message delivery. Formats vary, so you may need normalization to standardize across many different data streams. And as you get closer to ana-lytics, data services and the enterprise IT stack data may need to be summarized and normalized again.
Many IoT discussions focus on the collec-tion of data from sensors into data ser-vices, but messages often flow the other way as well. DMPs can send command
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Figure 1a and 1b | Traditionally, data has existed within silos in the enterprise (1a), but opening up architectures to the entire IoT ecosystem can improve efficiencies in a number of ways (1b).
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are working with IoT connectivity pro-viders to pre-integrate their systems, making that phase of the project much smoother. Because the systems are known to work together and the com-panies have deployed systems before, custom integrations are reduced or eliminated. Likewise, connectivity ven-dors are working with DMP vendors to deploy their systems together, or, in some cases, building out their own DMP offerings to reduce or eliminate another custom integration.
It’s worthwhile to ask if your device vendor has worked with your con-nectivity vendor and vice-versa. Often selecting one vendor based on the most important features of your implementa-tion can lead you to partners they have worked with previously. Finding system integrators who have worked with the systems similar to yours on previous projects can also reduce risk and allow you to leverage previous work.
4. Standards and protocolsThe IoT landscape currently supports a wide range of standards, which demon-strates the level of interest and invest-ment in the fast-growing discipline. Unfortunately, the proliferation of stan-dards means that no single standard has yet become the one and only standard. Only time will tell which standard(s) will emerge. Until then, openness to dif-ferent standards is the order of the day. Given the varied landscape, there are a few approaches to get some value from the available standards and avoid pos-sible incompatibility between different parts of the infrastructure.
Some standards groups focus on partic-ular areas of IoT and are trying to solve particular problems. If you are working in one of these areas, it’s worthwhile to review the work of the standards body most active in the area. Looking at the memberships of these groups will likely lead you to the vendors, products, and system integrators who are most active in that IoT vertical.
In addition, you can build interoperability into part of your architecture. Systems that fully support a single standard may
accelerate your initial deployment, but can also reduce choice when considering tools that are not supported. Deploying data services, including DMPs, into an environment that supports a flexible adapter system insulates you somewhat from a specific standard and support for new standards can be added over time.
Some standards can touch on or specify communication protocols, which directly impacts integrations. Protocols common to the machine-to-machine (M2M) layer such as MQTT, CoAP, and even XMPP are less common on the data services side, which relies more on HTTP, WebSockets, and (in the enterprise context) SOAP and others members of the web services family. All of these dif-ferent protocols were designed to solve different problems, but with the cross- pollination of technologies across the stacks, they can show up anywhere. Many systems are adding support for multiple protocols, which adds some flexibility and choice. The safest route to mitigate mismatches is with an interoperability layer as described previously.
5. SecuritySecurity is a huge topic in IoT and data security requirements can have a big impact on your integration approach and overall complexity. In defining your security approach, the first step is to assess how secure your system needs to be. Some data, like temperature readings at locations on a company campus, may not be particularly sensitive. Other data, like blood pressure readings in a hospital, are highly sensitive.
As you evaluate integrations between components in your system, you must evaluate the transport between each element, assess the exposure, and apply appropriate security. A signal being captured over Wi-Fi requires security in the transport and possibly for the payload. Communication between two data services within the same data center may have a lower threshold for security, but only if the network is private and secured.
As you build in security, both ends of a communication will need to support the security method you choose for that integration. The types of security available will also be defined somewhat by the protocol and possibly by the standard you are following, if any. In addition to adding some complexity to the integration, security can also add additional requirements on factors like processing power and throughput, so these need to be evaluated with realistic data loads. Security also requires ongoing maintenance of each integration point as common ele-ments like keys, tokens, and even passwords can expire and require refreshing on a regular basis.
It’s already looking like 2016 will be a year where many significant advances will be made in the IoT industry. If you take these considerations to heart when planning your IoT deployments, your integrations are likely to be much smoother, more flexible, and secure so that you can save time and money and shift your focus to turning IoT deployments into a source of value and revenue for your enterprise.
Jim Brandt is Vice President of Product Management for wot.io. An open source veteran, Brandt also serves on the board of the Perl Foundation.
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Tech bubble. Overhyped. Confusion. All of these have been used to describe the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past year, and not one of them is a term to use when laying out plans for a board of directors. But amidst all the excitement, doom, and gloom (depending how you see it), it’s important to remember that the IoT is not a monolithic industry, but rather a loosely defined technology architecture that transcends vertical markets to make up an “Internet of Everything.”
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For every growth spurt in the industry – whether due to chasing a market or a market segment, or innovations that become commoditized – the number of semi companies and fabs grows. Then when markets change, some companies suffer revenue hits and have to sell out. Others plateau and shareholders force a sale. Others simply die. Thus the number of semi companies shrinks.
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› Eight 1000/100/10 Mbps Ethernet ports per slice › Boards/slices stack together to increase total GigE ports › 10-pin DIL, 37-pin D-sub, or RJ-45 connectors › BroadCom BCM53115 Unmanaged Gigabit Ethernet Switch › Intel WG82574IT PCI Express Ethernet Controller for interface to optional host CPU
› Jumbo Frame Support (up to 9018 bytes) › Auto MDI crossover › Onboard LEDs › Connectors for external LEDs › Passive heat sinks included › Available in stackable, rugged enclosures › -40° to +85°C operating temperatures
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RTD’s scalable Gigabit Ethernet Switch Family maximizes network connectivity and system flexibility to create IoT solu-tions in rugged -40° to +85°C environments.
Our 8-port host module can connect directly to the PCIe/104 bus, or it can be used as a standalone GigE switch. The total number of Ethernet ports can be increased using 8-port expansion modules. Configured with RTD’s 88-watt syn-chronous power supply, a single system will support up to 56 total ports. Configure as standalone or with a host CPU.
In board-level configurations, users can choose from RJ-45 jacks or 10-pin DIL connectors. RTD’s rugged, enclosed pack-aging can be configured with RJ-45 jacks or 37-pin D-sub receptacles.
Scalable GigE Switch Family
› Modular, scalable Intel Core i7 mission computer › Quad-core, dual-core, and single-core configurations › 1.5 – 2.1 GHz Processors with up to 3.1 GHz Turbo Boost › Stackable, modular chassis milled from solid T-6061 aluminum
› Ideal for extended temperature environments › Standard PC or cylindrical connectors with user-defined pinouts
› Optional watertight configurations with EMI suppression and RF isolation
› Board-level and enclosure customizations available
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RTD’s robust Intel Core i7 CPU offers high-performance for rugged applications in extended temperature environments. Choose from single-core, dual-core, and quad-core configura-tions. These systems feature a synchronized power supply, an integrated 2.5-inch SATA carrier, and standard I/O including Gigabit Ethernet, USB, Serial, SVGA, DisplayPort, and program-mable digital I/O. The CPU is designed with soldered SDRAM and solid-state flash storage for high shock and vibration situations. The stackable PCIe/104 architecture allows system expandability for additional DAQ, I/O, storage, and network functionality. The Core i7 systems are compatible with RTD’s complete line of data acquisition and peripheral modules. Tailored solutions include conformal coating, watertight enclo-sures with cylindrical MIL-SPEC connectors, and a variety of custom mounting, LED, and paint options.
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Operating Systems and Tools
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SMX® RTOSWireless communication is fundamental for IoT. Wi-Fi is popular and offers high throughput and long range (250 m), making connection conve-nient even when devices are not in immediate proximity to one another. We were among the first developers of an embedded Wi-Fi 802.11 stack, releas-ing smxWiFi in mid-2008. It supports 802.11a/b/g/i/n, and has drivers for most of the MediaTek/Ralink USB chipsets. Any combination of drivers may be used in the system, and smxWiFi will automatically select the correct one for the Wi-Fi dongle plugged in. Due to our early lead, we have since added support for other protocols:
• Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is the basis of the Wi-Fi Alliance certifica-tion program called Wi-Fi Direct TM. It allows easy, direct connection among Wi-Fi devices, anywhere, without need for an Access Point.
• Wi-Fi Simple Configuration (WSC) is the basis of the Wi-Fi Alliance certification program called Wi-Fi Protected SetupTM (WPS). This simpli-fies connection to an AP or other device, and supports PBC and PIN.
• SoftAP support is also offered by smxWiFi to allow your device to pro-vide simple Access Point capability.
USB Wi-Fi dongles offer numerous advantages over other approaches: ultra-low cost; can be plugged into most evaluation boards to allow devel-oping wireless capabilities before custom hardware is ready; interchange-able since available from many different vendors; permit upgrading to newer technology without board redesign; use TCP/IP directly versus a proprietary protocol for a stand-alone chip solution to provide more flex-ibility and better performance. smxUSBH supports Wi-Fi dongles, and it is a leading USB host stack. It supports many other device types needed in IoT designs, such as: 3G modem, HID, mass storage, printer, RFID, serial, audio, video, and more.
IPv6 is a key requirement of IoT. smxNS6 is a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack that has passed IPv6 Ready testing. It supports IPv6 features such as Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. A dual stack allows a lower cost IPv4 entry, with the capability to migrate to IPv6 when needed. Both stacks support Multicast DNS (mDNS), which allows a host on the network to discover services provided by other hosts. It supports zero- configuration (zeroconf) IP networking with Apple Bonjour and the Linux/BSD Avahi package. A rich set of other protocols also useful in IoT projects is offered such as: SNMPv3, SNTP, and web server. Drivers are available for the on-chip Ethernet controllers on many of the latest SoCs.
Security is essential for IoT. We offer SSL, SSH, and SNMPv3 for our TCP/IP stacks; WPA2 and EAP for Wi-Fi; and a secure bootloader for field updates. Personal and Enterprise security are supported for Wi-Fi. The bootloader supports image decryption during installation or even during the bootloading stage to defend against hacking and reverse engineering, and to control optional software feature distribution.
Communication is the essence of IoT, and it works better with strong multitasking support. smx is a hard real-time, small, high-performance
RTOS kernel with a long list of features that are good for IoT designs: no-copy message pass-ing, one-shot tasks, ultra-fast heap, and link service routines are just a few of many. Dual-language support permits writing high-level code in C++ and time-critical code in C. A fast heap provides good C++ performance. The smx++ class library is easy to use for C++ pro- grammers. See the smx Special Features whitepaper for discus-sion of these features and others at www.smxrtos.com/rtos/kernel/smxfeatr.htm.
For information about other SMX modules such as file systemsand more information about those covered here,
please visit www.smxrtos.com.
› smxWiFi 802.11a/b/g/i/n with P2P, WSC, SoftAP › smxWiFi supports MediaTek/Ralink chipsets:
• USB: MT7601, RT5572, RT5370, RT3572, RT3070, RT2870, and RT2573 • PCI: RT2860
› TCP/IP supports IPv6, mDNS (e.g. Bonjour and Avahi), SNMPv3, SNTP, Web, and many more protocols; drivers for many SoC Ethernet controllers
› Security: SSL/SSH, SNMPv3, WEP, WPA2 Personal and Enterprise › smxUSBH USB host stack class drivers: Wi-Fi, 3G modem, audio, video, and many more
› smx multitasking kernel with many special features and C and C++ APIs
› All modules integrated and interoperable › Full source code in ANSI-C – royalty free › 90 days support and maintenance included
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ĄĄ ClarinoxBlue has full profile supportĄĄ ClarinoxWiFi supports AP, STA and P2P modesĄĄ Extensive driver-level API ĄĄ Supports blocking and non-blocking callsĄĄ Implements command/response based APIsĄĄ Support for multiple simultaneous profiles and roles ĄĄ Large range of supported chipsets and RTOS
We invite you to learn more at clarinox.com
While chipset vendors provide separate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi stacks, often these solutions are inflexible and difficult to integrate, manage and scale, especially if your application is unique or complex. At Clarinox we think connected IoT devices will need to do more than one thing at a time so we manage the complexity, enabling you to meet your time-to-market objectives.Clarinox provides a complete ecosystem of award-winning stacks (Bluetooth Classic, BLE and Wi-Fi), debugger tools, configuration interface and evaluation module hardware for the development of next genera-tion IoT solutions. The Clarinox software is a fully verified and qualified technology-compliant solution, encapsulated within a C/C++ based framework that supports multiple target platforms.Utilized by industry leaders including Nokia, Honeywell, Navico, Daimler, and NovAtel, our Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocol stacks provide unprec-edented control, flexibility and time-to-market capabilities for wireless device development. Clarinox solutions are available on a wide range of embedded platforms, including FreeRTOS, INTEGRITY, Linux, Microsoft, MQX, Nucleus, QNX, TI-RTOS, ThreadX, uC/OS and VxWorks.
Bluetooth Classic, BLE and Wi-Fi
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Wireless Protocol Stacks Enabling the IoT
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ĄĄ Optimized performance (plus JIT options) and scalable memory footprint for IoT hardware platforms (ARM, MIPS, x86, & PPC)
ĄĄ Manage critical hardware resources in a dynamic IoT environment with Skelmir’s unique resource management APIs
ĄĄ Looking for OSGi? The VM is pre-integrated with leading OSGi solutions reducing time to market, AND the cost of getting there
ĄĄ Flexible licensing, including world class support & free evaluations
Our scalable, efficient and fast performing CEE-J VMs matched with our more than 15 years of embedded engineering experience offer big advantages in building cost-effective, competitive solutions and driving subscriber revenue for our customers.
Deployed worldwide in over 80 million embedded devices, CEE-J and the Skelmir team are a proven choice.
We work with development teams to quickly add and customize APIs and optimize specific functions in the VM for their specific use cases and demanding IoT projects.
Whether you're building a proprietary or standards-based IoT solution in Java or OSGi, contact us for a free evaluation to experience the value our family of VM technologies and experienced engineering support can bring.
CEE-J® Virtual Machines, the ideal IoT project platform
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Get your AIR for Wiced Smart dev kit at your distributor of choice. (See our website for a current list.)
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If you’re ready to evolve from fixed control panels populated with dials, buttons, keypads, and LCD displays to mobile-app based control of your embedded product – check out Anaren’s AIR for Wiced Smart module, featuring Broadcom’s Wiced Smart Bluetooth® chip (BCM20737). Not only does our small-footprint, SMT, and pre-certified all-in-one module save you the time, effort, and trouble of designing your own radio... It’s supported by our industry-exclusive Atmosphere development ecosystem that lets you develop your basic embedded code and app code in one, easy-to-use development tool – for a far speedier product development cycle and time-to-market. Follow the steps at left to jointhe evolution, right now! www.anaren.com/AIRforWiced
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The ADLINK cExpress-SL is a COM Express® Compact Size Type 6 module featuring 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors and accompanying Intel® QM170 and HM170 Chipset. ECC memory is supported by models utilizing the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-15XX v5 family and Intel® CM236 chip-set. DDR4 memory is supported up to a total of 32GB, with a lower voltage compared to DDR3, resulting in a reduction in overall power consumption and heat dissipation. This new COM also provides support for three independent UHD/4K displays and is well-suited for applications in automation, medical, and infotainment, with extended operating temperature ranges optionally available for transportation and defense applications.
The ADLINK cExpress-SL with built-in SEMA Cloud functionality is ready-made for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The module is able to connect legacy industrial devices and other IoT systems to the cloud, extract raw data from these devices, and determine which data to save locally and which to send to the cloud for further analysis. This results in the capture and dissemi-nation of valuable information for policy decision-making and the generation of innovative business opportunities.
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ĄĄ 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processorĄĄ Up to 32GB non-ECC Dual channel DDR4 at 2133/1867 MHzĄĄ Two DDI channels, one LVDS (or 4 lanes eDP), supporting up to three
independent UHD/4K displaysĄĄ 5 PCIe x1 (Gen2, configurable to x2, x4)ĄĄ GbE, 4x SATA 6 Gb/s, 4x USB 3.0 and 4x USB 2.0ĄĄ Built-in ADLINK Smart Embedded Management Agent (SEMA)
functionality and SEMA Cloud supportĄĄ Available with Extreme Rugged operating temperature of -40°C
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Leddar offers several benefits compared to other detection and ranging technologies:ĄĄ Low power consumption, resulting in an extended lifetime
and minimal maintenance for the manufacturer or end userĄĄ Robust detection under harsh weather conditionsĄĄ Immunity to ambient light, optimizing detection capabilities
during the day or nightĄĄ No moving parts for a rugged, reliable solutionĄĄ Fast and accurate distance measurements on multiple
segments, providing the capacity to detect, locate and profile objects; provides richer data than ultrasound and standard photoelectric sensorsĄĄ Very flexible detection range (0 to 100 meters): fully
functional on very short distances, unlike sonar devicesĄĄ Excellent lateral discrimination/resolution: better than radar
and only surpassed by laser scanners, which are much more complex, fragile and expensiveĄĄ Best overall cost/performance ratio available
With their high efficiency and simple, flexible design, Leddar sensors can be easily integrated into a small footprint at a reasonable price while delivering consistent performance and reliability. Together, this makes Leddar ideally suited to very high-volume deployments, fostering new possibilities and undeniable benefits for Internet of Things applications.
LeddarTech, Expanding the Possibilities of Detection and Ranging for IoT InnovationsFrom chipsets to sensor modules, the proprietary Leddar technology is the core element in the design of countless sensing IoT devices and applications. The unique capabilities of Leddar are being leveraged by a variety of partners to provide Leddar-based IoT innovations in homes, buildings, cities, vehicles and industrial applications. These include intelligent security and surveillance devices, smart light-ing systems, collision avoidance and navigation for cars, unmanned ground vehicles and drones, automated touchless home appliances, and many more.
A forward-thinking technological partnerLeddarTech focuses on developing the best optical detection and ranging technologies, giving its partners the freedom to rapidly deliver innovative, value-added sensor-based solutions that are in line with their objectives, needs and planned time-to-market:
• Custom, ready-to-integrate OEM sensor modules or LeddarCore chipsets for maximum design flexibility of high-volume applications
• Off-the-shelf sensor modules in small or larger quantities to allow specialized integrators to deliver new, differentiated solutions to their customers
• Project-specific engineering services and ongoing support for in-depth know-how to fully optimize Leddar implementations
From LeddarCore ICs to Complete Sensor ModulesLeddar technology can be provided as an integrated circuit (IC) only or assembled into a complete sensor module, depending on your application.
All Leddar sensors are built around the LeddarCore, our patented signal processing IC technology.
In addition to the IC, all Leddar sensor modules need a light source (e.g., LED, VCSEL or Laser), a photodetector and optical components.
Additional elements can be added to all Leddar sensing devices: processing, communication interfaces, packaging or power manage-ment, depending on the intended application.
Leddar®
LeddarTechwww.leddartech.com
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FEATURES
ĄĄ Reports and Metrics
ĄĄ Ad Hoc Reporting & Analysis
ĄĄ Issue Indicators
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ĄĄ User Friendly Interface
ĄĄ Performance Measurements
ĄĄ Graphic Benchmark Tools
ĄĄ Comprehensive, Integrated BI Platform
ĄĄ Modeled Data That Is Ready for Use
ĄĄ Export to PDF or Excel
ĄĄ Automatically Updated Dashboards and Alerts
ĄĄ Support to Design and Add Custom Reports
Ayla Insights is a fully integrated business intelligence and analytics platform that provides manufacturers with real-world insights into how their connected products are being used. More and more manu-facturers are realizing that the true value of the Internet of Things is in the data, but are just as quickly learning that most of them lack the programming time and/or expertise to extract the mean-ing from the “raw” data that is being generated by their newly connected products. Ayla Insights provides an easy and affordable path for manufacturers to unlock the value of their data by offering a way to quickly visualize, analyze, and explore their data, regard-less of the device or application type. Removing the development effort needed to produce industry and device specific analytics and reports, the Ayla Insights data platform completes the feedback loop for manufacturers and provides the fastest path for uncovering the actionable data needed to improve product development, customer satisfaction, and revenues.
The Importance of Actionable Data Value is in the data, not the thing! Historically, manufacturers have designed and shipped products with very limited insight into how users are interacting with their products or even how their prod-ucts are being used on a day-to-day basis. Products are shipped through distribution, bought from retailers, and ending up in homes or offices; the user and the manufacturer rarely communicate. As a result, manufacturers are making critical decisions like what features to include on the home page of a display or UI, what features to roll out, and how to structure warranty and other service programs based on very limited information.
The Internet of Things is unlocking this data and changing every-thing, expanding our ability to monitor and measure things that are taking place in the real world. Data is one of the most signifi-cant benefits of IoT, however unlocking it will only get you halfway there; now that you have the data how do you extract the value from the data? Ayla Insights understands this problem and takes the manufacturer’s data one-step further providing not only person-alized, location, and status data, but also actionable data, offering a complete 360-degree view of product usage. With this feedback loop to real-world behaviors provided by Ayla Insights, manufactur-ers will have the information needed to promote continued product improvements and innovation.
Ayla Insights
Ayla Networks, Inc.www.aylanetworks.com
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE, COST-EFFECTIVE SENSING TECHNOLOGY FOR ANY ENVIRONMENT
From ICs to complete sensor modules, Leddar is a unique optical sensing technology that enables efficient detection
and ranging for a wide variety of IoT innovations
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