The
AE-CLOUD
kit allows embedded
developers to quickly evalu-
ate cellular connectivity options and,
thus, accelerate prototyping of cellular-enabled IoT devices for
asset tracking, retail and agriculture monitoring, smart city
utilities, mobile health care, and industrial automation.
The hardware includes a Synergy S5D9 MCU baseboard,
tri-mode modem with cellular and GPS antennas, Wi-Fi,
Ethernet, and various sensors such as lighting, microphone,
temperature, humidity, pressure, air quality, geomagnetic,
accelerometer, and gyroscope. Developers can simply insert
a SIM card with data plan purchased from a local cellular
carrier to enable cellular access.
The software enables developers to provision the kit to con-
nect to a 4G cellular network and their preferred cloud service
provider. It also allows developers to visualize the sensor data
on a customizable and password-protected dashboard.
Renesas claims that the AE-CLOUD2 kit has passed global
RF emissions tests, thus ensuring a robust electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC) performance. It also complies with regula-
tory certifications for FCC, CE, RoHS, WEEE, and Japan’s MIC.- Pre-programmed applications
NXP Semiconductor’s Rapid IoT kit allows students, hobby-
ists, developers, platform providers, and engineers at startups
to create applications without embedded coding experience.
The kit incorporates Atmosphere IoT’s web-based IDE, Atmo-
sphere Studio, to carry out drag-and-drop–style GUI-based
programming.
The IoT prototyping kit combines optimized hardware and
trusted security with pre-programmed applications to help de-
velopers hit the ground running within minutes of opening the
box. And that’s how this user-friendly development environ-
ment simplifies the proof of concept for IoT edge-node designs.
The Rapid IoT kit also allows designers to transition from
prototype to development with certified wireless stacks, drivers,
middleware, embedded application examples, and iOS and
Android mobile apps. For instance, automatic source code gen-
eration for NXP’s MCUXpresso encompasses SDK, IDE, and
Config Tools to ensure a smooth transition for developers. - BLE-enabled sensor shield
What ON Semiconductor has done in its upgraded node-
to-cloud platform IoT Development Kit (IDK) is add a
multi-sensor shield and software support
for connected wellness and industrial
wearable designs targeted at smart
home, predictive maintenance, asset
tracking, and other IoT applications.
The multi-sensor shield adds
a variety of inertial and environmental
sensors, and they are linked via the company’s BLE
connectivity shield. ON Semi is also developing an An-
droid mobile app that will provide visualization of sensor
data and control of actuators from a mobile handset via the
low-power BLE link.
The software enhancement includes native support for IBM
cloud alongside the existing support for Carriots (Altair) cloud.
The embedded operating system running on the development
board has also been upgraded to mbed version 5.5.Streamline design path with IoT kits
Countless IoT monitoring and control applications are ready
for commercialization. These IoT design kits reuse the major
hardware and software building blocks to debug, prototype,
and industrialize a wide array of IoT applications under reliable
design environments.
The IoT era is truly upon us, and it’s apparent that devel-
opment boards and kits are going to play a critical role in this
design revolution. ☐IMAGE: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY
Fig. 2: Microchip’s AVR-IoT WG kit claims
to get you connected to Google Cloud
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