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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) phenomenon is rich with opportunity. This newsletter tackles news, trends and products related to the building of IoT implementations, and devices.
DIN-Rail Industrial IoT Gateway is Ultra-Compact
Axiomtek has launched its newest RISC-based fanless DIN-rail IIoT gateway, the IFB112. The fanless IIoT gateway supports the low-power consumption NXP (Freescale) i.MX6UL ARM Cortex-A7 528 MHz System-on-Chip (SoC). The gateway controller with IP30-rated aluminum and steel enclosure supports an extended operating temperature ranging from -40°C to 70°C, a wide voltage range of 9 V to 48 V DC power input with terminal block, and has been designed to withstand vibration up to 5G. For system integrators with wireless communication needs, the IFB112 has one PCI Express mini card slot, one SIM card slot, and two internal antennas.
The DIN-rail fanless gateway comes with one 256 MB DDR3 on-board memory and one 4GB eMMC flash memory for storage. The compact system is designed with 31 mm x 100 mm x 125 mm in size and has rich I/O connections including one RS-232/422/485 port, two 10/100 Mbps LAN ports, one USB 2.0 port, one CAN-bus port and one digital I/O (2-IN/1-OUT).
Cloud Platform Supports BeagleBone Black Development Kit Anaren IoT Group has announced the release of version 2.1 of its innovative Anaren Atmosphere online development platform. Atmosphere affords embedded, mobile, and cloud developers with an exceptionally fast way to create IoT applications with an easy-to-use IoT development environment. Atmosphere 2.1 now offers support for the BeagleBone Black Embedded Linux Development Kit, as well as a new cloud-only project type that enables users to build libraries for C#/.Net, C/C++, and Python to enable connections to their own embedded solutions in Atmosphere Cloud.
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This week's newsletter raffle is for a 2016 archive CD of Circuit Cellar. Enter the drawing using the link below. The CD contains PDFs for all 12 Issues and the associated article code files. A $40 value! Drawing ends at midnight this coming Friday. And congratulations to last week's raffle winner. Karl-Josef W. won a free subscription to Circuit Cellar magazine. Thanks to all who participated! Data Sensing Solution Targets Smart Factory Advantech has introduced its EtherIO technology designed to enable real-time sensing for machine automation, predictive maintenance, equipment monitoring, and optimization, production traceability, rapid quality feedback, and factory environment monitoring applications. EtherIO is a new Ethernet-based I/O technology developed by Advantech to provide a cost-effective alternative to using fieldbus-based solutions for real-time data collection. EtherIO technology not only transforms standard LAN ports into dedicated real-time I/O ports, but also consumes less than 10% of CPU processing resources, allowing users to leverage the computing power of existing systems for real-time I/O. In other words, EtherIO provides an immediate solution that does not require additional expensive infrastructure and can be flexibly integrated with legacy equipment and systems. CONTINUE READINGWIN Enterprises has announced the WIN IoT-380 Gateway, an entry-level embedded IoT device designed for device control and the streaming of data from sensors and components deployed on a manufacturing line. Communications are via wired or wireless links to back-end servers located at the network's edge. The edge servers are used for more comprehensive analytics, data aggregation and filtering, and issuing M2M or human alerts and so on. These back-end servers, in turn, pass filtered data to a cloud-based server for additional analytics, reporting, and archiving. These four technology layers create an integrated IIoT system for more efficient manufacturing. The WIN IoT-380 is a production line gateway that interfaces with sensors and actuators on the manufacturing line and an edge gateway that is used to further refine data and pass it on to a cloud-based server for storage and further analytics. CONTINUE READING
Keysight and Sequans Team for IoT Deployment Test Offering Keysight Technologies has announced an agreement with Sequans Communications whereby Keysight will use Sequans' Monarch LTE for IoT chip platform to provide support for NB-IoT and LTE-M customers using Keysight's E7515A UXM wireless test set (shown). The integration assures customers that they have their test needs covered for IoT deployments and are in compliance with 3GPP standards. The combined solution addresses users' deployment test needs and ensures compliance with 3GPP standards. Keysight's UXM Wireless Test Set integrated with Sequans' Monarch LTE for IoT platform supports testing needs of NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and enhanced Machine-Type Communication (eMTC) Cat-M1 customers. The Keysight system tests for 3GPP RF/RRM compliance for NB-IoT and Cat-M1 using the Sequans Monarch chip. CONTINUE READING |
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Circuit Cellar #325: August 2017
Q&A: Krste Asanovic on RISC-V | Power Supplies for Guitar Amps | Design Example: Cypress PSoC | Firmware Upgrade on Microchip PIC32MZ | Reliability and Failure Prediction | PID Temp Control for a Meat Smoker | Inside Electronic Locks | How to Break DES Encryption | Fully Differential Amplifiers | Wi-Fi to the Danger Zone
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