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LoRaWAN products connect and monitor remote areas

Wed, Jan 16, 2019

LoRaWAN wireless products from Advantech B+B SmartWorx help users control and manage applications in remote areas. They use LoRa wireless sensing technology in these areas to monitor conditions, for example flood monitoring, and operate in harsh environments including extreme temperatures and high humidity.

Advantech uses LoRa wireless sensing technology to overcome the obstacle of distance, exploiting LoRa’s benefits such as operation over long distances – from five to 15km (three to nine miles). A single basestation can provide deep penetration in dense urban and indoor regions and can connect rural areas up to 48km (30 miles) away. The protocol is designed specifically for low power consumption battery lifetime is extended over years of operation while providing high capacity capable of supporting millions of messages per basestation, making the technology suitable for public network operators serving many customers, says Advantech.

LoRa networks reduce system costs by lowering infrastructure investment, operating expenses and end-node sensor cost, while offering high security with embedded end-to-end AES128 encryption, explains Advantech.

Advantech offers the WISE-6610 LoRa Gateway (LoRaWAN Private) which supports 868/915Mhz. It meets Cat. 4 LTE and has a nine to 36V DC power input. The battery powered Wzzard LRPv2 is based on Modbus RS485, 4AI/2DI/1DO and has a wide operating temperature range of -40 to +75 degrees C. It is protected to IP66.

Advantech specialises in intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms. Its hardware and software can be used for IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence. Advantech’s Edge Intelligence WISE-PaaS core assists business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of realising industrial intelligence.

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Adesto partners with Watson to predict energy analytics

Tue, Jan 15, 2019

Smart buildings can be enhanced with insights into energy management and other operational data through services running on the IBM Watson IoT platform, says Adesto at the launch of its SmartServer IoT edge server platform.

Through its recent acquisition of Echelon, Adesto has been selling its open embedded IoT platform into the building automation and energy management industry for over two decades. The SmartServer IoT edge server platform features built-in device and data management for sensors, meters, actuators and controllers in buildings, through traditional and emerging protocols including BACnet, LonWorks and Modbus.

The IBM Watson IoT platform is a managed, cloud-hosted service designed to make it simple to derive value from IoT devices. It enables organisations to capture and explore data for devices, equipment, and machines, and discover insights that can drive better decision-making. When combined with the seamless connectivity of data from Adesto’s SmartServer IoT, engineers can provide facility managers with deep insights into energy consumption and other operational aspects of a building.

“IBM Watson IoT Platform enables customers to maximize the value of their physical assets,” said Sanjay Tripathi, VP of strategy and business development, IBM IoT. “Adesto’s SmartServer IoT provides the critical connection from industrial data to our platform so that customers can perform powerful analytics on their data. We are delighted to work with Adesto to demonstrate our combined capabilities, and we look forward to making the solution available to customers in the buildings sector.”

Adesto will demonstrate this revolutionary capability for building integrators, facility managers and property owners in its booth C5234 at the AHR Expo in Atlanta, Georgia (14 to 16 January) and at Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany (26 to 28 February, booth 4A:124).

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Development kit connects Bluetooth/LPWAN devices

Tue, Jan 15, 2019

Support for concurrent communication over Bluetooth Low Energy and Sub-1GHz wireless allows users of the STEVAL-FKI001V1 dual-radio development kit to build and connect IoT devices like smart sensors, finders and trackers. These devices can be configured, updated, remotely monitored and tracked using various network topologies, protocols and services, confirms STMicroelectronics.

The development kit is for use by IoT developers in projects from smart homes and smart buildings to asset tracking, energy management, smart farming and industrial monitoring and control use.

The kit includes ST’s BlueNRG-1 Bluetooth system on chip and S2-LP sub-1GHz transceiver. The dual-radio architecture enables simultaneous operations on a variety of radio-frequency bands and protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy or proprietary 2.4GHz, Sub-1GHz, and Sigfox.

According to ST, users can create smart objects that connect to each other locally through mesh or point-to-point connections and support flexible ways of connecting to the Cloud. For instance, a sensor ecosystem for a smart home could be created with local sensor networking leveraging either Bluetooth Low Energy or Sub-1GHz wireless link and the whole system is then connected to the Cloud through a local gateway or directly via a seamless Sigfox ubiquitous link, for surveillance or remote monitoring purposes.

The BlueNRG-1 Bluetooth 5.0 certified kit allows configuration or modification of device settings during installation or maintenance and permits monitoring of networked node sensors through an app running on any Android or iOS device.

The sub-1GHz S2-LP transceiver allows local networking as well as LPWAN installations including global Sigfox connectivity, which allows capabilities such as real-time notification of events. Sigfox-ready networking can be used to track and remotely localise devices or assets.

The kit can be expanded through its Arduino Uno V3 connectors with ST’s X-Nucleo offering, including expansion boards with MEMS sensors, motor control, GNSS receivers or industrial I/O and power drivers.

The STEVAL-FKI001V1 development kit is interoperable with the recently announced BlueNRG-Tile board. This combination can allow users to build end-to-end smart-sensor networks, including the sensor node, local gateways and Cloud connectivity.

Leveraging the BlueNRG-1 SoC’s versatile interfaces and low-power Arm Cortex-M0 core with 256kbyte of embedded program memory, users can connect their own choice of external sensors and process the data acquired locally in real time. The STEVAL-FKI001V1 has a software development kit (SDK) that simplifies development to reduce time to market, yet preserves the flexible, scalable nature of the design. It could also be used in conjunction with the ST BlueNRG-Mesh software package to create extensive networking on a large-scale installation, advises ST. Over the air (OTA) firmware updates are possible via the Bluetooth Low Energy connection.

Based on a ready-to-use WS2118 RF dual-radio module from Jorjin, the STEVAL-FKI001V1 provides a pre-certified solution for developers to quickly move from early concept-feasibility phase to prototyping, field trials and volume production. The programmable low-power radio module has flexible power management and wake-on-event capability that allows multi-year lifetime from a small primary battery, says ST.

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Integrity launches first MA for V2X ecosystems

Mon, Jan 14, 2019

Believed to be the first misbehaviour authority service (MAS) for the US V2X (vehicle to everything) ecosystem, Integrity Security Services (ISS) has announced that its MAS will begin by serving subscribers already subscribing to its all certificate management service (CMS).

All new and existing ISS CMS subscribers will be able to begin identifying vehicles for misbehaviour and removing them from their networks. Device manufacturers and all subscribers can contact Integrity for certification and to enable the device with the ISS-approved MAS OBU client and begin testing.

The ability to identify vehicles that are not sending correct V2X messages and to remove them from the connected vehicle ecosystem is an important security requirement to maintain trust in the ecosystem. ISS claims that its MAS provides this capability on a scalable and efficient national level. ISS will be publishing its misbehaviour detection criteria, reporting format and MAS APIs for OBU and RSU vendors to use with their compliant systems.

Integrity Security Services was established to provide best practice embedded security products and infrastructure solutions for protecting smart devices from cyber security attacks. End-to-end automotive solutions range from ECU cryptographic platforms to large-scale public key management systems.

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