ON Semi expands IoT solutions for smart home, industrial and wearables
The new release, says the company, lets customers accelerate development time frames and deploy IoT solutions more quickly for a variety of connected wellness and industrial wearables, as well as for smart home, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and other industrial IoT applications.
The new multi-sensor shield, which attaches to the IDK’s ARM SoC motherboard, adds a variety of inertial and environmental sensors to the IoT Development Kit. Coupled with the company’s recently announced Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connectivity shield, these could, for example, enable rapid prototyping of a wide range of ultra-low-power smart home, industrial IoT, and wearable solutions the company says.
In addition to the new shield, the company has released version 4.0 of its IDK software, which now includes native support for IBM cloud alongside the existing support for Carriots (Altair) cloud. Additionally, the embedded operating system running on the IDK motherboard has been upgraded to Mbed version 5.5.
“ON Semiconductor continues to expand its intuitive IoT offerings to help customers prototype and develop solutions for various IoT verticals and deploy them much quicker and with greater cost effectiveness,” says Wiren Perera, who heads IoT at ON Semiconductor. “We realize the importance of providing holistic solutions from node to cloud. The new sensing capabilities complement our ultra-low-power connectivity and actuator options enabling a whole new class of solutions with industry leading battery life.”
The company is also developing an Android mobile app that will allow visualization of sensor data and control of actuators from a mobile handset via the low-power BLE. The app can be dynamically customized for the application and use case being prototyped.
The IDK multi-sensor shields will be available in April. Meanwhile, an IDK demonstration highlighting predictive maintenance, smart home, and other IoT use cases will be shown at Embedded World (27 February – 1 March 2018 in Nürnberg, Germany).
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