A s more businesses look for ways to unleash the full power of the Internet of Things (IoT), demand grows for solutions that can bring devices online faster, securely connect to the cloud, and help businesses extract more value from their data. Helping developers speed these solutions to market is the joint focus of Intel and the Intel ® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance. From modular components to market-ready systems, Intel and the 350+ global member companies of the Alliance provide the scalable, interop- erable solutions that accelerate deployment of intelligent IoT devices and end-to-end analytics. Close collaboration with Intel and each other enables Alliance members to innovate with the latest technologies, helping developers deliver first-to-market solutions. In this article we look at recent innovations that increase the scalability of Intel ® processor-based solutions from things to the cloud. We consider how the expansion of the Intel ® IoT Gateway family with support for multiple processors and new operating systems helps accelerate device connection to the IoT. We explore how Intel and Alliance advancements in performance, interoperability, security, and software development accelerate IoT solution deployment and help companies monetize data faster. We also direct you to articles in this magazine that show exam- ples of innovations and application-ready solutions from Alliance mem- bers that accelerate IoT deployments. Scalable Performance from Things to Cloud Meeting market demand for IoT growth requires scalable solutions and the compute performance to turn Big Data into actionable data in near real time. In this 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, Alliance members have more processor options than ever to help them perfectly match performance to the job at hand. The latest additions include processors based on Intel’s new 14 nm process technology and 2nd generation 3D Tri-gate transistors. These innovations deliver industry-leading performance, power, density, and cost reductions per transistor. Processors using this technology include Internet of Things Meeting Market Demand with Scalable, Interoperable IoT Solutions By Rose Schooler, Vice President, Internet of Things Group, Strategy and Technology Office, Intel Corporation intel.com/embedded-innovator | Embedded Innovator | 12 th Edition | 2015 | 5 Accelerating the Internet of Things
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As more businesses look for ways to unleash the full power of the Internet of Things (IoT), demand grows for solutions that can bring devices online faster, securely connect to the
cloud, and help businesses extract more value from their data. Helping developers speed these solutions to market is the joint focus of Intel and the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance.
From modular components to market-ready systems, Intel and the 350+ global member companies of the Alliance provide the scalable, interop-erable solutions that accelerate deployment of intelligent IoT devices and end-to-end analytics. Close collaboration with Intel and each other enables Alliance members to innovate with the latest technologies, helping developers deliver first-to-market solutions.
In this article we look at recent innovations that increase the scalability of Intel® processor-based solutions from things to the cloud. We consider
how the expansion of the Intel® IoT Gateway family with support for multiple processors and new operating systems helps accelerate device connection to the IoT. We explore how Intel and Alliance advancements in performance, interoperability, security, and software development accelerate IoT solution deployment and help companies monetize data faster. We also direct you to articles in this magazine that show exam-ples of innovations and application-ready solutions from Alliance mem-bers that accelerate IoT deployments.
Scalable Performance from Things to Cloud Meeting market demand for IoT growth requires scalable solutions and the compute performance to turn Big Data into actionable data in near real time. In this 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, Alliance members have more processor options than ever to help them perfectly match performance to the job at hand.
The latest additions include processors based on Intel’s new 14 nm process technology and 2nd generation 3D Tri-gate transistors. These innovations deliver industry-leading performance, power, density, and cost reductions per transistor. Processors using this technology include
Innovators of the IoT Unite!We live in amazing times. With predictions of up to 50 billion connected devices by 2020, our industry over the next fi ve years faces an enormous task – and tremendous opportunity.
To help you speed your IoT solutions to market, the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance has added more than 100 members since our last issue of Embedded Innovator magazine. Our ecosystem now includes over 350 global member companies. From modular components to market-ready systems, Intel and these Alliance members offer you the scalable, interoperable solutions you need to develop intelligent IoT devices and accelerate deployment of things-to-cloud solutions. You can fi nd thousands of these solutions at intel.com/iotsolutions-directory.
In this issue, you’ll see how solutions based on the Intel® IoT Gateway reference design help propel the buildout of the IoT, connecting devices to the cloud for smart cities, buildings, and even vacation resorts. You’ll discover how an EtherCAT master controller allows factories to take part in Industry 4.0. You’ll learn how wireless multi-service controllers increase security options for hospital wards. You’ll catch a ride with a new fl eet management solution that increases truck uptime. You’ll fi nd ways to reduce test times for semiconductors. And you’ll read how to take command of mil/aero markets with a HPEC platform designed for boost digital signal processing performance.
Throughout the magazine, you’ll learn how collaborating with Alliance members can help you take advantage of new technological advances – and how you can use these advances to speed competitive solutions to market. Let’s get started!
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ContentsAccelerating the Internet of Things Meeting Market Demand with Scalable, Interoperable IoT Solutions
By Rose Schooler, Vice President, Internet of Things Group, Strategy and Technology Office, Intel Corporation ....................................................................................................................5
Real-Time IoT Environmental Monitoring Multi-Service Gateways Bridge Sensor-to-Cloud Communication By Robert Andres, Chief Marketing Officer, Eurotech ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................10
Increase Smart Factory IQ with M2M to Cloud EtherCAT Master Controller Delivers Distributed Control and IoTBy Simon You, Product Director, Measurement and Automation Product Segment, ADLINK ..............................................................................................................................................18
Wireless Multi-Service Controllers Secure Hospital Wards Keeping Patient Health Records Safe and Accessible By Yongsin Yang, Senior Product Manager, Lanner Electronics ..........................................................................................................................................................................................21
IoT Makes Smart Foundation for Vacation Resort Sensors and Gateways Improve Efficiency and Guest Experiences By Jordan Jiang, PhD, General Manager, IEI Integration Corp .............................................................................................................................................................................................26
Ensuring Coexistence of IoT Wireless Protocols Using a Convergence Module to Avoid Contention By Narasimhan Venkatesh, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Redpine Signals .............................................................................................................................................32
Advertorial: Accelerating IoT Adoption with Intel and Microsoft Ways the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance Can Help You .....................................36
Increase Uptime Through IoT Fleet Management End-to-End Technologies Speed Up Service and Repair By Dave McCarthy, Director of Product Marketing, Bsquare Corporation............................................................................................................................................................................38
Turn Surveillance Video into Actionable Intelligence NVR Employs H.265 to Reduce Bandwidth Usage and Storage By Barry Kao, Sr. Product Manager, Intelligent Digital Security Business Unit, NEXCOM .....................................................................................................................................................42
Multi-core Processing Shortens Test Time Get Faster Test-and-Measurement Results with Parallel Processing By Adam Foster, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Automated Test, National Instruments, and
Shahram Mehraban, Director, Industrial and Energy Solutions, Intel® Internet of Things Group ... . .......................................................................................................................................48
Highly Parallel HPEC Platforms Optimizing I/O Throughput for High Performance in Mil/Aero Applications By Vincent Chuffart, Product Portfolio Manager, Avionics Transportation Defense, Kontron . ...............................................................................................................................................54
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Meeting Market Demand with Scalable, Interoperable IoT Solutions By Rose Schooler, Vice President, Internet of Things Group, Strategy and Technology Office, Intel Corporation
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the latest Intel® Pentium® and Intel® Celeron® processors (codenamed “Braswell”), the 5th generation Intel® Core™ processor product family, and the new Intel® Xeon® processor D product family (Figure 1). To see how Kontron, a Premier member of the Alliance, applies the Intel Xeon processor D in a mil/aero application, see page 54. To learn how Associate member NEXCOM uses the new Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron processors in a network video recorder, turn to page 42.
Customized for IoT with a seven-year availability, the new Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron processors offer stunning integrated graphics per-formance in a low thermal envelope. The new 5th generation Intel Core family provides a step up through the family’s enhanced com-pute performance and integrated Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics. Intel’s most powerful IoT processor graphics and media engine, Iris Pro graphics deliver up to two times better 3D graphics performance and faster video conversion. Their inclusion of ECC memory support and Intel® vPro™ technology for security and manageability make them ideal for medical, public works, and industrial IoT applications.
At the edge, all kinds of things including wearable computing are rede-fining how people use and interact with information. Intel® Edison is a product-ready, general-purpose compute platform for sensors and wearables that stands out for its performance, power efficiency, and very small size. Intel Edison includes an Intel® Atom™ processor sys-tem-on-chip (SoC) and supports 40 general-purpose input/outputs (GPIOs). It includes 1 GB of low-power DDR3, one 4 GB embedded multimedia controller, and dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth* 4.0 radios. Recent demonstrations of its versatility for wearables include a hardhat with gas- and smoke-sniffing sensors and a healthcare tag for remote patient monitoring.
Working its way into Alliance IoT prod-ucts is the Intel® Atom™ x3 processor series (formerly codenamed “SoFIA”). Powering entry and value tablets and smartphones, these 64-bit multi-core processors integrate applications processor, image sensor processor, graphics, audio, 3G or 4G LTE connec-tivity, and power management com-ponents in a single system chipset. For higher end medical and industrial tablets and handhelds, Intel offers its 14 nm Intel® Atom™ x5 and x7 pro-cessor series (formerly codenamed “Cherry Trail”).
Innovation continues to accelerate around the Intel® Atom™ processor E3800 product family. To see how Premier member ADLINK uses an Intel® Atom™ processor E3845 in an EtherCAT master controller, see page 18. For a look at how Associate member Lanner employs an Intel®
Atom™ processor E3815 in healthcare, go to page 21. To learn how Affiliate member Bsquare uses an Intel® Atom™ processor Z3745 in a fleet management solution, turn to page 38.
Intel® Xeon® processors power the high-performance solutions for processing the data created by these edge devices. Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research recently reduced 39 years of computational chemistry to 9 hours using cloud resources based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 product family. To learn how Associate member National Instruments uses these processors to accelerate test and measurement, visit page 48.
A Platform for InnovationLast December saw the introduction of the Intel® IoT Platform, an end-to-end reference model designed to simplify IoT deployment by defining building blocks from silicon to software to services and how they work together – all with security as an underlying technology (Figure 2). The reference model provides a repeatable cross-industry foundation that can be readily customized to diverse applications.
Intel and the Alliance are using this reference model and numerous other technologies to create a comprehensive set of products and ser-vices that accelerate secure IoT deployment. An important part of this platform’s product portfolio is the Intel IoT Gateway. This reference design gives Alliance members a template for components to use in creating this crucial intelligent device for connecting new and legacy things to the IoT.
The 14 nm Intel® Xeon® processor D product family is Intel’s first server system-on-chip (SoC). It’s available with up to 8 cores.
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Application-ready gateway solutions based on the Intel IoT Gateway are critical for the seamless, secure data flow from edge to cloud needed to extract value from the more than 85 percent of existing equipment not yet connected to the Internet. The gateways integrate technologies and protocols for networking, embedded control, security, and manageability on which third-party applications can run. Currently, 22 unique Intel IoT Gateway designs are available from 20 Alliance companies. To view these, visit: www.intel.com/SD-IntelIoTGateway.
You can see how Associate member Eurotech uses a solution based on the Intel IoT Gateway in a Smart City deployment by visiting page 10. To learn how Associate member IEI employs their Intel IoT Gateway design to improve efficiency in a vacation resort, see page 26. Need ZigBee? Discover a module from General member Redpine Signals that adds this mesh network technology to a gateway’s wireless mix – see page 32.
New Gateways to SuccessIn June at COMPUTEX 2015, Intel announced the expansion of the Intel IoT Gateway product family. The newest designs bring expanded choice in silicon, software, and services, enabling solutions to scale in performance and get to market more quickly. In addition to Intel® Quark™ SoCs and Intel Atom processors, developers and partners can now choose Intel® Core™ processor-based gateways.
For those looking for a Microsoft Windows*-based solution, Associate member Microsoft is working with Intel to deliver its Windows 10 IoT Core* and Industry* operating systems in the second half of 2015 on Intel Atom and Intel Core processor-based gateways. Intel and Canonical* are collaborating as well on an Intel IoT Gateway that will come with support for Snappy Ubuntu Core*. Apps will be available
through the Canonical Snap Store* for gateway deployment and addi-tional functionality.
To offer new and flexible packaging options for gateway applica-tions that need a low cost of entry, Wind River updated its Wind River* Intelligent Device Platform XT 3* this year. The new Intel IoT Gateways using this platform offer enhanced manageability fea-tures – including over-the-air OS updates and rollback – through the Wind River Helix Device Cloud*. This cloud-based platform enables devices to securely connect to a centralized console and helps cus-tomers aggregate data from the edge, run analytics, and securely configure, monitor, and manage devices.
Things-to-Cloud SecurityAt every point in the Intel IoT Platform, security is applied at the hard-ware and software layers to ensure devices, networks, and data are secured. To provide an on-ramp for other devices to securely connect to the Intel IoT Platform, Intel Security is now extending its Enhanced Privacy Identity (EPID) technology – an advanced identity technology in Intel processors and SoCs – to other silicon vendors. EPID has ano-nymity properties, in addition to hardware-enforced integrity, and is included in ISO and TCG standards.
Developers can also utilize McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) – Intel Security’s industry-leading security management product – to manage device, software, and data security on Intel IoT Gateways. Extending ePO’s reach to the gateways provides more complete and real-time situational awareness of the end-to-end security posture of IoT deployments, converging IT and operational technology (OT) security contexts for greater and more actionable intelligence.
The Intel® IoT Platform is an end-to-end reference model for IoT deployment.Figure 2.
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Intel processor-based secu-rity and management solu-tions add additional protective layers for IoT devices of all kinds. These include:
• Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), Intel® Platform Protection Technology with BIOS Guard, and Intel® Boot Guard to detect and prevent malware even at the firmware level
• Intel® Advanced Encryption New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) to enable fast and secure data encryption and decryption with minimal impact on processor performance
• Intel® Active Management Technology 10 (Intel® AMT 10) for remote management down to the firmware level, even when systems are powered off or unresponsive
Speeding Software Development and Data MonetizationData collected by devices and gateways needs to be sent to existing backend systems, fused with other data sources, and made available to partners, customers, and employees. Developers can achieve this with API management.
Intel has assembled interoperable core software and services capabil-ities as a foundation for IoT based on API management. These capa-bilities can help businesses, integrators, and the larger IoT ecosystem jumpstart their IoT deployments. IoT solutions aligned with the Intel IoT Platform can employ Intel® Mashery™ API management tools to create data APIs that can be shared internally, externally with partners, or monetized as revenue-generating data services for customers. Intel’s core IoT software layer supports the necessary IoT management, security, and control, and helps orchestrate the assembly of services and finished vertical solutions (Figure 3).
Intel® Software recently launched the Intel® Firmware Engine, a free graphical tool that helps Intel customers quickly create system firm-ware for IoT and embedded devices. The Intel Firmware Engine makes use of a new binary-only approach to accelerate the creation of firm-ware needed to initialize platform hardware and launch operating sys-tems such as Microsoft Windows, Android*, and Linux*.
Entrepreneurial developers will also want to tap the Intel Developer Program for the IoT. In addition to development kits for the Intel Quark SoC-based Intel® Galileo or Intel Edison board, it offers ser-vices such as the Intel Mashery API network, IoT Analytics plat-form-as-a–service (PaaS), and an online software community named
the IoT Developer Zone. The program also offers a global hackathon series for new developers.
Accelerate Your IoT SolutionsAs with any transformative development, such as the Internet, it pays to take a well-supported approach. By working with Intel and the Alliance, you can accelerate your solutions with modular, secure, interoperable components and application-ready systems that sim-plify deployment and help you unlock business value for customers quickly and easily. Taking advantage of these solutions helps you become a major player in accelerating the IoT and the transformation of this ever-growing world of things.
For information on IoT solutions from the Alliance, see intel.com/iotsolutionsalliance-sd
For more on enabling Big Data, business insight, and the Internet of Things with secure, scalable solutions, visit intel.com/embedded-iot
Contact Intel From modular components to market-ready systems, Intel and the 350+ global member
companies of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance (intel.com/iotsolutionsalliance) provide scalable, interoperable solu-tions that accelerate deployment of intelligent devices and end-to-end analytics. ADLINK (intel.com/MR-adlink) and Kontron (intel.com/MR-kontron) are Premier members of the Alliance. Eurotech (intel.com/MR-eurotech), IEI (intel.com/MR-iei), Lanner (intel.com/MR-lanner), McAfee (intel.com/MR-mcafee), Microsoft (intel.com/MR-microsoft), NEXCOM (intel.com/MR-nexcom), National Instruments (intel.com/MR-ni) and Wind River (intel.com/MR-windriver) are Associate members. Bsquare (intel.com/MR-bsquare) is an Affiliate member and Redpine Signals (intel.com/MR-redpine) is a General member of the Alliance.
Intel is delivering the core IoT software layer that supports IoT management, security, and control, and helps orchestrate the assembly of services and vertical solutions.
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