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Demo Andes core based end node connectivity with RPi-3 based gateway over IEEE802.15.4 radio and local sensor data access powered by Altiux BoxPwr or IoT Devices Software Framework
Altiux BoxPwr Micro or Gateway configuration
Altiux BoxPwr Pico or End node configuration
BoxPwr – Features and benefits
BoxPwr –IoT Devices Software Framework
Introduction
BoxPwr, part of Altiux’s IoT Toolkit portfolio, addresses these challenges in IoT devices and gateways. It is a customizable framework of software components that provides connectivity, security, manageability and value added features essential for IoT device & gateway development. It easily scales as per device requirement – from extremely low power, constrained devices to full-service IoT gateways.
Customer benefits
Developing smart connected products for IoT is complex. BoxPwr addresses this complexity and provides following benefits to its customers:
✓ Accelerated and simplified product development with modular, pre-integrated software stack. Customers do not have to worry about learning new technologies and protocols and can focus entirely on application development for their use case
✓ Enhanced agility with modular, standards based, abstraction framework approach. Customers can easily manage changes in requirements or technology landscape.
✓ Lower technology risk and future proof investments as BoxPwr is designed to work with emerging IoT standards and protocols and is easily extensible to support proprietary implementations.
✓ Competitive differentiation as BoxPwr offers enhanced interoperability between standards allowing OEMs to realize value added use cases for consumers
Basic architecture of BoxPwr
Figure 1 : Altiux’s BoxPwr – Software framework for IoT devices
The plug and play architecture of the framework makes it extremely simple for customers to customize the framework as per their requirement and use case. To further simplify the development, BoxPwr framework is available off-the-shelf in two variants:
• BoxPwr Pico configuration – Suitable for constrained end points running RTOS (VxWorks, Contiki, FreeRTOS, TinyOS etc.) or bare metal
• BoxPwr Micro configuration – Suitable for IoT gateways running Windriver Linux, Ubuntu or other operating systems
BoxPwr –IoT Devices Software Framework
Technical specifications
How to buyAltiux’s BoxPwr can be licensed to smart device and gateway ODMs, OEMs and solution providers. In addition to licensing of BoxPwr, Altiux also provides services for integration and customization enabling accelerated development. For more details on technical specifications, licensing model, terms and pricing, please reach out to [email protected]
Feature Specifications
Connectivity Connectivity technologies and plugins:
BT/BLE, IEEE 802.15.4 (6LoWPAN/Thread), Zigbee, Z-wave, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
4G/LTE, LoRA, Wi-SUN, RS485, Ethernet, Modbus, BACNET, LonWorks, KNX etc.
Network layer components:
Native IP support over multiple radio technologies
IETF RFC compliant components - 6LoWPAN, IPv6, Neighbour discovery, RPL,
MPL, MLE, Thread MeshCop
Cloud connectivity Cloud connectivity abstraction for registration, publish, activation and bootstrap
functionalities
Support for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, IBM Bluemix, and other third party
cloud platforms
Security Network layer security: DTLS, TLS, J-PAKE implementations compliant to IETF
RFCs
Supports integration with third party security modules
Session layer services Session protocols: IETF RFC compliant CoAP and HTTP, OASIS MQTT
Encoding and parsing : EXI, JSON, XML
Device management OMA LWM2M
Plugins for OMA DM and TR-069
Middleware
frameworks
Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) candidate spec 1.1, HGI open platform 2.0,
Homekit, Weave (Optional integration modules)
Interoperability bridges Session layer bridges :
CoAP – MQTT, CoAP – HTTP
Converged framework :
Device management convergence (OMA LWM2M, OMA DM, TR-069)
Multi-vendor interoperability framework (LWM2M, OCF and others)
Application objects OMA/IPSO objects, OCF defined
Core framework
services
Supports core framework services such as radio abstraction, debug manager,
FOTA manager, memory manager etc. along with utilities such as trace, debug,
statistics etc.
Edge analytics Rules engine for simple and complex event processing as well as statistical
model scoring plugins
