The first day of embedded world is gone, and it’s incredible how fast it went by, as there is so much to see!
Here is a sample of the IoT based demos that I noticed, on the floor, on Day 1
On the Nordic Semiconductor stand (Hall 5-374), there is a really fun demo application on how you can you use your phone and Apple HomeKit
to control your house, via your smartphone and nRF52 DK (ARM Cortex-M4 based). Here, it works a treat: you get candy !
You’ll also see the BBC micro:bit in action, based on mbed,and how easy it is to program it
On the Texas Instruments booth (Hall 5-385), there is a demonstration of Industry 4.0 Industrial Gateway, based on the AM571x Sitara™ industrial Development platform (Cortex-A15 CPU).
The first thing we see when we arrive at the STMicroelectronics stand (Hall4A-138), is the big sign showcasing a quite significant milestone – more than 1.5 Bn STM32 chips!
STM32 Connectivity LoRa – LPWAN demo – a quick sensor demo based on the LoRa network.
The IoT demo that catches our eyes is the demo with Oracle, here with an IoT solution on STM32 powered by Java ME, running either on STM32-F4 (Cortex-M4) and STM32-F7 (Cortex-M7) (it’s Java!), from IoT devices, to Oracle IoT cloud service, showcasing the porting simplicity here that may IoT developers may want.
NXP
Nearby, one cannot just be impressed by the great truck by NXP (Hall 4A-220). There is so much interest that there is a queue to get
in, so I decide to come back later.
When I finally manage to get in, this is great, there is a plethora of IoT based applications and demos, such as Smart Home and Building, Medical and more, such as smar home and multimedia gateways based on i.MX6 (Cortex-A9) and Kinetis KW2x (Cortex-M4) MCUs, or various Thread enabled controls (Linux border router, motion lighting control, Thermostat control...)
There is a demo, which is not IoT related, but it’s worth having a look or two –a glasses free 3D display. Quite impressive.
On the NVIDIA stand (Hall 4-646), go and check out the cool little robot, powered by the Jetson TX1 (Cortex-A57 CPUs) and TK1 platforms (Cortex-A15 CPUs).
(Booth 1 – 639)
On the Microsoft booth, there is a mirror demo of the Cloud parking demo from Toradex.
Sensors control the gates via license plate image recognition, that are connected to the cloud, and keep track of the free parking spaces, and the ones which can be booked.one board handles the payment for the parking spaces, another one the NFC card scan, and opening of the gates.
The boards used are based on NXP iMX7 (Cortex-A7 based), i.MX6 (Cortex-A9 based) and Nvidia Tegra K1 (Cortex-A15 based). The main demo, on the Toradex booth, uses 3 different operating systems(windows 10 IoT, Windows Embedded Compact, Linux).
Congratulations to Keolabs (Hall 4-103) for winning an embedded world award for their technology. IoTize brings IoT connectivity
for existing embedded systems, via their STM32 based product.
At the Mentor Embedded booth (Hall 4-422), check out the IoT demos, such as Mentor IoT Gateway SysDK, hardware and reference design,
an edge-to-cloud solution, based on an NXP i.MX6, and ARM TrustZone support for end nodes and gateway
That’s it for day 1, more to come today!