I have finally found a couple of articles that have helped me to fully understand where the Intel Gateway tech fits into the IoT space and ADRC’s potential role in that.
The story so far:
1. 05 Apr 16 – MOU signed with US ‘tech giant’ (probably Intel)
2. 11 Apr 16 – Announcement that ‘ADRC Soon to be Available on Intel IoT gateway platform’
3. 25 May 16 – Announcement that ‘successful porting of ADRC gateway services using a Advantech Embedded IoT Gateway running Linux’ completed
4. 09 Jun 16 – Announcement that ‘testing of ADRC technology against Intel® Moon Island gateway platform on the Advantech hardware’ completed
5. 29 Jul 16 - Announcement (Quarterly) that ‘the Company has since built a small number of demonstration kits of ADRC gateway software running on Intel® D2000 chip on mini PCIe card and configured on Advantech hardware running Moon Island gateway. These were recently shipped overseas to Intel® for their testing and review”
Still to come:
1. Intel and ODM (i.e Advantech) to test and review the ADRC demo kits (i.e Advantech gateway running Intel Moon Id platform and Intel Quark D2000 chips)
2. Pending outcome of 1, Intel to add ADRC to the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance ‘Solutions Directory’
3. Also pending outcome of 1, ODM to integrate ADRC software and services into ODM production gateway
4. Manufacture and distribute ODM gateways (with ADRC included in the software stack)
5. Concurrently complete SW development (DeB) with Codium, beta test and launch
First document is an Intel presentation on the gateway development process based on an earlier than Quark D2000 chip. Process still the same though. Shows exactly where we are up to in the gateway development process (i.e just completing the ‘developer kit’ phase):
2nd document has some interesting comments re the role of the Solution Alliance members (such as Xped):
SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL МARKET » South-East European INDUSTRIAL Мarket - issue 2/2016, JUNE
________________________________________ From IoT to Reality, Internet of Things Solutions That Get Results
A major factor in the adoption of any technology is return on investment (ROI). Businesses want to see gains in productivity, efficiency, revenue streams, and other value-producing facets of business. When a technology has no track record, businesses base their decision to adopt it on careful analysis of its potential for delivering positive results. Such has been the case for the Internet of Things (IoT) - until now.
In this article, we look at how reference designs and technology building blocks from Intel and members of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance enable companies to develop end-to-end IoT solutions. We consider the way these building blocks are evolving to help create more powerful and efficient solutions for collecting data. We also discuss how implementations using these building blocks deliver real ROI.
The Internet of Things
While references to the "Internet of Things" can be found as early as 1999, mainstream interest began around 2008 when things connected to the Internet began to outnumber people. Today, the IoT is growing rapidly and its technologies are more mature. But businesses on the sidelines still have concerns. They want to know that all the necessary technologies are in place. They want to see how these technologies scale to form operation-wide, end-to-end solutions. Most importantly, they want to see how these solutions generate value.
A Platform Designed for Results
To help original equipment manufacturers, developers, software vendors, and system integrators bring IoT visions to reality and win more business, Intel and the Alliance offer a comprehensive set of products and services based on the Intel® IoT Platform. This platform includes IoT reference architectures for connecting legacy and smart devices, as well as a product portfolio of IoT-ready technologies from Intel and its ecosystem. The result is an easily customized IoT foundation for implementing end-to-end solutions.
The platform provides a blueprint for delivering innovations to market faster by reducing complexity and defining how smart devices will securely connect and share trusted data to the cloud. Multinational enterprise software company SAP* is already applying this new Intel IoT Platform, along with its SAP HANA Cloud Platform*, to develop comprehensive IoT enterprise end-to-end solutions.
Recently the platform has beed updated. A new product added to the platform portfolio is the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP). This open-source project initiated by Intel simplifies and accelerates the creation of secure, high-performance Big Data analytics applications in cloud environments. TAP includes the necessary tools, algorithms, and engines that make it easier for developers to collaborate with data scientists in conducting advanced analytics in a shared environment.
Data scientists are finding TAP valuable in pilot projects for applications in manufacturing, healthcare, retail, oil and gas, energy, and other industries:
• Honeywell is using TAP in a proof of concept (PoC) to collect data from wearable sensors on firefighters, miners, and first responders, including location, heart rate, body position, and carbon dioxide level. To aid real-time decision-making, TAP performs stream processing on the data and sends alerts to a dashboard.
• Penn Medicine is working with Intel to advance healthcare analytics with a solution that combines patient vital signs, lab records, and medications to develop predictive models. With TAP, Penn Medicine is building better models for predicting health risk.
Taking Intel® Technology Farther Out on the Edge
The recently introduced Intel IoT Platform includes the Wind River Helix Cloud, a cloud suite from the Intel subsidiary Wind River. The suite includes Wind River* Rocket* and Wind River Pulsar* Linux* - two free cloud-connected, multi-architecture operating systems (OSs) - plus a comprehensive selection of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products.
With this offering, Wind River not only grows its presence in the cloud, but also extends its OS footprint to microcontrollers (MCUs). The new suite helps developers simplify and accelerate IoT application and device development - they can start building applications in as little as 10 minutes.
Intel is entering the world of the incredibly tiny with new Intel® Quark™ processors for IoT, making it easier to scale from things to cloud (Figure 1). The Intel® Quark™ SE microcontroller for IoT and the Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D1000 and D2000 deliver advanced processing capabilities in power envelopes as low as 0.025 W (thermal design power).
The new products offer long-life reliability and an extended temperature range (-40 °C to +85 °C) for demanding environments. The Intel Quark SE microcontroller for IoT includes an integrated sensor hub and pattern-matching technology to deliver real-time insights from complex sensor data at the very edge.
IoT software developers can get a quick start creating fast, intelligent things with Intel Quark processors through Intel® System Studio for Microcontrollers. This Eclipse*-based suite offers proven tools to locally build, debug, and analyze software using familiar workflows.
The Gateway to the Internet of Things
A key building block of the Intel IoT platform is Intel® IoT Gateway Technology. This platform enables customers to create scalable, application-ready IoT gateways for connecting things to the cloud - including the billions of legacy devices never designed for Internet connection or to handle today's world of security threats (Figure 2).
The addition of high-performance Intel® Core™ processors to Intel IoT Gateway Technology is enabling greater edge intelligence. This intelligence is critical to fulfilling the IoT's promise because, as important as Big Data analytics is, not all data needs to or should be sent to the cloud for analysis. In fact, it would be too costly, too slow, and too expensive.
The use of higher performance processors in IoT gateways enables substantially greater local analytics capabilities, allowing businesses to analyze and act on edge information in near real-time while reserving more robust cloud and data center analysis for enterprise-wide applications. Gateways are now available with 6th generation Intel® Core™ processors, Intel's most scalable processor family ever, offering a wide range of performance in smaller power envelopes.
Powerful Analytics and Cloud Solutions
The Intel IoT platform includes guidance for cloud analytics solutions, data visualization tools, and insight monetization. These solutions run on Intel® Xeon® processors that combine multicore performance and compute density with hardware-based manageability, security, virtualization, and power management. Here are some examples of partners' cloud solutions and services:
IBM offers the Internet of Things Foundation, a robust set of fully managed cloud hosted services. The solution lets developers build applications alongside devices to collect data and send real-time insights back to the business.
Microsoft offers Windows Azure*, an open and flexible cloud platform that enables businesses to rapidly build, deploy, and manage IoT applications across a global network of Microsoft managed data centers. Services include everything from machine learning to advanced business insight tools.
Delivering Return on Investment
While some forms of ROI provide monetary gain, other equally valuable forms deliver improved customer relationships, brand enhancement, and superior user experiences. Here are four examples:
Kontron is working with Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Cisco, Dell, IBM, and Intel to establish the Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science & Technology (CREST). CREST's initial projects include a precision farming project in which soil sensors collect and report data for a smart water-demand management system. The system demonstrates how to use 10 percent less water while increasing rice harvests by 50 percent.
Big Cloud Analytics is achieving results with their COVALENCE* Retail Analytics Platform (Figure 3). It provides sales associates with information on in-store customers. In one department store, the solution resulted in five percent of customer traffic buying $35 USD more on a visit. Using COVALENCE, a fashion retailer is seeing a 42 percent increase in store revenue in their 10 lowest revenue-producing stores.
CONCLUSION
Results from implementations of the Intel IoT Platform with solutions from Intel IoT Alliance members demonstrate that the IoT is more than ready for business. The platform's new IoT architecture and portfolio of products, in combination with innovations from Alliance members, further advance the ease of implementing secure, high-performance analytics applications designed to balance edge and cloud processing for the greatest efficiency and results. With the Intel IoT Platform and application-ready Alliance solutions, companies building out the IoT can deliver real ROI to their customers.
For more information contact Intel®:
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