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Make your own Internet of Things devices - IoT Starter Kit released by
ARM and IBM
IOT
devices can be built in a matter of minutes with ARM and IBM's mbed starter kit
By Agam Shah | 24 February 2015 | IDG News Service CIO
Magazine
ARM and IBM want hobbyists and small businesses alike to
create their own Internet of Things applications and devices in a matter of
minutes with a new development kit.
The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit - Ethernet Edition will allow
users to make cloud-ready Internet of Things products that could receive or
transmit data for analysis or alerts. The development kit will come with ARM's
mbed OS and connect into IBM's BlueMix cloud, which will help in the
development of applications and services.
The starter kit will get data from "the on board
sensors into the IBM cloud within minutes of opening the box," ARM said.
ARM and IBM hope to cash in on the mass adoption of IoT,
which has led to a mesh of interconnected devices used in smart homes, smart
city implementations and enterprises. The devices, which could range from
weather sensors to health devices, already number 1.2 billion, and could touch
5.4 billion by 2020, according to a recent study by Verizon.
Related:
- Internet of Things and smart cities - The 2014 CIO review
- Internet of Things and robotics innovation lead coming from UK CIOs
- Internet of Things and embedded devices lift Intel earnings
The IoT market is currently fragmented with a wide variety
of hardware, operating systems and communication standards in use. Through the
developer kit, ARM and IBM want to bring a level of consistency in hardware and
software across IOT devices. Beyond making it easier for devices to talk one
another, the developer kit could make it easier to push or pull data out of a
larger number of cloud services.
The development kit includes a board with a Freescale K64F
Kinetis microcontroller, which has an ARM Cortex-M4 processing core running at
120MHz. An Ethernet connection links the board to IBM's BlueMix cloud service,
which then acts as a guide on how to use the board. Other components on the
board include a 128 x 32 graphics LCD, 256KB RAM, 1MB of flash storage, a
speaker, a five-way joystick, temperature sensor, accelerometer, potentiometers
and a PWM (pulse-width modulation) control line to receive digital signals.
The starter kit has Ethernet for connectivity, but there's a
possibility it may also include cellular or Wi-Fi in the future, ARM said.
ARM didn't provide details on the pricing or availability of
the starter kit. The first devices resulting from the development kit are
expected to be released later this year.
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