The Rust programming language is an amazing step forward. And it is designed to eliminate a good portion of programming errors, already during compile time. It is a language designed for systems programming, and that makes it so valuable in the context of embedded software development.
In an ever increasing race to increase scalability, reduce configuration and decrease hosting costs “Serverless” computing promises to run your business logic “on demand” without the need for fixed infrastructure. As a dynamic, modular platform OSGi makes an ideal platform upon which to deploy your serverless functions. Furthermore, OSGi’s Requirements and Capabilities model allows for more complex serverless functions to be dynamically assembled and deployed in response to incoming events.
Turtles all the Way Up - From OSGi bundles to Fog Computing.
The model of centralised cloud compute is changing. As large-scale IoT deployments have started to become real organisations are realising that a single central cloud can’t cope with the data security, data volumes, latency or robustness that they need for their businesses. Centralising in a single cloud also offers a huge operational risk - if the cloud fails, their business must continue!
"Digital Twin" is the new buzzword in IoT. "Digital Twins" basically are software representations of physical devices in an IoT platform. In times of growing complexity and diversity in the IoT platform landscape "Digital Twins" play an increasingly important role as they remove complexity for application developers when dealing with protocol adapters or device specific formats."
Having software update capabilities ensures a secure IoT by means that it gives IoT projects the chance to keep security related mechanisms up-to-date. From that moment on devices are at the forefront of IT security threats many embedded software developers never had to face.
From a device point of view, software updates differ hugely from domain to domain, from device to device, or even from use-case to use-case. From the backend, however, our experience has shown, that the process does not differ too much.
In 2015 SMA - a leading global specialist in photovoltaic system technology - started a greenfield-development of a new energy-management gateway, with OSGi being the key technology for component based development.
This talk will present the key factors that lead to this decision, how we very carefully build up Java and OSGi knowledge, and started with an initial design. OSGi enRoute and the support of OSGi experts helped us to accelerate our development and become familiar with OSGi - although we also had times when we were struggling because of the new technology.
We will also demonstrate what we have reached until now and tell you if OSGi has kept it's promise ...
A well-designed and tested IoT product should successfully help customers save money based on the information the system produces – but what can that look like for a real customer, and how can testing be done in the project?
In this talk, I will present a case study for a customer who produces metal-pressing machines for the can industry. The customer’s aim is to reduce unnecessary support visits to production sites: by measuring various parameters of the machine, they can determine whether the support case may have been caused e.g. by changing the thickness of the metal.
Vehicle-to-Cloud connectivity is opening up a vehicle’s internal resources such as data and functions to the outside world. This generates new opportunities by creating innovative customer services that enable new business models and technologies. However, current IoT technologies do not yet fully support automotive needs.
Deploying an end-to-end IoT solution require several technologies to be in place: applications on the edge, device connectivity services and backend applications need to collaborate to support a variety of use cases and consistently provide reliable, scalable, manageable and secure solutions.
Discover how Eclipse IoT projects Kura, Hono and Kapua can work together to provide a powerful and integrated set of services aimed to simplify the implementation and the deployment of complex IoT solutions.
Eclipse Hono offers horizontal scaling for cloud IoT messaging. You can find a lot of documentation about Hono architecture and learn how it is designed to achieve this scalability. Deployment of such a complex cloud software, on the other hand, is very dependent on the specific environment and use case. That is why there haven’t been too much talk around this topic so far.