From idea to the field - Simplify Your IoT project (Acal BFi Nordic & Sierra Wireless)

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From idea to the field Industrial Open Hardware running

Open Source Software Tuesday, November 3, 2015

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European leader in advanced technology solutions


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

09:15 – Introduction,

Acal BFi

Sierra Wireless

mangOH Open Hardware

WP8548

Legato

IoT Acceleration Platform

09:40 – WORKSHOP

10:15 – Break

11:00 – WORKSHOP

11:50 – Summary

12:00 End


Supplier of Advanced Technology Solutions

Electromechanical

Magnetics & Power

Industrial display modules

Fiber Optics

Photonics & Imaging

Embedded Computers

ACAL Group: 271 MGBP / 3400 employees (Acal BFi is roughly 60% of turnover. Lion share of employees are in Asia with Myrra and Noratel)

Acal BFi Nordic: 240 MSEK / 50 employees

M2M/IoT & Wireless

2G, 3G, 4G modules & gateways

GPS/GNSS modules

WiFi & Bluetooth modules

Ultra Low Power Radio

(RFIC, SoC and Modules)

Antennas

M2M / IoT Cloud

Airtime subscriptions / SIM cards

RF & uW semiconductors/MMIC

Amps, Switches, FEM’s, …

Passive uW components

Filters, Baluns, …

Fiber optics

Transceivers, Cable, …

Frequency control

Xtals, Oscillators, Filters, …

RF & uW, Fiber optics, Freq control Sensors

3D, 6D, 9D sensors

(Accelerometer, Gyro, Magnet)

Temperature, Humidity, Pressure

Force, Gas, etc…

Sensor assemblies

Rotary signal transmitters

European Wireless Technical Competence Centre

Core capabilities

RF HW module development

HW development at chip level

Embedded SW development

Core technologies include,

Cellular: 2G, 3G, 4G

GPS/GNSS

WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee

Low Power ISM band radio, ...


M2M/IoT & Wireless


Hardware Design & Support capabilities


Todays activities


Sierra Wireless – Building the Internet of Things

Global leader in M2M/IoT devices and Cloud services

Largest worldwide supplier of cellular M2M/IoT devices, 35% market share 2014 (ABI, June 2015)

Industry’s most comprehensive offering of 2G, 3G and 4G-LTE devices

Leader in 4G-LTE modules for Mobile computing, M2M and IoT

Deep operator relationships world wide

R&D

R&D R&D

Head office: Vancouver, BC

Founded in 1993

LTM Revenue: $601 million EBITDA: $13.1 million (2015-Q2) Cash: $96 million Debt: 0

Publicly listed: NASDAQ (SWIR) TSX (SW)

Approx. 1000 employees worldwide

Customers in 130+ countries


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SMART CF3

3G HSPA+ 4G LTE 4G LTE-A

ESSENTIAL Mini PCIe F2 & M.2


Sierra Wireless – Building the Internet of Things


From Idea to the Field the traditional way

Purchase a dev kit or design your own prototype

Bring up board and develop low-level software

Integrate cellular module

Integrate specific PAN technologies

Integrate with a cloud/server or develop your own

Test hardware

Develop your applications

Test your prototype in market conditions

Generic R&D Process


From Idea to the Field with mangOH Open Hardware Design files freely available under a cc license

Purchase a dev kit or design your own prototype

Bring up board and develop low-level software

Integrate cellular module

Integrate specific PAN technologies

Integrate with a cloud/server or develop your own

Test hardware

Develop your applications

Test your prototype in market conditions

mangOH™

reference

design

90% of your

prototype

delivered

out-of-the-box

Focus on application development


Interfaces:

1 USB 2.0 OTG

1 USB 2.0 Host

1 RS232/Serial

1 RJ45/Ethernet

1 Audio Jack

1 SD card slot

2 SIM slots

3 antenna connectors (Primary, Secondary/Diversity, GNSS)

3 IoT module slots

Built in Features:

Accelerometer, Gyroscope

Battery with charger

Supporting 3rd party shields for Arduino Leonardo

mangOH Open Hardware = Design files freely available under a cc license

100mm (4”)

12

0m

m (4.75”)

IoT Module connectors provide plug’n’play wireless, wired, and sensor connectivity

CF3™ connector for WP

CF3™ connector for HL


• New open interface standard from Sierra Wireless

• Simple, industrial grade and low cost

• plug’n’play

• Interface includes exhaustive set of communication ports and control signals

• Growing ecosystem, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Linear Tech,

What is an IoT module ?

22.3 mm

45

mm

38 pos QSFP+ connector


What does Open Hardware mean in the case of mangOH ?

Design files are freely availably Schematics, BOM, Gerbers

Files are free to copy, share, modify

A business friendly license : CC Attribution Creative Common Attribution = user only need to make reference to project mangOH in the documentation

Free to use for commercial purpose

License is non-revokable

..and it runs Open Source Software


Model Air Interface

WP8548 3G-HSPA+DC, 2G-EDGE Fall Back, Global

WP75xx 4G-LTE cat 3, 3G-HSPA+DC Fall Back, Variants for EU/EMEA, North America, APAC

Processing and connectivity in a single device optimized for industrial M2M

Embedded processing: Cortex A5, 550 MHz, 256 MB Flash, 128 MB RAM. Running

LegatoTM open source embedded platform (full Linux)

Device-to-cloud: AirVantage M2M Cloud

Air Interfaces: 3G-HSPA+DC, 4G-LTE cat 3, 2G-EDGE, optional GNSS

Package/Mounting: LGA solder down 244 pads (CF3 standard form factor) or use

the snap-in socket soldered on same foot print (change module at any time).

Interfaces: UART, USB, HSIC, SDIO, I2C, SPI, GPIO, ADC, PCM & more

SMART

WP series, 3G/4G modules w application processing

Key Benefits:

Simplified system design with dedicated application processing from a powerful multicore architecture.

Ultra low power domain: Sleep mode at a few micro amps, Run mode at a few hundred micro amps.

Application development with Linux, LegatoTM open source embedded platform.

Device management and machine data capture through pre-integrated cloud services.

CF3 form factor enable foot print compatibility with HL series.

Project mangOH open hardware reference design.


Smart WP

The Legato Platform is running on a dedicated core with dedicated memory

AirPrime® WP Hardware Architecture

(*) Based on default configuration and subject to variation. Code is executed in RAM. The telecom core uses a separate memory area.

FLASH/RAM Memory

Multicore Baseband

Telecom Core

Cellular RF

GNSS RF

……

Application

Core

SPI

I2C

UART

USB

SDIO

Memory* RAM FLASH

Boot loader - 1 MB

Linux Kernel* 25 MB 20 MB

Root File System* - 50 MB

Framework* 8 MB 15 MB

User application 95 MB 170 MB

Total 128 MB 256 MB

WP8548 (3G) / WP75xx (4G)

CORTEX-A5 @ 550 MHz 32 KBytes I-cache 32 KBytes D-cache

256 KBytes cache L2 ARMv7 instructions Up to 863.5 MIPS


Components of the Legato platform

built with Wind River

Designed to give embedded M2M development a head start

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webAPI



pre-integrated embedded system

Cloud

connectors

operations

other cloud platform


AirVantage – Key Features

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LWM2M

App OTA - App Mgmt - FOTA - Monitoring Data

Managed Connectivity

App Business Data

LWM2M or MQTT

IoT apps

IoT device


IoT data, services & operations

pre-integrated HW

Simplify IoT Development


legato.io mangoh.io

Resources

http://www.legato.io/


Workshop : To Develop & Do

Monitor / Configure / Upgrade

Install on remote device

Start / Stop application

View / Use / Retreive data

Build Application Develop & Compile

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