Thank you for sharing with us your work around Hardware solutions for the Internet of Things.
Especially, I also agree that a such work is definitely needed to have an interesting substrate to explore such concepts and to my knowledge, I haven't been able to find any suitable platform for this.
A potential candidate could have been the Olimexino-STM32 :
Its decent computational power (STM32 Cortex-M3), autonomous operations capabilities thanks to its JST connector for a LiPo battery and UEXT connector for wireless capability, without, of course, forgetting to mention its Arduino shields compatibility, makes it a potential candidate.
However, its main drawbacks are :
-its size that doesn't make it practical for real world deployments
-its low RAM & Flash quantity that prevents it to deploy developers friendly middlewares (Java, .Net...)
That's why, my partner and me are working on the VSN II project.
With the VSN-II, we will advance further in the state-of-the-art by reducing the size and adding flexibility to form a final custom product.
Especially, this one has been thought since the beginning for modularity (VSC : Core, VSR : Radio, VSE : Expansion, VSP : Power) and programmability. That's why,
we claim that the VSN II will be the first Cloud sensor :
"Cloud is, for the purposes of this discussion, is sort of the pinnacle of SOA in that it makes everything controllable through an API. If it has no API it is not Cloud. If you buy into this then you agree that everything that is Cloud is ultimately programmable."
"They also decided on an open architecture, so that other
manufacturers could produce and sell peripheral components and compatible software without purchasing licenses."
Thank you for sharing with us your work around Hardware solutions for the Internet of Things.
Especially, I also agree that a such work is definitely needed to have an interesting substrate to explore such concepts and to my knowledge, I haven't been able to find any suitable platform for this.
A potential candidate could have been the Olimexino-STM32 :
http://www.olimex.com/dev/olimexino-stm32.html
Its decent computational power (STM32 Cortex-M3), autonomous operations capabilities thanks to its JST connector for a LiPo battery and UEXT connector for wireless capability, without, of course, forgetting to mention its Arduino shields compatibility, makes it a potential candidate.
However, its main drawbacks are :
-its size that doesn't make it practical for real world deployments
-its low RAM & Flash quantity that prevents it to deploy developers friendly middlewares (Java, .Net...)
That's why, my partner and me are working on the VSN II project.
The VSN II is an evolution of the VSN platform :
http://www.netclamps.com
Especially, we would greatly appreciate to invite you to :
-a further watching of the video entitled "Versatile Sensor Node - A Platform for the Sensor as a Service Concept" :
http://videolectures.net/wsnsme2010_smolnikar_vsn/
-a further reading of the blog post entitled "VESNA" :
http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2011/12/vesna/
With the VSN-II, we will advance further in the state-of-the-art by reducing the size and adding flexibility to form a final custom product.
Especially, this one has been thought since the beginning for modularity (VSC : Core, VSR : Radio, VSE : Expansion, VSP : Power) and programmability. That's why, we claim that the VSN II will be the first Cloud sensor :
http://informationsystemsbiology.blogspot.com/2011/11/lean-i...
"Cloud is, for the purposes of this discussion, is sort of the pinnacle of SOA in that it makes everything controllable through an API. If it has no API it is not Cloud. If you buy into this then you agree that everything that is Cloud is ultimately programmable."
with a PC-like architecture :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
"They also decided on an open architecture, so that other manufacturers could produce and sell peripheral components and compatible software without purchasing licenses."
We will let you guess the rest :-)
Guillaume FORTAINE