Ankaa - iMX6 Development Board

The IoT gateway’s functionalities include the following:

Data collection from all End devices nodes

Aggregation of data collected

Edge level data processing before uploading to the cloud

Basic control and maintenance of Edge device nodes

Bridge between edge devices and the cloud network.

Bridge of many different edge device connectivity standards/protocols and the cloud

Internet of Things (IoT) Services

 

e-con Systems offers IoT services and IoT product development services across industry verticals. The services offered by e-con are:

IoT Device Development

IoT Cloud Integration

IoT services for Industries

IoT Device Development

End devices which mostly constitutes of Sensors and Actuators form the backbone of the IoT Architecture. The ability to make cost effective and wireless end devices combined with connectivity has created the buzz around connected devices and the Internet of Things. The basic properties of the end devices are low power consumption, wireless connectivity and low cost. e-con Systems has strong expertise in developing such embedded systems and has experience with the following Microcontroller based systems:

OMAP processor series

PXA 270, PXA 300 and PXA 310 series

i.MX processor series

PIC Microcontroller series (PIC 33F, PIC 18F)

TI MSP 430 Microcontroller series

ATMEGA32

Power Management:

e-con Systems has done extensive work on power management and low power designs and is currently working on wearable and IoT devices that run on small batteries for months together without re-charging.

Wireless:

e-con Systems has been involved in Bluetooth Smart (Bluetooth Low Energy) Protocol development and device driver and product development around the Bluetooth. e-con has worked on 802.11 a/b/g/n and has developed device drivers, protocol stacks and custom broadband products with the 802.11 Wi-Fi standards.

IoT Device Protocols / M2M Protocols

Once basic device connectivity is established, an IoT communication protocol must be run over this connection for the IoT devices to communicate with the other nodes. e-con provides support for MQTT and Alljoyn protocol in various operating systems such as Embedded Linux, Windows 10 IoT core, Windows Embedded Compact 2013 as well as for thin clients running on Microcontrollers.

IoT Cloud Integration

Most edge devices are low CPU processing power and low storage space, the reasons being power consumption and cost. As a result, majority of the storage and processing has to be remote. So IoT nodes often send the data to the cloud where the storage and processing like Business Analytics & Big Data Processing is done.

e-con Systems provides support in its devices to access Microsoft Azure cloud services like:

Support is provided in two ways:

By presenting SDKs in various Operating Systems for the third parties to develop their own code.

Implementing and designing the entire business logic and interaction between the services based on the customer idea.

IoT Services for Industries

e-con Systems is more focussed on IoT solutions for the industries rather than consumer IoT. The industries that e-con are currently focussing include