UK chip design company ARM IT services giant IBM and the US has just launched a cooperation "starter kit", hopes to promote the development of the Internet of Things market. ARM and IBM said, users simply take five minutes out of this device from the box, you can start sending readings to an online application. They said this would simplify the testing process smart home, smart cities and other things the project, a small start-up companies will also benefit.
The Things Starter Kit consists of two parts:
a preconfigured microcontroller development board, built ARM Cortex-M4 processor and a small amount of memory that can be used to perform a single task.
A sensor expansion board that contains a thermometer, accelerators, two dimmer knobs, a buzzer, a small lever, an LED light and a rectangular black and white LCD screen.
These two elements can complement each other, and access to the network through the network cable, or connected via a USB cable and other computer equipment. The device may read its surroundings or is connected thereto data object.
According to the user manual in the box, the user can access the IBM Web site. After the site input device authentication code, you can see real-time recording of data, the other can use IBM and other companies to develop a variety of tools for analysis of relevant information, or to take control of other networked devices.
The two companies gives an example: With this package will be sent to local environmental data to a remote data center, data center and then returned by the command control system consists of networked intelligent lighting lamp composed.
Another example is a more advanced, a series of intelligent access network mousetrap so you can know which guard is triggered mousetrap, avoid these traps one by one to see.
"In fact, the only way is to limit the use of the human imagination." Vice President of IBM developers Rob Lamb (Rob Lamb) said.
ARM vice president of marketing Zach Shelby (Zach Shelby), added: "Anyone can use this tool, either through Kickstarter to raise public entrepreneurial companies or large enterprises engineer."
The Starter Kit will fly Freescale production, the price has not been determined, but ARM said the range of about 50-200 US dollars.
In fact, the components used in the kit is not new, but will it all together and it shows that IBM wants to own ARM ecosystem to attract more developers to compete with rivals.
According to the US market research firm Gartner predicts that by the end of this year networking "thing" (including refrigerators, sprinklers and cars, etc.) will be close to 50 million units by 2020 will reach 400 times that figure.
ARM chip design through licensing and collecting things embedded operating system costs and earn revenue, IBM will provide a range of compatible cloud computing services, including online application development and runtime platform Bluemix analysis and artificial intelligence systems Watson.
IBM's goal is to provide a free trial opportunity for the purchase of these products developer starter kit, and then convince them to buy the official version. "Manufacturer" (The Manufacturer) magazine writer Lula Li McCartney Leone (Ruari McCallion) said: "This is the first of these two companies are very sensitive to cooperate because they can launch competing Starter Kit. But the price as low as possible. "
ARM said the kit will be listed within a few months, but did not disclose details
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