We've recently released an an updated version of an IoT Edge Hub/Gateway platform that runs on Raspberry Pi 3's or Zero/W's (or 4's most likely, but haven't tested it yet). The main app is designed to allow users to build out a lot of typical IoT edge infrastructure very quickly and without doing any programming. That's done by incorporating an object based rule engine into the hub application and providing a companion configuration utility that's used to build an application ruleset. There's also a remote packet capture component to receive and decode packets on remote servers, as well as a raw packet decode utility for decoding any binary packet log files it produces. The platform is free for any non-commercial or educational use and the fully functioning version can always be downloaded from our website, www.omniot.com. You'll also find lots of "how to" and example videos there as well as extensive user and configuration guides.
Some of the typical functionality that can be quickly configured includes -
- Forwarding TLS encrypted JSON, XML, or binary (raw) format data to your own remote servers
- Logging packet data locally in JSON, XML, or binary (raw) format
- Mixing and matching sensors from different vendors or technologies
- Configuring complex threshold logic to detect exception conditions
- Controlling GPIO inputs/outputs to actuate devices or allow user input
- Sending email/sms messages directly from the hub device
- Creating custom packets aggregating data from multiple sources
- Base objects include multiple timer, flag, counter, averager, and cache types.
- Lot's more!
The new Beta version also includes the following -
- Connect to most MQTT capable third party cloud platforms
- Reformat JSON data on the fly to meet third party cloud platform data format requirements
- Remotely control your SoftHub from MQTT capable dashboards or mobile apps.
Note that the Beta version isn't documented on the main website yet and is only available from the beta download page HERE. You can see a full write up of the new MQTT features, HERE in a hackster.io project that was just posted.
The platform comes with built-in support for a growing library of sensors. Currently it supports a range of BLE and ANT sensors from Nordic, Texas Instruments, NXP, Garmin, Dialog Semiconductor, Sensirion, and others.
We're posting here today for two reasons - firstly, we'd just like to get the word out to anyone interested in using the platform in their own projects, but we're also very interested in finding new sensors to support to increase its usefulness. To add support for a new BLE or ANT sensor is usually a day or two's effort. If you have a sensor you'd like to see added please let drop a note or post it here. Similarly, adding support for DIY sensors would be good as long as there are public "how to's" for others to be able to build their own.
Anyway, all comments are welcome. We're trying to keep this not too spam-y but we had a conversation with Tariq from element14 at CES last year and it sounds like this is a community that might find the platform useful. Thanks!
Intro Videos -
Demo for Developers ( ~5 mins)
Demo Explainer (~11 mins)
MQTT Features Videos -
Introduction ( ~5 mins)
Config "How To" Pt 1 ( ~7 mins)
Config "How To" Pt 2 (~10 mins)
Remote Control ( ~8 mins)