Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

balearicdynamics — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:24:48 GMT

Great question, better IoT Kits or dev boards ...

My answer is: mixed. Starting from the project requirements there are two questions we should answer:

How is IoT involved
What are the design architecture required performances.

Answering the first question we can easily focus the class of IoT components we need. Consequently we are also easily addressed to the kind of kit cant solve us most of the problems; maybe based on motors control or environmental sensoring. Depending on this we start with a first serious IoT platform or set of components related to our project.

When we answer the second question we already know how the IoT components connects and should be controlled: maybe based on wired or WiFi network, Bluetooth or hardware connection protocols like I2C, Serial, USB, wiring etc. These are just the parameters we need to choose the micro controller and/or the board(s) we will use to start with the fundamentals needed to grow the creation.

Then we have just to allocate time for electronic assembly and design, software and firmware implementation and testing on the real world (with a lot of different declinations). Better if we honestly analyse our specific knowledge in the different involved fields considering the time needed to learn all what we don't know yet.

Enrico

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

kalarav.parmar — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:05:41 GMT

Good Post for IoT Developer.

But here listed all the Modules, and Development Boards are comparatively costly for product development.

there are other Boards are available which support the TCP/IP stack and MQTT With Host Device. Like, Gainspan, Murata, esp8266.

if these type of any boards are available in on IoT platform please provide me a good solution. for my Next IOT Project. which is best from me which support on board API and stack.

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

volly — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:03:37 GMT

[mention:55e535b498a841ed8f2949266bc56dc3:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05],

How could I have missed this......

great stuff....

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

RParkerE — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:48:27 GMT

I too am with [mention:4236e66f810f492faa977aafb3ee70a6:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] in that the Microbit could be a really powerful tool with its capabilities and size. I feel that just a Dev Board and Dev Kits have unique upsides and downsides. Dev Boards alone allow you to have a very simple base when you have an idea. Kits may not always be geared to one's specific plan of attack or idea for implementation, so the kit would just hold parts that were not needed. However, I think kits are great ideas for beginners and for those who want to build projects that involve the basic ideas that these kits are geared to. I personally enjoy kits, because while I may not use all the parts for my current project, it gives me more materials to tinker with and use in a new project.

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

shabaz — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:04:40 GMT

Hi Randall,

Nice selection of boards! Many of these would make a great gateway device.

I also agree with [mention:4236e66f810f492faa977aafb3ee70a6:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] that the Microbit has changed the game, and is a very worthwhile board to to consider (perhaps as nodes) especially where multiple boards may need to be deployed.

On-board sensors and wireless comms, and decent processor (ARM Cortex-M), (fairly) low power, easy to code. What's not to like : )

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

Workshopshed — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:32:47 GMT

I know it's not really designed for embedded projects but the Microbit seems to have similar capabilities to a few of these boards such a motion sensors and BLE.

RE: Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Dev Tools to Build the Product

DAB — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:49:51 GMT

All of the boards off a lot of capability, but they can be very intimidating for newbies.

I think one way to get more participation is to use a progressive challenge.

You start out with a simple and inexpensive board, say the PSOC or Launchpad with a simple project, say measure temperature or something simple.

Make it clear that step one is essential to qualify for step two, where you provide a little more parts of the overall challenge and get everyone to build the next piece.

In this way, you can slowly nurture newbies into full fledge makers with enough guidance to ensure that all but the lazy can succeed.

When you get done, you have a good set of testers, bloggers and people with interest.

DAB