IoT Innovation Lab

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Architecture

Electrolux

We can help design and build modern state of the art IoT solutions because we have done it before.

  • For Electrolux Senior Management, we took a toy Microwave from Toys R Us
  • We hacked the microprocessor in the Microwave and added another small computer
  • We added WiFi and put it all back together
  • We then wrote an iOS app - pushed a button on an iPhone, which published a message to our MQTT Server
  • The microwave was "subscribed" to these messages and the microwave started
  • After this successful demo we spent two weeks in Charlotte NC making the Broadcom WICED SOC talk MQTT
  • This solution is in production

Whirlpool

We can help design and build modern state of the art IoT solutions because we have done it before.

  • For Whirlpool, we re-used the same toy Microwave that we used at Electrolux
  • And the same iOS App and the same MQTT Server
  • The existing Whirlpool code base uses a Marvel SOC (System On A Chip)
  • The development environmemt was resource constrained (memory)
  • Again, we got the device to say "Hello World" using MQTT
  • This solution worked and is in production

Ford

We can help design and build modern state of the art IoT solutions because we have done it before.

  • For Ford, we took a radio controlled F150 - and added a computer in the bed
  • We used a Dremel to make room for blue LED headlights and we added spotlights
  • The. truck had wires hanging out of it, and we wrote another iOS App to control the vehicle
  • Our demo in Dearborn was exceptional - the truck lodged itself on the speaker phone and cut off everyone who was listening in
  • This solution was implemented by Ford

Southern Command

We can help design and build modern state of the art IoT solutions because we have done it before.

  • For a Southern Command Hackathon Mil-OSS SOFTWERX - we were asked to add electronics to a drone
  • We had to 3D print any housings and attach devices to the drone "in the dark with gloves on"
  • Here's a Powerpoint that describes what we created in a weekend
  • Oh - and we won and donated the 1st prize money to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation






Hardware

We have tried many many sensors and gateways.

We have also tried many radio's including ZigBee, ZWave, LORA, BLE, WiFi and for Cellular, LTE and a few that we have probably forgotten.

  • Our favorite sensors use BLE and NFC for Accelerometer, Temperature, Humidity, Barometric presure
  • Our favorite gateway is a Raspberry PI 4, because of it's Size, Cost and the vast array of contributors to stackoverflow.com. We use WiFi, Ethernet and Cellular to connect to the cloud

We have worked with Texas Instruments, Broadcomm and Marvel writing software for their embedded systems. And lastly we use the awesome Node-RED to build complete systems with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and many Javascript libraries.










Software.

For an editor - we use Atom

Having worked for IBM, our favorite integration engine was IBM's Message Broker - now part of a Cloud Pak. Today however all of our projects are developed with Node-RED and we are looking forward to upcoming offerings from FlowForge.

  • For an operating system we use "Buster" Buster is based on the latest version of Debian Linux 10, with Linux kernel version 4.19, and 8.3 GCC compiler. .
  • For ESP32 and ESP8266 we use the Arduino IDE to publish and subscribe with artifacts written in C++.
  • For Raspberry Pi projects, we use Node-RED with function nodes written in JavaScript with an occasional call out to a few lines of Python.
  • For web pages, we embed Nginx into our Raspberry Pi's which is more performant than Apache. Then we use WebSockets to communicate with node-RED via MQTT all running on the same Raspberry Pi.

We work with both wired (Modbus, Serial, GPIO, I2C) and wireless (BLE, WiFi, Lora) sensors that can connect to a Raspberry Pi using nodes and flows that you can get from Node-RED

Services

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Getting Started

We advise and teach getting started with IOT.

Cloud Selection

We have Cloud accounts at AWS, Azure, IBM and a small cloud of our own.

Hardware Selection

While we love our Raspberry Pi's, we also work with ESP8266 and ESP32 processors.

Software Tools

We have used many many tools to build IoT Solutions - we can advise on tool selection.

Development

We can show you "how" or we can do it for you.

Systems Integration

We have been doing Connectivity and Systems Integration for many years at IBM. Databases, PLC's, Packaged Software - if it has API's it's easy, if it does not, we are not above screen scraping.









Getting Started.

working as an observer for Global Alumni's Professional Education "Beyond IOT" we wanted to show students how to start an IoT project, we realized that most people who start on IoT don't have any Sensors or Gateways. We provided links to sources - such as https://www.adafruit.com but to get started with IoT we built a small demo that allows you to take a photograph from a file and run it through a Facial Recognition Engine - all done on an existing Mac, Windows, Linux or Raspberry Pi machine.


Click the Word image to download just the installation guide. Click the Dropbox image to download the complete package - which includes the installation guide.







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