Please join TI at CES 2018 to learn about TI’s SimpleLink™ platform of wired and wireless-connected Arm®-based microcontrollers (MCUs) and network processors. With the rise of connected homes, buildings and factories, TI’s SimpleLink platform provides a seamless, end-to-end solution for streaming sensor data to the cloud.
To demonstrate how the SimpleLink MCU platform, which offers 100 percent application code reuse across wired and wireless MCUs, enables differentiated solutions in home, building and factory automation settings, we’ve put together a complete edge-to-gateway-to-cloud topology. This topology will be showcased in a single demo in the TI booth at CES but we wanted to share a preview with you in the video below.
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Our smart automation demo showcases how the SimpleLink MCU platform can be used to develop a range of automation products with a unified software framework and development environment. For example:
- Bluetooth® low energy-connected high-precision motor-condition-monitoring system based on the SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2640R2F wireless MCU and the MSP432P4 host MCU.
- High-precision analog motor vibration sensing and ultra-low-power local analytics detect anomalies and help predict failure and maintenance ahead of time.
- Based on the SimpleLink SDK and sensor and actuator plug-in for reading accelerometer data.
- Uses the Bluetooth plug-in for the SimpleLink SDK to modularly add Bluetooth connectivity to the MSP432P4 host MCU.
- Bluetooth low energy-connected smart lock with environmentally immune capacitive touch panel:
- Based on the SimpleLink MSP432P4 paired with the MSP430FR2633 MCU (featuring CapTIvate™ technology) for capacitive touch keypads.
- Users can control access with their smartphones over Bluetooth low energy or with a keypad using capacitive sensing.
- Various low-power, long-range Sub-1 GHz RF-connected edge nodes will be on display offering long range remote control and monitoring of various sensors and actuators.
- Based on the SimpleLink CC1310 wireless MCU with integrated Sub-1 GHz RF connectivity.
- Various sensors and actuators can be made wireless by using the sensor and actuator plug-in for the SimpleLink SDK and the CC1310 wireless MCU, which offers intuitive functional APIs for interfacing with various external sensors typically found in industrial settings for measuring light, temperature and motion.
- Low-power, long-range sub-1 GHz RF-connected temperature sensors.
- Based on the SimpleLink Sub-1 GHz CC1310 wireless MCU, users can remotely control damper position, or read temperature and humidity sensors.
- Wi-Fi-enabled smart thermostat.
- Based on the SimpleLink CC3220 wireless MCU with integrated Wi-Fi connectivity.
- Leverages the SimpleLink graphics library for interfacing with a liquid crystal display (LCD) touch screen for displaying real-time temperature and weather information, while also accepting inputs to change the target temperature of the system.
- Wi-Fi connectivity interfaces with the cloud to get local weather information using representational state transfer (REST)-ful APIs and to interact with the IBM Watson cloud using Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT).
- Remote control with cloud connectivity powered by IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) platform:
- Remotely monitor or control a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system from a cloud dashboard created with TI’s graphical user interface (GUI) composer – a graphical what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) drag-and-drop tool for creating PC-hosted or cloud-hosted GUIs.
- Ethernet-connected gateway with multi-wireless protocols to connect various edge nodes.
- The control and data streams of the edge nodes are aggregated and sent back to the cloud via a reliable Ethernet connection.
- Intelligent gateway with smart edge node management and control capability, process sensor data and deploy complex cloud logic at local level.
- This gateway uses the SimpleLink SDK and various SimpleLink SDK plug-ins to enable Ethernet-connectivity to the cloud, while simultaneously aggregating data from multiple edge nodes that are connected via Bluetooth low energy and Sub-1 GHz.
If you’ll be at CES, come visit the TI booth #N115-117 in the Tech East North Hall. Otherwise, follow us through our various social media channels to stay up to date with the SimpleLink MCU platform: Twitter @TXInstruments, Facebook, Instagram @TXInstruments, LinkedIn and Google +.