Working with Oracle and ARM, Freescale defines a scalable, standards-based platform to support the secure delivery of IoT services
India– May 5, 2014– Continuing its commitment to establisha secure and open infrastructure for the delivery of Internet of Things (IoT) services, Freescale Semiconductor demonstrated the hardware platform that forms the foundation of the onebox concept at the 2014 Freescale Technology Forum.
Featuredprominently intoday’s opening session at the 2014 Freescale Technology Forum, the IoT gateway is a flexible hardware platform to be equipped with multi-party software, and engineered to support the secure delivery of IoT services to end-users in a home, business or other location;thereby supporting the rapid deployment of a vast array of innovative IoT services.
The platform’s demonstration represents a significant milestone in Freescale’s one box initiative. Working with Oracle and ARM,Freescale developed this initiativeto focus on the creation of asecure, standardized and open infrastructure model for the delivery of IoT services.The concept combines standards-based, end-to-end software with a converged IoT gateway design to establish a common, open framework for secured IoT service delivery and management.A “box” (or service gateway) built on the platform can consolidate boxes from multiple IoT service providers into a single, unified appliance that can support multiple service providers.
“Simplifying the deployment of secure services is critical to fueling widespread adoption of the Internet of Things,” said Geoff Lees, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Microcontroller business. “We are pushing the industry forward with an innovative enabling product platform that will help overcome some of the biggest barriers facing our customers.”
Freescale plans to offer the new platform in Q4 2014with a software suite that integrates and pre-validates securityand connectivity components, allowing developers to add value through application softwaredevelopment and connectivity of new edge node products.
Powered by a Freescale i.MX 6 applications processor built on the ARM Cortex®-A9 core, the platformruns Oracle Java SE Embedded and is suitable for basic networking and sensor connectivity. The solutionsupportsthe Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®low energy and 802.15.4 wireless interfaces. The initial Freescale IoTgateway platform also includes Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embeddedto facilitate quick reactions at the gateway level, as well as ARM Sensinode™ NanoServices software and Freescale-based processing.
Key features of the first product platform to be released:
- Fan-less gateway based on the low power i.MX 6 series processor measuring just 5.3″W x 3.9″D x 0.8″T
- Supports 802.11b/g/n out of the box with Bluetooth low energy and 802.15.4 (including ZigBee protocol) accessories and software available
- System can be configured as a Continua® Healthcare Compliant gateway for interoperability with home health products
- Pre-integrated Oracle software including Oracle Java SE Embedded as an application development framework, and Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded, for building embedded applications to filter, correlate and process events in real-time
- ARM Sensinode’s NanoServices, providing end-to-end web services optimized for resource-constrained edge nodes
