In the IoT era, a set of intelligent hardware projects requires the boundaries of previous software and hardware, devices, and networks. A complete intelligent hardware development requires the following aspects: equipment hardware, equipment software, cloud servers, and mobile apps.
For the above four levels, we have seen different solutions, designed to reduce the threshold of the corresponding field. For example, an open source hardware such as Arduino, Raspberry Pivot is to reduce the difficulty of hardware development. For cloud servers, in the past year, we also saw a lot of teams working hard in this regard, such as wit, today, I would like to introduce the free open source IN cloud platform project IoTGO.
IoTGO implementation does not need to understand the server / background development, you can make simple development of servers: like Arduino, you can easily develop hardware and embedded software. The IoTGO project also helps simplify hardware and software development difficulties by adapting ARDUINO, RBB, providing library, development kits and sample code. IoTGO will also release an open source app, so that a fan without APP development is simple to see if the sample can be implemented.
There are still a lot of cloud platforms, why is "another stove"?
The emergence of the open source hardware such as Arduino and Raspberry Pis greatly reduces the development difficulty of equipment hardware / equipment software, saves time and cost, supports more people to come in and toss. But when Captain wants to make an IOT smart device, the device can make it easy to use open source hardware, but the cloud server problem, they still want to be as simple as possible: so there are free cloud platforms like Yeelink, Le Internet They helped developers to solve the development of the server side, open interface, providing free cloud server services, even providing code base for popular open source hardware, so that lovers, developers are easy to make their own intelligence Connect on the Internet, communicate, thereby implementing some simple features: such as remote switching lights, remote viewing temperature and humidity, remote infrared remote TV air conditioning, etc.
However, in the Internet, there is not much such an IoT open source project. One reason is of course because it is more important, many people will build a website, but few people don't even build a cloud server; another reason is this The platform also involves hardware parts, very few people who are proficient in hardware and master the Internet part, which requires a team to do. We started to use Yeelink's free cloud service area to DIY own remote devices, like a remote temperature and humidity, a remote switch. Later, we started to receive some customer custom projects, found that these free cloud platforms have not met our needs, and I couldn't find the right open source cloud platform framework at the time. I had to revisit the client. After several different Internet of Things projects have been made to several customers, we find that other underlying frames are similar, as long as they can be modified, they can apply to a variety of "intelligent" hardware. The so-called smart hardware function is too single. We extract this part of the content, make this cloud platform frame, and open it onto Github, so if there are other developers need to develop a smart device's cloud server. You can download and install it directly, and there are no need to start from zero.
What is the characteristics of Iotgo compared to existing cloud platforms?
Mainly divided into three points:
1. Domestic should be the first IOT cloud platform project, compared to many open source cloud platforms in China, it is open source code. It is not letting users open online shops on Taobao, but in the Internet with software yourself.
2. Support mainstream several Internet of Things protocols, such as MQTT, COAP, etc.
3. Not only provide server-side open source code, but also provide device-end hardware open source design examples, device code examples, and even open source mobile phone APP examples.
How to promote the product to spread out from the open source community?
If only the code opens from the source, let the users need to build, then the limitations in the early propagation are very large, so we also use an open source hardware such as Arduino, RPI, and produce several instances with the IoTGO platform. And publish Arduino libraries and SDK that simplifies hardware partial code development. Even open source mobile phone sample App code. As we say, IOTGO open source is more than just a server-side code, but includes a hardware reference design, hardware sample code, and a complete set of ecological chains of mobile app code.
This project is still in the BETA phase, and the project leader will post a formal version after the year. I hope more people will understand and participate in the project.
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