ARM Aims To Accelerate IoT Deployments, And Make Them More Secure

Designed in collaboration with ARM® mbed™, Freescale Semiconductor’s (NYSE: FSL) popular FRDM-K64F board is available now with comprehensive support for ARM mbed IoT Device Platform technologies, including ARM’s new mbed OS operating system.

These other new tools include the mbed Device Connector, which provides security and development benefits including the ability to connect devices within prototype deployments, hopefully shortening the time needed to carry out hardware design time. Together with ARM, we offer a robust end-to-end solution that enables IoT application developers to build and deploy secure, scalable IoT solutions with choice of third party data services.

Atmel is a leading supplier of IoT solutions, and the company’s SmartConnect wireless solutions are the ideal companion for the mbed networking software to power next-generation smart, connected devices.

The reference designs include a wrist based connected device with a battery life of eight weeks, and a smart city reference design with mesh network protocols.

“Freescale’s FRDM-K64F has been a valuable test platform during the internal development prototyping and validating of mbed OS with the other mbed IoT Device Platform capabilities”, said Zach Shelby, vice president of marketing, IoT business, ARM.

Cambridge United Kingdom technology innovator ARM is releasing a new suite of products to accelerate secure IoT technology deployments at scale by businesses. All of these partners are investing significant resources to support the mbed IoT Device Platform, with around 250 dedicated engineers now involved.

“Targeting emerging IoT applications, we have implemented an FPGA-based IoT edge device evaluation and development system using ARM IP with support for peripherals such as sensor modules and radios”. The Atmel SMART SAMR21 is seen as an ideal solution for the rapidly growing Internet of Things market.

Launched in 2014, the mbed IoT Device Platform combines client and server software, consisting of a lightweight OS for client devices (mbed OS), and the matching cloud server software to interact with it (mbed Device Server). “By adding the mbed IoT Device Platform to the MotiveSMARTTM device interoperability program, we are making it easier for device manufacturers to develop and deploy secure applications”. This software will become the foundation of the mbed TCP/IP stack and serve as the connectivity heart of the ARM mbed OS architecture.

“The ARM mbed IoT Device Platform consolidates the fundamental building blocks of IoT into one easily-accessible place centered around security, communication and management of devices in real-time”, said Phil Gerskovich, senior vice president, new growth platforms, Zebra Technologies.

Kriztian Flautner, general manager of IoT business at ARM said that his company has produced tools from a single cloud connected sensor to a set of more intricate devices for enterprise grade deployments of IoT.