A reference design for industrial IOT sensor data acquisition

Fujitsu and CRATUS released a complete, edge device platform to expedite the development of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) wireless sensing and control products for OEM applications. The new BlueBrain platform features embedded hardware, software and industry standard interfaces and peripherals, and is highly configurable. Primary components include a high-performance CORTEX-M4 microcontroller from STMicroelectronics and a Bluetooth Smart wireless module from Fujitsu Components. Multiple on-board sensors can detect motion and temperature events, as well as installation orientation, and can connect or control hundreds of sensor combinations using analog and digital interfaces. BlueBrain also features an onboard real time clock, configurable ADC channels and GPIOs. Basic IOS and Android apps are included to facilitate application development. A development board with 3V & 5V I2C, CAN, 8X GPIO, UART, USB, SPI and analog interfaces is also available. “We surveyed our customers and prospects about their wireless monitoring and data collection needs,” said Zeki Gunay, CEO, CRATUS Technology, Inc. “Their feedback was our blueprint for designing the BlueBrain subsystem to help them deploy products running simple or complicated algorithms with a fast and easy development cycle,” he said. BlueBrain attaches to a standard 32-Pin 1.6” X 0.7” EEPROM-style IC socket, or equ...