Low cost wireless gateway bridge for connected home sensors
For a connected home safety product manufacturer
Challenge
The main requirement for this project was to develop a bridge to connect a range of wireless home sensors to a common gateway that provided a back connection to an IP network.
The devices utilised proprietary wireless connectivity to communicate with each other, and the requirement was to bridge this communication to an IP connection that communicated back to a cloud platform.
Consult Red was responsible for the specification and development of the hardware and software solution and its integration with an existing cloud platform. This included the production of prototypes, enclosure design, and compliance testing.
Solution
Consult Red leveraged our knowledge of set-top box and router solutions in the home to develop an appropriate product definition.
We delivered a proof of concept that included defining the hardware architecture, porting Amazon’s FreeRTOS to a new NXP device, and integrating with the existing software solution.
We developed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that included the design and development of the hardware solution, the production of the product prototypes, and the enclosure industrial design.
The solution included cloud integration of AWS (Amazon Web Services) support and ensured compliance with the customers’ existing mesh-capable proprietary wireless communications protocol.
Learnings
By working closely with the customer and bringing our knowledge of hardware, software, and radio communication development, we integrated the specified components into a system.
We ensured that the resultant system complied with the customer’s proprietary wireless standard and that the data communication met their requirements.
Impact and Value
The result was the successful delivery of an end-to-end connected communications platform consisting of wireless home devices that communicated through a low-cost gateway to the cloud.
The final solution was designed for manufacture and scale.
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