Low cost wireless gateway bridge for connected home sensors
For a connected home safety product manufacturer
Challenge
- Requirement for 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.
- Specification and development of the hardware and software solution, integrated with an existing cloud platform.
- This included the production of prototypes including the enclosure design and compliance testing.
Solution
- Utilised our knowledge of set-top box and router solutions in the home to develop an appropriate product definition.
- A proof of concept which included the definition of the hardware architecture; porting of Amazon’s FreeRTOS to a new NXP device; and integration with the existing software solution.
- Development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which included the design and development of the hardware solution; production of the product prototypes; and enclosure industrial design.
- Cloud integration of AWS (Amazon Web Services) support.
- 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
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.
Designed for manufacture and scale.
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