Use a Raspberry Pi and Mozilla open framework to rapidly develop an IoT gateway
Author : By Stephen Evanczuk, contributed By Digi-Key's North American Editors
25 July 2018
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Gateway devices bring cloud services closer to Internet of Things (IoT) end devices to speed processing, reduce latency, and maintain high availability. As they create their gateway designs, however, developers soon find themselves sorting through a confusing array of options for hardware and software needed to connect diverse IoT peripherals to the cloud.
Now, using a Raspberry Pi and open-source software from Mozilla, developers can rapidly and cost effectively implement a gateway based on emerging IoT standards.
To guide designers through the process, this article first briefly reviews the role of gateways in IoT networks, their key requirements, and associated implementation challenges. It then describes the role of standards efforts, highlighting the World Wide Web Consortium’s approach for describing entities in IoT networks.
This article focuses on how developers can rapidly deploy a gateway using a Raspberry Pi 3, wireless add-ons, and open-source software from Mozilla. In particular, the article describes how developers can use the Mozilla software framework to easily extend their gateway to support any number of peripheral add-ons required to meet specialised connectivity requirements.
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