Polysense Technologies Inc., a provider of LPWA IoT solutions for wireless sensing, has announced commercial availability of its next generation iEdge 4.0 OS based smart IoT terminal, which supports the capabilities of BYOD(Build-Your-Own-Device) with services of white-label, rebrand, OEM/ODM for the global IoT market, and enable the Telecommunications Services Providers, SP equipment vendors, Systems Integrators, IoT platform services providers and end users greatly reduce the scenarios-based IoT applications complexity and integrations total cost with the new open-architecture based products lines.
iEdge 4.0 is Polysense next generation smart IoT terminal OS which adopts micro kernel architecture, supports MPI (Multiple Purpose Interfaces) with virtualised soft interface technology and various CPU/MCU via microkernel virtualisation technology, provides local and remote management capabilities and enhances the flexibility with dynamic driver download via configuration tool.
The key features are as follows:
- iEdge 4.0 Micro Kernel Architecture
- micro kernel design
- multithread scheduling
- multitask priority and preemptive triggering
- unified memory management
- user-defined interrupt and multilevel preemptive interrupt priority
- supports virtualised soft interfaces technology MPI
- with little or no hardware changes, supporting versatility of sensor interfaces
- Up to 16 GPIO digital input control
- Up to 16 GPIO digital output control
- Up to 16 MPI Interface control（Analog sampling or single line drive ）
- Up to 16 I2C
- Up to 16 SPI
- Up to 16 serial port（RS232/RS485）
- Supports various CPU/MCU
- Virtualised Micro Kernel
- Shield the differences of different CPU pins
- Increasing CPU versatility
- ARM, RISC-V, MPIS,C-SKY, Xtensa etc
- Dynamic driver downloads via configuration tool
- Up to 500+ Chemical and Physical sensors supported
- Sensor driver lib online upgrade
- Local system management
- local port for configuration (up to 115200 baud rate)
- Visualised Configuration tool & local serial port AT command
- Local firmware upgrade
- Various parameters configurations
- Configuration file output
- Firmware output
- Remote system management
- LoRa、NBIOT、4G/LTE、WIFI、BT/BLE etc.
- Support user-defined communications technologies
- OTA including firmware and parameters
- MQTT data support and management
- Jason data support
The microkernel adopts hierarchical architecture which includes BootOS self-boot and the main task loading, which bring more flexibility for Polysense-predefined and 2nd development capabilities. With the open kernel support, the iEdge 4.0 based products bring the advantages 3rd party development to support their own transmission technologies or sensors so that to enjoy the value brings to them with rich array sensors ecosystems.
“Following the deployment of WxS8000 LoRa series, WxS6000 BT/BLE series, WxS7000 Wi-Fi series, WxS9000 NB-IoT series and the Cat1/Cat4 series and the increasing portfolio quantity of supported chemical and physical sensors over the world, many customers express their interest to build their own sensor devices based on Polysense technologies to meet customers various real use cases and the services customers requested ”, says Alex Wu, president and CEO of Polysense Technologies, “ by providing the iEdge 4.0 micro virtual kernel supported products, we restructure and relaunch the configurable and modular smart terminal series and can now pleased tell our partners over the world that Yes, we can!”.
Polysense iEdge 4.0 products highlights:
- 2-in-1 smart sensor(s) and RTU terminal product
- Expandable with any mixture of Polysense chemical and physical PSS sensors
- Up to 8 working simultaneously including sensors and controllers; Customisation needed if more than 8 working at the same time
- RTU controlling signal and interfaces OD/PWR triggered by sensor(s) data or OTA command for solenoid valve or other devices
- OD output control interface for controlling external devices such as electric relay,AC contactor, beeper, draught fan, lamps and lantern etc.
- PWR*2 output, one default for external devices/sensors power supply voltage output, one with 3.3V voltage; or customisation usage,such as for PWM port
- PWR port signal can be used as PWM output to control stepper moter or lamp
- Sensor(s) data or OTA Command triggered OD/PWR controlling signal & interfaces
- 2-in-1 DC(5V/12V)+Battery(3.6V Li-SOCl2 ER45615H/M) Power Supply, DC in priority
With the iEdge OS 4.0 support, Polysense (next generation smart IoT terminal) decouple any smart sensors into four logical components-transmission parts (WxS Series), interfaces mainboard (PSM), battery option (PSB) and sensors (PSS). Any scenario specific sensors are easily assembled and configured according to the specific customer requirements. Just 4 easy steps are needed to develop your own sensors (BYOD) by selecting Polysense pre-developed products or developing your own transmission technology or your own sensors and connecting to Polysense iEdge 4.0 based main board with Polysense provided API.
“Polysense Technologies fills the gap between the fixed IoT products and the feature rich use cases in current IoT ecosystems. It enables and empowers the onsite capability to provide combo sensor mixture to meet various and changing requirements,” says Amy Zheng, president of LiteSystems Technologies, “iEdge 4.0 based configurable and modular products provide unlimited mixture of sensors, meters, controllers and any expansion requirements. We are excited to work with Polysense to serve our customers with any sensing combinations capability in a timely manner in IoT industry.”
Except the capability to Build-Your-Own-Devices with simply 4 steps, the new open architecture supports any of the smart terminal components Polysense pre-built, which provide much more cost-effective sensor solutions for any large quantity opportunities, and provide the possibilities of selecting any transmission technologies appropriate to the customers, implementation site, and use cases.
“We are experiencing many difficult times to meet customer’s requirements to find proper IoT products to meet customer requirements, which including many totally different use cases, different transmission technologies, different sensor mixtures, and tight time slot to provide the solutions. Now we are equipped with the ability to meet these customer’s requirements and have perfect confidence to work with Polysense to expand into new IoT area.” says Andrej Prebanda from Coin Ltd.
Availability
iEdge 4.0 based configurable and modular WxS Smart Terminal products are available immediately for ordering and processing.
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