Hardware

Monitor your factory floor fleet of ESP nodes with rsyslog ! As we start deploying our esp32 based devices onto the factory floor, we often run into the need to track down a problem or examine what a device has done. When the device is on your desktop, its as easy as connecting to the […]

This is a post by Ruhan – who started interning with us at age 16 and recently left for an exchange program in the US at age 19! Thanks and best wishes, Ruhan! Product Description # While the ESP32 has many development boards available on the market, sometimes you want a minimally sized version that

Why AWS IoT? # AWS IoT is a managed service from AWS to provide secure connectivity for your devices. It’s highly scalable, supporting millions of devices and billions of messages without you having to manage servers. You pay per event at a pretty reasonable rate. The built-in rules engine makes it easy to integrate other AWS

Designing a ‘smart’ product should also include the vision of fast firmware uploading, configuring device with the cloud securely and automation to meet demands and keep important data pouring seamlessly into the cloud. Here’s how you can do it.# We have learned through multiple iterative development cycles, that one of the most important qualities for

IoT devices dont always have an accessible local user interface, resulting in almost zero capability for interaction with them after deployment if they are not connected to the cloud infrastructure that supports them. Unfortunately there are more than a few chances of an unforeseen circumstance occuring where the device needs to be reconfigured. Let’s talk

With its lucrative price and power-packed performance, Espressif’s ESP32 has taken large portions of the IoT space in today’s world of “connected things”. One of the cheapest and most popular hybrid Bluetooth + WiFi chips available in the market even today, four and a half years after its initial release supercedeing its predecessor the ESP8266,

A lot of our customers and potentials use or are looking to adopt RFID systems. For technology that’s all around us and has been for a while now, there are still a lot of misconceptions about the available options. This short post is a summary of decision criteria and common use cases. Do I need

Among the numerous applications that IoT technology has been applied to, there is a large class of applications that need some unique capabilities from their underlying hardware platform in order to enable their construction. We are talking about applications, typically for mobile or widely geographically distributed applications. Examples of these might be sensors for monitoring

Photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Among the more critical building blocks of an IoT solution, and one which should be thought about sooner than later is the concept of over-the-air (OTA) updates to your deployed fleet of devices. This is particularly useful if that deployed fleet is more than a few hundred devices. There

This post continues from our earlier post on AWS IoT, Timestream and Quicksight. We replace Timestream and Quicksight with ElasticSearch and Kibana. Why # ElasticSearch and Kibana are, probably, the most commonly used stack for data analysis and visualisation. ElasticSearch is a notoriously difficult software to host and manage yourself. The managed service from AWS has long been