A workshop by Acal BFi Nordic on project mangOH industrial open hardware running Linux/Legato open source software. Tight integration with cloud and connectivity services.

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From idea to the field
Industrial Open Hardware running
Open Source Software
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
hans.andersson@acalbfi.se
European leader in advanced
technology solutions

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
09:15 – Introduction,
Acal BFi
Sierra Wireless
mangOH Open Hardware
WP8548
Legato
IoT Acceleration Platform
09:40 – WORKSHOP
10:15 – Break
11:00 – WORKSHOP
11:50 – Summary
12:00 End

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Supplier of Advanced Technology Solutions
Electromechanical
Magnetics & Power
Industrial display modules
Fiber Optics
Photonics & Imaging
Embedded Computers
ACAL Group: 271 MGBP / 3400 employees
(Acal BFi is roughly 60% of turnover. Lion share of employees are in Asia with Myrra and Noratel)
Acal BFi Nordic: 240 MSEK / 50 employees
M2M/IoT & Wireless
2G, 3G, 4G modules & gateways
GPS/GNSS modules
WiFi & Bluetooth modules
Ultra Low Power Radio
(RFIC, SoC and Modules)
Antennas
M2M / IoT Cloud
Airtime subscriptions / SIM cards
RF & uW semiconductors/MMIC
Amps, Switches, FEM’s, …
Passive uW components
Filters, Baluns, …
Fiber optics
Transceivers, Cable, …
Frequency control
Xtals, Oscillators, Filters, …
RF & uW, Fiber optics, Freq controlSensors
3D, 6D, 9D sensors
(Accelerometer, Gyro, Magnet)
Temperature, Humidity, Pressure
Force, Gas, etc…
Sensor assemblies
Rotary signal transmitters
European Wireless Technical
Competence Centre
Core capabilities
RF HW module development
HW development at chip level
Embedded SW development
Core technologies include,
Cellular: 2G, 3G, 4G
GPS/GNSS
WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee
Low Power ISM band radio, ...

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M2M/IoT & Wireless

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Hardware Design & Support capabilities

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Todays activities

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Sierra Wireless – Building the Internet of Things
Global leader in M2M/IoT devices and Cloud services
Largest worldwide supplier of cellular M2M/IoT devices, 35% market share 2014 (ABI, June 2015)
Industry’s most comprehensive offering of 2G, 3G and 4G-LTE devices
Leader in 4G-LTE modules for Mobile computing, M2M and IoT
Deep operator relationships world wide
R&D
R&D
R&D
Head office:
Vancouver, BC
Founded in 1993
LTM Revenue: $601 million
EBITDA: $13.1 million (2015-Q2)
Cash: $96 million
Debt: 0
Publicly listed:
NASDAQ (SWIR)
TSX (SW)
Approx. 1000 employees worldwide
Customers in 130+ countries

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AirPrime : A STANDARD Industrial Portfolio : 2G to 4G
2G 3G 4G SNAP IN
UnifiedfootprinttogofromESSENTIALtoSMART
HL65 HL85 HL75
WP85 WP75
ESSENTIAL
CF3
SMART
CF3
3G HSPA+
4G LTE
4G LTE-A
ESSENTIAL
Mini PCIe F2 & M.2

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Sierra Wireless – Building the Internet of Things

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From Idea to the Field the traditional way
Purchase a dev kit or design your own prototype
Bring up board and develop low-level software
Integrate cellular module
Integrate specific PAN technologies
Integrate with a cloud/server or develop your own
Test hardware
Develop your applications
Test your prototype in market conditions
Generic R&D Process 

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From Idea to the Field with mangOH Open Hardware
Design files freely available under a cc license
Purchase a dev kit or design your own prototype
Bring up board and develop low-level software
Integrate cellular module
Integrate specific PAN technologies
Integrate with a cloud/server or develop your own
Test hardware
Develop your applications
Test your prototype in market conditions
mangOH™
reference
design
90% of your
prototype
delivered
out-of-the-box
 Focus on application development

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Interfaces:
1 USB 2.0 OTG
1 USB 2.0 Host
1 RS232/Serial
1 RJ45/Ethernet
1 Audio Jack
1 SD card slot
2 SIM slots
3 antenna connectors
(Primary, Secondary/Diversity, GNSS)
3 IoT module slots
Built in Features:
Accelerometer, Gyroscope
Battery with charger
Supporting 3rd party shields for Arduino Leonardo
mangOH Open Hardware
= Design files freely available under a cc license
100mm (4”)
120mm(4.75”)IoT Module connectors provide
plug’n’play wireless, wired, and
sensor connectivity
CF3™ connector for WP
CF3™ connector for HL

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• New open interface standard from Sierra Wireless
• Simple, industrial grade and low cost
• plug’n’play
• Interface includes exhaustive set of communication ports and
control signals
• Growing ecosystem, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Linear Tech,
What is an IoT module ?
22.3 mm
45mm
38 pos QSFP+
connector

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What does Open Hardware mean
in the case of mangOH ?
Design files are freely availably
Schematics, BOM, Gerbers
Files are free to copy, share, modify
A business friendly license : CC Attribution
Creative Common Attribution = user only need to make reference to
project mangOH in the documentation
Free to use for commercial purpose
License is non-revokable
..and it runs Open Source Software

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Model Air Interface
WP8548 3G-HSPA+DC, 2G-EDGE Fall Back, Global
WP75xx
4G-LTE cat 3, 3G-HSPA+DC Fall Back, Variants for EU/EMEA,
North America, APAC
Processing and connectivity in a single device
optimized for industrial M2M
Embedded processing: Cortex A5, 550 MHz, 256 MB Flash, 128 MB RAM. Running
LegatoTM open source embedded platform (full Linux)
Device-to-cloud: AirVantage M2M Cloud
Air Interfaces: 3G-HSPA+DC, 4G-LTE cat 3, 2G-EDGE, optional GNSS
Package/Mounting: LGA solder down 244 pads (CF3 standard form factor) or use
the snap-in socket soldered on same foot print (change module at any time).
Interfaces: UART, USB, HSIC, SDIO, I2C, SPI, GPIO, ADC, PCM & more
SMART
WP series, 3G/4G modules w application processing
Key Benefits:
Simplified system design with dedicated application processing from a
powerful multicore architecture.
Ultra low power domain: Sleep mode at a few micro amps, Run mode at a
few hundred micro amps.
Application development with Linux, LegatoTM open source embedded
platform.
Device management and machine data capture through pre-integrated
cloud services.
CF3 form factor enable foot print compatibility with HL series.
Project mangOH open hardware reference design.

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Smart WPThe Legato Platform is running on a dedicated core
with dedicated memory
AirPrime® WP Hardware Architecture
(*) Based on default configuration and subject to variation.
Code is executed in RAM. The telecom core uses a separate memory area.
FLASH/RAM Memory
Multicore Baseband
Telecom
Core
Cellular
RF
GNSS RF
……
Application
Core
SPI
I2C
UART
USB
SDIO
Memory* RAM FLASH
Boot loader - 1 MB
Linux Kernel* 25 MB 20 MB
Root File System* - 50 MB
Framework* 8 MB 15 MB
User application 95 MB 170 MB
Total 128 MB 256 MB
WP8548 (3G) / WP75xx (4G)
CORTEX-A5 @ 550 MHz
32 KBytes I-cache
32 KBytes D-cache
256 KBytes cache L2
ARMv7 instructions
Up to 863.5 MIPS

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Components of the Legato platform
built with Wind River
Designed to give embedded M2M development a head start

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webAPI
IoT Acceleration Platform
IoT Acceleration Platform
pre-integrated
embedded system
Cloud
connectors
operations
other cloud platform

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AirVantage – Key Features

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LWM2M
App OTA - App Mgmt - FOTA - Monitoring Data
Managed
Connectivity
App Business Data
LWM2M or MQTT
IoT apps
IoT device
IoT Acceleration Platform
IoT data, services & operations
pre-integrated HW
Simplify IoT Development

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legato.io mangoh.io
Resources

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Workshop : To Develop & Do
Monitor / Configure / Upgrade
Install on remote device
Start / Stop application
View / Use / Retreive data
Build Application
Develop & Compile

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