A little bit more technical approach

1. The IoT Box and the cloud
Josse Colpaert • IoT / Logistics Developer
A little bit more technical approach
EXPERIENCE
2018

3. Why an IoT Box if we
have the Cloud?1

5. Simple devices
Avoid data silos
Security bridge
At the right place in the cloud
ASAP in the cloud
Start/stop for complex machines
Manipulate things
Network admin in the cloud
Work order automation

6. IoT Box
Communication2

8. Connect Easily3

10. Token / base url
ping?
Connected/not
Or copy/paste to the
Wireless Access Point
Hello, I am <IoT
Box> with <mac>,
<ip>, <token> and
<devices>
Unique identifiers for
devices

11. Drivers4

12. USB
Network
CUPS
Don’t look at shared printers
Automatically scanned
on boot
No double on other
IoT Box

13. Support of ZPL
For label printers

16. USB
Automatically
detected on boot
Takes highest resolution
possible
fswebcam

17. Attach screen to HDMI on
boot and determine url to
load:
- Dashboards
- Workorder screen

18. Only one browser
tab can take control
over the device
Trigger buttons in the same way as barcodes
The pedal works as
a keyboard device

21. Generic USB drivers
- pyusb / usbserial
- The USB manager scans continuously for devices
- Keyboard class for pedals
- Unique by product/vendor
- Own driver:
- Inherit USBDriver class (registration through metaclass)
- Inherit supported() method, check dev field
- Write into value field (ping_value for keyboard trigger)

22. Generic Bluetooth LE drivers
- python gatt
- Automatic detection and searching for services
- Unique through Bluetooth mac address

23. Our todo
- Add automatic security certificate
- Many nice-to-haves
- Integrate old Posbox modules

24. Get Involved5

25. Get started for test/demo
Download the image on nightly:
https://nightly.odoo.com/master/posbox/
Calver versioning: 18.10

26. Create your own drivers
- drivers map in modules
- Downloaded to the IoT Box
- Integrate with existing USB / Bluetooth LE Manager
- Tell us about the best libraries

28. Ask Odoo to write the driver(s)
- Focus of the partner on customer value
- Reuse
- Revenue sharing

29. Pricing reminder
25 € / month / box
3000 € for developing a driver

30. Thank you.
#odooexperience
2018
EXPERIENCE
2018