Hugo Fiennes, co-founder of the Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Electric Imp, said that as its business shifts to business users and finally enters smart grid applications, the company will be available next year. Wi-Fi and Ethernet solutions are added in addition to the Ethernet solution; in addition, he believes that the relatively low power consumption of LTE technology options will help expand the application landscape of the Internet of Things.
Fiennes said: "Before the birth of LTE Category M and NB-1, I have not considered that cellular technology is very feasible in the IoT mass market... Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) has been around for a while, but must be aimed at higher The application of value and making it cost effective."
Prior to starting his business in 2011, Fiennes had been involved in several generations of Apple iPhone design; he pointed out that Electric Imp's modules and services are suitable for cellular management of network services, and he believes that the cellular Internet of Things will open up agricultural and telematics communications ( Application markets such as telemaTIcs) free IT managers who don't want IoT traffic disrupting their corporate Wi-Fi networks.
Like other vendors investing in cellular IoT, Electric Imp will initially adopt a hybrid chipset that supports LTE and 2/3G multi-standards; Fiennes said service providers are deploying LTE variants for IoT applications, and It will take several years for chip vendors to introduce optimized integrated chips that support 5V interfaces like industrial users.
Fiennes also believes that HaLow's sub-GHz Wi-Fi standard 802.11ah has potential because it can use virtual LANs and other network management tools to separate network traffic: "But no one has launched related products... This technology is still only smelling out."
However, Fiennes is not optimistic about 802.15.4 mesh network technology, because of the low data transfer rate and lack of related tools, such technology is difficult to achieve the expected performance level; his negative view on the technology comes from his participation before the establishment of Electric Imp Nest thermostat design experience.
“At the time, Tony (Nest founder Tony Fadell) insisted that we would add 15.4 technology to communicate with smart meters, but until the product was shipped, no one got any software available until a few years later (Nest's) smoke alarm Born;" He said that the network of Nest's Thread is based.
Among other IoT technology options, Fiennes praised LoRa as: "modern design... this has a lot of mindshare;" But he is not a believer in Sigfox. Looking at the emerging series of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies, his question is: "Why is it possible to operate a commercial network on an unlicensed spectrum, and the competitors can stop operating and be completely legal?"
The rise of the commercial and smart grid market
Fiennes said that the commercial IoT market, including smart grids, is on the rise, and his company has shipped 500,000 modules so far.
“As I said, most of our devices are consumer, but by the end of the year, I think we will see industrial nodes grow faster than consumer nodes;†he pointed out that people are in the consumer market. I have already put a lot of energy into it, but it is often not a big blow or no... and the commercial/industrial market has a better return on investment.
He expects many business opportunities similar to the recent design case of the company's partnership with US e-commerce provider Pitney Bowes, which elects the company's postage billing system to support remote management: "and its corporate back The code of the terminal does not need to be changed; "That is to say, there is always an unexpected use situation in the Internet of Things.
Electric Imp expects to launch a new solution linking renewable energy systems to smart grids later this year, which may mark the turnaround point for utilities to adopt Internet Protocols and standardized encryption technologies; the company has strengthened its own security technology To respond to FIPS standards and longer keys required by business users.
Today's microcontrollers can handle the same best practices of web browsers and financial operators such as ellipTIc curve cryptography and Diffie-Hellman codes in milliseconds.
And Fiennes believes that the IoT business is not just product-related, but also updated and integrated services; he said that on the one hand, chip operators want a one-time sales, while on the other hand, cloud service providers want users to bring With information on their APIs, but they don't know how to protect end devices, what Electric Imp does is to maintain a secure link in the middle.
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