New platform allows customers to connect and
manage billions of devices, powering applications that process,
analyze, and act on IoT data on global scale
Arrow, Avnet, Broadcom, Intel, Marvell,
Mediatek, Microchip, Qualcomm, Renasas, SeedStudio, and Texas
Instruments to offer Internet of Things Starter Kits with AWS IoT
ready hardware components
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS IoT, a new
platform that makes it easy for devices — cars, turbines, sensor
grids, light bulbs, and more – to connect to AWS services so that
companies can store, process, analyze, and act on the volumes of
data generated by connected devices on a global scale. Devices
connect to AWS IoT’s Device Gateway, and manufacturers can set
rules for how AWS IoT handles the data they send, and the actions
they take when various conditions are met (such as sending an alert
when a pressure sensor reports an unusually high reading or a
motion detector is triggered). Connected devices are usually
operated via applications that communicate with them using APIs,
but devices may not always be available to respond to API calls
because of intermittent connectivity or because of power
constraints. AWS IoT creates a virtual version, or “shadow” of each
connected device that includes all of the information about the
device’s state and is always available so that applications can
check the device’s status and take actions that are automatically
sent to the device once it reconnects. AWS IoT provides an SDK that
makes it easy for developers to use the AWS IoT functionality from
connected devices, and from mobile and web applications. A number
of semiconductor manufacturers also have “Starter Kits” Powered by
AWS IoT that embed the AWS IoT Device SDK and offer connectivity to
AWS IoT out of the box. For more information about AWS IoT, visit
https://aws.amazon.com/iot.
Today, many of the world’s leading manufacturers, developers,
enterprises, and smart cities use AWS services to power a wide
range IoT applications that span everything from energy metering
and oil and gas production to fleet management and smart homes.
However, operating highly available and reliable systems that
connect and gather data from large fleets of “things” – sensors
embedded in everything from manufacturing equipment and vehicle
fleets, to fitness devices and homes – involves a significant
amount of development and infrastructure effort. To manage this
complexity, customers have had to build custom middleware that can
translate device protocols (so that applications can interact with
these devices) and provision infrastructure that can scale to
support a high volume of simultaneous connections between cloud
services, mobile apps, and an array of devices which may connect
only intermittently and have limited compute, storage, or battery
life. With AWS IoT, customers have a pay-as-you-go service that
handles the heavy lifting involved in connecting any number of
disparate devices, allowing them to securely interact with each
other, cloud services, and applications while keeping them
up-to-date, and collecting, analyzing, and taking action on the
continuous streams of data they generate.
“The promise of the Internet of Things is to make everyday
products smarter for consumers, and for businesses to enable
better, data-driven offerings that weren’t possible before.
World-leading organizations like Philips, NASA JPL, and Sonos
already use AWS services to support the back-end of their IoT
applications,” said Marco Argenti, Vice President, Mobile and IoT,
AWS. “Now, AWS IoT enables a whole ecosystem of manufacturers,
service providers, and application developers to easily connect
their products to the cloud at scale, take action on the data they
collect, and create a new class of applications that interact with
the physical world.
With AWS IoT, customers can:
- Connect devices to the Cloud and to
each other (Device Gateway and AWS IoT Device SDK): Devices
connect to AWS IoT via the Device Gateway using both HTTP and
Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT), an industry-standard,
lightweight communication protocol designed for sensors and mobile
devices, making them interoperable independent of the protocol they
use. AWS IoT also supports other industry-standard and custom
protocols that customers may have already implemented, and devices
can communicate directly with each other regardless of the protocol
they use. AWS IoT scales as the number of devices grows, providing
connectivity with low latency and high throughput on a global
scale.
- Secure data and interactions:
AWS IoT provides mutual authentication so that data is never
exchanged between devices and AWS IoT without proven identity, and
encrypts all data coming into and out of connected devices. AWS IoT
is fully integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
making it easy for customers to set granular permissions for
individual devices, or fleets of devices, and manage them
throughout the lifecycle of the device. Customers can generate and
embed security credentials in their existing connected devices, or
AWS IoT can generate new ones when devices are first
activated.
- Process and act upon device data
(Rules Engine): AWS IoT’s rules engine lets customers define
rules that filter, process, and route data between devices, AWS
services, and applications. Using the AWS Management Console, the
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS IoT APIs, customers can
create rules that apply to data from a single device (such as a
sensor), a group of devices (such as a sensor array), or a mix of
devices and data sources (such as a sensor array and data stored in
Amazon DynamoDB). Rules specify conditions that, when verified,
instruct AWS IoT to take actions such as routing data to Amazon
Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Machine Learning, or
Amazon DynamoDB. For example, AWS IoT may receive messages from
connected industrial equipment that produce vast amounts of
telemetry data each hour, not all of which may be relevant to the
business. With AWS IoT’s rules engine, the business can instruct
AWS IoT to filter certain types of sensor data (e.g. pump pressure)
as it comes in, and route only the specified data to Amazon Kinesis
Firehose to be streamed into an Amazon Redshift data warehouse for
later analysis. AWS IoT rules can also trigger AWS Lambda to run
code that will take more complex actions, such as compressing data,
or sending a push notification to an operator if an anomaly is
detected. Customers can update rules in AWS IoT without
intervention on the physical device, reducing the cost and effort
involved in updating and maintaining large fleets of devices.
- Allow cloud applications to interact
with connected devices even when they are offline (Device
Shadows): AWS IoT creates a persistent, virtual version, or
“shadow,” of every device that stores the latest state of a device
so that applications or other devices can read messages from the
device and interact with it anytime – even if it is offline. By
providing always-available REST APIs, AWS IoT makes it easier for
customers to build applications that interact with connected
devices. Applications can read the state of a device or set a
desired future state through API calls, and AWS IoT takes care of
setting the correct state, sending only relevant changes to the
device once it reconnects.
- Get started quickly with AWS IoT
Starter Kits from leading hardware manufacturers: Through the
new AWS Hardware Partner Program, a growing ecosystem of
semiconductor manufacturers, including Arrow, Broadcom, Intel,
Marvell, Mediatek, Microchip, Qualcomm, Renasas, SeedStudio, and
Texas Instruments are offering IoT starter kits powered by AWS that
include the AWS IoT SDK and hardware components that are ready to
connect to AWS IoT. Available for purchase on www.amazon.com, these
kits offer a wide range of microcontroller, sensor, and development
boards that developers and manufacturers can use to very rapidly
prototype AWS IoT enabled connected devices.
“At Philips we aim to empower people to take greater control of
their health with digital solutions that support healthy living and
improved care coordination,” said Jeroen Tas, CEO Healthcare
Informatics, Solutions and Services, Philips. “Our HealthSuite
digital platform and its device cloud are already managing more
than seven million connected, medical-grade and consumer devices,
sensors, and mobile apps. With the addition of AWS IoT, we will
greatly accelerate the pursuit of our vision. It will be easier to
acquire, process, and act upon data from heterogeneous devices in
real-time. Our products, and the care they support, are enabled to
grow smarter and more personalized over time.”
NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have instruments all
over the solar system and beyond serving humanity with amazing
data. Much of this data is already processed in the cloud, and it’s
increasing daily. NASA’s experiments with AWS IoT have been highly
positive and demonstrate that NASA can now use the compute power of
the cloud to integrate and process the data provided by sensors in
mobile devices, smart devices, conference rooms, clean rooms, and
beyond. The AWS IoT integration with the foundational AWS services
make it a very powerful platform for NASA JPL to build meaningful,
connected, IoT experiences.
Diversey Care, a division of Sealed Air Corp, is the leading
provider of smart, sustainable solutions for cleaning and hygiene.
“We're excited about AWS IoT to provide scalable and efficient
connectivity for our connected 'Internet of Clean' products,” said
Dr. Ilham Kadri, President, Diversey Care. “Supporting millions of
connected cleaning appliances means we have to process massive
amounts of telemetry and command data from these devices reliably,
with low-latency, and cost-effectively. Now we can rely on AWS IoT
for that critical infrastructure, and focus on helping our
customers create cleaner, healthier environments.”
Rachio makes a WiFi smart sprinkler controller that helps
customers water for better results and lower costs by adjusting for
weather conditions and adapting to their yard. “Building connected
devices is challenging enough, but great mobile apps are the
primary way customers interact with our sprinkler controllers,”
said Franz Garsombke, Chief Technology Officer, Rachio. “AWS IoT’s
Device Shadows greatly simplify our app development. Our apps can
use AWS IoT’s secure REST APIs to retrieve the last reported state
of a sprinkler controller (environmental data), or set a desired
future state (watering time and amount). It means our app
development can move faster than ever, and we can focus even more
on building a great customer experience.”
“Our smart city products need to evolve with the needs of
taxpayers over time," said Michael O'Neil, Chief Technology
Officer, Intersection, one of the companies behind LinkNYC, an
initiative that will replace the aging network of public pay phones
into networked hubs that provide information and connectivity
across New York City. “We're constantly experimenting in order to
do that. AWS IoT is great for us because we can prototype quickly
with SDKs for C, JavaScript and Arduino, or even choose a readymade
starter kit. As our prototypes mature into production features, we
can feel secure that AWS IoT will also support them at urban
scale.”
APN Partner support for AWS IoT
Many customers require additional IoT software and services to
extend the AWS IoT platform, and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners
offer operating systems, management platforms, analytics, and
services that work with AWS IoT. For example, the Micrium and
Ubuntu operating systems have the ability to run the AWS IoT Device
SDK and connect to AWS IoT. And, if customers need additional
device management capabilities, such as over-the-air updates or
remote diagnostics, APN Partners like Ayla Networks, Cirrus Link,
Thingworx, and Xively offer these services. As data flows into AWS,
customers can get insights and predictions through APN Partner
Splunk. Finally, customers that want help bringing all these pieces
together and customizing them for their specific use can work with
system integrator APN Partners Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Thinglogix, Two Bulls, and a whole host of others.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully
featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised
of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics,
application, and deployment services from data center locations in
the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan,
and Singapore. More than a million customers, including
fast-growing startups, large enterprises, and government agencies
across 190 countries, rely on AWS services to innovate quickly,
lower IT costs, and scale applications globally. To learn more
about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
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