Fully Modular & Enterprise IoT Development Kit

For the past month hIOTron has been sharing details on their Modular & Enterprise
IoT development kit. Today this "Modular Kit" has officially launched in the form of a
Kickstarter campaign.

So what exactly is hIOTron making? Its a kit, called the Modular & Enterprise IoT
development kit, targeting developers wanting to build Internet of Things devices. This
kit is one stop IoT solution for all, which includes not only an industry standard
hardware building blocks needed to quickly prototype a wireless IoT system from
scratch but most importantly the software frameworks, the network stacks and the
cloud connectivity capabilities required to securely connect and authenticate devices
to the cloud.
With this kit, developers will be able to develop their IoT prototype in weeks than
months & convert that into product in months than years and again, it will always be
a good idea to do POC (Proof of Concept) before committing a large-scale,
enterprise IoT solutions. Therefore, this Modular & Enterprise IoT kit will allow you to
do following such as:

1. Experience a fully functional solution running in actual environment with your

team.
2. Quickly implement end-to-end complete IoT solution using UI based codeless
enterprise IoT platform & production ready industrial-grade hardware.
3. Learn how to use hIOTron IoT platform to visualize, manage your sensor data.
4. Real time data insights that can drive quicker business decisions.
5. Justify your IoT investment with minimal entry investment.
Lets see, what all this kit include?
This kit includes everything which is required to build successful IoT project such as

1. Hi-Node [From Data Acquisition, Edge Analytics and Control to

IoT Gateway]

Hi-Node is a battery (2700 mAh Li-ion) or USB [Optional] powered wireless

node comes with 4 output channels to control real world devices using 4 relays
(Output 5A 230VAC) with 4 connectors and 4 universal (Analog/Digital) input
channels to communicate with real world sensors and transmit this information
to IoT gateway using wireless (Zig-bee & BLE4.0) protocols.

Key features:
Data Acquisition/Control
Wired/Wireless connectivity
Edge Analytics
Modular Design
Web based UI interface

2. Hi-Gate [From Data Collection to Cloud Integration]

Hi-Gate is the brain of this kit which is fully Modular & Enterprise IoT gateway
which not only translates the protocol [RF/Non RF To REST/MQTT] but with
TI CC3200 at its heart, it also offers better computational power to run advance
IoT project algorithms & communication due to availability of multiple on board
Inbound & Outbound Connectivity protocols such as

Inbound Connectivity Protocols: Zig-Bee, BLE 4.0, SUB-1* Outbound

Connectivity Protocols: (Wi-Fi) 802.11 B/G/N Radio, GSM/GPRS (2G)

Top 5 IoT Features of Hi-Gate:

It can be easily configured & managed via hIOTron IoT Platform
locally/remotely.
It has dual Mode of operation as a Node or Gateway (both).
Supports multiple wireless nodes means up-to 25 Hi-nodes (25x8=200
channels or devices) can be connected under single Hi-Gate (gateway).
It reconnects automatically to the internet in case of loss of internet
connectivity via Wi-Fi or GPRS for any remote application.
Last but not least it is suitable for any kind of IoT application which are
purely sensor & actuator based.
3. Life-time Free access of hIOTron IoT Platform [From Data Storage
to Data Analytics, Dashboard & Mobile App enablement and
more]

hIOTron IoT Platform is an IoT integration hub which is fully code-less &
enterprise IoT platform designed to help you to build project for any IoT
application.

Also, hIOTron platform supports 5 major Ds such as better

Device Management
Device Connectivity
Data Storage
Data Analytics
Dashboard & Application enablement

How to build an IoT Project with this Kit?

Building an IoT project with this kit is very very easy. Lets see how:

With 3 simple steps on hIOTron IoT platform, any IoT project can be developed
right from scratch to production.

1. Create - Under this step, you can create your IoT project & select the device
which you want to use for it.
2. Customize - Here, you can customize the device as per your project
requirements.
3. Simulate - After customization, you can simulate everything before finalization
to view your project on Dashboard or Mobile app.

What is unique thing about this kit?

As you can see, this kit serves every major & important features of IoT at every
communication level right from bottom to top (Hardware to cloud to frontend) but
among all Machine Learning on the Edge Device is an ultimate & out of the box
feature which makes this development kit unique from everyone available in the
market.
 Whats that?
Well, Machine Learning on the Edge device will let your sensor node (Hi-Node) to
take care of your sensors data in case of anomalies and take some relevant
actions such as control, Alerts, wake up other sensor node and more.

How does that work?

It simply works through rules which you can define for any condition or threshold
for each & every pin of sensor node (Hi-Node) using hIOTron IoT platform.

To understand this, Lets take a simple home automation example where you can to set
the rule for condition such as

If Anyone enters in the room

Then Light should automatically turn on for some time (User defined) interval. Send
Alerts/Notifications (SMS, Mail, Push Notifications) in the time interval (User
defined). And more

Else Light should turn off

Similarly, multiple rules can be defined for multiple conditions which can be
customized from anywhere, anytime.

The complete Modular IoT Kit will set you back around $135 USD via this Kickstarter
campaign which will have future retail cost approximately $210. The crowdfunding
campaign started this morning and will run for the next month. So far today weve
raised $149 USD of $5000 goal.