With the support of the 10 new company ecosystem and Energia

Connect developers to the cloud with just a few lines of code

TI Korea (CEO Kent Chon, www.ti.com/ww/kr ) December 16, 2014 – TI (CEO Kent Chon) announced the expansion of its third-party ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT) cloud service providers. Since its launch in April 2014, the TI IoT Cloud Ecosystem has added 10 new vendors, bringing the total to 18 vendors supporting various cloud options. Ecosystem vendors help customers quickly connect to the cloud and utilize TI-based IoT solutions. The new participants are Intamac/Kynesim, Keen IO/Technical Machine, Micrium, Octoblu, PTC, PubNub, Temboo, and Weaved.

Each ecosystem vendor provides cloud services for a wide range of IoT applications, including industrial, home automation, health and fitness, and automotive, based on one or more of TI's wireless connectivity, microcontroller (MCU), and processor solutions (for details on participating vendors and services offered, see TI's IoT Cloud Ecosystem).

In addition, various ecosystem vendors support Energia to make code development easier. Energia is an open-source, community-driven, wiring-based independent development environment (IDE) and framework that facilitates rapid firmware development on TI MCU architectures such as MSP430™, TM4C, and SimpleLink™ wireless MCUs. Through easy-to-use APIs and libraries, you can interact with the cloud with just a few lines of code. Energia enables developers to focus on developing differentiated applications and reduce the time spent implementing Internet protocols or low-level drivers. With support for pre-packaged built-in features for major cloud partners, including IBM’s IoT Foundation, Temboo, and PubNub, Energia eliminates the need to manually download and load libraries.

Michael Curry, Vice President of IBM’s WebSphere Foundation, said, “Time efficiency and simplicity are key to success in the IoT field. Through support for Energia, the IBM IoT Foundation enables the Energia community to realize business profits faster by allowing them to quickly access cloud services from devices.”

Additionally, TI's Code Composer Studio (CCS)™ v6 can now import Energia projects/sketches. CCS offers a unique migration path from Rapid Prototyping (RP) to development and final productization. By switching to CCS, developers gain access to debugging capabilities and the features of a full-fledged IDE. (For more information on Energia for rapid prototyping of IoT applications, refer to the Launch Your Design blog post.)

TI's Cloud Ecosystem

The 18 companies participating in the TI IoT cloud ecosystem each provide services that can meet the increasing demands of IoT, such as data integration into business processes, data analysis, customized user portals and smartphone apps, and compatibility with various wireless technologies. TI's IoT Cloud Ecosystem is open to cloud service providers seeking to offer differentiated services and implement value-added services based on TI's IoT solutions. In addition to the 10 new participants, 2lemetry, ARM, Arrayent, Exosite, IBM, LogMeIn, Spark, and ThingsSquare are also participating. Companies interested in joining can visit the IoT Cloud Ecosystem page to learn how to participate.

New vendors in the TI IoT cloud ecosystem

Kyle Wild, CEO of Keen IO, stated, “By integrating Keen IO into Technical Machine’s Tessel and undergoing full testing, we have enabled the easy creation of sophisticated real-time dashboards by applying Keen IO analytics to the constant stream of real-world data coming from Tessel’s sensor modules. Keen IO processes all data and can scale from hundreds of thousands to millions of devices. The exact steps for applying Keen IO and Tessel can be seen here. Keen IO and Technical Machine have joined TI’s IoT ecosystem to more seamlessly develop complete analytics tools for future IoT applications.”

“Kynesim CEO Paul Fellows said, ‘Kynesim has worked closely with TI for a long time, and we are very pleased to work with Intamac to provide clients with batch development and custom IoT systems that combine Intamac’s ENSO cloud platform with TI’s wireless and RF technologies.’” Kynesim stated, “We selected TI for these systems because we know that TI provides high reliability and a long lifespan for the designs implemented by TI.”

Jean Labrosse, President and CEO of Micrium, stated, “IoT is all about connectivity. Connecting tightly integrated devices to the cloud with minimal footprint and maximum reliability requires a true embedded software solution. Micrium Spectrum™ meets the demands of the field by providing a comprehensive, pre-integrated portfolio of embedded software, protocol stacks, and cloud services designed to make IoT development easier, from device to cloud. Micrium’s proven solutions offer benefits such as faster time-to-market and optimized device performance, and are ideal for supporting TI’s MCUs, processors, and connectivity solutions.”

“TI provides the opportunity to bring innovative new devices to market. However, managing the secure flow of information through connection configuration, design, processes, and deep analytics is a complex task. By providing a platform that automates these tasks, Octoblu enables TI to utilize IoT more seamlessly, paving the way for exciting new services in an all-connected world,” said Geir Ramleth, CEO of Octoblu.

Chris Kuntz, Vice President of Strategic Programs and IoT Markets at PTC Business Thingworx, said, “Companies with smart connected solutions need the ability to extract and understand generated data to better understand customers and product characteristics. “We are pleased to be able to deliver new IoT solutions to the global market more quickly through our collaboration with TI,” they said.

Todd Greene, founder and CEO of PubNub, stated, “Accelerating time-to-market for IoT requires a seasoned and scalable technology accumulation. Developers can now leverage TI’s Rapid Prototyping (RP) platform, Energia, and PubNub’s secure data stream network to rapidly build and scale real-time IoT applications that run anywhere on any network.”

Vaughn Shinall, Business Development Manager at Temboo, stated, “Through a wizard-style web interface, Temboo can generate Energia code that enables TI silicon to interact with over 100 websites, APIs, databases, and services. With this integration, developers can easily send SMS messages to Twilio, display datalogs in Google Sheets, and even send tweets from embedded hardware. The integration of Energia and Temboo is a powerful tool for rapidly connecting hardware to the IoT.”

Jim Fox, Vice President of Business Development at Weaved, stated, “TI is the ideal partner for Weaved’s IoT for all networking software, as it has an IoT solution roadmap that considers all levels of performance, power, and cost.”

TI Expands IoT Connectivity

With connected devices projected to reach 50 billion by 2020, the rapidly growing IoT is providing invisible smart technology for people. With the industry's most extensive portfolio of wired and wireless connectivity technologies, microcontrollers, processors, sensors, analog signal chains, and power solutions, TI provides cloud-optimized system solutions to enable IoT connectivity anywhere. From high-performance home, industrial, and automotive applications to battery-powered wearables, portable electronic devices, or energy-harvesting wireless sensor nodes, TI makes application development easier through hardware, software, tools, and support for everything connected to the IoT (for more information, visit www.ti.com/iot ).

More detailed information on TI's IoT portfolio

· TI's IoT Connectivity: www.ti.com/iot

· TI SimpleLink Wireless Connectivity Solution: www.ti.com/wirelessconnectivity

· TI Microcontrollers (MCU): www.ti.com/mcu

· TI Sitara™ Processor: www.ti.com/sitara

· TI E2E™ Support Community: www.ti.com/wicon-forum