The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly developing and evolving in an unprecedented state. It is predicted that there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020. This trend promotes the development of electronic products to be more intelligent and connected, and then forms product systems and systems, such as intelligent buildings, smart cities, industrial automation, handheld and mobile medical fields. This requires continuous technological innovation to provide more advanced and energy-efficient solutions to meet this increasing design challenge, especially semiconductor technology.

ON Semiconductor is positioned to drive energy-efficient innovation in response to market trends, provide a broad range of solutions to support the required features, solve design challenges, and uniquely integrate different technologies to create a combination of sensing, communication, drive, and power management And more energy-efficient, easy-to-implement solutions.

ON Semiconductor IoT building blocks
For the Internet of Things, ON Semiconductor provides different modules such as sensors, motor control, wired and wireless interconnection, processor / MCU, power management, etc., and provides advanced packaging methods, from tiny miniature packaging solutions to system-on-a-chip (SoC) ), Multi-chip and module solutions to enhance integration, thereby helping designers achieve energy and cost savings.


Figure 1: ON Semiconductor's IoT building blocks


Modular, configurable IDK simplifies your IoT development
To help engineers simplify the development of IoT systems, ON Semiconductor has leveraged its technology, intellectual property, and product expertise to develop a modular, configurable IoT development kit (IDK) that integrates hardware, software platforms, and general purpose System interface, which can apply different sensors, drivers and interconnected building block prototypes to a single platform, and can be expanded as needed.

IDK's integrated development environment (IDE) is based on Eclipse, the host operating system is Windows, uses the ARM Cortex-M3 motherboard processor, and Carriots' cloud platform (which will be extended to other cloud platforms in the future), and supports representational state transfer (REST) , Message Queue Telemetry Transmission (MQTT) Internet of Things protocols and SIGFOX, Thread, Enocean, Zigbee, W-MBUS, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, CAN, BLE and other interconnection protocols.

A comprehensive software environment enables developers to quickly get up and running and running their first project within. The environment contains 28 simple sample code and 12 complex sample code for developers to choose from.

 
ON Semiconductor provides different interconnections (SIGFOX, Wi-Fi, EnOcean, Thread, PoE, BLE, CAN), sensors (passive infrared PIR, ambient light, touch, distance, liquid level, intelligent passive, heart rate), drivers (Stepper motor, LED + ballast, BLDC motor control + power stage) module, designers can mix and match according to application needs. There are also a large number of expansion board series such as BLDC control, heart rate monitors, Struix with interface to medical sensors, 2.4 GHz Thread, PoE for Ethernet-controlled lighting applications, CAN and other expansion boards for industrial and automotive communications, and product lines It continues to grow to meet more design needs.


Figure 4 shows the basic configuration of the IDK, including an ambient light sensor, a PIR motion detection sensor, a capacitive touch switch and driver such as a dual stepper motor controller, and two LEDs with different color temperatures, and an ARM SoC. And the base board of all power subsystems, and provide Sigfox interconnection and Wi-Fi interconnection below 1GHz to support connection to the cloud.