Intel Unveils Reference Platform Architecture, Product Portfolio for IoT Industry

Intel announced an IoT reference platform architecture along with related hardware and software products Tuesday. The Intel IoT Platform includes two reference architectures and a product portfolio that includes new Intel Quark processors for IoT, analytics capabilities and free and “simple” operating systems with a cloud suite from Wind River, Intel said. The strategy is to make it easier for its customers “to scale from things to cloud” using the Quark processors and Wind River OS, Intel said. The platform architecture is focused on enabling the Intel ecosystem to “develop, secure and integrate smart things,” Intel said. The platform provides a “blueprint” for bringing innovations to market faster by “reducing complexity and defining how smart devices will securely connect and share trusted data to the cloud,” Intel said. The first company to announce IoT technology based on the new Intel IoT Platform is SAP, which will develop IoT enterprise end-to-end products based on the Intel platform along with its SAP HANA cloud platform, Intel said. Yanzi is using Intel’s Quark SoC to develop a solution that can optimize energy use based on space utilization and predictive maintenance in smart buildings, Intel said. A Honeywell connected worker wearable for mission-critical workers is designed to anticipate unsafe conditions and prevent “man-down” scenarios or unsafe conditions, Intel said.