HARMAN IoT Gateway: A Step-Change in Delivering IoT

In the phrase of different sensors including many specifications presenting everyday challenges for IoT deployments, HARMAN has developed an IOT gateway device which streamlines distribute a solution that is cloud-ready, eco-friendly, easily administered, cooperative across all specs, and persists secured by PKI authentication and blends over all sensors right out-of-the-box.

Internet of Things (IoT) presents the efficiency for an influential ROI for companies looking to adopt a connected solution for less cost, improved productivity, or business transmutation. The potential for generating an organization value using IoT in automotive, manufacturing, smart agriculture, smart cities, health, and building management has been accurately documented. However, like all IT deployments, ROI can only be best accomplished through streamlined execution of IoT projects.

 Organizational Matters:

The conception of a range of sensors including different specifications has displayed hurdles for companies assuring interoperability, security, and analytics. IoT schemes can take countless hours – and sometimes outright stall – either because of incomplete or lack of assimilation with sensors.  Protection within IoT deployments also continues to be a major concern for organizations – especially the chance of IoT gateway devices being compromised due to an interruption. Further, some decisions have been taken on smart storage, forwarding, and discarding of data with the help of the quantity, variety, and speed of data generated across hundreds or thousands of sensors within a deployment.

Device Abilities

An IoT solution consists of three essential elements:

(1) Devices and sensors at the ground level

(2) Transport the data generated by those devices and sensors

(3) Analytics conducted on that data at the end for business insights.

At the ground level, the patterns of sensors are related - in a web network over WIFI or low powered radio frequency (RF) - to an iot gateway device which aggregates the data. The HARMAN IoT gateway works as that intelligent aggregator device at the edge which promotes the info run from the sensors.

Organisations who are still dependent on Raspberry Pi as an aggregation device at the edge for their IoT deployments, the Harman IoT gateway solution brings out many new aptitudes. With its strong characteristics, the solution saves a lot of time, effort, and cost in installing IoT initiatives by removing the requirement for ordinary integration, programming, and other administrative tasks. Additionally, it adds to the ability and the versatility of an IoT deployment by making it operative across several sensors.

Interoperability: The Harman IoT gateway device facilitates faster deployment by making interoperability with an array of 400 sensor varieties. Apart from WIFI, this device supports radio frequency along with a broad range of specs. Due to this, some sensor connectivity such as Bluetooth (Low Energy), Wi-Fi, Light link, Smart Energy), Lora (Outdoor Variant – 868 MHz band), ZigBee (home automation Cellular (LTE and 3G) are supported.  The gateway identifies the sensors and, with an associate mobile app, starts accumulates the data from those sensors in a couple of seconds. This offers a plug-and-play which saves a lot of programming and configuring time for the deployment team.

Improved Protection: There has been a continuous news in media about crimes such as Mirai delivered using IoT sensors and means, the authentication issues remain in the centre for multiple organisations, who want to adopt IoT. HARMAN’s partnership with Entrust Data card provides a PKI based security that the uprightness and introduction of the iot gateway devices are preserved.

Ease of Management: Exclusive Management of IoT gateway solutions includes firmware upgrades, provisioning, diagnostics, basic troubleshooting, security patches, and configuration changes, all of which could be addressed remotely to the IoT media. For device management, the solution carries Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) standard for device management. For bandwidth necessitated situations, the gateway already comes built-in with a HARMAN over the air (OTA) technology client to facilitate updates using some cost-efficient softwares. The HARMAN OTA updates are 1/10th the size of the standard file-image updated over LWM2M - promoting the updated version of devices in operations where connectivity might be limited.

Access to Analytics: By logging on to a simple interface, users can install systems for an iot gateway to ascertain ways to handle the data amount from the sensors. To promote analytics of related data, a sensible store and forward scheme can be set up.  To process the data at the edge or at the backend the iot gateway device comes with a data manager, based on SQLite with App program interface (API).

The capacity of the Harman iot gateway to perform edge analytics provides it with the strength to send security alerts gleaned from sensor data straight to the users, based on several rigorous criteria, without waiting for the results from analytics. On the cloud analytics front, the IoT gateway solution comes equipped with assistance for Telit ILS, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, Sierra Wireless Airvantage, Interdigital OneMPower, IBM – Watson, MQTT, CoAP, AMQP Protocol Adapters.

With the flexibility, interoperability, protection, and analytics, the HARMAN IoT gateway requests the key pain features that customers display time and again when deploying IoT specific solutions. The IoT gateway device fares’ quite well in connected car, industrial IoT, retail, building management, healthcare and rugged outdoor industrial settings. Please leave us a line for us to arrange a demonstration for you either over a webinar or in person.