German electronics company Infineon has launched the Xensiv connected sensor kit, an IoT sensors platform.

IoT ecosystems and connected devices enable service offerings and peripheral services to be bought and unlocked. However, prototyping sensor-based IoT use cases can become a resource intensive process until smart IoT systems are ready to be deployed.

To support hardware and software engineers in the development of IoT devices, Infineon has launched the Xensiv connected sensor kit (CSK), an IoT sensor platform for rapid prototyping and development of customised IoT applications.

“Combining sensors, microcontrollers and secure connectivity is one of our customers’ biggest challenges,” said Laurent Remont, vice president at Infineon. “Therefore we have developed the CSK for rapid prototyping of connected IoT sensors. Furthermore, the CSK combines software and hardware to help reduce time to market of IoT products significantly.”

The CSK is based on a combination of Xensiv sensors with power-efficient, yet high-performance processing for use cases based on the PSoC 6 microcontroller. Secured connectivity is enabled by Optiga Trust M. Its modular board design is compatible with the Adafruit form factor and allows prototyping for various sensor use cases, for example for battery powered smart-home applications. The sensor kit uses Infineon’s products and offers ready-to-use sensor scenarios and quick data visualisation.

Additionally, fast prototyping is made easier by the firm’s sensor cloud dashboard, an example of a simplified user interface with a cloud architecture backend on AWS. It scales quickly for field deployment and provides unified multi-device dashboarding.

All components of the CSK come with code samples and libraries from Modus Toolbox, Infineon’s software ecosystem that supports users in developing feature specific proof of concepts and accelerates the path to a finished product design with new sensor applications.

The CSK also provides secured and reliable connectivity to most popular cloud services such as AWS IoT Core. It can be used for publishing, configuring, and subscribing messages to and from cloud platforms. The kit is qualified in the AWS partner device catalogue with environmental sensor variants, the CSK PASC02 for measuring carbon dioxide levels (CO₂ ppm), and a radar 60GHz variant, the CSK BGT60TR13C for presence detection, vital sensing and more.