At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Taoglas launched a system-on-module (SoM) portfolio for instant IoT development, designed for a range of technology applications including transportation, remote healthcare and smart buildings.

The SoMs are based on Taoglas’ design platform and offer flexibility and scalability while shortening time-to-market for OEMs and enterprises. Users can choose from any of its multi-sensor, pre-certified boards, making the IoT design process as simple as activating a SIM card.

Taoglas’ Edge portfolio delivers functionality while integrating many technologies, including edge computing, centimetre-level positioning, various cellular standards and connectivity options, artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine vision AI, targeting applications such as smart agriculture, smart buildings, transportation, autonomous devices, V2X, construction and healthcare.

“Whether it’s in the area of connected health, energy and utility, agriculture and industrial, or construction, Taoglas can ensure your project doesn’t come up against any of the common challenges that normally face IoT projects’ time to market,” said Adrian Burns, head of IoT architecture at Taoglas. “With a proven and highly-reliable platform and approach, our team of world-class firmware and hardware experts, front-end and back-end developers and RF engineers will work with you to bring industry-leading IoT to market quickly and cost-effectively. By working with Taoglas, there’s no need to engage in a long and expensive design process.”

He said Taoglas could provide development, manufacturing and supply services for the complete hardware to be the one-stop-shop for enterprises looking to transform their business through IoT.

“Taoglas can take one of our off-the-shelf SoMs and use it as is in your device to provide computing and connectivity, or we can quickly customise it with additional functionality, for example adding a camera vision component, or integrating it into your existing legacy equipment.” Burns said.

With a flexible offering covering most connectivity options, global positioning standards, vision AI and sensors, the Edge SoM portfolio is a complete edge-to-cloud enablement platform comprising hardware, a cloud-based management platform and connectivity, helping enterprises reduce the cost and complexity of introducing IoT strategies and providing real-time insights and intelligence to help advance a smarter and safer future.

Common attributes for Edge SoMs are: reliable robust codebase; low power; cyber secure; device lifecycle management; integration with Taoglas Insights cloud-based platform for device, data management and analytics; on-board sensors; on-board optimised antennas with optional external antenna options; and firmware maintenance support, upgrade services and OTA updates.

Taoglas says it has the expertise and experience to help enterprises get IoT to market on time, the first time. Its hardware and software experts will work with users from initial strategy definition through to the design, build, deployment, manufacturing and lifecycle management.

The portfolio includes the Edge EC55, based on the EC45 SoM. It has seven onboard environmental and movement sensors, cellular and Bluetooth connectivity and is based on Arm Cortex M7 processor, firmware and OS RTOS, and validated applications libraries (real-time performance), and comes with a Kinetica on-board analytics engine.

The Edge EM15 is a compact multi-sensor SoM with cellular, Wifi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth classic, BLE5.2 (AOA/AOD) connectivity with low power consumption in a small form factor. It features a dual-core processor, optimised firmware and OS RTOS, and validated applications libraries (real-time performance), and comes with a Kinetica on-board analytics engine.

The Edge IG25 is an industrial multi-sensor SoM with cellular and Wifi 802.11b/g/n connectivity including industrial communication protocols, integrated digital and analogue IOs, industrial grade connectors and low power consumption, and features a dual-core processor, firmware and OS RTOS, and applications.

Samples are available with different cellular options depending on use cases.