The 6 Best IoT Hardware Platforms (2021 Update)
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- Particle — Particle offers a range of development kits designed to connect to the Internet over Wi-Fi, cellular, or BLE. Particle is the best platform to build a connected project from prototype to production.
- Adafruit — Adafruit offers one of the best online spaces to learn about DIY electronic hacking. Adafruit Feather is a line of open-source development boards that are designed for prototyping on the fly. The Adafruit Feather line comes with a large suite of accessories that rapidly accelerate development.
- SparkFun is a large retail store that sells everything from development kits, breakout boards to sensors. They offer more than 2,000+ open source components and offer their own training and online tutorials that explain how to build embedded electronics.
- Espressif —Espressif develops Wi-Fi and Bluetooth low-power IoT hardware solutions. Espressif is most well-known for its ESP8266 and ESP32 series of chips, modules, and development boards. In fact, many development boards across the industry run on Espressif chips.
- Arduino — Arduino is the ubiquitous name in the electronic development space. The company offers a range of open-source development kits, microcontrollers, and software tools for building connected products.
- Raspberry Pi — A Raspberry Pi is a single-board-based computer that runs on Linux and is designed for prototyping small computing applications. Raspberry Pi products are perfect for people of all ages and are a good way to get into electronic development.
Companies with hardware products are reacting to this external crisis in different ways. Leading companies like Tesla are mitigating the negative impacts on their supply chains by swapping out components and re-designing products as needed to keep shipping product. Others are stuck with whatever inventory they can get and have been forced to shut down production and slash their forecasts. Industry experts predict that this shortage will continue through 2022 and into 2023, forcing companies unable to adapt to these challenges to shut down product lines left and right.
We want to take this opportunity to introduce our latest product enhancements and upgrades across our Supply Secure Hardware Portfolio, and explain at a high level the migration path for our customers.
ADAFRUIT IOT HARDWARE — FEATHER SPECIFICATION
Prior to Volt version 3.2.1, saving a single time series data point caused two insert requests to Cassandra. One of the actual value and one for the partition. Saving partitions is necessary to optimize some aggregation queries. This is how Volt “knows” that there is some data for a specific device for a particular timeframe.
In other words, while saving for instance 25 different data points for a certain entity such as a device, we performed 50 requests to the database:
25 requests to save time series data records (which consist of UUID, telemetry key, telemetry value, timestamp) and 25 requests to save partition records (UUID, telemetry key, and a partition timestamp calculated from the timestamp in an appropriate request).Assuming all 25 data points belong to the same partition (e.g same month if TS_KV_PARTITIONING parameter is set to MONTHS), it appears that we inserted 25 duplicate partition records.
Companies with hardware products are reacting to this external crisis in different ways. Leading companies like Tesla are mitigating the negative impacts on their supply chains by swapping out components and re-designing products as needed to keep shipping product. Others are stuck with whatever inventory they can get and have been forced to shut down production and slash their forecasts. Industry experts predict that this shortage will continue through 2022 and into 2023, forcing companies unable to adapt to these challenges to shut down product lines left and right.
We want to take this opportunity to introduce our latest product enhancements and upgrades across our Supply Secure Hardware Portfolio, and explain at a high level the migration path for our customers.