White Papers

The compelling Business Case for the Internet of Things

The business case for implementing robust IIoT solutions is compelling and very soon it will be overwhelming. Right now it's compelling because solutions from Eurotech and other leading vendors are delivering tangible benefits, e.g. the proven ability to: boost operational efficiency, enhance customer service, open up new business opportunities, and increase agility. It will be overwhelming because this development leverages the technologies that are taking us into a new 21st century era, one that's based on the transition from a product to a services economy, on distributed intelligence and intelligent devices, as well as new business models, paradigms and concepts.

Agile IoT air quality and pollution monitoring

Environmental pollution has become an issue of serious international concern and is increasingly stimulating the development and adoption of solutions to monitor, prevent and reduce the effects of pollution. The convergence of hardware integration, reduction of sensor costs, IoT and M2M technologies introduces a new landscape that inspired AGILE project to focused one of the pilots on this topic. The pilot is responsible to deliver an AGILE-based solution for air quality and pollution monitoring in industrial and public environments characterized by low cost, high quality monitoring and a capillary territorial coverage. The pilot is based on a network of monitoring stations that provides multimodal, multisource, certifiable and pervasive monitoring of air quality and pollution. The monitoring stations are developed by EUROTECH and entirely based on the AGILE platform that cooperates with Eurotech cloud integration platform Everyware Cloud.

Bridging the Gap between Operational Technology and Information Technology

The integrated IoT architecture from Red Hat and Eurotech unites OT and IT. By aligning OT and IT, enterprises can transform raw data into meaningful, actionable information that increases productivity, simplifies decision making, and improves business results. Red Hat and Eurotech have collaborated to create a powerful open source infrastructure that lets devices connect and communicate to help complex IoT environments operate smoothly. Eurotech offers the technology components to create distributed, intelligent systems of devices and sensors. Red Hat® technology connects those distributed systems to the IT infrastructure. Together, Eurotech and Red Hat provide a robust Internet of Things solution - from M2M interactions to enterprise applications - to seamlessly manage thousands to millions of devices.

Simplify IoT Implementation with Eurotech and Red Hat

The Internet of Things transforms business. Ordinary devices become smart devices, and smart devices are integrated into intelligent systems. Communication between devices and systems lets organizations harness the power of data to create actionable information. Red Hat and Eurotech have collaborated to create a powerful open source infrastructure that lets devices connect and communicate to help complex IoT environments operate smoothly. Eurotech, a leader in integrating human-to-machine (H2M) and machine-to-machine (M2M) interaction, offers the technology components to create distributed, intelligent systems of devices and sensors. Red Hat® technology connects those distributed systems to the IT infrastructure. Together, Eurotech and Red Hat provide a robust Internet of Things solution - from M2M interactions to enterprise applications - to seamlessly manage thousands to millions of devices.

Working with Eurotech. Three Ways to Buy Embedded Computer Technology: Boards, Custom Products and Architected Designs

Eurotech offers both ready-to-use devices and embedded systems for incorporation into an OEM device. When the customer wants a board component for their system, we work with them to achieve maximum cost efficiencies through the "DIME" model of product lifecycle cost (Design, factory Introduction, Maintenance, and EOL considerations). Within this the DIME business model, we offer options to OEMs with varying production volumes and varying control on their supply chain. This whitepaper will explain the parameters an OEM can evaluate when picking a preferred sourcing agreement.

How Eurotech is Tackling Middleware Requirements in the Internet of Things Era

Internet of Things (IoT) architectures are in strong demand - IDC estimates spending in the European market was at $78.9 billion in 2014 and forecasts it to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 29% over the next five years. This paper provides a definition of IoT and describes where that paradigm sits in respect to digital transformation and IDC's "Innovation Accelerators" vision. In addition, it provides a view on how IoT applies pressure on the software back-end, requiring users to come up with new approaches to their middleware and cloud strategies. The second part of the paper looks at Eurotech's role as a supplier of IoT solutions, specifically with its Everyware offering. It provides a summary of Eurotech's differentiation and on the role its partnership with Red Hat plays in this context. Finally, it provides essential guidance to end-user organizations that are looking to deploy IoT architectures.

Connecting Business with Machines in the Cloud-based World of IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a proliferation of distributed sensor and data-collection systems, but also placing a heavy burden on the cloud infrastructure and the end consumers of that data. Designing and deploying a distributed IoT system is often not compatible with the skills, expertise, and experience required to manage and analyze such a system. Eurotech?s Everyware Cloud and Everyware Software Framework (ESF) provide an industry-neutral platform for building complex global IoT networks while leaving the value-added services to the subject-matter experts

Eurotech: Smart Systems Innovator by Harbor Research

Today, virtually all products that use electricity - from toys and coffee makers to cars and medical diagnos­tic machines - possess inherent data processing capability and the poten­tial to be networked. These can be integrated into systems that connect people, processes, and knowledge to en­able collective awareness and efficien­cies. Machine-To-Machine (M2M) com­munications and cloud computing are combining to create new modes of asset intelligence, collaboration and decision making. Everyware Cloud platform integrate all the key system elements required to build a complete end-to-end connected de­vice solution.

Accurate Passenger and People Counting with Stereoscopic Vision Technology

New technology is changing the transportation industry at a rapid pace, improving the ride for passengers and simplifying management tasks for transit operators. Passenger counting in particular has been a tedious process in the past. Today, automated vision-based passenger counters connected to a database through a wireless connection will more accurately count passengers, leading to better budgets, schedules, and an improved customer experience.

Eurotech Re-Invents Embedded Connected Computing for M2M 2.0

The convergence of smart connected devices and cloud computing is unleashing an age of anytime, anywhere connectivity that is fostering entirely new modes of customer interaction and service delivery. Eurotech's Everyware Cloud platform simplifies device and data management by providing an innovative platform that integrates distributed devices with business enterprise applications providing users and developers a path for building open, scalable M2M applications and smart services.

Eurotech's low power Intel® Atom-based Catalyst Module Design

The low power Intel Atom Processor family delivers Intel Architecture compatibility and performance at a fraction of the power consumption of a laptop or desktop computer. This feature set has enabled embedded designs to take advantage of IA compatibility while maintaining low power dissipation, thus eliminating the need for fans or heat sinks.

Everyware Software Framework

ESF lets Open Source Developers bring products built on Eurotech embedded platforms to market as quickly as possible. ESF puts a middleware layer between the OS and the OEM application, with industry-standard interfaces that shorten OEM development time and simplify coding. The software technologies that can be found in ESF are: Embedded Java, OSGi Framework, Applications and Vertical Markets Bundles, and Applications Business Logic.

Optimizing Embedded Designs for the Intel®Atom Processor

The Intel® Atom Processor, with multithreading and virtualization, delivers x86 performance, minimizes power consumption and heat dissipation, eliminating the need for fans or heatsink, and brings powerful new technology to battery operated, space constrained embedded applications. To take advantage of the all the benefits offered, designers must understand intricacies involved in hardware, software, and end delivery to select the right Low Power Intel® Atom Processor-based solution for their embedded devices.

Video Performance Comparison. PXA and IMX Processors for Various CODECs

Media for small, embedded devices is in our future. We ran some quick tests on the leading PXA (Marvell) and i.MX (Freescale) CPU architectures to see where the current and likely future price/performance leader is. The operating system, across the board, was Windows CE. We ran the same media file, compressed four different ways, on three CPUs with three different media players. Performance differences of greater than two to one were seen; however these differences are small compared to the potential effect of application-specific features that exist with these highly specialized CPUs.

Using Windows Embedded Standard to Create a Battery Powered Device

New low power x86 Silicon is now available, so Windows Embedded Standard (WES) properly configured can be productively employed for battery powered mobile devices. We show WES running on multiple version of Silicon, in multiple hardware configurations including consumer, commercial and industrial computers. A series of tests is run to determine processing power per watt, and some indicators of energy consumption per functional operations as well.

Choosing an Embedded Development System

A Development Environment should be measured against objectives. Various Development Systems might look the same but might be very different based on intended use, support included and implied product warranty. Before you buy a Development System, you should define your needs and consider the options.

Dealing with Component EOL

How Application Ready Subsystems Lower Lifecycle Cost. Product EOL and redesign is being forced by component obsolescence, forcing recovery of the design and introduction cost over a shorted product lifetime. This whitepaper will show how by using application ready subsystems, the OEM can insulate his product from component side obsolescence and maintain continuity of supply to his market for a decade and more.

Know Product Lifecycle Cost to a DIME. Control Risk, reduce time to market, and improve product features

The industrial, commercial OEM is pressured with an ever growing wish list of product features, and constrained by limited resources to deliver them. Eurotech has developed a unique, partnership business model where we undertake the costs and risks of the back end, 32-bit computer portion of the product, allowing the OEM to focus on developing the core technology: the application. The partnership offered by Eurotech spans Design, Introduction, Manufacturing & Maintenance and EOL considerations, hence the DIME mnemonic.