Re: FOSDEM 2014 Embedded dev room CFP

[Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>]

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On 07/11/2013 10:11, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I didn't notice if it was already announced here, but the CFP for the FOSDEM
> Embedded dev room in 2014 is open:
>
> https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2013-October/001870.html
>
> It would be great to have some folks give OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project-related
> presentation(s) this year - we usually manage at least one for FOSDEM. It
> could be about a new feature you've worked on, a success story, a proposal for
> a new direction, a related project etc.

Hi Paul,

I'll be attending FOSDEM this year and could bring some kit along for a 
demo if there's interest,
and table space available.

I doubt I'll have time to prepare a presentation but would be happy to 
make some time for a
discussion if anybody has questions on the development process we went 
through at DD.

The project I think would be most relevant here is a wireless sensor 
mesh network that
we've been working on for some time.

This comprises a number of low cost sensor 802.15.4 radio nodes running 
a proprietary mesh
stack. These are then deployed around a building, forming their own mesh 
for comms, and providing
sensor information back into the enterprise.

We are planning to use Yocto on an OEM i.MX6-based headless gateway we 
have under development
to provide the interface between the mesh and the Internet for sense 
data, and also for installation /
network monitoring purposes.

As Yocto is so flexible in terms of platform targetting, whilst our 
i.MX6 hardware is in development
I have been building for both both Freescale's i.MX6 EVK and also the 
Raspberry Pi for test engineers
to do initial evaluation.

So there's an Internet of Things aspect, 802.15.4 mesh networking, a 
couple of different hardware
platforms running essentially the same code-base to accelerate 
development, and as the gateway
application is .NET based running on Linux/Mono, it shows that companies 
with existing .NET
code-bases and Windows development teams can leverage Yocto+Mono to 
target their embedded
apps. at Linux platforms.

Is that something that would be of interest?

Regards, Alex


Cheers, Paul

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