Acer is currently promoting several BYOC-based applications such as smart home appliances, telemedicine and remote diagnosis, and security surveillance.
Acer's BYOC smart module and hardware uses Marvell's EZ-Connect Wi-Fi Microcontroller IoT platform. The module is built with a Cortex-M3 microcontroller (88MC200) and 802.11n wireless radio (88W8801) that together provide a fully integrated hardware solution for IoT devices to connect to the Acer BYOC cloud.
The software solution includes Marvell's EZ-Connect software SDK complemented with libraries that integrate with BYOC services. The Marvell EZ-Connect platform based smart-module along with Acer BYOC services and mobile apps create a comprehensive smart home ecosystem complete with monitoring, control, notification, and data collection functions.
Hipad is a top-three mobile device and smart home appliance manufacturer in China and is looking to provide its customers more services via Acer's BYOC platform.
Acer is also collaborating with Canonical, the open source software provider behind Ubuntu, on a range of IoT and cloud projects. At Computex 2015, visitors can discover how the Acer Open Platform incorporates the Snappy Ubuntu Core by Canonical for a smart home surveillance solution. In a setup comprising of the aBeing One smart center built on the Snappy Ubuntu Core, Acer and Canonical are demonstrating how an intruder into a smart home is monitored by passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors, which signal an IP camera to record a short video of the incident and stores it into the aBeing One. A message alert can be sent to the home owner's smartphone who can view the video instantly from the aBeing One and decide what actions to take.
The demonstration is just one example of the opportunities to be explored and potentially commercialized following the announcement of the partnership between the two companies at IoT World in San Francisco in May. Unveiled alongside the partnership announcement was a prototype of Acer's aBeing One cross-platform smart center built on the Snappy Ubuntu Core and Acer Open C&C Platform (AOP) 3.0 core technology.
Acer and Canonical illustrated how this cross-platform smart center can help consumers consolidate and share intelligence, and have full control of their IoT devices. For developers, the aBeing series provides security, privacy, and minimized costs for cloud service and product research, further demonstrating how a wider developer ecosystem can bring solutions to market, and provide a great opportunity to see IoT designs brought to life.
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