Date: 03/04/2012

Digi and Wind River collaborate on cloud-connected wireless M2M

Digi International and Wind River have announced a collaboration to deliver a new family of cloud-connected wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions. The M2M Solution Builder kits will include a combination of hardware, software, cloud connectivity and access to tailored M2M development services.

"We are excited to work closely with Wind River and Intel to create differentiated smart device solutions," said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Digi International. "In addition, the close relationship with Wind River allows us to offer customers a complete and field-proven software solution for smart connected devices."

"The M2M industry is in need of a complete end-to-end solution to accelerate market adoption," said Jim Robinson, general manager, operations and marketing for intelligent systems at Intel. "Complete solutions from industry leaders like Digi and Wind River will allow developers and OEMs to quickly build connected products and cloud-enabled services with confidence."

"Wind River's value proposition is built on streamlining and supporting the enablement of M2M services with our leading software and middleware, complemented by our extensive hardware and software M2M partner ecosystem," said Roger Williams, vice president of alliances and business development at Wind River. "The integration of the iDigi Device Cloud will allow customers to build secure and cloud-enabled M2M solutions with Wind River software, adding cloud-based data analytics capabilities and remote device management to new and existing applications. The seamless integration of cloud-connected services and applications is a natural extension of Wind River's proven software and services for smart connected devices."

The compact M2M Solution Builder kit is suited for applications such as transportation, smart energy, building automation, access control, security/surveillance, m-health, digital signage, kiosks, and fixed/mobile asset tracking/management.
The M2M Solution Builder kit will feature the following:
Intel Atom processor E6204.
Wind River Linux environment with an M2M software development kit (SDK).
iDigi Connector integration, which allows any device to integrate easily with the iDigi Device Cloud, a proven cloud infrastructure for remote device management and cloud-based information exchange providing "Any App, Anything, Anywhere" capabilities to connected devices via Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or cellular connectivity.
Wind River Workbench, a collection of tools based on the Eclipse framework.
A wide range of connectivity options, including certification to 2G/3G cellular, dual-stream 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.15.4, dual HDMI, audio, USB 2.0, internal MicroSD card slot, up to four internal PCI Express Mini Card slots, and an integrated low-power three-axis accelerometer.
Future options are expected to include 4G/LTE cellular connectivity, Bluetooth 3.0, ZigBee, and Solid State Disk (SSD) storage.

The M2M Solution Builder kit is expected to be available in June 2012.