I've been reading about the ARTIK-5 board which Samsung have just released:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3037444/hardware/samsungs-artik-5-a-raspberry-pi-look-alike-now-shipping-for-99.html It seems like we have a bit of a nightmare of a board there. Some lowlights: * Price. $99. Ouch. * Samsung KNOX, using Trustonic's TEE ( https://www.trustonic.com/technology/trusted-execution-environment) which sounds much like the notorious Intel ME to me. Does anybody here have experience of Trustonic TEE, and can confirm that. or explain what it does better than me? I think it's more proprietary software on-silicon, which constrains what you can run on your own device. * Support for Google's Thread, a connectivity specification to link up IoT devices. I had never heard of this new standard to this point, but it seems to be different to Google's Weave, and they both appear to be newly made-up Google-controlled standards, in contrast to AllJoyn and IoTivity, which at least have multiple major stakeholders behind them. I assume this "support" is OS level. If the protocol required hardware or firmware support, that would be very odd. * "The board will come pre-loaded with Linux-based Fedora OS. It's not clear yet if Artik supports Google's Brillo, an IoT development platform for connected home devices, which is closely tied to Thread. Intel's Edison developer board already supports Brillo." - Not a positive. * "Samsung is also providing software tools, security features and services through its SAMI cloud platform. For example, a cloud service may decide when to turn an air conditioner on or off based on data collected from a smart meter. SAMI could allow sensor data to be fed into the cloud for analysis." - Please no. * "Another interesting use of Artik could be for health and fitness. Data collected from a wearable can be sent for monitoring and analysis to Samsung's Simband cloud-based health analytics service. Samsung has also tied the Artik boards to driver assistance, service robots and cloud-based security services." - Again, not good. -- b...@summerwill.net
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