What do you care about the most when it comes to equipment networking?

1. Security
2. System integration
3. Return on investment

The answer is:

All of the above.

Enterprises care most about security, system integration, and return on investment when adopting IoT.

IoT Business News quoted a research report from Bain & Company that indicated in the IoT market, including software/hardware and system integration, the main key to enterprise users’ attitude toward future IoT deployment is how to effectively solve the problems of security, system integration, and return on investment.

Security:

IoT suppliers and users both care about security the most; the network security issue is the most important consideration when connecting industrial equipment to the network. The networking requirements must be both secure and have high connectivity.

System integration:

When it comes to the development of embedded systems, the first problem that needs to be solved is the porting of embedded operating systems. The most difficult part of porting embedded operating systems is whether they are familiar with the hardware architecture because many parts that rely on embedded system platforms are designed according to the features and an operating method of the hardware itself. Therefore embedded systems with highly integrated software/hardware can significantly reduce the development threshold for system software developers.

Return on investment:

How can high-quality products and customized services be provided to improve the unit price of products when facing the pressure of cost? Also, how can product development time be reduced effectively for products to become available on the market as soon as possible? These are the keys when it comes to returning on investment. 

Nuvoton industrial computer/server secure smart networking upgrade solution

The Nuvoton industrial computer/server secure smart networking upgrade solutions solve these three major difficulties; it provides a secure smart networking upgrade solution for security, system integration, and return on investment.

Security:

Expandable Secure Shell (SSH): Remote access protection for the network is provided through SSH ID verification, enhancing security protocols.

System integration:

Nuvoton’s NUC980 platform has integrated Linux OS 4.4 tightly; it can fully support mainstream IoT protocols. Developers can use this to quickly develop IoT related applications.

Return on investment:

Nuvoton’s secure smart networking upgrade solution adopts the NUC980 microcontroller; it has an ARM9 MPU with an execution speed of up to 300 MHz, equipped with two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, 2 sets of high-speed USB hosts, high-speed SPI NAND interface, able to support large capacity SPI NAND storage devices and is accurately configured with resources and rich interfaces needed for the embedded Linux OS. It uses optimized system configurations and a highly integrated software/hardware platform to provide a balanced combination of cost and performance.

Nuvoton secure smart networking upgrade solution Evaluation board based on NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980

The NUC980DK61Y microcontroller was adopted and the kernel is Nuvoton’s ARM9 MPU with an execution speed of 300 MHz; it has 64 MB DDR memory built-in, one 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port, 2 high-speed USB hosts, 1 Gb SPI NAND Flash store device, microphone input, immersive headphone output, and Arduino-compatible interface. Embedded Linux OS is provided that can fully support related IoT protocols such as MQTT, AWS IoT Client, and Web Server, etc. Users can use this platform to quickly develop IoT related applications.

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