Intelligent IoT Sensing Module Based on LeapFive BF2
LeapFive has launched an IoT sensing core module based on the BF2 chip, which can effectively upgrade commercially available sensors intelligently, thus providing powerful support for sensor solutions and applications.
As the foundation of the overall architecture of IoT, the sensing layer is a crucial link between the physical world and the information world. Therefore, intelligent sensors play an important role in the rapid development and popularization of the IoT. Intelligent sensors are intelligent devices capable of sensing, collecting, analyzing, and processing external environmental information, with multiple functions such as information collection, processing, exchange, storage, and transmission. They are system-level devices that integrate sensors, communication modules, microprocessors, drivers and interfaces, and software algorithms, with characteristics such as diagnostic and self-compensation ability, sensory fusion, and flexible communication.
As the core component of the IoT, intelligent sensors can sense, collect, and process external environmental information, and have been widely used in multiple fields.
• Smart home – intelligent sensors can monitor the temperature, humidity, lighting, and other conditions in the house, and through the smart home system to achieve automatic adjustment of environment to improve living comfort.
• Smart cities – intelligent sensors can monitor data such as traffic flow, environmental pollution, and other data, as well as provide decision support and warning services for city management departments to achieve intelligent management of the city.
• Smart grids – intelligent sensors can realize full sensing, full connection, and full online monitoring of the total energy flow of the power grid, strengthen the intelligent and digital management of the new power system, and effectively improve the sensing and response capabilities of the power grid.
• Smart manufacturing – intelligent sensors can monitor and optimize the production process to improve production efficiency and quality.
• Smart agriculture – intelligent sensors can monitor the environmental conditions of farmland, provide decision support and optimization suggestions for agricultural production, and achieve intelligent development of agriculture.
Currently, the intelligent sensor solutions in the market lack standardization and intelligence, and there are issues such as data security. Therefore, LeapFive has launched an IoT sensing core module based on the BF2 chip technology, which can miniaturize, standardize, and intelligently upgrade sensors in the market, providing powerful support for sensor solutions and applications.
Product Introduction
The Micro IoT Sensing Core Unit
Based on the open-source and self-contained RISC-V architecture SoC chip, LeapFive has launched a micro IoT sensing core module that enables basic electrical parametric measurement functions and saves space and cost through hardware miniaturization design. The module has multi-channel remote and local communication channels, which can support switching and analog input and output. It can also support various wired and wireless IoT channels for downstream connectivity, connect multiple sensors, realize a unified programmable protocol stack, as well as incorporate blockchain SDK and support customized development.
The Micro IoT sensors
The micro IoT sensors can collect various environmental data as needed. Due to their size complying with the miniature standard and adopting standardized development, they have uniform specifications, interfaces, and communication protocols, saving space and costs, and facilitating unified management.
LeapFive Solution
This solution uses IoT sensing core unit for initial integration and uploading of sensor data and blockchain up-chaining through the edge side to ensure the security and trustworthiness of the data. At the same time, by establishing a sensor data service platform and using AIoT technology to realize the access and interaction of the miniature IoT sensing core unit platform, we open the core unit SDK to meet the demand for platform-based customization and provide rich sensor functions and system application solutions. In addition, we also provide open API interface to the cloud platform to meet the demand of cloud-to-cloud.
The platform includes the following features according to customer needs:
• Intelligent O&M of sensor devices
In traditional solutions, the maintenance of sensors usually requires periodic manual checks and replacements, and the platform has low utilization. In this solution, when a sensor fails, the system can automatically report it to the platform through the interaction between the micro IoT sensing core unit and the platform. The platform uses algorithms to determine the cause of the problem and proposes corresponding processing suggestions. In addition, the relevant APP promptly prompts the staff to check the sensor and facilitates timely processing of sensor issues.
• Assisted data analysis
The data analysis algorithm in the platform can be customized according to customer needs to assist in the analysis and processing of sensor data. Users can also view the analysis results and suggestions directly on the app, saving decision-making time and responding to problems more quickly.
• Interconnectivity technology
This solution uses Wi-Fi + Bluetooth dual-mode chips to realize cloud-based and local LAN-based interconnectivity technology. In addition, this solution also supports Bluetooth Mesh technology, enabling interconnectivity between devices.
Advantages of LeapFive
• Standardization
This solution can support different types of sensors for various scenarios in hardware, with unified specifications, interfaces, and protocol formats, which means that various types of sensors can be compatible with each other, while also being rapidly expandable to suit new scenarios and needs, thus saving solution development costs. Compared with sensor solutions that lack standardization in the market, this solution is more competitive.
• Edge data integration
This solution uses the independently developed BF2 chip based on the RISC-V architecture, which has high computational power, as the core. By conducting preliminary data integration and uploading at the edge, it provides strong data support for the information network. Combining cloud computing and edge computing technologies, it realizes the construction of AIoT for sensor scenarios, so that sensor data can be better utilized to meet the market demand for digital and intelligent solutions.
• Blockchain data security
With the high computing power of the BF chip, this solution can achieve data uploading to the blockchain at the edge, ensuring the accuracy and authenticity of data and preventing data from being tampered with at will, providing reliable data security for digital scenarios. In addition, users can choose which data to upload to the blockchain according to their needs.
