(iTers News) – Samsung Electronics bets that IoT, or Internet of Things will become a next wave of growth driver for semiconductor chips, as the Internet-connected devices will come awash with a plethora of silicon contents, including CPU processors, MEMS chips, connectivity chips and memory chips.
At the heart of Samsung’s push for IoT market is its ARTIK platform, a sort of development board for IoT systems.
Coming built with a CPU processor, memory chips, sensors and other security and connectivity chips as well as a cloud solution, ARTIK will help IoT system developers to easily and quickly design their required IoT devices working as a basic reference design platform.
For example, ARTIK is the very fundamental open source OS-based module that enables IoT system developers to add their own hardware and software as if they assemble Lego blocks, depending on their system and application requirements.
Three types of ARTIK module such as ARTIK 1, 5, and 10 are available right now, allowing system developers to choose the most optimal one among them according to their performance, price and power consumption budget.
“This is an all-in-one module that you can freely and easily plug in and out whatever you add need, depending on your IoT design scheme. As it is designed to easily connect with other IoT devices, it can plug into about 700 different IoT devices via ARTIK cloud platform,” said, So Byeong Sae, executive vice president with Samsung Electronics.
Samsung has also CAPP, consortium of ARTIK Partners’ Program available, a move to create and expand its ARTIK ecosystem.
The CAPP is a sort of ARTIK partner-technical-support program aimed at offering a technical support to help IoT system developers to optimize ARTIK-based system for their target applications.
All combined, more than 100 IoT devices will be built around ARTIK modules, Samsung said.
ARTIK is a key to Samsung’s IoT ambition, as it is an underlying element for Samsung’s IoT ecosystem. Samsung joined forces with other tech giants like Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel, just to name a few, to create an open source IoT communications platform termed as OCF, open connectivity foundation.
The OCF membership allows Samsung’ ARTIK platform to support a wide variety of communication protocols like ZigBee, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it an open platform. The openness and multi-protocol support will help Samsung to expand its IoT ecosystem.
ARTIK also incorporates Samsungs flagship security solution Knox.
Samsung forecasts that global IoT market would grow at an average rate of 7% through 2020, and IoT devices would contribute 25% of the growth.