【Empowering IoT Ecology Series 5 of 5】Solution for Upgrading Smart Industrial IoT Gateway for Smart Manufacturing

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Smart manufacturing refers to the highly flexible, personalized, and web-based production chain formed with smart manufacturing that gathers data and processes data with algorithms and IoT technology to realize the upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries.


How to realize smart manufacturing?


Smart manufacturing gathers data with IoT technology; therefore, the IoT architecture will be the key to success in smart manufacturing development. The IoT architecture for smart manufacturing must collect data for the data center through the gateway for further analysis to build an application environment required by smart manufacturing.


Therefore, the industrial IoT gateway has become an important medium linking the terminal of data collection and the cloud data center. Equipment in the manufacturing site is diverse, the variety of data generated by the sensors is highly complex, and different communication protocols must be considered. All these are the challenges of industrial IoT gateways.


Nuvoton Smart Industrial IoT Gateway—Solution for Upgrading to Smart Manufacturing
Nuvoton’s NUC980 series is suitable for developing all industrial IoT gateways used in different smart manufacturing scenarios, such as smart city, cold chain logistics, smart agriculture, rail transit, fleet management, mining, and so on. It supports LQFP64 to LQFP216 packaging with 64MB to 128MB onboard DRAM to provide customers with a range of packages and system options. Peripheral interfaces include 10 UART, two 10/100-based Ethernet controllers, two USB2.0 ports for USB hosts and one USB host/device, two cameras interface, four CAN bus, four I2C, two SPIs, and eight ADCs. Customers can connect various sensors and data collection devices according to the product’s needs. The NUC980 is equipped with comprehensive interfaces for connecting different types of equipment and sensors. The NK-NUC980IIOT evaluation board supports various wireless modules, including a range of LTE, NB-IoT, and LoRa modules. For engineers to quickly build the prototype for performance evaluation and system development. In addition to the drivers for wireless modules, the NK-NUC980IIOT supports connection with Amazon’s AWS and Ali Cloud. Developers can evaluate with the NK-NUC980IIOT equipped with wireless modules. The Nuvoton NUC980 series also supports the development of industrial IoT gateways on Linux platforms.


NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980 evaluation board

The NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980 is equipped with the NUC980DK61Y microprocessor based on an ARM9 microprocessor running at 300MHz, 64MB DDR memory, one 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port, two high-speed USB host, 1Gb SPI NAND flash storage, microphone input, stereo earphone output, and Arduino-compatible interfaces. It provides embedded Linux OS with full support for related IoT protocols, such as MQTT, AWS IoT Client, and Web Server, for rapid development of smart industrial IoT gateways.


NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980 related resources
Nuvoton NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980 Development Platform Overview: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/iot-so ... ot-nuc980/
Nuvoton NuMaker-IIoT-NUC980 Evaluation Board: https://direct.nuvoton.com/tw/numaker-nuc980-iiot