Ioto Solution

The Ioto solution includes the following components:

• Embedded Device Agent
• Device Builder Portal
• Extensible User Device Management Portal
• Cloud device management service
• Device Clouds in local AWS regions worldwide

Ioto Device Agent

The Ioto device agent includes the following components:

• Ioto HTTP/1.1 server.
• Ioto HTTP/1.1 client.
• AWS IoT and service integration.
• Ioto MQTT/3.1.1 client.
• Ioto Embedded Database.
• JSON parser and config files.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) with ALPN support.
• Safe, secure runtime core.
• Documentation.
• Samples.
• Source code.

Device Builder Portal

• Portal to define and manage connected products.
• Download device agent software and samples.
• Create and manage device clouds in any AWS region worldwide.
• Automated provisioning of required resources in device clouds.
• Create and deploy a custom user device manager UI.
• Manage over-the-air device software updates.
• Monitor and manage the performance of your cloud and devices.
• Talk to online to EmbedThis support experts.

Ioto Device Manager

• Create your own bespoke device manager UI using the white-label Ioto Device Manager.
• Add your product name, logo, color schema, custom device data and screens.
• Leverage the Ioto VueJS app with pre-built authentication, navigation, dashboards, world-wide deployment, security and performance.
• Library of UI widgets for graphs, tables, gauges, and editing property panels.
• Ability to create your own UI from the ground-up using the Ioto API’s.

AWS IoT Integration

• AWS Iot Ready.
• Capture device data and export to AWS.
• Edge-Tables – transparent device database data replication to AWS DynamoDB.
• Send control plane data to AWS IoT shadows.
• Stream volume device data to AWS S3 data lake.
• Store device logs, metrics in AWS CloudWatch.
• Audit access via AWS CloudTrail.

Device Agent MQTT Client

• MQTT 3.1.1 support.
• TLS encryption with ALPN over port 443.
• Supports connect, publish, subscribe, ping and disconnect messages.
• Message quality of service for reliable delivery.
• High message throughput with exceptionally low overhead.
• Wait for delivery or acknowledgement options.
• Auto reconnect.
• Parallelism via fiber coroutines.
• Retained messages.

Device Agent Embedded Web Server

• HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1 support.
• SSL/TLS 1.3 and Alpn support.
• Dynamic content via actions that bind URLs to C functions.
• Configurable request routes and redirections.
• Supports transfer chunk encoding to preserve keep-alive.
• Authentication and user management.
• Cookie and session management.
• Tracing for HTTP requests and responses including HTTP headers.
• Sand-box resource limits.
• Runtime configurable via JSON config files.
• HTML helpers for encoding, decoding and escaping content.
• JSON parser and query engine.
• Single-threaded, fiber coroutine event-based runtime.

Device Agent Embedded Database

• High performance NoSQL management document database.
• JSON document items with flexible query API.
• Efficient import and export of database items.
• Fast red/black binary search indexes.
• Database schema to define and validate app entities.
• Controllable persistency with change triggers.
• Transparent bi-directional data synchronization with the cloud.
• Unified data schema between device and cloud databases.
• Based on AWS DynamoDB OneTable.
• Simple, non-waiting API.

Device Agent Safe Runtime

• Portable, cross-platform O/S abstraction.
• Battle-hardened runtime after extensive peer-review and fuzz stress testing.
• Event and timer scheduling.
• Fiber coroutines for non-blocking procedural programming model.
• JSON parser and renderer.
• JSON query engine.
• Safe strings, lists, hashing and buffer management.
• Logging framework – filter by source and/or message type.
• Global memory error handler.

Device Agent Performance and Security

• Tiny memory footprint, 300K code. (Web server component is 25K code).
• Single-threaded, fiber coroutines provide an elegant, non-blocking, procedural programming paradigm without resorting to clumsy callbacks or complex threads.
• Exceptional throughput (Web server > 9,300 requests per second on Raspberry PI 4).
• Sandbox limits.
• Safe portable runtime to protect against memory leaks and buffer overflows.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS).

Developer Integration

• Run supplied Ioto program or embed Ioto library.
• Shared and static libraries supported.
• Easy, intuitive programming model.
• Extensive C API.

Documentation

• Full C API Documentation.
• Cookbook of samples (cut and paste to get going).
• Tutorials.

Platform Support

• Linux (2.6+).
• MAC OS X (10.7+).
• FreeBSD (10.X+).
• FreeRTOS (pending).

Embedding Support

• Supports ARM, MIPS, X86, X64, PPC, SH, Sparc processors.
• Full cross-compilation support. Use Windows, Linux or Mac as build system.
• Fine-grained control for conditional build and compilation.

Standards

• MQTT 3.1.1.
• RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1.
• TLS 1.3.
• RFC 1867 Multipart-mime upload.