It’s in a sense the coming together of great rivals. This week, Arm and Intel are demonstrating a prototype of an integrated Pelion-Intel SDO provisioning system at Arm TechCon and IoT Solutions World Congress. This demo shows deployment-time credential assignment for both Arm and Intel Architecture devices. Intel SDO manages device credentials and specifies the application layer, and the Pelion IoT Platform provisions the device, manages it, and connects it with the selected application layer.
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), said Arm in a blog post, “presents a tremendous opportunity to disrupt the way we interact with devices and the world around us.” However, solving the complexity, fragmentation and diversity challenges of IoT devices and the data generated by them is not an easy task. Arm said this challenge was being addressed with its Arm Pelion IoT Platform with device-to-data connectivity, device and data management, enabling organisations to develop IoT superpowers and institute transformational change.
Arm said it was tapping into its leadership in building ecosystems by fostering a diverse team of partners to enable IoT to scale securely. In that line, today, it was announcing new strategic partnerships with Intel, myDevices and Arduino to deliver greater IoT flexibility, simplicity and scalability for organisations.
Any device, any Cloud
True to the Pelion IoT Platform “Any device, any cloud” strategy, Arm said it was furthering capabilities to support any device and any Cloud by collaborating with Intel to remove IoT scaling barriers. Through the collaboration, the Pelion IoT Platform can onboard and manage Intel Architecture (x86) platforms, in addition to Arm-based IoT devices and gateways.
The combination of the Pelion Device Management with the Intel Secure Device Onboard (Intel SDO) service will allow organisations to manufacture devices without any prior knowledge of end customer-specific onboarding credentials or even which application framework the end user will choose. This will enable a “more flexible Cloud provisioning model”.
In parallel, Arm also announced Mbed Linux OS, which builds on its Mbed OS – the IoT platform OS with more than 350,000 developers – by enabling secure and rapid development and device management of IoT devices based on Cortex-A. Mbed Linux OS is integrated with our Pelion IoT Platform and will open up new classes of IoT devices that are easily managed through the platform.