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HitSeed Enables Intelligent Industrial Monitoring

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Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the trendy keywords and there is a huge variety of companies claiming to be “IoT-companies”. Maybe so but that fact is that very few really know what it is (what it is not). There are many who should know how *their* company should utilise IoT that are not aware of possibilities exiting already today

Here is a practical, real-life example of Industrial IoT. Since long time already, bigger industrial machines (pumps, valves, generators etc) are equipped with sensors and dashboards to know how the machine is behaving. As the cost has been a prohibitive factor, same sensoring and analytics has not been available for the large majority of the mass-market pumps and valves.

HitSeed, a deep-tech company based in Helsinki, is about to change this. It has created a coin-sized battery-powered device with sensors and computing power enabling it to be really smart. So smart that can be programmed to know how the device (such as the pump it is attached to) should behave. This is possible by analysing for example the vibration, sound, power consumption or other physical behaviours of the device. And if this device (it’s called SeedNode) learns that now something is or could be wrong with the device, it sends a message to the server. Also several SeedNodes can be act together to monitor something bigger.

This concept is called “Digital Twin“. What is so revolutionary with SeedNode is the fact that all this computing is actually done on-site. Unlike previous solutions, no wiring or other expensive solutions are needed. Cost level is just a fraction of the previous solutions yet this is much more powerful.

HitSeed’s SeedNode with the Digital Twin concept enables transformation of many industrial service companies to a new era. SeedNode sensors can be installed at every customer site and monitored with the cloud-based dashboard. This enables new business models based on monthly fees, for example. Early detection of any potential faulty device can be very valuable for many businesses as unnecessary business interruptions can be avoided.

When thinking of a complete solution to monitor, analyse and act based on the status, SeedNode is the critical component to make it actually intelligent. SeedNode can be connected to various existing gateway and data cloud solutions, hence making it ideal also for larger industrial companies.

HitSeed is on a mission to revolutionize the IoT!

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HitSeed is on a mission to change how companies, both small and large, develop new innovative products via modern IoT solutions, digitalization and new collaborative ways of working. Seedling and SeedNode are new platforms for building commercial scale connected products for IoT and wearables.

This little thing (pictured) can be completely reprogrammed over the air. For example, with only 30 lines of script code it can be made to behave like sports tracker!

SeedNode and Seedling IoT platforms provide a revolutionary solution for building intelligent, power- and cost-optimized connected products at commercial scale.

Main advantages of the platforms include

  • Single and complete platform aimed for commercial products. The platforms have been built from the ground-up for building commercial products. The same hardware solutions or software written for prototypes can be used in the mass-scale commercialized products.
  • State-of-the art architecture in miniature scale. The platforms are based on modern 32-bit ARM microcontrollers running Real-time Operating System (RTOS). They communicate via a local Bluetooth LE (BLE)-radio with mobile devices and gateways that are further connected to cloud. Platforms come with a set of core capabilities (e.g. accelerometer, gyro, programmable beacon). Hardware capabilities can be extended without modifications in the core platform via hardware extension interface.
  • A new programming paradigm. HitSeed has developed a very powerful, easy-to-learn scripting API and software development kit for programming the platform without the need to use native, low-level coding.  A typical product functionality requires only a few lines of code and can be implemented in days. Functionality can be further extended via companion apps running on mobile devices and in the cloud.
  • Extremely low power consumption. The platforms are designed to be truly wireless, they are powered with batteries or even with energy harvesting. HitSeed’s power-optimized hardware, software and algorithms allow building sensor nodes that operate with a coin cell battery for months, even more than a year. This means that the power requirements for intelligent data sensoring are in the range of 1/100 to 1/1000 of typical embedded Linux-based single-board computer solutions.
  • Local and swarm intelligence without online connection. The platforms have a full-blown Lua-interpreter bridging access to native functionality and hardware. This means that the platforms are able to make local decisions and sensor, process, predict, and store data without an online connection. By utilizing the local radio, the nodes can talk to each other and e.g. share data for sensor fusion purposes.
  • Dynamic functionality programmed over-the-air. The script-based programming means that the nodes can be reprogrammed easily just by sending a new script to the node over the radio connection. This means that nodes can be updated or repurposed for other tasks without physical access to to device. During the product development this speeds up the process drastically as it is possible to update and change the program while the sensor is measuring data from the actual target.

Check out also the Product Briefing and learn more at www.hitseed.com.