Monday 11 February 2019

Colorado projects started

STEAM Colorado/Elbert projects
A new branch in the project repository addressed to develop two new subprojects has been created. The new subprojects are:
  • Litem (Mount) Elbert project, addressed to develop a set of Litems based on the Texas Instruments CC26x2 Lauchpad evaluation board (see evaluation board clicking here), using 802.15.4 as network protocol for communicating with the gateway. The code is localted in the subdirectory SteamProject/software/litems/802.15.4/ti-cc26x2-lp/elbert/ of the GitHub repository (direct access clicking here). Given that Elbert works will be developed on a evaluation board, all the results will be considered as experimental.
  • Gateway Colorado (river) project, addressed to develop a gateway running on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian OS) implementing 802.15.4 in the underlying network by integrating a Digi Xbee module as interface. The code is located in the subdirectory SteamProject/software/gateways/802.15.4/raspbian/colorado/ of the GitHub repository (direct access clicking here). Colorado source code will be developed in Java and the expected result will be potentially feasible to be put into production.
These two projects will run in parallel, since it is necessary their mutual integration to have a practical result (litem without gateway and viceversa is nonsense). However, even being closely related, it is important to state that the individual results will be compatible with the STEAM specification, ie, Elbert will be compatible with any STEAM 802.15.4 gateway and Colorado will be compatible with any STEAM 802.15.4 litem.

Since both the Colorado river and the mount Elbert have strong relationship with the Colorado state, the above icon is selected to represent graphically these two projects.

For detailed Elbert project information (description, planning and current status) click here. For detailed Colorado project information (description, planning and current status) click here.