IoT BUILDER IoT Builder is a unique product designed to make it quick and easy to control remote Arduino™ or Raspberry Pi® electronics from a mobile device.
Internet of Things Made Easy
Complete IoT Workflow: What can I do with it ? remote front panel is abstracted from the users program, leaving the The IoT Builder workflow is flexible You can use IoT Builder to design programmer to implement desired and intuitive. Start by designing the a user interface (switches, buttons, functionality. product hardware on the schematic rotary dials, displays etc) for your by adding electronic shields, mobile phone or tablet and then use The front panel is drawn in the sensors and breakout boards via Visual Designer or Proteus VSM to panel editor and the logic for the the peripheral gallery. Then use the program the physical hardware to user interface is programmed at controls gallery to create the front work with the remote GUI. a high level with either flowchart panel, adding and placing dials, blocks (Visual Designer) or C buttons, charts, etc. in the IoT IoT Builder removes the necessity method calls (Proteus VSM). Builder editor. Finally, use Visual for the user to know about HTML, IoT builder is therefore well suited Designer flowchart methods or Javascript, Python and the both for teaching the principles of Arduino C / Raspberry Pi Python TCP/IP interconnect. All of the IoT based applications to beginners code to bind the user interface to complexity of the transport layer and also as a rapid prototyping tool the electronics. and the communication between for more experienced developers. the processor hardware and the At any time during development the entire system can be tested and debugged in the Proteus VSM simulation. This executes the same compiled HEX file as the real hardware and will also simulate the interaction of the front panel with the electronics.
Once everything is working as
expected, the firmware and front panel can be deploying to the physical hardware at the press of a button. The final step is to point the target device at the hardware, watch it acquire the front panel over TCP/IP and then control the remote hardware from your mobile phone, tablet or PC. Designed to work with Arduino Yun, ESP8266+Uno or Raspberry Pi 3
How It Works: • Design your hardware with a library of ready-made shields/hats. • Design your front panel with buttons, switches, dials, displays and charts. • Link the UI and the hardware with flowchart methods in your firmware. • Simulate the entire system and single step debug to find & fix problems. • Control the simulation or the real hardware from your phone or tablet. IoT BUILDER Draw your user interface with drag and drop inside FRONT PANEL DESIGN PROGRAM CONTROL Proteus. The front panel design is the remote The firmware program is where user interface to your Raspberry Pi we need to interact with both or Arduino appliance and what you the hardware peripherals of our will see and interact with on your appliance and the IoT controls on mobile, tablet or internet browser. our remote front panel. This needs In IoT builder the front panel design to work in both directions. For is created by drawing rather than example, a button press on the front coding. Controls such as buttons, panel may turn on an LED in the displays and dials are added to the appliance, but equally sensor data project and then the user arranges from the appliance may update a them on the panel in a suitable way. display on the front panel. Since both the appliance and the Program your A rich library of controls is pre- front panel are designed in Proteus, hardware with drag and supplied and several themes ranges IoT Builder is able to make life drop onto flowchart or from contemporary to steampunk much easier during programming. source file . are available to help creating The project tree contains a list of stunning GUI control panels for your the peripherals you have added project. More advanced users can and also a list of the IoT controls even use vector graphics tools such in your front panel. You can then as Inkscape to design their own drag and drop these method calls control themes. directly from the project tree into your program.
SIMULATE & DEBUG DEPLOY
IoT Builder uses Proteus VSM Once your system has been Control the running Simulation technology so that your debugged and tested in simulation simulation from firmware program is simulated you can transfer to the physical your phone or tablet along with any electronics you have hardware at the press of a button. device. added to the schematic. The remote After a one time configuration user interface is also shown inside process Proteus can detect your Proteus so you can quickly and hardware if it is on the same network easily test the interaction of your and pre-configure the SSH options GUI with your virtual hardware. for you. In most cases therefore you can deploy to the physical hardware Alternatively, you can use the free IoT wirelessly at the press of a button. Controller apps for IoS and Android Alternatively, with Arduino hardware to control the running simulation. you can connect a USB cable to When the phone or tablet is on the the Yun/ESP8266 which will appear same network as the PC, the apps as a programming target in your can discover and connect with the programmer dialogue. Deploy to the real simulated hardware automatically Either way, Proteus takes care hardware with the so users can directly control the of transferring the front panel press of a button. simulation from their mobile device. graphics, the webserver interface and the firmware program onto the real hardware.
