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Edge Media compute

Application Note, Case Study

Project Overview A growing number of service customers using inxware for IoT-enabled media systems to deliver their unique services or support their innovative edge-ai technologies were looking to scale on to new hardware to increase their scope in the deployed systems value chain. Many solution that would remain easily updateable to launch new services and features over-the-air, but also be able to seamlessly deploy this across new and legacy assets in the field. Some of the new hardware types included entirely…

Domestic Smart Energy

Application Note

Problem Statement Our customers found that the way energy is produced and consumed has an enormous impact on cost effectiveness and return on equipment investments. Data-driven consumption can not only reduce energy waste but also ensure it is consumed when abundant and not over-stretching supply when it is scarce or expensive. IoT-enabled devices include smart meters, smart hot water heating, smart climate control (HVAC), adaptive lighting, smart sockets, micro-generation, battery & thermal storage, Time-of-Use (ToU) tariffs, and Demand-Side Response (DSR)…

IoT Enabled Industrial Controller

Case Study

Problem Statement An industrial heating system SME manufacturer required a state-of-the-art Industry 4.0 IoT controller to meet the demand for a diverse range of precision industrial process control applications and to help their wider markets in HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air conditioning) provide more energy-efficient and manageable operation. The product has to be easy to use by operators and easy to configure by installers in different deployment contexts. An interactive graphical user interface was proposed as the best way to…

Queue Buffer Function Blocks

FBF

Function Block Friday: Queue Buffers This week, we’re diving into Buffers as Function Blocks. Buffers are essential elements of many robust systems for ensuring actions and data in asynchronous environments are dealt with. Though simple in concept buffers can be deceptively difficult to code robustly and efficiently, especially for memory-constrained applications. Lucid offers a range of buffer types including First-In-First-Out (FIFO), and Last-In-First-Out (LIFO). Queuing buffers are conventionally modelled as push and pop functions, where push adds an element to…

MODBUS Function Blocks

FBF

It’s FUNCTION BLOCK FRIDAY! – This week we are looking at MODBUS. One of the most persistent machine-to-machine communications protocols owing to its simplicity and flexibility that is experiencing a renaissance in applications such as heat pumps and solar PV Inverters and remains common in smart buildings, robotics and industrial automation. MODBUS is a standard for machines to exchange simple data formats and signal command and control. It is simple and cheap to provide on any MCU-based systems and is…

State Machines

FBF

This week we will be showing off Finite State Machines (FSMs) and how easy and functional they are to build in lucid. Why use a state machine? A state machine is a model representing a system that can be in only one state at a time, transitioning between a finite set of states based on inputs or events. When software is built without clearly modelling system states things generally don’t go well. Visual representation of state and transitions between them…

Calculation Function Blocks

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This week, we’re diving into function block Math operations. IoT sensors, controllers or cloud data processing often needs to do some numerical work to make them smart. Lucid makes these operations incredibly straightforward. The most general maths function block allows algebraic expressions to be entered, or you can choose from individual operator function blocks, but let’s start with some simple algebra! Single input single output or multivariate blocks are available, but here we are using a single input value doing…

Graphical UI Function Blocks

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It’s week 3 of FBF and we’re looking at User Interfaces for devices. Graphical UIs in Lucid are built from inxware’s widget library that perform well-known user interactions such as displaying and acquiring text or numerical data from users. More advanced widgets include images, shaped objects, video, graphs, animation and even sound. To get started the Hello World application below shows a simple interactive text box app in the Lucid IDE and inxware enabled device simulation in the window below.…