Acer BYOC Ecosystem Continues to Expand to include Chipset

Acer BYOC Ecosystem Continues to Expand to include Chipset, OS, Sensor, Middleware and App Partners

Acer announces the continuous expansion of its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC™) ecosystem, with partners from multiple layers of the industry ranging from chipset, sensor, operating system and middleware to application partners all coming on board

Solutions from the four focus areas of the Acer Open Platform, namely connected cars, communication, health care and smart home, are all tightly integrated with the aBeing One smart center

Acer announces the continuous expansion of its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC™) ecosystem, with partners from multiple layers of the industry from chipset, sensor, operating system and middleware to application vendors.

Solutions from the four focus areas of the Acer Open Platform, namely connected cars, communication, health care, and smart home, are all tightly integrated with the aBeing One smart center, the hub of the “Internet of Beings”. Solutions were live demoed at Computex including: the Snappy Ubuntu Core from Canonical, the Mobile Sensor Hub DevKit featuring the LinkIt™ ONE developed in collaboration with MediaTek, the Acer GoGoCam DevKit integrated in AppTog’s class curriculum, the Marvell 88MC200 SoC, the RealTek RTL8196D SoC, and a middleware security solution from Empress. Examples of the demonstrated scenarios include:

The Snappy Ubuntu Core by Canonical was demonstrated as part of a smart home surveillance solution, running on the aBeing One. When an intruder enters an area that is monitored by a passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor, an IP camera records a short video of the incident and stores the video into the aBeing One. Sequentially, a message alert is sent to the home owner’s mobile phone and the video is instantly available for viewing on the aBeing One, for the owner to decide what actions to take.

The Mobile Sensor Hub DevKit with MediaTek LinkIt™ ONE was illustrated in a fleet management scenario, streaming live information from buses running in major cities: San Francisco, Berlin, Dubai, New Delhi, Chengdu, Beijing and Taipei. With Acer Open Platform SDKs and geo-location and temperature sensors, the data transmits over carrier networks and analysis is provided on the Acer Open Platform. The DevKit allows IoT developers to focus on application development and not worry about cloud infrastructure operations.

The Acer GoGoCam DevKit integrated in AppTog’s class curriculum was demonstrated with a “Mars Rover” project that allowed people to control the movement of a tiny rover through a LiveCode-enabled smartphone app while simultaneously viewing a live video feed. The control is all routed through Acer’s BYOC™ infrastructure so that the physical location of the rover could be anywhere and theoretically possible on Mars, provided there is an internet connection.

Computex visitors could see applications leveraging the Acer Open Platform, with health care applications from EBM Technologies and Alchemy, smart home applications from Ecolumina, Hipad, AsTak, and NTI, along with a big data analytics dashboard provided by Acer.

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