Originally published at: Instantly recreate sophisticated IoT designs with Follow-Along Hardware - Golioth
Golioth Reference Designs now include purchasable hardware setups that mirror all functionality on our custom hardware solution. Utilize Golioth firmware and cloud together to showcase complex IoT applications in minutes! Compact designs have custom elements Golioth Reference Designs help to showcase end-to-end IoT applications using quasi-custom hardware. If you’ve seen any of our articles or our guides on projects.golioth.io, you have probably seen a setup that looks something like this: The Cold Chain Asset Tracker with an open case This is a stackup of a custom board (the “Aludel Mini”) that ties together a battery, ClickBus based sensor boards, a custom display made out of a PCB (the “Ostentus”), switches, buttons, antennas, and off-the-shelf devboards with processing and connectivity (the “Sparkfun ThingPlus nRF9160”). These are all placed inside a case with cutouts where we can insert custom 3D printed panels to fit whichever Click boards we’re using. This creates a relatively compact package, at least given that it can be reused across a range of different ideas: The Golioth Cold Chain Asset Tracker with an open case: It’s not the smallest form factor possible, but it’s also not a mess of wires and devboards glued together. Golioth is well tailored to users who make their own custom hardware. Unlike other cloud platforms, we don’t lock you into using a module you can only buy from us. Instead, we publish an SDK that can be used across a range of supported hardware and connectivity types. You can put just about any type of connected embedded device onto the Golioth Cloud. However, there’s a problem if you want to re-create the Reference Designs pictured above: You can’t buy the custom hardware setup…