Edison is Intel's current smart hardware and light industrial-grade IoT innovation platform. In order to promote the Edison module, Intel has held a series of competitions and promotion activities in China since the beginning of this year. Intel hopes to build a product + service + support ecosystem through Edison and its follow-up products to support team and individual innovation and help its products truly form and go to market.
At the just-concluded Shenzhen Maker Faire Festival, Edward Ross, senior director of Intel's New Technology Division, told Pretending to be a geek that Edison's biggest advantage is that it can speed up product development. After the hardware computing performance is improved, the general platform solution is usually more complicated, which will greatly extend the development cycle of intelligent hardware products. Edison integrates more features while providing powerful computing power, and simplifies the module to make the product easier to use. This philosophy can make products from prototype to further mass production faster and faster.
Ross's point of view has also been verified in practice. The Edison Innovation Contest held at the beginning of the year only selected the top five in two months. These projects were presented at Intel IDF in April this year. At present, two products have been officially listed in the top five competitions, and several other products are entering the crowdfunding stage.
However, the increase in computing power and high integration have also caused some resistance for Intel in promoting the Edison platform. According to "Pretend to be a geek", developers or makers often encounter such problems when using the Edison module :
1. The power consumption of the module is larger than other platforms, which is not conducive to use on some battery-powered intelligent hardware devices.
2. The high cost of the module leads to the impact of the product's competitiveness after mass production.
Due to its high computing power and high cost, the Edison module is more suitable for some intelligent hardware that requires computing power. It is understood that in the field of Internet of Things and intelligent hardware, Intel can provide a lot of solutions. In addition to the Quark platform, which is mainly used in the Internet of Things, Intel has only Edison and SoFIA in terms of intelligent hardware. The SoFIA Atom X3 series is Intel's first system chip for entry-level and cost-effective smartphones, talkable tablets and tablets. Can be used for smart hardware products). The Quark SE platform and the Curi module released at the beginning of the year will not be available until the second half of this year. If you look at the development path of the Edison platform, the Quark SE platform and the Curie module will be available in large quantities early next year.
In order to maintain its own advantages, Intel is mobilizing more resources to invest more power in the Internet of Things and smart hardware, mainly in:
1. Intel has sufficient financial resources and network support for start-ups. In addition to the Edison module, Intel will provide services far beyond the module itself.
In order to support the development of the maker industry, Intel will provide a wide range of software support to provide better development support from a programming perspective. Edison is now able to connect to the cloud out of the box. Intel can make cloud connectivity a reality through an improved ecosystem.
2. Intel has established a sound ecosystem in Shenzhen with different partners, channels, OEMs and ODMs. In the tablet space, Intel's "turnkey" solution has been tested. Intel will apply this model to the development of makers and smart hardware products.
At this year's Maker Faire, Intel introduced the third-party team meegopad. As a member of the Intel China Smart Base project, meegopad CEO Wu Yibin said that “pretending to be a geek†said that as an accelerator for the development, manufacturing and sales of intelligent hardware, meegopad will use the ecological chain accumulated over the years to help the makers quickly. The team made the idea into a product, quickly shipped and entered the circulation. As part of the Intel tablet industry chain, meegopad has launched a variety of tablets and miniPC products.
3. Provide more reliable community support. At the end of last year, Intel officially launched the online intelligent hardware support platform "Hard Enjoy Commune" to provide one-stop service for intelligent hardware innovation.
This community platform is aimed at small and medium-sized technology companies and individual makers. Intel has opened a world-class R&D management process and modular system on this platform, enabling early makers to provide scale support from their creative stage. And promise to respond within 15 minutes. More than 2,400 smart hardware innovations are said to have been supported.
4. In response to market demand, successors may introduce modules or chips with lower power consumption and more competitive prices. But how to plan, you need to follow up.
From the situation that "pretend to be a geek" and the major chip manufacturers, there is not much that is really close to the makers and provides technical and ecological chain support like Intel. In the field of Internet of Things, Intel is trying to change the ARM architecture to dominate the world and defend its position as the leader in the chip field.
With the widespread application and rapid development of optical transmission equipment, the use of optical patch cords (ODF) and pigtails in the communication room has also increased dramatically. However, many units do not pay much attention to this aspect of management. The gathering of hundreds of pigtails from all directions to a certain location is a big test for the cleanliness and beauty of the computer room and the safety of business transmission. It can often be seen that after many pigtail jumper operations, the originally neat pigtails and optical jumper racks often become messy, difficult to sort out, and difficult to remove when they are not used. Not only has it seriously affected the appearance of the computer room, but also brought inconvenience to future operations, and also brought a greater threat to the security of the ongoing business.
The ODF rack should be distributed:
It is often seen in the equipment room that certain sections of the trunking are covered with pigtails, overlapping each other, while the pigtails in other trunks are very few. The occurrence of this situation is not conducive to the safety of the transmission business, but also It is detrimental to the beautiful environment of the computer room and causes a waste of resources. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the layout of the ODF rack in the computer room is not reasonable enough, and a large number of equipment that needs to use optical fibers are concentrated in a certain direction of the ODF rack. In order to avoid such phenomena, consideration should be given to the design and construction of the computer room. The ODF frame can be set in the center of the computer room to facilitate the pigtail to reach any position in the computer room, and the distribution of optical transmission equipment in the computer room should be considered.
Set the ODF jumper:
For the failure to make a reasonable layout during construction and design, or for some reason, there is indeed a large number of equipment that has a huge demand for optical fiber resources in a certain direction of the ODF rack, and the sub-ODF rack should be installed appropriately according to the situation. Replace a large number of optical jumpers in the trunking with optical cables. The sub-ODF rack is installed at the near device end. When performing fiber jumper operations between the equipment in the cabinet and the ODF rack, first jump to the corresponding sub-ODF rack and then jump from the sub-ODF rack to the equipment in the cabinet. But it should be noted that this kind of design will have a certain degree of optical attenuation, and the loss of experience value increase is below 1dB.
Optical fiber routing channel:
Due to the limited space resources of many computer rooms, generally only one cabling channel is set in the computer room, and the pigtails are routed together with the electrical signal cables. Because the pigtail is afraid of pressure and lacks a protective layer, if it is not protected by a sleeve, the pigtail is easily damaged and safe transmission is threatened. If the pigtail is protected by a pipe, the pigtail will not be threaded a few times, and the cable duct will be full. The arrival of the trunking is a waste of resources and is not conducive to the beauty of the computer room. If you can use special fiber optic cable routing channels. It can save the pigtail through the pipe protection, which saves resources and is conducive to the beautiful environment of the computer room.
Selection of ODF frame:
(1) There must be sufficient space for storing redundant pigtails.
(2) The flange interface of the ODF frame should be convenient for maintenance. If there is a problem with a flange interface, pull out a certain row where it is located, replace it and use it. (The commonly used ODF frame has 12 flanges as a unit, repairing one core will affect the other 11 cores).
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