Soctronics had developed a customized IEEE802.15.4 L2 stack for a Dual modem (PLC and RF) SoC for Smart Grid & Metering Solutions for large-scale deployments (millions of devices). The stack development involved Hybrid PLC/RF, Multi-core ASIC with ARM and DSP processors. We had customized 802.15.4 to suit the customer requirements, while maintaining the standard compliance.

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Soctronics has designed and developed an in-house SoC with extreme low power microcontroller & is ideal for designs requiring long battery life, flexible application integration, and a reliable, proven, best-in-class wireless networking solution. We had developed the complete BSP and platform software and enabled BLE/Zigbee stacks on this SoC as part of SDK. Also developed lighting application using BLE for a large smart bulb manufacturing client. Soctronics helps OEMs and system integrators take their new products from concept to market in short time. The complete solution contains the ZigBee/BLE devices which are Programmable intelligent IEEE 802.15.4 modules with embedded software and development tools for Sub-1-GHz and 2.4GHz license-free ISM bands enable quick and efficient solutions for Smart Energy Meters , Smart Homes, Industrial Wireless Automation, Machine to Machine (M2M) Solution.

SoCtronics BLE Mesh stack is open source based, feature-rich, run on home gateway / end node for Lighting and Home Automation. It supports Mesh Model, Home Automation profiles and provision to expand. Our BLE Mesh stack provides lighting, Home automation, Sensor Models as a single point solution which acts as a broadcaster, end node, peer or central for various smart devices. The stack is indigenously developed supporting BLE 5.0 Mesh, which in-turn opened up lot of options in the Home Automation space.

Features

SoCtronics ZigBee3.0 stack is a sophisticated, feature-rich, for Lighting and Home Automation. It supports both classic and TouchLink commissioning modes. Home automation profiles as a single point solution which supports all the roles defined by ZigBee for various smart devices like, lighting, switch, Energy meter. This stack is developed indigenously by supporting latest version 3.0. Customer has the flexibility to add custom applications as well as more profiles.

Soctronics IOT platform is a generic solution that can be used across various industries for real-time monitoring and control of various sensors and actuators deployed in the field. A variant of this platform has been customized for inventory management. This solution is suitable for warehouses, hotels, food processing industries, supermarkets, smart homes and industries where real-time sensors monitoring and control is required. SmartRack is an innovative solution for intelligently tracking and managing household groceries supplies. This can be integrated into kitchen racks and can hold and track the contents of one or more regular kitchen jars. It integrates with any online shopping carts or local grocers to ensure uninterrupted supply of groceries. It also helps track consumption patterns in the home, giving valuable insights and suggestions for healthier living. This is developed based on SoCtronics IoT platform.

Soctronics has contributed for complete solution to replace the wired link between a Game console and a VR Headset with a wireless link. The solution involves developing a wireless adaptor that will be used both on the game console and the Headset. This adaptor interfaces with the USB and DP outputs on the game console and sends the data over the wireless interface. On the other end the data received on the wireless interface is sent back through DP and USB interfaces This high-speed wireless link was achieved using 802.11 AD (DMG - Directional Mutli Gigabit), which uses 60GHz frequency band and we could achieve Max ~7Gbps Data Rate at a distance of 10 meters.

Timing Synchronization

IEEE 802.11 supports the GPTP integration through the time measurement primitive, the media dependent module of 802.1AS supports the 802.11 MAC, I.e., 802.1AS can handle the messages for the 802.11 time measurement primitive. This was used for timing synchronization.

AVB- 1722 Media Transport

AVB & AVTP from OpenAVNU was customized to suit multichannel/interleaved audio maintaining the required bandwidth. The source of audio was customized to perform the roles of AVB Talker & Controller. All the end-points are customized to role of a AVB Listeners.