Industrial Automation Magazine India

Kura

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

Eclipse Kura is an Eclipse IoT project that provides a platform for building IoT gateways. It is a smart application container that enables remote management of such gateways and provides a wide range of APIs for allowing you to write and deploy your own IoT application.

Functionality     

Kura runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and leverages OSGi, a dynamic component system for Java, to simplify the process of writing reusable software building blocks. Kura APIs offer easy access to the underlying hardware including serial ports, GPS, watchdog, USB, GPIOs, I2C, etc. It also offer OSGI bundle to simplify the management of network configurations, the communication with IoT servers, and the remote management of the gateway.

Features:

* Runs on Java SE 7 Embedded and OpenJDK 7

* Core OSGi runtime using Eclipse Equinox v3.8.1

* API support including:

* Clock (both system clock syncing via NTP and hardware clock sync)

* Cloud connections (MQTT) with local store and forward capabilities to handle disconnected states as well as Google Protobuf message packing

* Service configuration locally and remotely via OSGi ConfigAdmin with Metatype support

* Network status including IP address, netmask, DNS, gateway, and hardware types

* Network administration: modifying network configuration including IP address, netmask, DNS, gateway, DHPC servers, Nat/Masq,

  firewall, wifi AP, wifi station, SSID, wifi security types, wifi channel, and cellular modems, and routing tables.

* GPS configuration

* USB devices including dynamic detection

* OSGi Deployment Package support

* Local configuration web UI

* Eclipse based emulator for local host PC development/testing including support for OSX and Linux

* Remote configuration and device management capabilities when connected to Eurotech's Everyware Cloud

* Support for remote OSGi console and bundle deployment from Eclipse

Known Issues:

* Hardware watchdog: not implemented on all platforms

* Reliagate 50-21: Using eth1 and Windows 7 to access the webui does not work over some network topologies - OSX or Linux are recommended to access the webui in this rare case

* Only one WAN interface is currently supported. Make sure you never have multiple WAN interfaces defined or it could result in network connectivity issues

 Eclipse IoT