Intel® Edison is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live.
What do you get?
The package includes an Intel® Edison Complete Module and Arduino breakout board. The platform provides an open-source hardware and software development environment for wearable and IoT connected devices for hardware startups and makers. The high performance dual-core, dual-threaded Intel® Atom 500 MHz CPU and a 32-bit single core Intel® Quark 100 MHz microcontroller support complex data collection in a low power package.
The solution supports Arduino Stretch, Linux, and includes integrated Broadcom Wi-Fi module and Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE), 1 GB LPDDR3 POP memory, and 4 GB eMMC flash storage to simplify configuration and increase scalability. Device-to-device and device-to-cloud connectivity frameworks enable cross device communication and a cloud based, multi-tenant, time-series analytics service.
The platform provides extensibility and total project design flexibility via a total of 40 multiplexed GPIO interfaces with expansion board options. The GPIOs can be configured as,
- One SD card interface
- Two UART controllers (1 full flow control, 1 Rx/Tx)
- Two I2C controllers
- One SPI controller with 2 chip selects
- One I2S controller
- Twelve additional GPIOs (4 capable of PWM)
- One USB 2.0 OTG controller
- One 32 kHz, 19.5 MHz Clock output
Award-winning hardware startups that prototyped with Intel Edison
Two hardware startups on the HWTrek platform and that participated in Asia Tour 2014 have used Intel® Edison to prototype their project were top 10 finalists in the Intel® Make it Wearable challenge.
BLOCKS Wearables
One of the most exciting hardware startups in the news these past months that used Intel® Edison to prototype their smart connected device is BLOCKS Wearables. They are creating a modular smartwatch for which they will be launching a crowdfunding campaign later this year. BLOCKS will include a developer ecosystem for hardware and software developers to create modules and apps to integrate with the smartwatch. 
Arc Wearables
The Arc Pendant, developed by Arc Wearables, is smart pendant designed to work in real-time and based on an open platform through which users are given options of different sensors and hardware that they can use in multiple combinations to capture a variety of information from heart rate to breathing and to provide the user feedback such as which direction to turn.
There are loads of interesting and fun Intel Edison projects around the world. Here’s just a few: Braigo, Thud Rumble, Project Buendia, Slamware, and Nixie. Find more on the solution page. Do you have an Intel Edison-based project that you’d like to share? Add a link to it in the discussion here.
Making Connections with Intel via HWTrek
Intel’s Anderson Cheng and Richard Chuang represented Intel at the HWTrek Meetup 2015 on August 18 to introduce Intel® Edison as part of HWTrek’s Asia Tour for hardware startups from 25 cities across the globe. If you’d like more detailed information about Intel® Edison, check out its solution page and get a direct connection to an Intel representative: connect with Raghavendra Ural or with Richard (two of more than 600 trusted experts on the HWTrek platform) through the Intel® Edison discussion forum. Start building something for the Internet of Things with Intel® today. What will you make?
Keep your eyes on the HWTrek blog for future posts featuring hardware makers that are using (or have used) Intel® Edison to prototype their projects and their experience using the platform.
