XDK Cross Domain Development Kit

Here in the FeP plant we are using CISS and XDK sensors in the CP4 production - collecting and analyse the data with our SAP BO solution.

At home i do a lot of investigation with smarthome solutions - building own soft and hardware components  - but we have and use  - you guess - the BOSCH smarthome too.
Now we have talked with some guys from the XDK to develop a demo MQTT application with tutorial togehter so we can flash the XDK110 that he will be able to talk with a mqtt broker and my own smarthome application. They did a great job and yesterday we are proud to say "yes - we see now sensor data from a BOSCH XDK110 on a SmartHome". Stay tuned - more coming up what XDK can do in a smarthome.

So maybe  - the XDK110 could also find his way to the BOSCH SMARTHOME too ?

Hello - here you can watch some pictures and video clip.
https://www.keho-software.com/xdk110_small.jpg
https://youtu.be/cg5ODxkmPI0

If you wanna see more

https://www.keho-software.com/smarthome.html
enjoy.

Hello Achim,

thank you very much for sharing your XDK experience with the community.
I think the XDK is a really convenient way to integrate sensor data in a smart home system.
A BOSCH SMARTHOME integration would be great.

I added this idea to our improvements.

Kind regards
Manuel

You are right - but i talked today with a college from india - he means

Seems they are a bit overpriced. What do you think ?

Also we need a solution with the failure? in temperature.
http://jpmens.net/2016/02/02/internet-of-temperatures/

And we wanna see that sound sensor too. And of course - battery status.
Has anyone connected a PIR to the Breakout-Board already ? I need this too.
Hope will see solution here soon.
Then i will order 10 xdk's to test them in a complete smarthome enviroment.

Hi Achim,

at first glance it seems a bit overpriced, if you compare it with other sensors.
But I think it is really worth it, because you don’t get this full sensor package anywhere.
Thats why the XDK saves a lot of time.

I guess there is no failure in the temperature sensor, but you really need to know how to measure the temperature correctly. 
The air circulation in the XDK and the angle while measuring the temperature influence the value.
Especially if the wifi chip is running.

I really want to see a sound sensor API too. But I its on the roadmap and the developers are working hard to get it done.
There is a possible workaround to estimate the battery state, I think. See here.

Please keep me posted about your prospective XDK experiences.

- Manuel

You are right - the question abou the prize was asked from a friend of mine from india.

We have 8 compact sensors, a nice houseing, a breakout board, a akku etc.
So the price is for all together not too high.
The sound sensor should work soon - we have a picture on the package that he is included - maintenance needs this feature as fast as possible. Battery state is from my sight a must feature - i have implemented this in all my sensor nodes - so i can see voltage level and % loading level. So a node will be able to say hello to my gateway and applications if voltage or loading is underneath a predefined level. So you have enough time to look after the node if you must load it or we have no power connection anymore and he runs on akku-battery until he is dead.
 

added today video clip xdk sensor data on my IPhone.

Next milestone - virtual sensors on digital and analog ports of the XDK

Device: XDK110
Name: 20C38FF5ECD7
Timestamp: 136
acc (mG):
     x = +20 
     y = -17 
     z = +1011
gyro (mdeg/s):
     x = -5126
     y = +610
     z = -2807
mag (uT):
     x = +3  
     y = +24 
     z = +31 
light (mLux) = 14400
temp (mCelsius) = 31850
pressure (Pascal) = 98488
humidity (%rh) = 41
PA1 Input = 1
PE2 Input = 1
ADC Ch5 = 2928
ADC Ch6 = 3101

Hello Achim,

I am looking to write Android applicatlion to receive XDK data over BLE. I have flashed a demo firmware in XDK and am able to sniff BLE packets and get service list. I was wondering is there exist some documentation having description like: which UUID refers to what.

I am bit confused to learn that ALPWise BLE stack has been implemented for BLE. So for that do i need to learn anything additional?

It will be great if you can provide a pointer to start with in Android BLE.

Thanks

Sorry - at the moment i do not work on an XDK project with ble.
I have done some test with my RedBear Duo Nodes so far.
Works good - but transmit range is to low actually.

Here some more news about XDK in SmartHome and SmartSensor.

https://twitter.com/KeHo_Software/status/889551684187426818

https://twitter.com/KeHo_Software/status/896065370062077953

https://twitter.com/KeHo_Software/status/911265999567114241