AWS IoT for the Connected Home

Consumers are increasingly turning to AI assistants to control other devices in their home and automate simple, monotonous tasks. AWS IoT makes it easy to build in Alexa functionality into everyday devices so your customers can control them with voice commands.

FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. It runs on low power devices found throughout all homes, like a thermostat, light switch, door lock, or sensor. FreeRTOS enables you to develop new connected devices without having to worry about building in cloud functionality, providing a faster time-to-market and lowering your costs.

AWS IoT Greengrass is a software runtime for more powerful edge devices, which can act on data generated locally in order to respond quickly to events, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and storage. AWS IoT Greengrass lets connected devices operate even with intermittent connectivity to the cloud. Once your device reconnects, Greengrass synchronizes the data on the device with AWS IoT Core, providing seamless functionality regardless of connectivity.

AWS Greengrass ML Inference gives you the ability to train ML models in the cloud and deploy them on the device for inference—where the inference model can run without a direct cloud connection. This allows you to infer in real-time, without the cost and time of sending data round trip to the cloud.

AWS IoT simplifies smart home device control by enabling seamless connection of diverse devices using Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and other protocols. By utilizing consistent data models across direct connections, hubs, or existing cloud services, you can achieve seamless device control, state tracking, and an integrated data storage, enabling powerful applications, analytics, and an enhanced connected home experience.

With AWS IoT Device Management, you can onboard, organize, and monitor your devices, creating a real-time, searchable fleet index of all of your connected devices. You can also push bug fixes and firmware updates over-the-air with a few clicks. With AWS IoT Analytics, you can gain insights into device usage, performance, and even predict maintenance using machine learning.

AWS IoT allows you to seamlessly connect devices to the cloud, leveraging MQTT protocol, a lightweight protocol specifically designed to tolerate intermittent connections, to minimize code footprint on devices, reduce network bandwidth requirements, and support low latency bi-directional communication from device to cloud. Moreover, AWS IoT also provides an end-to-end device security with key management, certificate authentication, and data encryption, enabling you to efficiently manage and monitor security posture for your entire device fleet at scale.