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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2014
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shin Matsumura, Los Altos, CA (US);
Houman Forood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Phillip Myles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sean Zawicki, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daisuke Kutami, San Francisco, CA (US);
AFERO, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
An Internet of Things system and method are described. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: an IoT hub comprising a WAN interface to couple the IoT hub to an IoT service over the WAN, and a local communication interface to communicatively couple the IoT hub to a plurality of different types of IoT devices; and at least one IoT device having a memory for storing program code and a microcontroller for executing the program code, wherein the program code includes library program code comprising basic building blocks usable by a developer to implement any IoT device by creating application program code which utilizes the library program code, wherein at least one of the basic building blocks comprises a communication stack to enable communication with the IoT hub, the library program code provided to the developer in a software development kit (SDK) with the microcontroller.