This is the poster we present at ELC 2019 North America in San Diego about opensource frameworks to handle the complete pipeline of a SW update for embedded devices.

1. CE Workgroup Linux Foundation / Embedded Linux Conference
Technical Showcase
What is demonstrated What was improved
Source code or detail technical information availabilityHardware Information
SWUpdate, hawkBit, UFactory: update anything
Diego Rondini, Nicola La Gloria / Kynetics – Stefano Babic / DENX
SWUpdate: https://sbabic.github.io/swupdate/
hawkBit and Update Factory :
https://www.eclipse.org/hawkbit/
https://github.com/kynetics/uf-android-client
hawkBit
server platform to manage & deliver software updates
SWUpdate
software update framework for embedded Linux
Boundary Devices’ Nitrogen8M
Toradex Apalis i.MX8Q
• Defines .swu update file format
• Secure: support for signing and encryption
• Multiple storage types support (eMMC, NAND, NOR, …)
• Multiple fetch options: local storage, remote file, integrated
webserver, remote backend
• Device and software repository
• Artifact content delivery
• Rollout management
Advantages of using SWUpdate and Update Factory together
with hawkBit:
● Flexibility: they cover embedded Linux and Android projects
● Security: multiple authentication options through secure
communication channel, server and client side
● Multiple Update types: can be used to manage application
updates or full OS updates
● Rollout management: scheduled deployments of updates to
groups of heterogeneous devices
● Device Updates Types: single copy and dual copy
• Open Source Embedded Android service
• Apk updates, OS Single copy and A/B updates
• Fully integrated with hawkBit APIs
• Integrated with Android Studio for rapid deployment
Update Factory
embedded Android update agent