This document discusses open hardware solutions for Industry 4.0 applications. It outlines several benefits of open source hardware (OSHW) such as customization, long-term availability, and lower costs. The document presents several OSHW solutions from OLIMEX for wireless connectivity including WiFi and LoRa modules. It also describes an OSHW Linux computer that can serve as a low-cost cloud server. Finally, it briefly discusses emerging low-power wide-area network technologies that could enable additional long-range IoT connectivity options.

1. Open Hardware for
Industry 4.0
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2. Tsvetan Usunov, owner of OLIMEX Ltd.
A company which deals with electronic design and
electronic products production.
All our products are designed and manufactured in
Bulgaria.
We produce Development boards, Programming
tools, Linux computers and IoT solutions.
Many of our products are with Open Source Hardware
Licensee.
$whoami

3. Software released under
Open Source Licensee.
Anyone is licensed to to use, copy,
study, and change the software in any
way, and the source code is openly
available.
What is FOSS

4. Open source hardware is hardware
whose design is made publicly
available so that anyone can study,
modify, distribute, make, and sell the
design or hardware based on that
design.
What is OSHW

5. Component vendors.
When design is freely available it’s
highly customized. Many products are
designed which create high and long
lasting demand.
Who benefits from OSHW?

6. Your customers!
✔ No vendor dependence
✔ Security for their business
✔ Long term availability
✔ Easy Customization
✔ Collaboration
✔ Better product
✔ Push prices low
Who benefits from OSHW?

7. Community
critical mass
What makes one OSHW project success?

8. It’s all about connectivity
monitoring, logging,
analyze and
taking decision based on
the captured information.
Industry 4.0

9. OSHW solutions from OLIMEX

10. Wi-Fi
⊕ Easy installation
⊕ Low cost
⊕ Fast data transfer
⊕ No data transfer tax
⊖ Short range
⊖ Not Low Power
⊖ Pairing lattency

11. LoRa
⊕ Easy installation
⊕ Low Cost
⊕ Low Power
⊕ Long Range
⊕ No data transfer tax
⊖ Slow data speed

12. Cloud server with OLinuXino
⊕ Low cost
⊕ Low power
⊕ Industrial -45+85℃
⊕ Robust design
⊕ GMAC, SATA, USB,
HDMI, LCD, eMMC,
GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART,
CSI, MIPI, ADC, PWM
⊖ Humble Performance

13. OSHW Wi-Fi solutions from
C++/Arduino
microPython
JavaScript
ESP32 mesh

14. OSHW LoRa solutions from
LoRaWAN, The things Network

15. OSHW Linux Computers from

16. Other LPWAN technologies
⊕ Low cost
⊕ Low power
⊕ Long range
⊕ Good coverage
⊖ Subscription
⊖ Low speed
⊕ Low power
⊕ Long range
⊕ High speed
⊖ Subscription
⊖ Not mature
⊖ Rel high cost
⊕ Low power
⊕ Long range
⊕ -W -N -P
⊖ Not mature
⊖ Unknown cost

17. Summary
Using FOSS and OSHW solutions
have lot of benefits for Industry 4.0
There are already WiFi, LoRa, Cloud-Server
FOSS and OSHW solutions,
new technologies are coming.

18. Questions?
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