TechBlog:Stay up-to-date on the various technical aspects of IoT developing.

At ThingForward we're spending quite some time on investigating tools for modern embedded development. Most of our blog posts from the past are focused at tools which are installed locally on a developers desktop. We asked ourselves how many of these tools could be pushed to the cloud - quite many as we found out! This small blog post series will introduce in those tools, how to set them up, connect them together and develop for embedded.

As we are working on our agile-embedded toolchain, additional functionality came to our mind, which should be part of every modern development stack. Automated unit and integration testing is surely part of this, as we introdced in our last blog posts, and PlatformIO is a great tool to automate much of it. This posts topic will be about static code analysis and unit test's code coverage, and how this can be integrated and execute automatically upon each build.

Welcome to the sixth part of our “embedded testing” series. From our former blogposts, you are now familiar with PlatformIO and its powerful features like unit testing, remote controlling and continuous integration. On the fifth embedded testing blogpost, we’ve been diving into Travis CI in order to automate build and testing processes, deployment of software artifacts to servers.

At ThingForward we're highly interested in IoT architectures and how to connect "the last mile", that is how to transport data from small devices to gateways and backends. They are a great many options to do so, mainly due to the availability of numerous RF technologies around. One way to send data over long distances is choosing one of the LPWAN (Low-power wide area networks) protocols/technologies around. In one of our lasts pasts we looked into the details of LoRaWAN. This post is going to be about SigFox, another player within the LPWAN game.