Digi is highlighting ways to help OEMs simplify the development of connected products, from embedded hardware to secure cloud integration to customer applications, at this week’s Embedded World North America in California.

At the show, Digi is showcasing its IoT Application Framework, a complete open-source reference implementation available on GitHub that enables OEMs to accelerate development from the edge to the cloud. The framework includes real-time dashboards, digital-twin capabilities and an IoT device simulator for large-scale testing, showcased through a public transit use case demo live on the stand.

OEMs building connected products face the difficulty of integrating embedded hardware, secure connectivity, cloud infrastructure and customer-facing applications. The IoT Application Framework solves this problem with a complete reference implementation, enabling OEMs to accelerate innovation and deliver customer value faster.

The framework, available on GitHub (github.com/digidotcom/digi-iot-web-apps/tree/master/iot_app_framework), provides a fully functional reference application built with Next.js and React, a widely-used modern framework familiar to web application developers worldwide. Provided in source code, this reference application provides best practices for leveraging Digi Remote Manager APIs, while enabling OEMs to customise it for their industry and use case requirements.

Features include dashboards for real-time monitoring, an optimised event-driven architecture for real-time data updates, interactive map-based location visualisation, template-based configuration and software compliance, automated configuration scanning and OTA updates, and a cloud log for API interaction debugging.

The framework enables digital-twin capabilities by providing virtual representations of physical assets using real-time sensor data to monitor operations and optimise performance. Example applications span across industries such as tracking vehicles and optimising routes in transportation, monitoring industrial equipment performance and scheduling predictive maintenance in manufacturing, managing building HVAC systems for energy efficiency, and monitoring medical devices in healthcare facilities.

As part of the framework (www.digi.com/products/embedded-systems/digi-connectcore/software-and-tools/cloud-services#digiiotapplicationframework), the IoT Device Simulator (www.digi.com/resources/library/data-sheets/iot-application-framework-device-simulator-ds) allows users to validate the scalability and reliability of their products without physical deployments by creating thousands of virtual devices with configurable behaviour and alerts, including failed updates or disconnections.

“Building connected products is complex: OEMs must integrate embedded hardware, security, cloud services and customer applications,” said Bob Blumenscheid, senior product marketing manager at Digi (www.digi.com). “We solve this for our customers with ConnectCore SoMs for secure embedded hardware, ConnectCore cloud services for proven cloud-based management, the new IoT Application Framework as a ready-to-use reference implementation, and the IoT Device Simulator for testing at scale. OEMs can now accelerate their development from edge to cloud, reduce risk and get to market faster.”