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Integrating innovative IoT solutions can be challenging for businesses. From selecting the right compute power and cellular technology to ensuring data security, the complexities can be daunting. Prototyping and modular designs often require significant time and investment, pushing small businesses to seek expensive design houses. PRIZM simplifies this process with its out-of-the-box hardware solution, featuring a compact base board and versatile connectivity and function cards. Our platform offers end-to-end security through certified hardware and a powerful compute unit tailored for your applications. With PRIZM, focus on innovation without the burdens of IoT development. Seamlessly integrate into the IoT landscape and bring your products to market faster. Trust PRIZM to enhance your IoT journey and empower your business.

PRIZM's connectivity card addresses your IoT integration challenges with an efficient M.2 design. This form factor is superior due to its compact size, flexibility in interface options, and direct motherboard connection, which together enhance performance while optimizing space and power consumption. Featuring a dual-core compute platform, including an ARM Cortex-M core for real-time processing and a high-performance core with a CoreMark score above 1500, it meets demanding applications. Our cellular modules provide world-wide roaming and customization, ensuring seamless integration and high-speed cloud communication. Built on a zero-trust security policy, it safeguards data through encryption, minimizing the risk of attacks. With PRIZM, you gain a future-proof solution that allows you to focus on innovation while we handle the complexities of IoT development.

PRIZM's prototyping platform is the ideal starter kit for IoT development. This user-friendly solution includes a base board and function card for seamless integration. Simply mount the connectivity card, connect antenna cables, and attach QWIIC sensors. Power it with the included USB Type-C cable or battery, and your device connects to the PRIZM cloud instantly. No complex setups or extensive electronics knowledge are needed—this kit simplifies prototyping. With PRIZM, transition from idea to deployment quickly, ensuring a smooth innovation journey.

The PRIZM base board is a compact, credit card-sized solution for your IoT projects. It features two M.2 slots for the connectivity and function cards, providing exceptional flexibility. Onboard cellular and GNSS antennas ensure reliable cloud communication and accurate location services. The integrated Li-Ion battery connector and charger, along with an I2C fuel gauge, create a dependable battery-operated plat-form for portability. The UART-to-USB bridge allows for easy computer connection, enabling access to a virtual COM port for terminal interactions. With two QWIIC connectors on a shared I2C bus, you can easily integrate a variety of sensors. The programmable I2C LED serves as a status indicator, providing real-time feedback during cloud connection, while the reset and multipurpose buttons enhance user interaction. This batteries-included solution is designed to meet your IoT needs without extra components. Aesthetically pleasing and space-efficient, the PRIZM base board is your ideal foundation for innovation.

For advanced users seeking flexibility, the PRIZM function card is a powerful solution for your IoT needs. This M.2 card makes all I/Os accessible for customer applications. Understanding the diverse requirements of industries like industrial automation, healthcare, aerospace, agriculture, and AI, the PRIZM function card allows for the design of custom breakout cards for specialized functionalities, such as Edge processing or AI coprocessors. This customization lets you implement tailored solutions that deliver high-quality, domain-specific data to the cloud via standard connectivity. With the PRIZM function card, you gain the professional capabilities needed to drive innovation and meet your project goals with confidence. A breakout function card is packaged for prototyping and connects to customer interfaces through soldered headers and jumper wires.

Like any embedded system, PRIZM cards requires a firmware, the essential software layer, that enables efficient operation of the hardware while providing a robust launching pad for customer business logic. Nextworks serves as this critical software, leveraging a powerful heterogeneous SoC architecture to manage device resources efficiently. Our real-time operating system (RTOS) ensures timely execution of tasks, allowing business logic to operate seamlessly on a high-performance core. This approach simplifies the development and deployment of applications in the cloud, enabling you to focus on your specific needs. With Nextworks, you can enhance your IoT capabilities while maintaining system stability and security. Embrace the future of IoT with Nextworks, where innovation and simplicity converge.

Nextworks middleware, running on our performance core, is designed to optimize the execution of sandboxed applications, making it incredibly easy for customers to deploy and manage their business logic. With a full stack of appropriate software libraries—such as cellular/Wi-Fi connectivity, security, and memory/IO virtualization—Nextworks ensures that business applications do not have to worry about the complexities of the underlying system.

By utilizing the high-performance capabilities of the core, Nextworks guarantees that applications run efficiently while maintaining isolation from the underlying system, enhancing security and stability. This architecture allows for seamless integration with the PRIZM cloud, enabling the quick transfer of executable applications to your devices. With Nextworks, you can focus on developing innovative solutions without the complexities of firmware management, empowering you to bring your IoT ideas to life effortlessly.

At the core of our PRIZM solution lies NEXTVISOR the autonomic manager and orchestrator that ensures seamless connectivity and robust application performance across your fleet of devices. As the mission controller within NEXTWORKS middleware, NEXTVISOR autonomously maintains cellular connectivity and manages resources. It can shut down applications or limit access when faced with network or memory constraints. By validating and launching the correct version of applications from the cloud, NEXTVISOR ensures your devices operate with the latest features and security updates.

NEXTVISOR launches applications in their own sandboxes, allowing them to run safely without interfering with the core firmware or other apps. This isolation enhances system stability, ensuring that any app failure does not compromise the entire device. By separating device firmware from user applications, firmware updates become less frequent, minimizing the risk of OTA-related crashes.

With NEXTWORKS, business logic development cycles become agile and efficient. You can easily compile data flows into business logic apps, which are sent to your devices without needing a firmware update. Utilizing various frameworks and libraries, such as Arduino and TinyGo, simplifies the development process, allowing advanced users to choose the best tools for their needs. Embrace the power of NEXTWORKS and transform your IoT challenges into opportunities for growth and success.

Our cutting-edge Dashboard offers real-time data visualization with a stunning, customizable interface. It enables easy monitoring and in-depth analysis across all devices, from tracking GPS locations to customizing views with the intuitive Dashboard Editor. This solution empowers users to make smarter, faster decision-making for operations of any scale from a small startup up to any kind of enterprise scale.

The App Builder is the cornerstone of effortless app creation and management, designed to empower teams by eliminating the need for coding expertise. With its intuitive Drag & Drop interface, apps can be built swiftly and efficiently, streamlining the development process. For those seeking more advanced functionality, the extendable Code node offers the flexibility to incorporate custom code, which can be saved and reused across multiple projects. This powerful combination ensures that app development is accessible, efficient, and perfectly tailored to meet evolving business needs.

Alerts provide a dynamic and responsive system for managing critical actions when apps built in the App Builder send specific signals. With a comprehensive list of options, including SMS, Slack, and Email, these alerts ensure that the right information reaches the right channels instantly. This system enhances operational efficiency by automating responses and ensuring timely communication, allowing businesses to stay ahead of any situation with confidence and ease.

The platform's other advanced features provide seamless access to the latest data from devices, which can be effortlessly exported in CSV format. This capability is invaluable for custom data engineering, in-depth analytics, and training machine learning models, offering endless possibilities for data-driven innovation. Additionally, with a company-specific API key, all data can be securely received or sent directly to the API, enabling full integration with existing systems and ensuring that data is utilized to its fullest potential. This combination of flexibility and control makes it a powerful tool for driving business intelligence and efficiency.