Less than two weeks after Golioth Location general availability, we have expanded the service to support gateway-based positioning, making it possible to obtain the location of devices that do not have GNSS, cellular, or Wi-Fi capabilities.
As more deployments using Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud hit the field, we will be featuring Bluetooth gateways that are up to the task. Today we're featuring the Ezurio Sentrius MG100, which is well targeted at industrial cellular needs.
Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud is now working on the Renesas (Dialog) DA14695, bringing our total vendor count up to 4. This post and video show the device talking to an external sensor and transmitting that data through a standard gateway back to the Golioth cloud, enabling it with the same capabilities as an IP based device on Golioth.
The NXP FRDM-MCXW71 works with Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud capabilities; that means it can communicate back through a standard gateway to the cloud and send data like any other device on Golioth.
Bluetooth HCI enables any chipset to act as a peripheral to a processor running a Bluetooth stack. We pair the ESP32-C3 HCI with a processor running Zephyr to turn Golioth's development platform--the Aludel Elixir--into a Bluetooth gateway.
Here's how easy it is to add a Bluetooth device to the cloud. In just a few minutes, we built a BLE-GATT example for the Arduino Nicla Sense ME board and had it sending data to the cloud.
Golioth makes it easy to connect Bluetooth devices to the cloud. Load provided binaries to create a Bluetooth gateway, then use reference Zephyr code to connect BLE devices from your fleet to the Internet. Here we show how to add an STMicroelectronics dev board as a leaf node in your fleet.
We implemented Golioth's Bluetooth-to-Cloud connectivity on a battery pack on a commercial power drill. We not only monitored power usage of the drill, we also looked up the location of the most recent gateway we connected through and attached that to the drill's device record.
