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Enabling Bluetooth-to-Cloud on the Renesas DA14695

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.

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tinymcp: Unlocking the Physical World for LLMs with MCP and Microcontrollers

Today we are launching tinymcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and framework that enables any connected device to expose remote functionality to Large Language Models (LLMs).

Upcoming Webinar – Surprise! It’s an IoT Medical Device

Golioth will join Marcus Engineering in a webinar on July 16th to discuss how newer regulations (CRA, Cyber Mark, PSTI) impact medical devices, and how almost all software-based devices need to be thinking about these regulations in the coming years.

Enabling the MCXW71 (NXP) with Golioth’s Bluetooth-to-Cloud

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.

tinymcp: Unlocking the Physical World for LLMs with MCP and Microcontrollers

Today we are launching tinymcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and framework that enables any connected device to expose remote functionality to Large Language Models (LLMs).

Use the ESP32 AT Binary to Make Any Zephyr Project Wi-Fi Enabled

You can add Wi-Fi to any Zephyr project with an ESP32 running the ESP-AT firmware and a couple of configuration symbols in Zephyr. Let the data flow!

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tinymcp: Unlocking the Physical World for LLMs with MCP and Microcontrollers

Today we are launching tinymcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and framework that enables any connected device to expose remote functionality to Large Language Models (LLMs).

Never miss a packet with Pipeline Recommendations

Pipeline Recommendations intelligently scans incoming data to your product and recommends stelps to ensure you never miss a packet. Check out how you can improve your product with this new feature on the Golioth Console.

Detecting Text From Images Over A Cellular Link

This post and video demonstrate taking a photo with a low power camera and cellular-based microcontroller and transmitting to the cloud for processing. Rick Jen from the Microsoft Azure team shows how to accept those images and work with the Azure AI OCR service to extract useful text and store it in a database.

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Read about the Golioth Firmware SDK releases, optimizations, testing, and more.

A Remote Shell for Embedded IoT Devices

Golioth's Remote Shell uses Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and a custom Zephyr shell backend to enable an interactive, web-based shell experience from anywhere in the world.

Upcoming webinar: Batteryless Cellular IoT with Conexio

We're excited to be hosting a new webinar coming up on June 18th at Noon ET / 9 am PT with Rajeev Piyare...

Golioth Firmware SDK v0.18.0

Golioth released Firmware SDK v0.18.0 which pulls in the recent changes from upstream Zephyr, nRF Connect SDK, and ESP-IDF repositories. We are also introducing new gateway support, adding new supported boards, and improving blockwise transfers.

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Detecting Text From Images Over A Cellular Link

This post and video demonstrate taking a photo with a low power camera and cellular-based microcontroller and transmitting to the cloud for processing. Rick Jen from the Microsoft Azure team shows how to accept those images and work with the Azure AI OCR service to extract useful text and store it in a database.

New Pipelines Data Destination: LightDB State

A new Pipelines data destination for LightDB State is now generally available for Golioth users and will enable a range of new bidirectional interactions with 3rd party services.

LightDB Stream API: POST vs GET for IoT Device Data Queries | Golioth

Golioth's REST API is a power way to query data that has been sent to the cloud. Marko explains how he approaches the tradeoffs of POST vs GET calls to the API and how it impacts the resulting data.

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June 12th, 2025 Incident Report

On June 12th, 2025 a subset of Golioth platform services, including stream and OTA, experienced an outage that impacted customer devices.

Never miss a packet with Pipeline Recommendations

Pipeline Recommendations intelligently scans incoming data to your product and recommends stelps to ensure you never miss a packet. Check out how you can improve your product with this new feature on the Golioth Console.

Enabling the MCXW71 (NXP) with Golioth’s Bluetooth-to-Cloud

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.

How to Sniff Cellular Packets with a Nordic nRF91

Sniffing network packets from a cellular modem is actually pretty easy. It only seems daunting because at first glance you're left wondering how to acquire the packets. Nordic's nRF91 modems have a trace capability that can be used to pipe packets from the device into Wireshark over a USB connection. Here's how to use it.

The Demo We Show To Our Biggest Customers: A Full Golioth Cloud Demo

Want to see everything Golioth can do? In this post, we highlight all major parts of the Golioth console and how an IoT device can deliver a range of services between Cloud and Device.

OTA: Working with Multiple Images

OTA usually makes people think of updating firmware. But OTA also covers many of other applications, like distributing new machine learning models, UI image assets, or firmware updates for other "downstream" processors. Golioth has the flexibility to support all these use cases. Here's how to use the power of the Golioth OTA service when you need to deploy more than just one binary.

Using the NXP FRDM-RW612 with Golioth

The new NXP FRDM-RW612 board comes with built-in Ethernet, and a tri-band radio. We were able to get it up and running all of the Golioth Firmware SDK sample applications in just a few hours. Here's what goes into the process.

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