Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced the chipset platform Artik, or “building blocks” for use in wearable and other connected devices, at the Internet of Things (IoT) World Conference in San Francisco, adding that Artik will ease and expedite the creation of IoT solutions.
For starters, Artik has three hardware modules: Artik 1, a Bluetooth-equipped device that is just 12mm in size with a nine-axis movement sensor; Artik 5, which boasts a dual-core processor of one gigahertz and built-in storage; and Artik 10, with an octa-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage.
Samsung thus enters a sector with similar platforms from Qualcomm and Intel, and success in the field could stem slowing sales of Samsung smartphones and chips.
To avoid redundancy and take advantage of what is out there in the device-making community, Artik has been enrolled in the Arduino Certified Program so that Artik devices can be developed using the Arduino IDE, which also has Galileo by Intel and the Edison developer board.
By D. Peter Kim
