Why Meadow is the IoT Platform of Choice for Developers

Creating a production IoT solution is a daunting challenge. Most embedded solutions that make it to the field are written using Embedded-C, a 50 year old language that has changed little in its intervening years, along with its associated tooling, which isn’t much better. Setting up a build environment, along with necessary libraries hodge-podged together just to begin coding a real-world app can take weeks. And the skills needed to make these apps stable and secure, without the memory-safety and management that modern developers are used to, only come after many years of experience, and even then, difficult, subtle, and mind-bendingly complex bugs still rear their head. 

And this is just for the app development phase of the overall IoT product lifecycle. Once you deploy a solution out to the field, a new set of challenges arise that require nearly as much effort to solve as building the app. The app is built and deployed, yet how do you now push out updates to it without requiring a technician to plug into the device and upload firmware? How do you know your devices in the field are healthy and online? What about crash-reporting, battery-health, etc.?

Meadow, the better way to IoT.

What if we told you there was a faster, better, and simpler way to create and deploy IoT solutions, even at scale?

Well, there is. It’s called Meadow.

Our mission at Wilderness Labs is to simplify the process of building IoT hardware and make it as effortless as crafting and maintaining web or mobile applications.

Meadow is a full-stack IoT development platform that includes both the tooling and frameworks to build modern, secure, .NET applications and run them on embedded microcontrollers (MCUs) and embedded-linux devices, as well as the cloud services to provide secure, Over-the-Air (OtA) updates in the field, device health-monitoring, crash-reporting, push messaging, and more.

With Meadow, developers and organizations can use their existing skills and teams to build secure, enterprise-IoT, and unlock solutions they never could have built before, in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional embedded platforms and tooling.

Get from idea to production with Meadow.OS

Meadow.OS, built on the open-source NuttX µRTOS kernel, allows developers to write modern .NET applications for microcontrollers and embedded devices using their choice of language from C#/F#/VB.NET and run that code at native speed via Just-in-Time (JiT) and Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilation which enables their apps to run at C/C++ speed, but without the memory allocation and security worries present in non-managed applications.

Developers can use their favorite code libraries from NuGet, and with Meadow.Foundation, a massive and open-source peripheral library with over 300 drivers, use hardware such as sensors, motor controllers, displays, GNSS receivers, and more, all completely plug-and-play without having to write any of the low-level hardware plumbing code to talk to them.

Developers can use the complete .NET network stack to connect to enterprise backends, cloud services, and other web API endpoints via WiFi, Cellular, and Ethernet, seamlessly using the libraries they already know and love.

Prototype-friendly, IoT accelerator kits enable you to prototype on real hardware and embed it directly into products and turnkey surface-mount (SMT) hardware reference modules enable you to go to production scale with modular connectivity options in industrial environments. This speeds up development, reduces costs, and simplifies supply-chain, making IoT deployment much more simple and straightforward.

Go from one to a million devices with Meadow.Cloud.

Meadow.Cloud offers robust, remote, device management capabilities, including OtA updates and health monitoring. This innovative approach allows any .NET developer to venture into IoT utilizing their existing skills, supported by a suite of standard .NET APIs and a wide range of drivers for various peripherals.

Once your solution is deployed, you can tap into the power of Meadow.Cloud. Designed to streamline large-scale IoT deployments and data integration, it helps ensure that devices deployed in the field can be maintained and managed remotely. It provides device-side services and enables synchronization of device data with the cloud, leveraging .NET APIs for seamless interaction. The platform simplifies the management of large-scale data, facilitating the use of APIs to disperse data from Meadow.Cloud to various backends, like Azure Event Hubs or Datacake for visualization, or direct communication with Azure IoT Hub or other web services.

Meadow powers enterprise solutions in the field.

Wilderness Labs is already making waves not just with developers but in key sectors. Customers in defense, industrial, and critical infrastructure utilize the platform for real-time data monitoring, predictive maintenance, and other use cases, showcasing the transformative power of Meadow in real-world scenarios. Check out our case studies with Julian Farms and Allyn Technology Group.

To learn more about Meadow go to: https://www.wildernesslabs.co