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New
EEMBC Benchmark Opens the Door on IoT Gateway Performance
Benchmark
to Evaluate Performance and Latency of IoT Gateways
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DORADO HILLS, Calif. — November 29, 2016 —EEMBC®, the Embedded
Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium setting the industry standard for valuable
application-specific benchmarks, announced its effort on a benchmark to measure
how gateways perform in specific Internet of Things vertical markets. In
general, an IoT gateway lives at or near the ‘edge’. The gateway is used to gather
and manage data from multiple sources (sensors, IoT devices), process data
locally (instead of on the cloud), react to and predict events, and send data
to the cloud. IoT gateways are available in many form factors to support a wide
range of vertical applications including industrial automation, transportation
(fleet management), digital media (retail advertising), smart cities, home
automation, agriculture, and healthcare.
The EEMBC IoT Gateway working group is
chaired by Rory Rudolph, senior systems engineer at Dell. “When
developing an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway benchmark, it's important to
consider appropriate use cases. Because IoT use cases are incredibly diverse
and involve combinations of hardware and software, the industry needs multiple
benchmarks based on specific application profiles,” said Mr. Rudolph. “Having
this benchmark suite will greatly help purchasing managers and solution
developers find the best products for their application requirements.”
This EEMBC benchmark will utilize a
distributed approach with client-server interactions and workloads generated
across multiple physical ports. The benefit of this methodology is that it will
test the system as a whole including the processor, physical and wireless
interfaces (e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth), operating system,
and other elements.
“The
EEMBC IoT gateway benchmark will standardize assumptions about gateway
operational conditions to ensure meaningful comparisons between gateway
products,” said Paul Teich, Principal Analyst, Tirias
Research and technical advisor to EEMBC. “Today,
without this standardized methodology, IoT gateway benchmarking is not realistic,
with buyers having to guess about each gateway’s potential performance for
things such as sensor fusion, type of processing workloads, and how much data
traffic to manage.”
The
EEMBC IoT gateway benchmark will complement the EEMBC Connect benchmark, also
in development. The latter will provide a method to reliably determine the
combined energy consumption of the system, taking into consideration the
real-world effects of sensor inputs and communication (e.g. Bluetooth®, WiFi®). Current IoT gateway working group
members include ARM, Dell, Flex, and Intel. Contact EEMBC directly for more
information about joining this working group; www.eembc.org.
EEMBC encourages vendors and manufacturers to
join the consortium’s working groups to contribute their expertise and needs to
the definition and development of its next-generation benchmark suites. For
more information: http://www.eembc.org/iot-gateway. To
join EEMBC, contact Markus
Levy.
About EEMBC
EEMBC
was formed in 1997 to develop performance benchmarks for the hardware and
software used in embedded systems. EEMBC benchmarks help predict the
performance and energy consumption of embedded processors and systems in a
range of applications (e.g. autonomous driving, mobile imaging, Internet of
Things, scale-out servers, and mobile devices) and disciplines (processor core
functionality, floating-point, multicore, and energy consumption).
EEMBC members
include Ambiq Micro, AMD, Analog Devices, Andes
Technology, ARM, C-Sky Microsystems, Cavium, Codeplay,
Cypress Semiconductor, Dell, Flex, Green Hills Software, Huawei Technologies,
IAR Systems, Imagination Technologies-MIPS, Infineon Technologies, Intel,
Marvell Semiconductor, Microchip Technology, Nokia Networks, Nordic
Semiconductor, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Realtek
Semiconductor, Redpine Signals, Renesas
Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Labs, Somnium Technologies, Sony
Interactive Entertainment, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, Texas Instruments, and
Wind River Systems.