Linux compatibility should allow developers to control and more easily link product development with device management.
Memfault is a company offering an IoT-based dependability solution. It has now announced that embedded Linux will be fully supported by its solution. This expansion, according to the company, provides cross-platform compatibility between programmers who create on microcontrollers (MCUs), Android devices or embedded Linux, and an unlimited number of devices that run any use case.
Memfault’s IoT platform allows teams to create devices at scale with software. By offering performance-monitoring, debugging, and over-the-air (OTA) update capabilities, the company claims it improves how developers create and manage IoT and edge devices. The platform’s fleet observability features, remote debugging and smart firmware OTA updates are designed to help developers overcome operational issues.
Memfault says embedded Linux developers now have access its device reliability engineering tool, which gives product, engineering and support teams data about the performance embedded devices. The company’s device engineering capabilities will be available to all product lines, allowing them to modify products without having to affect device fleets, operating systems or hardware.
Memfault is available to developers of Linux, Android and MCU devices. Memfault is compatible with a variety of connectivity protocols including Bluetooth, WiFI, cellular (LoRa), Thread, Zigbee, and more. Recently, the company announced partnerships with Infineon Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors. Memfault is compatible with high- and low throughput transports.
The company claims that embedded Linux developers can now access Memfault’s IoT platform. This will allow them to launch devices faster and solve problems related to in-field maintenance. This platform will eliminate the need to repartition or update bootloaders for OTA updates. By pointing a compatible OTA agent on the device, such as SWUpdate, at Memfault endpoints, users can access cohort management functions, device registry and observability. The system is compatible to the Hawkbit API.
Memfault’s solution can be adapted for remote monitoring, and it provides insight into device performance through memory, processing, disc and network statistics. The cloud can be used to process, distill, and produce fleet-wide metrics, device attributes and per-device insight via the Timeline interface. Memfault alerting can be used by developers to manage Linux devices. For debugging purposes, the company gathers problems with applications and system services from all levels in the stack, along with artifacts such as breadcrumbs, snapshots of memory, and backtraces. The company offers automatic symbolication, deduplication and correlation when processing core dumps.
