ALEOS AF Developer Kit Accessory

  • Jun 26, 2012
  • Author: Sierra Wireless
  • Version: 1
Sierra Wireless is providing an ALEOS Application Framework Developer Kit accessory that can be purchased through approved re-sellers to provide developers a real-life working example of monitoring & controlling physical equipment.
Specifically the AAF Developer Kit accessory includes a CrystalFontz Serial Character LCD, CFA533, with input buttons. This is paired with a sample embedded application and sample server application that demonstrate how to use the AirVantage Application Framework to remotely control and monitor the CFA533.

Sierra Wireless is providing an ALEOS AF Developer Kit accessory to demonstrate the power of the ALEOS Application Framework and benefits of the AirVantage M2M Cloud. This developer kit accessory comes with a complete working example of monitoring & controlling physical piece of equipment. 

Specifically the ALEOS AF Developer Kit accessory includes a CrystalFontz Serial Character CFA533

LCD (with input buttons) as well as necessary power and serial cabling. This is paired with a sample embedded application and sample server application that demonstrate how to use the AirVantage Enterprise Platform APIs to remotely control and monitor the CFA533.

Sample Application(s)

The sample solution provided with the ALEOS AF DevKit accessory is a remote questionnaire solution. The remote questionnaire solution is comprised of:

  1. A web interface (web application) that provides users an interface where user #1 may submit a Yes/No question (e.g., "Are you excited about writing apps inside your GX!?") that is forwarded to an ALEOS AF application via AirVantage.
  2. An ALEOS AF application that receives the question, displays it on the connected LCD, receives user #2's response (per input check or X button) and submits the question back to AirVantage.
  3. The web interface from #1 that also displays user #2s response.

Download

The source for the ALEOS AF application and instructions for setting up the solution can be found at the Crystal Code Sample page.

Distribution

The ALEOS AF Dev Kit accessory can be purchased through approved re-sellers. 

Contact your local AirLink distributor for more information.

Here's a list of distributors currently selling this kit online:

 
Distributor Website Country
Feeney http://feeneywireless.com/ USA
Get Wireless http://www.getwirelessllc.com
USA
Digital Highway http://dhm2m.com
USA
USAT http://usatcorp.com/ USA
Quality Communications http://www.qualitywireless.com/ USA
Novotech http://www.novotech.com/products/modemsGateways/index.php Canada
Westbase http://www.westbaseuk.com/ UK
Sphinx http://www.sphinxfrance.fr/ France
S-Connect http://www.s-connect.es/ Spain
Trinity http://www.trintel.co.za/ South Africa
SGC http://scg-uae.com/contact.html United Arab Emirates
Tel-Ad http://www.tel-ad.co.il/ Israel
Mobile World http://www.mobileworld.fi/PublishedService Finland

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