Raspberry PIs have high energy consumption and interfaces which are unnecessary, eg. HDMI. Microcontrollers on the other hand have low energy consumption but are not powerful. A combination of the two would be suitable for fog computing like architectures and scenarios, allowing the use in an edge position, eg. directly connected to sensors, but in a smarter, more flexible and active way then what a microcontroller could do.

The company is seeking innovative edge computing nodes which:

• Fulfills "standard" specifications, eg. low energy, gathers data through sensors, being able to communicate via standard protocols, etc.
• More powerful in the sense that it should provide greater and more flexible computing power to do non-trivial processing, eg. installing a more complex OS
• Should not be confused with gateway, which has different capabilities in computing and features.

Application Areas examples:

• Smart grids
• Digital health