2018/2019 Product Roadmap

Check back in frequently to get updates on the various Aretas 2018  – 2019 product developments and progress. If you have product or feature suggestions contact us today!

Example of a new Aretas Mainboard

Features for Next Release

IoT Hardware / Sensor changes
  1. New XBee/ZigBee adapters ✓
  2. New hardware flow control options ✓
  3. New DGS Ozone Sensor ✓
  4. New 24VAC power converters (change any Aretas board into a 24VAC option) ✓
  5. New / improved XBEE USB Adapter ✓
  6. New sensors
    • Thermal camera implemented and tested✓
    • New precision T+RH sensors tested (lower cost, higher precision) ✓
  7. New EC sensor line fully integrated (lower cost, performant CO, NO2) ✓
  8. Tested new SPL Sensor ✓
  9. Tested Sound Spectrum ✓
  10. New proprietary MOS tVOC algorithms ✓
Firmware for USB Enabled Boards
  1. New command and control protocol ✓
  2. Add ability to field calibrate ✓
  3. Add field configurable polling interval ✓
  4. Full status available over USB ✓
  5. Change MAC / PANID over USB ✓
  6. Wi-Fi / AP mode support ✓
  7. Reset Wi-Fi over USB ✓
  8. Enable / disable sensors ✓
  9. Change wireless modes ✓
  10. Set status of controls ✓
  11. Improved sensor error correction ✓
Aretas Sensor Edge
  1. New, more robust handling of data packets (reduce collision errors to < 0.01%) ✓
  2. Adding new extended IoT types (audio / image spectral data, image, thermal array, etc.)
  3. Ability to generate interpolated thermal images ✓
  4. Speed improvements ✓
  5. Improved plugin API ✓
  6. More API options / larger REST implementation (gateway stats, CRUD API, etc) ✓
  7. n data stream pipelines (multiple adapters / ports / etc.)
  8. Wi-Fi ingest endpoint ✓
  9. Daisy chain gateways (forward messages) ✓
  10. Integrated MDNS ✓
  11. Integrated UPnP 
  12. Improved long term data retention (local time series db) – store potentially years of data ✓
  13. High performance embedded database ✓
  14. Migrated to unified platform (no disparate interpreters) ✓
  15. Many new visualizations / stats ✓

Priority Feature Release

IoT Hardware / Sensor changes
  1. New ARM Cortex Core MCU (32-bit native CPU)
  2. On-board FRAM
  3. Ethernet module
  4. Audio spectrum / new dB sensor improvements (larger FFT bins, deeper bit-depth for samples)
  5. Audio spectrum / new dB sensor widely available
Aretas Sensor Edge
  1. Improved queue / packet implementations
  2. Forking queues
  3. New QueueHarvester
  4. New Alert Implementations (tied to Machine Learning predictive systems)
  5. Machine Learning prediction for:
    • Air quality parameters
    • Cigarette smoke detection
    • Occupant detection (security as well as counting)
    • Occupant classification
  6. Several speed improvements to the service API
  7. Microservice architecture allowing full-stack tenant implementation on containers

Planned Near Term Releases

All categories
  1. New ARM cortex CPU as default MCU
  2. Cryptoauth implemented by default
  3. OTA encryption improvements
  4. More extended USB and OTA configs
  5. New embedded gateway