This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features a new cloud service and a fresh board of trustees aimed at boosting development for the burgeoning world of the Internet of Things.

RacoWireless’ Omega DevCloud

RacoWireless LLC, a global machine-to-machine service provider, announced a new platform designed to make developing applications for the Internet of Things’s world of connected devices easier by using a personalized application programming interface (API) called the Omega DevCloud.

Omega DevCloud provides a standardized and secure platform that delivers a kit of tools for web developers to communicate with virtually any device.  It allows users to retrieve and interpret RESTful APIs and develop apps once and have them compatible with various device operating systems, as it translates and standardizes any data platform.

Intel Galileo board gets Microsoft IoT twist

Intel Corp.’s Galileo development board is an Arduino-certified development group based on Intel architecture and specifically designed for product makers, students, educators, and DIY electronics enthusiasts. Because of its flexibility and the huge potential to make an impact in the Internet of Things community, Microsoft Corp. is shipping a pared-down version of Windows on Galileo development boards.

Microsoft hopes that these boards will be used by software developers and hardware hackers to build and test new devices for IoT.  The software giant is also hoping that this offering will allow independent developers to see how Windows can help them with their DIY-IoT projects, but ultimately, it’s part of Microsoft’s ‘mobile first, cloud first’ strategy, which aims to gather all these collected data from connected devices and make them available in the cloud.

RIoT Board

Another board that developers could really leverage for the Internet of Things is the Revolutionizing the Internet of Things or RIoT development board.  It features a freescale i.MX 6Solo processor based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture that operates at speeds of up to 1 GHz, high-performance video processing with SD-level and HD-level video decoders and SD-level encoders, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics accelerator with shader and a 2D graphics accelerator, Freescale Kinetis MCU (K20), Freescale Power Management Integrated Chip (PMIC MMPF0100), 1GByte of 32-bit wide DDR3 @ 800MHz, 4GByte EMMC Flash, supports Android and GNU/Linux, and is  EMC Compliance – Class B certified.

You can purchase accessories for the RIoT such as the WiPi, a high performance WLAN USB dongle to connect your RIoT board to the Internet via a WiFi local network, a 9.7” portable display unit with a capacitive touchscreen so you can work on the go, and a USB to serial debugging cable that converts from USB to 3-pin TTL allowing for simple and quick debugging of compatible devices.

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