PICMG, MicroSAM, and Bringing Plug and Play into IIoT by Amelia Dalton
In honor of Embedded Tech Trends (one of my favorite conferences every year) open standards take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast. Doug Sandy (Chief Technical Officer, PICMG) joins us to discuss the role that open specifications play in the future of Industrial IoT. Doug and I dig into the details of PICMG’s new MicroSAM and check out how this new microcontroller-agnostic, ultra-small form-factor module will bring plug and play into the sensor domain.
Links for January 29, 2021
PICMG Ratifies MicroSAM™ – The New Microcontroller-Agnostic Module Form Factor for the Enablement of Smart Sensors
Wakefield, MA., – PICMG, a leading consortium for the development of open embedded computing specifications, announces the ratification of the MicroSAM™ specification. MicroSAM is a new microcontroller-agnostic, ultra-small form-factor module for the enablement of smart sensors.
MicroSAM is the first PICMG specification in a series of IIoT-related open standards to reach ratification. It is the only open hardware specification to date that addresses the fast-growing sensor market. MicroSAM enables a fundamentally different IIoT architecture, offering a distributed architecture with true Plug and Play network integration. The specification defines a 32mm x 32mm module hardware platform for traditional sensor vendors wishing to quickly create smart sensors.