Minimum spec for IOT device?

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Hi all total noob here but looks like an exciting project!

So i’m wondering about connecting industrial tools, fridges, greenhouses or whatever…

I’ve read that it would run on a Pi, but that’s quite a lot of device to put in my fridge. Will we ever see Maidsafe running on Arduino? Openwrt?

Would it run on any of these things today?

Thanks

Sam

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Welcome to the forum! To run a Vault you need storage space and bandwidth, but to just run a client and connect to the network, a lot less resources are needed. @dirvine talked about a Client on a cellphone using low resources, or indeed a Raspberry Pi. No reason why it couldn’t be smaller than that I guess. Although I don’t know of examples on the little devices you showed.

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Thanks for the reply.

As a smart washing machine I still need to send data into the Safe network and have it stored there. I may also want to accept instructions from my owner via the maidsafe network. That traffic/data would need to be paid for? So the device has to generate enough safecoin to cover it’s runnning costs?

I guess the owner could be generating them elsewhere, but it would be better if each device was paying it’s own way?

Or have I misunderstood?

Thanks

Sam

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Your description is right on.

I can add I agree with @anon40790172 that simple devices could run a vault. There will be a gap though. If something runs on Windows or a Linux based OS, it is relatively straightforward (though not necessarily feasible) to run a vault and/or client on a simple device. Once you get to something even simpler, it becomes theoretically possible but would need specialist work that would be beyond most developers capability, and may never happen.

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So far on small ARM devices - yes. I run on beaglebone, looking deeper at stm32 and other cortex M boards as well. Arduino is less likely though. Cortex M is really micro-controller only Cortex - A for sure no prob, an interesting one will be the cortex R for Iot type devices. If anyone was tinkering there then we would be onto something. For this I am following rust zinc as an easy way forward (stm32 OK there for basic micro-controller apps) zinc will make it easy if it gets to cortex R for sure.,

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Here is an article on the start-up Filament and how it’s using Ethereum platform and the Bitcoin blockchain as part of its technology stack for creating ad-hoc mesh networks of IOT devices that charge for services: Filament Develops Ad-Hoc Mesh Networks of Smart Sensors Operating on the Blockchain - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights

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…or as they say: a Raspberry SAFE

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You want your pie and eat it too

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