Hi Alan,
we are developing an IoT platform for the SMB, focused on integrating the production machinery with data analysis algorithms, both traditional and ml based.
We use an Iot Gateway to move the data visualization and user interaction near the production line, our applications are 100% web based, so the option tu use a super light version of chromium is the optimum.
Until now we used custom version of Debian, with openbox and chromium, but now we’re moving to Ubuntu Core.
We develop both hw and sw and we’re designign an IoT expansion board for our projects, that’s why we’re testing multiple SOM, like the Variscite iMX7, to choose one to embed inside our expansion board.
This is a picture of a test gateway running a Raspberry CM3 module, connected to a Siemens S7-300 PLC through a MOXA E1212 remote-io. The interface is a web page served using chromium-mir-kiosk
