Introduction

The BlueCherry.io platform is an IoT platform designed from the ground up in Belgium. Tree focus points are used throughout the design of the platform:

• Security: the platform only stores data that is absolutely necessary for the good working, the GDPR legislation was a guideline throughout the implementation instead of an afterthought, every connection is encrypted, ...
• Speed: nothing is more cumbersome that slowly working software. The BlueCherry platform is written from the ground up and is not dependant on any larger 3rd party software. This allowed us to have 100% percent control over the performance.
• Versatility: every part of the platform can be customized. Both the look and feel can be adopted to fit your company needs.

The platform distinguishes two kinds of devices:

• Full devices: whenever the IoT device is powerful enough and a broadband connection is available a device will be designed as a full device. This means that the full stack, from low level hardware drivers to business logic and UI, runs on the device itself. This unique approach ensures that the devices stays fully operational even without an internet connection. In this case the BlueCherry Iot platform is complementary and extends the device's functionality as soon as an internet connection is available.
• Lite devices: when a device is not capable of running a full stack or when the connection doesn't allow to have 24/7 access to the internal webserver (for example LTE-M, NB-IoT, satellite, LoRa, Sigfox, ...) the BlueCherry platform can take over the business logic, UI and storage of the devices. This is also called the 'classic' IoT approach.