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Software updates over the air for consumer products and industrial assets

How companies keep their devices up to date and add new functionalities in an efficient and convenient way.

Software updates: an indispensable part of consumer and industrial IoT

As the number of connected devices and edge computing components grows, keeping software up to date becomes an ever more important consideration. This is especially true for the industrial sector, where equipment is generally regarded as a long-term investment. Rather than replacing their equipment periodically, companies mostly rely on long maintenance cycles to keep machinery operational. Software updates not only allow companies to address security issues and fulfill legal obligations, they also offer a means of providing consumers and industrial customers with new functionalities. While they are an indispensable element of today’s IoT landscape, rolling out software and firmware can involve a number of challenges:

  • It is difficult to keep track of devices and assets that are distributed around the world.
  • Companies have to stay on top of the configuration requirements for different devices and assets.
  • Security breaches or software bugs require companies to react quickly and efficiently.
  • Legislation in more and more countries requires internet-enabled devices to be updateable.
  • Manual software updates carried out on-site are time-consuming and not customer-friendly.
  • Updates have to be installed in a secure and reliable manner.

Companies can overcome these challenges by securely providing software or firmware updates over the air (SOTA/FOTA). Rolling out software updates over the Internet ensures a quick and reliable software update process and reduces manual efforts to a minimum.

Use case overview

  • Industrial companies are able to address security issues, install the latest software versions, and provide new functionalities in a convenient way.
  • Companies can reduce manual efforts to a minimum and save a substantial amount of time and money.
  • With software updates over the air manufacturers can prolong their product’s life cycle by ensuring that their devices are technically always up to date.

How companies benefit from software updates over the air

Convenient update process

Addressing security issues quickly

Fulfilment of legal requirements

Cost savings

Addressing changing customer needs

Staying competitive

Generating new revenue streams

Efficient management of software rollouts

Scheduling of software rollouts

Checklist

5 things you have to consider for your SOTA project

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Expert Insights

Over-the-air updates: key considerations to ensure a secure update process

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FAQ

Software updates over the air (SOTA): your questions answered

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Bosch IoT Rollouts: software updates from small scenarios to large campaigns

Bosch IoT Rollouts is a domain-independent backend solution supporting the rollout of software updates or artifact deliveries to edge devices as well as to powerful controllers and gateways. Devices can be connected to the Bosch IoT Rollouts server either directly through an optimized interface or indirectly through federated device management servers.

Size and numbers don’t matter: smaller scenarios can be directly updated; provisioning is fully managed by the Bosch IoT Rollouts server. If you are facing a large rollout campaign, you can split your set of devices into deployment groups and implement your campaign with a managed rollout flow, which makes it easy to monitor the rollout process. Use the reporting functionalities to see the statistics of all installed and updated versions. The device and software repository holds both the provisioning targets and the assignable distribution – including a full update history for every device. Bosch IoT Rollouts can also be used in combination with Bosch IoT Remote Manager.

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