The organisation plans to provide application developers with a range of information that will help them to compare the efficiency of various solutions, with results based on profiles targeting a variety of application areas.
EEMBC president Markus Levy, pictured, said the working group was looking to address edge device battery life. “We’re looking to create a benchmarking tool that will capture discrete energy events and help designers to select the best MCU.”
The benchmark is likely to include multiple profiles to represent the most popular IoT functions and to test the combination of MCU and RF components, such as Bluetooth and ZigBee.
The working group is currently defining the benchmark’s scope and methodology and expects to complete the first phase of its work by the middle of 2016.
Levy also noted that work is underway to develop a benchmark for IoT security. “Developers have limited experience when it comes to security,” he said, “and often have little idea on how to implement it.”
The effort, working on a longer timescale than the IoT benchmark, will focus on the implementation of hardware and software security. Issues to be addressed are likely to include performance impact, energy consumption, memory footprint and latency.
