Artik 1, which Samsung claims is the smallest IoT module on the market at 12x12mm, combines Bluetooth/BLE connectivity and a nine-axis sensor. It is specifically designed for low-power, small form- factor IoT applications. Artik 5 is aimed at home hubs, drones and high-end wearables. It incorporates a 1GHz dual-core processor and on-board DRAM and flash memory. Artik 10 delivers more advanced capabilities and higher performance with an eight-core processor, full 1080p video decoding/encoding, 5.1 audio and 2GB DRAM along with 16GB flash memory. The Artik 10 includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE and ZigBee connectivity and is designed for use with home servers and media applications and in industrial settings.
Samsung also promised "best-in-class, end-to-end security" for the Artik platform. At the hardware level, the modules have an embedded secure element to go beyond software-based encryption. At the application level, Artik is equipped with a machine learning based anomaly detection system. This allows the user to identify abnormalities and unusual behavior in order to address possible hacking or intrusion activity.
The Artik platform comes with an IoT software stack and tools to support product development. Developers can go directly to application framework development, instead of spending time building low-level software libraries. In addition, Artik supports local storage and computational capabilities that in most current IoT environments are generally only addressable by large-scale cloud servers. Depending on user requirements, data can be managed locally or in the cloud in encrypted or unencrypted formats.
