Software Updates for a Connected World

Components

• A device and software repository.
• Artifact content delivery.
• Software update and campaign/rollout management.
• Reporting and monitoring.
• Device integration interfaces provided for:
  • direct device integration.
  • custom device connectivity federation (i.e. indirect device integration).
• Management interfaces:
  • for IoT solutions or applications to manage the repository and the rollouts.
  • and a user interface to operators to manage and run the rollouts.

Use cases

• Direct Software Update
  • Provisioning fully managed by Rollouts server.
  • Direct device integration possible, i.e. no extra device management required.
  • Scenarios:
    • Direct deployment through the user interface (i.e. “drag and drop” provisioning).
    • External rollout management by an application, i.e. Rollouts executes, application manages.
• Large scale rollout/campaign management
  • For larger use cases it is important to apply software updates through a managed rollout flow. The use case requires:
    • The definition of groups of provisioning targets.
    • The time or trigger based bulk assignment of updates to each group.
    • The detailed logistics of a planned rollout.
• Reporting, audit logging & rollout monitoring
  • What is currently assigned to what?
  • How has the penetration rate of a update changed over time.
  • What has been changed by whom in the past?

Domain independent

Bosch IoT Rollouts is device and communication channel neutral by means of supporting:

• Software and operating system updates for IoT gateways (typically but not necessarily running Linux) and
• Firmware updates for embedded devices

both for

• cable or
• over the air (OTA) connected devices

Rollouts is designed, build and run as a service in the Bosch IoT Cloud with a focus on scalability, security, integrity and cost efficiency.