Samsung Electronics has made its ARTIK IoT platform commercially available and also introduced a new Certified ARTIK Partner Program (CAPP) to help accelerate the development for Internet of Things (IoT) projects. SAMSUNG ARTIK development kits can be ordered from Samsung's channel partner Digi-Key Electronics starting February 22.

ARTIK is a family of modules (ARTIK 1, ARTIK 5, and ARTIK 10) tailored for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is designed for a variety of applications, from low-end wearables to powerful hubs with local processing and analytics. The security solution includes a hardware Secure Element (SE), with machine learning for anomaly detection, and a software Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).

ARTIK 1 has the world's smallest form factor (12mm x 12mm) in its class and provides performance in a portable environment. ARTIK 5 uses Samsung ePoP packaging technology to offer a combination of computing power and storage capacity. With an ARM Octa-core processor, ARTIK 10 can power a smartphone or a media hub.

	ARTIK 1	ARTIK 5	ARTIK 10
Application Processor	Dual Core @250MHz + @80MHz	ARM A7 Dual @ 1GHz	ARM A15x4@1.3GHz + A7x4@1.0GHz
Memory	1MB on-chip + 4 MB SPI Flash	512MB LPDDR3 + 4GB eMMC	2GB LPDDR3 + 16GB eMMC
HW + SW Security	Data Encryption Device Authentication FW Security & Update	HW Embedded Security Element (eSE) + TLS (DTLS) Data Encryption Device Authentication FW Security & Update Secure OS Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment	HW Embedded Security Element (eSE) + TLS (DTLS) Data Encryption Device Authentication FW Security & Update Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment
Display	WVGA (800x480) @60fps	qHD (960x540) @60fps	WQXGA (2560x1600) @60fp
PMIC	6 LDOs	5 Buck Converters + 25 LDOs	9 Buck converters + 38 LDOs
WiFi		802.11 b/g/n/ac	802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth	Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.0	BT/BLE	BT/BLE
ZigBee	N/A		Planned
GPIO		47 (2 PWM output including)	51 (2 PWM output including)
Analog Capture		2 (0 ? 1.8V range)	6 (0 ? 1.8V range)
UART		2	3 ( FLOW CONTROL 1 PORT)
I2C		4	6
SPI		1	1
I2S		1	1
USB		1	1 USB 2.0 HOST + 1 USB 3.0
MMC		1 (T Flash)
MIPI		1 DSI (2 LANE) + 1 CSI (2 LANE)	1 DSI (2 LANE) + 1 CSI (2 LANE)
Clock Out		1 - 24MHz + 1 - 32.768KHz	1 (24MHz) + 1 (32.768KHz)
Input Power		3.4V ? 5.0V	3.4V ? 5V
Output Power		1.8V/100mA + 2.4V/100mA	1.8V/100mA + 2.4V/100mA
OS	Nucleus RTOS	Fedora	Yocto 1.6 (Fedora)
Development Environments	C/C++	Arduino? IDE C/C++/Java/Groovy	Arduino? IDE Samsung SDK C/C++ Java Groovy
Dimensions	12mm x 12mm	29 x 25 x 3.5 mm	39 x 29 x 3.5 mm
Connectors		60pins 2 Panasonic AXT460124 40pin 1 Panasonic AXT440124 (Debugging) (0.4 mm pin pitch, mating height 1.5 or 2.5mm)	80 pins (2 Panasonic AXT480124) 40 pins (1 Panasonic AXT440124) (0.4 mm pin pitch, mating height 1.5 or 2.5mm)
HW Audio Codec	MP3		HW 5.1 Channel I2S + TDM up to 8 Channels + HW mixer
HW Video Codec	N/A	HW Encoder & Decoder H.263/H264/MPEG-4/VP8 (720p)@30fps and decoding of MPEG-2/VC1/Xvid	1080p@120fps H.263/H.264/ MPEG-4/VP8 + MPEG-2/VC1 decoding
GPU	N/A	Mali 400 MP2 GPU Open GL ES1.1/2.0 OpenVG1.1	Mali T628 MP6 GPU Open GL ES 1.1/2.0/3.0 OpenCL 1.1 OpenVG 1.0.1 DirectX 11 Google Renderscript
Network	LW M2M CoAP MQTT	LW M2M CoAP MQTT 6LoWPAN IPv6 Audio/Video Codec mDNS for WiFi	LW M2M CoAP MQTT 6LoWPAN IPv6 Audio/Video Codec mDNS for WiFi OpenHAB based Framework OpenStack(Swift) Framework

Samsung's new Certified ARTIK Partner Program is designed to help developers and companies jump start their development and take their ideas to market by working with service providers and design houses. For a list of Certified Partners, visit http://www.artik.io/partners.

SAMSUNG ARTIK's support for operating systems include Tizen, Nucleus Real Time OS and the open source Fedora Linux stack. The newest member to join the ecosystem is Canonical's Operating System for the Internet of Things: Snappy Ubuntu Core, providing an OS for secure, resource-constrained smart devices.

SAMSUNG ARTIK offers a range of tools and services for both experienced developers and newcomers to IoT. For example, support for the Arduino web-based development environment popular with makers; and Temboo, which enables cloud connectivity and automatic code generation. For developers focused on local processing and analytics, Medium One's workflow tools provide analytics and visualization running locally on SAMSUNG New services include Sensory's speaker-independent on-device TrulyHandsfree Voice Control technology; Soundhound's new contextual natural language and voice recognition engine; and Vayyar's 3D imaging sensor technology.

Microsoft has certified SAMSUNG ARTIK compatibility with the Azure IoT Suite and IoT Hub. Developers using SAMSUNG ARTIK modules with the Fedora operating system can get to work quickly and take advantage of the Azure Platform SDKs to create end-to-end implementations of common IoT scenarios.

SAMSUNG ARTIK is enabling TEE support (Trusted Execution Environment) with Trustonic - the same technology that protects over 70 enterprise and payment apps in 500 million smartphones. Using hardware isolation, the TEE ensures secure storage and processing of private data. It also allows users and trusted services to safely install and run new applications on SAMSUNG ARTIK enabled devices and sensors in the field.

The SAMSUNG ARTIK team will be at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.