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Scope

As part of RDKM Broadband team we want to bringup IoT Barton on a platform of choice and make it available as reference for the community 

Technical requirements

community,The platform should be broader enough to support all IoT use cases so that depending on operator requirement he/she can test their specific use cases

Technical capabilities of Barton

• Discovery
• Pairing
• Configuration
• Firmware Management
• Control
• EventingTBD

Product requirements

• Matter SDK
• Zigbee 
• OTBR
• BlueZ/BLE
• Wi-Fi
• USB 

Platform requirements

• Multiple USB Ports(More than 3 Minimum)
• Wi-Fi support with atleast one radio (2.4Ghz)
• In Built Bluetooth/BLE (or) USB BT support
• In built Zigbee USB Module
• BT USB Module
Thread USB Modulesupport (or) USB Zigbee support
• In built Thread support (or)  USB Thread support

Protocols supported

• Matter
• Zigbee
• Thread
• OpenHome (Referred in one of the page,to be confirmed)

Available platforms in RDKM RDK-B platforms and One - One Mapping

• Platform Name	Bluetooth/BLE	Zigbee	Thread	Wi-Fi	Number of USB Ports	References
  Banana Pi R4	No Inbuilt BT & supported only through  USB / USB3.0 hub	No Inbuilt support (Supported through USB 3.0 hub)	No Inbuilt supportSupported through USB 3.0 hub,Update got from Austin team)	Yes	1 (can be used for BT)	BT Integration in BPI R4 Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)
  Raspberry Pi 4	Yes	Supported through USB	TBD through USB	Yes	4

Banana Pi R4

• Does USB 3.0 hub can be used to connect USB Bluetooth,USB Zigbee,USB Thread dongles
  • Yes,If so did we confirm
    • BT USB tested - Details can be found here - Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)
    • Zigbee detected through ACM interface by enabling kernel config for acm (CONFIG_USB_ACM)

single USB dongle for Zigbee,Matter 

•  Yes - Silab's xG24 Explorer Kit (brd2703a)

High level Expectation

• draw.io Diagram
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Thread EFR32 integration reference in BPI R5

• OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio

Bluetooth EFR32 integration in BPI R4

• OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio

References

• https://static.linaro.org/connect/bud17/Presentations/BUD17-120%20-%20Linux-wpan-%20IEEE%20802.15.4%20and%206LoWPAN%20in%20the%20Linux%20Kernel.pdf
• https://linux-wpan.org/documentation.html

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Appendix

• Optional -  meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/wpan-tools/wpan-tools_0.9.bb:2:HOMEPAGE = "http://wpan.cakelab.org/releases/"