Nabto’s embedded network protocol delivers web cheaply

The Embedded Systems Conference, in San Jose CA., is hardly the place to look for simple, uncomplicated products, but small Danish company Nabto proved a welcome exception to all the complexity, offering rather ingenious answers on a tiny scale.
The firm’s name stands for “network access bridge to” and the product itself – an embedded network protocol – allows for tiny, cheap embedded devices to provide rich HTTP content by communicating over a LAN, WAN, or the web – even cutting through firewalls.
Using just a tiny 8-bit microcontroller with 1K of memory Nabto offers users an interface for their browsers, able to pull down HTML, Javascript, style sheets and even graphics from a third party which stores all the content and forwards it on demand. The device, therefore, doesn’t need to store anything, simply taking what it needs from the cloud upon request.
RCR talked to the firm’s CEO Carsten Rhod Gregersen to find out just how it all worked and what applications the clever little contraption could facilitate.
Following up with us after the show, Gregersen spoke of a “quite overwhelming” visitor response, noting “It was immediately clear that our solution addresses an obvious problem facing embedded developers; Engineers in fields ranging from slot machine statistics to nuclear radiation measurement realized how Nabto could be implemented on their existing platforms.”
Check it out for yourselves, below.