Get an introduction to a range of practical considerations and recommendations about the architecture in and around an electronic product that must be able to carry out firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates.
As more and more products become internet-connected, it becomes possible to update their firmware continuously. This can both make a product more cyber secure and keep it relevant to the customer by updating or renewing the functionality. Overall, this may contribute to extending the product’s period of use and service life, which may both reduce the electronics industry’s resource consumption and the subsequent amount of electronic waste. If you are considering expanding or newly developing a product with functionality for over-the-air firmware updating, there are a number of practical considerations that are worth incorporating as early in the process as possible. There is a vast range of different OTA solutions, but what do they consist of, and which ones fit the product?
This guide introduces practical concepts and methods for OTA firmware updating together with a number of considerations, in the form of rules of thumb, that can be used to assess an OTA solution.
This guide is part of a development project supported by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
Download the guide: over-the-air firmware update
The purpose of this guide is to introduce a range of practical considerations and recommendations about the architecture in and around an electronic product that must be able to carry out firmware over-the-air updating (FOTA).
