Oberon microsystems, Inc.

23/12/2021

At Oberon, we are excited about an early Christmas gift: outstanding energy efficiency and performance have been certified for ocrypto 3.0, the newest release of our cryptography library. See https://lnkd.in/dm4xcfjZ!

ocrypto sets the standard for software cryptography on embedded systems

19/12/2019

Apple has open sourced the HomeKit ADK (HomeKit Accessory Development Kit) and Oberon microsystems is listed as initial contributor!

https://github.com/apple/HomeKitADK

28/02/2017

OberonHAP Simplifies HomeKit Enablement for Home Accessory Manufacturers with HomeKit SDK for Linux

February 28, 2017

Oberon microsystems, Inc., an independent provider of HomeKit software for low-power hardware, has introduced the OberonHAP Linux Ethernet HomeKit SDK. Apple HomeKit technology is an IoT framework for the home. HomeKit, and the Home app introduced in iOS 10, make it possible for a user to control home automation devices – from multiple vendors – so that they work together seamlessly without having to frequently switch between vendor-specific apps.

OberonHAP HomeKit SDK makes it easy for home accessory manufacturers and systems integrators to add HomeKit support to their Linux-based accessories such as thermostats, window blinds, door locks, security systems and sensors.
OberonHAP supports Raspberry Pi as an easily accessible reference platform for evaluation purposes, provides an easy-to-use API, and is easily integrated into any modern Linux target system. Availability of the complete source code simplifies development of HomeKit accessories.
“Our goal is to provide the best HomeKit implementation for any device, from the smallest battery-powered sensors to powerful HomeKit bridges” says Cuno Pfister, managing director of Oberon microsystems. “After our super fast and super small HomeKit implementation for BLE SoCs like the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52, we now have set a new benchmark regarding ease of development with our new Linux HomeKit SDK”.

The OberonHAP Linux Ethernet HomeKit SDK is immediately available to verified Apple MFi licensees (https://developer.apple.com/homekit/).
For more information, please see the OberonHAP Web site (https://oberonhap.com/).

Learn about creating apps and accessories that work with HomeKit-enabled acecssories.

24/02/2017

See you next week in Barcelona?

Congratulations to Oberon microsystems, Inc. for being selected as a finalist in the 2017 category of Smart Building & Home automation powered by B/S/H/!

OberonHAP is a fast, tiny and trustworthy implementation of Apple’s HomeKit Accessory Protocol (HAP).

Read more in the comments and visit their website here:
http://www.oberon.ch/

09/02/2017

Oberon is finalist of the IoT Innovation World Cup 2016/17 with "Apple HomeKit on low-cost Hardware" http://www.innovationworldcup.com/2017/01/iot-innovators-of-the-year-2017

As the scope and application of the Internet of Things continues to grow, so too has the diversity and innovation of the entries into the IOT INNOVATION WORLD CUP. In its fifth consecutive year, the 2016/17 season has seen solutions from over 70 countries with applications from smart frying pans tha...

28/11/2016

Oberon double winner of SwissInnovation Challenge awards

Oberon enables device manufacturers to add smart home support to their door locks, thermostats and window blinds, while maintaining the highest level of security standards. At an event of the Swiss chamber of commerce of Basel Land, Tag der Wirtschaft, Oberon was named a winner of the SwissInnovation Challenge in the presence of Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer. Moreover, Oberon also won the special award for internationalization. In 2016, the SwissInnovation Challenge has been held for the second time by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).

In home automation, a high degree of security is essential. While advanced security standards are widely available for the Internet, this is not yet the case for home devices. Oberon has recognized this fact and has implemented the highly secure cryptographic algorithms that Apple mandates for smart home devices. Thanks to novel optimizations, run time and memory consumption was minimized, so that the Oberon software can even run on low-cost microcontrollers, as they are used in home devices. For example, the implementation easily fits on the Bluetooth chips of Nordic Semiconductor, where opening a secure connection takes less than the tenth of a second.

“Cryptography is a challenging topic, and we want to support device manufacturers as well as possible to make their devices ‘smart’ in a secure way”, Dr. Cuno Pfister explains at the award ceremony.

15/09/2016

OberonHAP 2.1 released. Many small improvements, e.g. configurable choice of mDNS implementation.

09/09/2016

Nice to be mentioned again by Apple as one of their key HomeKit partners, this time by Tim Cook himself.

01/09/2016

Our OberonHAP cryptography layer now also supports NIST P-256 curve (aka prime256v1 and secp256r1), as used in the HAP over iCloud protocol, but also in standard Bluetooth 4.2 Secure Connections. Unlike some other implementations, our code is PC-safe, meaning that it is immune e.g. to simple power analysis attacks. We have developed optimized variants for Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M4.

29/07/2016

After more than a year of work, our team is proud to announce that we just released OberonHAP 2.0!

OberonHAP has set the benchmark for implementations of Apple’s HomeKit Accessory Protocol (HAP). The new release goes even further, in particular with its expanded platform support and a new server API that makes HomeKit development that much simpler:

* IP support

• Now OberonHAP supports both BLE and IP (WiFi, Ethernet) as transport protocols for HomeKit accessories.

* High-level server API

• For IP-based HomeKit accessories, this new API greatly simplifies the development of HomeKit firmware. No need to handle sockets, HTTP and JSON processing yourself. Simply provide a few callback functions, declaratively specify the supported HomeKit profile(s), and then start the server.

* Linux support

• So far, we have focused on resource-constrained microcontrollers. Now we also support more powerful Linux platforms. Linux is ideal as a platform for HomeKit bridges, and for computationally demanding accessories like HomeKit IP cameras.

• Reference implementation tested on several variants of the Raspberry Pi.

• Fully portable and maintained source code available.

* MIPS support

• Assembly-language implementation of the critical cryptographic functions for the microAptiv UP core, which is a MIPS32 core with DSP enhancements. Microchip has a range of microcontrollers based on this core, e.g. the PIC32MZ high-performance SoCs.

* Cortus support

• Assembly-language implementation of the critical cryptographic functions for the Cortus APS3RP core. Thanks to its low transistor count and single-cycle multiply operation, this core is well suited for low-cost, battery-powered HomeKit accessories.

* Bridge support

• HomeKit bridges are protocol converters from/to other network protocols such as Z-Wave or KNX.

* Further improved cryptographic component

• New build option “medium”, for systems that are almost as fast as with the “fast” option and almost as small as with the “small” option. For all but the most resource-constrained microcontrollers, this is the sweet spot for HomeKit cryptography.

• Extended test suite with standard, edge case, negative and random tests.

• We have formally proven the most innovative part of our cryptographic code, a method for “multiplication in a prime field including modular reduction”. Our proofs have been verified by independent experts and found to be “in all parts mathematically and formally correct”.

* Support for the latest HAP specification of Apple, including notifications

This massive update of the best HAP implementation on the market makes it the safe choice for semiconductor vendors, accessory vendors, IP vendors, and systems integrators alike. It is a timely release, as in a few months, Apple will release the new Home app as part of iOS 10 – making it the de-facto launch of HomeKit to end users.

Please contact me at [email protected] for more information.

Cuno Pfister

05/07/2016

Our new article in EE Times, about the OberonHAP crypto component and its optimizations, in this case in particular for Cortus cores

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15/06/2016

During the keynote of Apple's WWDC on Monday, this slide with our company logo was shown: