Combining award-winning software protection features with sophisticated, web-based entitlement management capabilities, Sentinel Fit is ideal for embedded systems, supporting virtually all possible boards and microcontrollers available today and is free from CPU and operating system constraints.
Sentinel Fit is a light-weight licensing solution that is intended for use with embedded devices. The Sentinel Fit run-time has an extremely small footprint and is limited to the minimal features that are required for a licensing system that runs on embedded devices.
Sentinel EMS is a back-office server application that enables you to define and process entitlements (customer orders). The prerequisites for installing Sentinel EMS as back end for Sentinel Fit are as below:
Hardware:
At least 10 GB free disk space
At least 3 GB RAM
At least i3 core processor
Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2008 and 2012 (64-bit)
Windows 7, 8.1
Infrastructure Software:
Java Runtime Environment (JRE 8 update 45)
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) 4.5
Tomcat 8
Database: (You may install on either a local or a remote computer)
Microsoft SQL Enterprise 2008 x86/x64
Microsoft SQL Enterprise 2008 R2 x86/x64
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (64-bit)
Web Browser:
Microsoft Internet Explorer (32-bit) version 8 onwards
Mozilla Firefox version 13 onwards
Google Chrome version 20 onwards
Ultra-Low Footprint
The Sentinel Fit runtime is designed to be used in environments which are highly constrained from a resource perspective
Highly Portable
Source code is provided to enable deploying the Sentinel Fit runtime onto a myriad of different environments and platforms, across OS variants, CPU architectures and board types
Feature Based Software Licensing
Sentinel Fit integration allows license rights to grant (or deny) access to different areas of functionality. The license rights are delivered through a tamper-proof license that provides various license models such as perpetual or time-based
Secure Tamper-Proof Licensing
Licenses are secured leveraging industry standard RSA asymmetric cryptography and can be remotely updated in the field.
Entitlement Management
Sentinel Fit integrated with Sentinel EMS provides a scalable enterprise software license and entitlement management solution. The Sentinel EMS web-based solution consolidates all licensing and entitlement management features into a single tool. The Sentinel EMS user interface is easy-to-use, enables seamless integration with back office systems and includes a wide range of data collection and reporting capabilities. With Sentinel EMS you can streamline business operations and maximize monetization of your software based products.