Avnet kick-starts IoT development with technology from IBM, Wind River and Xilinx
Internet of Things World – Avnet,
Inc. (NYSE: AVT),
a leading global technology distributor, today introduced the Avnet
MicroZed™ Industrial IoT Starter Kit, an out-of-the-box system, backed
by industry-leading solutions from IBM, Wind River® and Xilinx®,
designed to simplify customers’ prototype and development efforts, while
providing an easy and quick transition to production. Come see a
demonstration of this innovative kit at Avnet’s booth #305 at the Santa
Clara Convention Center.
The MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit builds on Avnet’s
commitment to support customers’ edge-to-cloud development of
Internet-connected solutions and includes all the necessary building
blocks for developing a production-ready, IoT-enabled, industrial
processing system. The platform is based on Avnet’s MicroZed
system-on-module (SoM) with a Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC
from Xilinx and pluggable sensor solutions from Maxim Integrated and
STMicroelectronics. The kit integrates the IBM Watson IoT Platform agent
on top of a custom-configured, certified image of the Wind River®
Pulsar™ Linux operating system, now standard on MicroZed and PicoZed
system-on-modules. Using a standard MQTT messaging protocol, IBM’s
Watson IoT Platform agent enables registered, secure connection to the
Watson IoT Platform and additional cloud services and applications from
the IBM Bluemix® portfolio. These provide a rich palette of
composable services to rapidly enhance IoT solutions with cognitive
capabilities.
“The market for IoT-connected systems is exploding, but ensuring that
all the pieces of an edge-to-enterprise solution work properly requires
a broad range of technologies and expertise,” said Eric Williams, vice
president, Internet of Things, Avnet, Inc. “Avnet has done much of the
integration from sensor data collection to cloud connectivity, saving
IoT developers months of effort, while giving them a superior foundation
for building and producing truly differentiated IoT-enabled, industrial
processing systems.”
The Avnet Industrial IoT Starter Kit includes the following:
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MicroZed 7010 SoM
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Based on the Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC
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Pre-loaded with Wind River’s new Pulsar Linux operating system
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IBM Watson IoT agent
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MicroZed Arduino™ Carrier Card
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Pluggable sensors
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Motion and Environmental Sensor Board from STMicroelectronics
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Thermocouple-to-Digital Pmod™ sensor module from Maxim Integrated
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Ethernet, USB and power cables
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Free trial of IBM Bluemix services
“The Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC is a unique platform that enables
a variety of innovative Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) products,”
said Christoph Fritsch, director, industrial, scientific and medical
market business, Xilinx. “The MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit is an
excellent development environment for customers wishing to enter the
IIoT space by exploring the vast capabilities of Zynq for securely
integrating flexible sensor to cloud connectivity, big data optimization
and analytics, cyber security and real time control. The MicroZed
Starter Kit comes with a comprehensive SDK as well as support for
best-in-class IIoT application platforms that accelerate our customers’
learning experiences.”
“Avnet’s MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit, supported by IBM’s Watson
IoT Platform, enables IoT developers throughout the channel ecosystem to
create new products that offer a differentiated level of user
interaction and experience,” said Jack Desjardins, vice president,
Alliances & Ecosystem Business Development, IBM Watson IoT. “By
simplifying IoT device-to-cloud integration with this kit, IBM and Avnet
are helping to inspire a new generation of cognitive IoT systems and
applications that have the ability to learn from the physical world.
This is a significant step forward in the drive to capture the full
value proposition of the IoT.”
The Avnet Industrial IoT Starter Kit sells for $299 and is available for
ordering now with shipments starting later this month. For more
information on the Avnet Industrial IoT Starter Kit, please visit www.microzed.org/product/microzed-iiot-starter-kit.
A limited-time 50 percent discount for this kit is available to the
first 100 qualified customers that complete the registration form at www.microzed.org/product/microzed-iiot-starter-kit/artofthepossibility
and set up an IBM Bluemix account through Avnet.
The Avnet Industrial IoT Starter Kit is the latest example of how Avnet
is helping customers, ranging from original equipment manufacturers to
solution providers, capitalize on the opportunities across the entire
IoT ecosystem. Avnet offers a range of resources from the edge to the
enterprise to develop IoT solutions that effectively gather information,
connect to the Internet and cloud environments, integrate with data
centers, and securely manage and analyze data. The company also recently
introduced a new collaboration
with IBM to develop IoT solutions built on the IBM Watson IoT
Platform, as well as the Visible
ThingsTM platform for the development of IoT systems and
applications. A demonstration of the Visible Things platform can be seen
in Avnet’s booth #305 during the IoT World show.
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