Offerings combine IoTConnect software platform with hardware from technology providers including NXP Semiconductors
Avnet (NYSE: AVT),
a leading global technology distributor, will showcase a selection of
innovative smart solutions based on its secure IoTConnect platform
at CES 2018, January 9-12 in Las Vegas. Avnet’s IoTConnect platform was
developed to provide customers with a single go-to software platform to
support the complex communications, device and data management
capabilities required to leverage the power of the Internet of Things
(IoT) to make their businesses more productive, efficient and
competitive in the digital age.
Avnet invites show attendees to visit booth #2609, at Tech East,
Westgate, to get a firsthand look at how the company is anticipating and
responding to market demand for cutting-edge IoT solutions. With support
from a number of strategic technology partners, Avnet is offering a
diverse slate of smart IoT solutions that integrate advanced software
capability and state-of-the-art silicon component technologies. These
solutions offer targeted functionality to support an array of industry
verticals, including manufacturing, healthcare, environmental,
construction, retail, food processing and smart city.
IoTConnect utilizes the enterprise-grade Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud
computing service to enable the seamless distribution and analysis of
data across cloud and on-premise systems. Among the IoTConnect-enabled
offerings to be demonstrated at CES 2018 will be Avnet’s Smart Retail
solution, which deploys processing, connectivity and sensor technologies
from NXP Semiconductors to increase retailers’ operational and marketing
effectiveness.
For example, leveraging the edge-processing and cloud application
program interfaces (API) of NXP’s i.MX applications processor, Smart
Retail allows retailers to create targeted advertising and promotional
campaigns based on inventory levels and customer demographics. In
addition, NXP’s sensor and wireless technologies deployed in products
like Smart Shelf can help retailers avoid stock-outs by monitoring
inventory levels, and maintain proper food handling standards via
temperature and humidity sensors.
“This year, for our CES debut, Avnet is teaming up with prominent
players in our IoT ecosystem, like NXP, to demonstrate the exceptional
value we can offer customers when we combine our collective expertise in
product, design and supply chain,” said Lou Lutostanski, Avnet’s vice
president, Internet of Things. “Avnet and NXP have enjoyed a productive
and collaborative relationship for decades, and these new smart
solutions illustrate our ongoing mutual commitment to accelerating our
customers’ pathway to success within their respective markets.”
“To capture the tremendous benefits of IoT, organizations need to
overcome a variety of challenges, such as meeting performance,
reliability and security requirements, while keeping complexity in
check,” said NXP’s Sid Shaw, senior director global sales and marketing.
“By leveraging Avnet’s IoTConnect platform and NXP’s secure and
connected solutions for embedded applications, we give innovators a head
start in driving differentiated products and services that will
ultimately make all of our lives easier, better and safer.”
The Avnet connected ecosystem, which includes Avnet.com,
Hackster.io,
element14
and Hardware
Studio, supports more than 2 million customers driving IoT
innovation around the world. Avnet is also a member of the IoT M2M
Council (IMC), the largest and fastest-growing trade group dedicated to
the IoT sector.
Following CES, Avnet will launch a series of customer training sessions
to help break down the complexity of building IoT solutions and scaling
them for mass distribution. Visit Avnet.com/IoT
for updates on these instructional programs. For more information on NXP
IoT solutions available through Avnet, visit Avnet’s IoT ecosystem
portal at Avnet.com/IoT.
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Maureen O’Leary, 480-643-7499
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or
Brodeur Partners for Avnet
Jamie Ernst, 480-308-0286
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