Avnet introduced Tuesday its MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit, an out-of-the-box system, backed by solutions from IBM, Wind River and Xilinx, designed to simplify customers’ prototype and development efforts, while providing an easy and quick transition to production.
The Avnet MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit supports designers’ 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 Zynq-7000 all programmable SoC from Xilinx and pluggable sensor solutions from Maxim Integrated and ST Microelectronics.
The kit integrates the IBM Watson IoT agent on top of a custom-configured, certified image of the Wind River Pulsar Linux operating system. The provided out-of-box example design uses a standard MQTT messaging protocol to communicate with Watson IoT, which enables registered, secure connection to additional cloud services and applications, including the IBM Bluemix line, which offers a palette of composable services to enhance IoT solutions with cognitive capabilities.
The IoT platform is based on Avnet’s MicroZed system-on-module (SoM) with Zynq-7000 all-programmable SoC from Xilinx and pluggable sensor solutions from Maxim Integrated and ST Microelectronics. The kit integrates the IBM Watson IoT agent on top of a custom-configured, certified image of the Wind River Pulsar Linux operating system. The provided out-of-box example design uses a standard MQTT messaging protocol to communicate with Watson IoT, which enables registered, secure connection to additional cloud services and applications, including the IBM Bluemix portfolio.
“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. “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 sells for US$299, and is available for ordering with shipments scheduled to begin later this month.
