Arrow Electronics and Libelium agreement covers wireless sensing for IoT
Arrow Electronics and Libelium have signed a global distribution agreement, which extends Arrow’s portfolio for the Internet of Things (IoT) with the addition of Libelium’s wireless and sensor technology. The agreement enables the companies to provide off-the-shelf IoT solutions that require minimal design effort before deployment, guarantees Arrow Electronics.
Libelium helps organisations to deploy remote sensing solutions in applications including smart manufacturing, traffic control, environmental monitoring, forestry and agriculture. Libelium’s Waspmote hardware architecture has been designed to function with extremely low power consumption. Individual sensor interfaces and radio modules can be turned off digitally to conserve energy. There are three sleep modes to enable the hardware to operate down to only seven microA when in hibernation mode.
More than 120 sensors are available to connect to the Waspmote base hardware enabling detection and monitoring of, for example, gases, pressure, vibration, and the behaviour and chemical composition of liquids. There are 17 wireless interfaces for Waspmote including long range (4G / 3G / GPS / GPRS / LoRaWAN / LoRa / Sigfox / 868/900MHz), medium range (Zigbee / 802.15.4 / DigiMesh / WiFi) and short range (radio frequency identification (RFID) / near field communication (NFC) / Bluetooth 2.1 / Bluetooth low energy).
The agreement enhances Arrow’s IoT offering, which includes a range of hardware components, development platforms and software tools linked together by supporting services. Arrow’s Connect software runs on Libelium Meshlium gateways, the interface between Waspmote sensors and the internet, simplifying connectivity to industry standard data platforms and device management.
Arrow’s eVolve platform, which includes Arrow Connect, is designed to simplify the specification, creation, management and operation of IoT networks throughout their working life.
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 125,000 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 465 locations serving over 90 countries.
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