Arrow Electronics Simplifies “Internet of Things” for Enterprises and Hardware Suppliers
September 09 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) today announced its new
“Arrow Intelligent Services” framework and set of software
capabilities that will dramatically simplify the way Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), enterprises and suppliers build,
deploy and manage connected and intelligent systems.
Arrow’s new global offering enables developers to more quickly
and inexpensively build applications that interact with IoT
hardware through standard web services and Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs), rather than through complicated and proprietary
interfaces and development kits. Working closely with key
suppliers, Arrow will transform heterogeneous and proprietary
development interfaces into a more standard and simple API-based
framework. Arrow is also providing off-the-shelf management
capabilities for a number of product categories, starting with
gateways.
“One of the biggest impediments in this exciting market is the
cost and complexity of weaving together the various pieces of the
IoT, each with its own unique and often complicated development
environments and data structures,” said Aiden Mitchell, vice
president of semiconductor marketing at Arrow. “Arrow Intelligent
Services is a key initial step in our overall IoT strategy.”
The new offering complements Arrow’s core offerings in global
components, enterprise computing and systems integration. The
API-centric approach will help integrate the billions of discrete
IoT building blocks that Arrow sells to its more than 100,000
customers worldwide. The Arrow Intelligent Services strategy and
architecture will also allow customers and OEMs to select and
integrate best-of-breed technologies—from semiconductors and
embedded computers all the way to data hosting infrastructure,
billing, analytics and third-party enterprise applications.
Arrow is collaborating with industry-pioneer, MachineShop, to
bring this unique API-based architecture to market. MachineShop has
been working with Fortune 500 OEMs and market-leading semiconductor
companies since its inception. MachineShop was recently recognized
by Gartner Research as one of a small number of IoT platform
companies in its first ever “IoT Market Guide.”
“There is no company better positioned to break down the
barriers of complexity in the IoT market than Arrow,” said
MachineShop CEO Michael Campbell. “The marriage of our API-centric
platform and their industry leadership is unparalleled in the
market today.”
Phase One: Intelligent Gateways
In the first phase of its launch, Arrow is collaborating with
gateway vendors Embedded Planet, Lantronix and Netcomm Wireless to
provide the market’s first Intelligent Gateway offering. The Arrow
Intelligent Gateway leverages a common set of API-based services to
normalize set-up, configuration and management of participating
vendor gateway products. Customers can simply power up and connect
the gateway, input basic network and customer information through
an intuitive web-based interface, and the gateway will download the
appropriate software and auto-configure according to the vendor and
customer parameters.
Arrow Intelligent Gateways do much more than simplify
configuration and management. Arrow-enabled gateways allow
customers to push intelligence and system control to the edge and
seamlessly integrate with a rich set of cloud services for data
ingestion, filtering, rules and events, API proxying, user, device,
gateway management and more. To learn more about this specific
offering and the vendors we are collaborating with, please go to
www.arrow.com/iotservices.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) 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
100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers
and commercial customers through a global network of more than 460
locations in 56 countries.
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