Avnet Launches Partner IoT Program at CES, Eyes Smart Cities
Avnet is at CES looking to reinvent itself as a turnkey IoT provider, Shankar Ramani, vice president-global IT operations, told us Wednesday in Las Vegas. The company launched a partner program, based on Microsoft’s Azure IoT Suite, to help developers…
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build complete IoT platforms that connect certified devices using hardware and software. He compared this to Apple’s App Store: “They didn’t build every app you have on your phone; they went out and got third-party app developers to build, but the platform was secure and created that customer experience that allowed for billing and revenue generation.” When a customer talks about solutions that are “budget-neutral” for an entire city, “people talk less about the actual components and more about the end-user value,” the executive noted. Smart cities have been a CES focus (see 2001090037).