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PHOENIX — Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), introduced the Wi-Go Module, a wireless accessory module for the Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Freedom development platform. Created by Avnet engineers, this development board transforms the Freescale Freedom development platform into a completely portable wireless sensor system.
In support of the Wi-Go board, Avnet will be holding a series of global SpeedWay™ technical seminars throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Japan and will sponsor the “Avnet Wi-Go Design Challenge” with supplier partners Freescale, Murata and ARM®. For more information on the Wi-Go Module, visit www.em.avnet.com/Wi-Go. To register for the upcoming SpeedWay, “Low-Power Design with Freescale Kinetis-L Microcontrollers,” visit www.em.avnet.com/KinetisLSpeedway.
“With increasing demand for connected, battery-powered applications, Avnet joined forces with our supplier partners to create a complete wireless system that implements Wi-Fi connectivity, a rich set of sensors and a USB-rechargeable battery subsystem,” said Jim Carver, technical director, Avnet Electronics Marketing. “We’ve designed the Wi-Go Module and the upcoming SpeedWay™ technical seminars to go hand in hand. These seminars will give engineers a great opportunity to see firsthand how easy wireless applications can be when choosing the right products during the design phase.”
With an 800mA/h battery, the Avnet Wi-Go Module can be self-powered for days while facilitating portable data acquisition for the on-board sensor system. The Wi-Go Module is a companion to the Freescale Freedom development platform, featuring the new Kinetis® L microcontroller (MKL25Z128VLK4) and Avnet Getting Started Guide.
Beginning October 23, 2012, Avnet Electronics Marketing, Freescale, Murata and ARM® will be hosting a series of SpeedWay™ technical seminars in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Europe, Asia and Japan. From Austin to Sao Paulo, engineers can learn ways to incorporate the Wi-Go module with the Freescale Freedom development platform featuring the Kinetis-L microcontrollers.
Also on October 23, Avnet Electronics Marketing, along with supplier partners Freescale Semiconductor, Murata and ARM® will launch the “Avnet Wi-Go Design Challenge.”
For additional information, go to Avnet EM.
Gerry–I find it interesting that these “what if” capabilities are moving closer to the end customer. Let me clarify that: at one point, companies would hire consultants to run risk management scenarios–many still do. Companies themselves can do it, but only if they compile and trust the data they get from their supply chain partners. Then there are the parallel supply chains — logistics, 3PL, financial … the list goes on. If customers can pick and choose what data they need and at what point they need it, I can see the advantages. I get exhausted just thinking about the possible combinations.
All these tools are fine. They look to have concealed all the complexity of analytics but just to tune them to get the data required itself sometimes becomes a task unto itself.
It is better to have such kind of services available on the cloud rather than buying such products in-house
There's also one additional aspect alluded to in Gerry Fay's blog. How about when you can see for “miles and miles” but only so far? How about the known unknowns, the things we can prepare for and the ones we can't because we may not even know they can occur?
I believe the industry is getting it that the baseline is what Gerry described here. But it also must move beyond this to attempt each time to see more, farther and deeper than it did the day before. As you noted, the race to prepare for those possibilities would then follow to the extent that the industry can prepare itself.
For workers just as for businesses, the ability to see further ahead is competitively in one's interest. But is it enough? If you can see deeper into your company's supply chain and can't figure out the value of the information or apply it to create a competitive edge then the information is irrelevant. That's why companies need people who can help them translate information into action.