Avnet Annouces 10-City Workshop Tour for Its Visible Things IoT Starter Kit

Technology distributor Avnet plans IoT workshops for hardware and app designers in 10 cities through the beginning of October, it announced Wednesday. The workshops are built around Avnet’s SK002 Visible Things IoT starter kit comprising hardware and software to connect smart sensors and embedded devices via gateway solutions or low-power wide area networking technologies to the cloud and smart enterprise software, Avnet said. The one-day workshops will include technical instruction and labs developed by Avnet experts and members of the distributor’s extended partner ecosystem, it said. The Visible Things ecosystem enables designers to begin product development at the API (application programming interface) level, reducing cost and time to market, said the company. Workshops will be in Dallas (June 28); Chicago (July 18); Minneapolis (July 20); Irvine, California (Aug. 15); San Jose (Aug. 17); Toronto (Sept. 18); Boston (Sept. 20); Philadelphia (Sept. 26); Baltimore (Sept. 28); and Vancouver, British Columbia (Oct. 4). The $99 registration fee includes an IoT gateway and sensor module, it said.