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5 of the best artificial intelligence use cases

AI’s upgraded algorithms make predictive analytics, parse data, and help businesses make smarter decisions from the boardroom to the factory floor.

The Avnet ecosystem comes to life at Electronica 2018

As much as we learn from our established industry experts, emerging developers as well as creators in our online communities, element14 and Hackster, are forging new paths, too.

Top 6 Trends: Get ready to meet the demand for IoT solutions

Gartner predicts that in less than two years, more than 20 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be deployed. Here are the top six technology trends to ensure your IoT strategies are successful.

2018 Was IoT’s Breakout Year

From connected devices at home to security cameras and sensors in factories, the acceleration of IoT has ignited the imagination and pushed product development in new directions in 2018.

AI From A-Z: The biggest buzzwords around artificial intelligence

Companies across markets from consumer electronics to factory floors are finding power in the introduction of two letters: AI. The world of artificial intelligence is vast...

The Building Blocks of IoT: You Just Can't Stack Them Up

I’ve spent my entire career in the business of technology, and I’ve watched many ideas go from “shiny new object” to “buzzword” to “table stakes.”

Increasingly powerful chips driving artificial intelligence

AI-supported applications must keep pace with rapidly growing data volumes and often have to respond simultaneously in real time. The classic CPUs that you will find in every computer quickly reach their limits in this area because they process tasks

How startups can integrate with design partners

While it might feel like the rubber truly meets the road at the manufacturing stage, the design process is truly where creators’ great ideas take shape. It’s also where you’ll make major decisions that impact your production and deployment.

How the Deaf Experience Music—Then and Now

When you think of experiencing music, what comes to mind? The rhythm, cadence, beat, pitch—the sound.

The 3 IoT Security Fundamentals Startups Need to Know

An enterprise healthcare business faces risk and privacy considerations every day. However, in a startup environment, when funding sources—or lack thereof—are looming every day, security might not be on the top of your mind.

How to Turn Your IoT Solution into Recurring Revenue

Companies in almost every industry are investing in Internet of Things (IoT) applications with high hopes of creating new revenue streams. Here's how you can ensure ROI from your deployment.

IoT at the Edge: How AI Will Transform IoT Architecture

Futurists say artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) will transform business and society more profoundly than the industrial and digital revolutions combined, and we’re now starting to see how that world might shape up.

Choosing A Pressure Sensor

Pressure sensors’ accuracy is an important performance attribute, which is typically given as a percentage of full-scale pressure over a certain temperature range. Some sensors also exhibit hysteresis, non-repeatability and non-linearity, which sho

3 Lessons for Hardware Creators from a Desert Music Festival

When a creator has a big idea, they often need a big partner to help them make it happen. Music: Not Impossible was no exception.

Does Your IoT strategy have a connection problem?

You’ve heard it everywhere: IoT is a game-changer, a disrupter and a gigantic business opportunity for everyone. That’s all well and good. However, the reality is that many companies have eyes bigger than their stomachs when it comes to the Inter

Customization comes with a competitive edge—and security challenge

We talked about this before: there’s no one-size-fits-all IoT solution because every industry, vertical and business is different. Whether you have an in-house team or are exporting the building of infrastructure to a trusted partner, make sure the

Customization comes with a competitive edge—and security challenge

Whether you have an in-house team or are exporting the building of infrastructure to a trusted partner, make sure the team is asking the right questions when it comes to implementing and deploying IoT solutions.

In their words: Benefits of the world’s biggest engineering community

In the summer of 2018, Avnet celebrated a major milestone: 1 million community members across Hackster.io and element14. As a project-based site, Hackster enables anyone to jump feet first into hardware through knowledge sharing, as well as contests

MEMs Revolutionizes Sensor Landscape

Until fairly recently—roughly 15 to 20 years ago—sensors for ubiquitous physical parameters such as pressure, motion and magnetic fields were relatively large, costly, power-hungry and electrically incompatible with standard circuitry.

From hacker spaces to Hackster.io: Alex Glow owes her career in hardware to communities

Exposure to engineering as a kid helped Alex Glow fall in love with hardware. But it was communities that gave her confidence to turn her hobby into a career.

Batteries are key to charging options

Wired power is a strong option for developers that need to get to market fast and require an inexpensive, proven solution. For products where convenience and future compatibility are paramount, you can move forward confidently with standards-based wi

Model behavior with microcontrollers: Kitty Yeung’s intersectional engineering spans art, science

“Current established industries don't often leverage people's multiple talents and passions. But the forthcoming generations of the workforce are getting more interdisciplinary and they need opportunities to develop and grow.”

Building PetaLinux for the UltraZed & PCIe Carrier Card

In this installment of our exploration of Avnet’s UltraZed SoM and the PCIe carrier card, we will develop an example application.

Working with the UltraZed SoM & PCIe Carrier Card

I recently had the opportunity to evaluate the UltraZed™ System on Module (SoM) and accompanying PCIe Carrier Card from Avnet. The UltraZed SoM is the latest in a line of embedded computing technologies from Avnet, which includes a heterogeneous S

Element14 allows Sneha Nidhi to continue a lifetime of learning

Sneha Nidhi always comes from a community of engineers. Her first was her family.

How one engineer found both confidence and community in element14

Tracking Santa Claus changed the track of Frederick Vandenbosch’s life.

Learning to utilize the benefits of Artificial Intelligence

Learn about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the market opportunities it presents.

Blending IT, OT among hot topics at IoT World 2018

Avnet Internet of Things experts harnessed the knowledge gained from working with more than 2 million customers around the world to present ideas at this year’s IoT World in Santa Clara, Calif.

Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack Accelerate Embedded Vision Integration

SoCs with programmable logic are an essential element of real-time embedded vision systems. Designers can capitalize on the power and efficiency of Xilinx's Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC devices to implement their designs using Avnet's Embedded Vision Kits

As technology reshapes our world, ecosystems reshape our business models

There’s an old saying, “You are only as good as the company you keep.” That has never been more true than today.