Bringing a product to market takes many steps. But often, design engineers have to piece together scattered information, leaving them without the knowledge they need to make educated decisions. Our resources can help guide that research process.

Empower your food storage equipment with Avnet’s IoT accelerator

By Avnet Staff - 2023年6月23日

Maintaining proper temperatures in fresh food storage applications means increased productivity for employees and reduced waste. Avnet’s IoTConnect accelerator enables real-time alerts and notifications for temperature, humidity and other factors.

Can green hydrogen become the world’s most sustainable source of energy?

By Philip Ling - 2022年8月2日

The universe is filled with hydrogen just waiting to be put to good use. Are we on the cusp of an energy revolution?

Batteries won’t do for renewable energy storage

By Cameron Coward - 2022年6月29日

Solar and wind energy has a serious drawback: it isn’t always available on-demand. These methods enable renewable energy storage that can meet demand throughout the day and night.

How to use structured light and image sensors for range detection and identification

By Philip Ling - 2022年4月25日

Today’s most popular 3D imaging technologies are Time of Flight (ToF), stereo vision and structured light. This article overviews the basic operating principles and the relative strengths, weaknesses and trade-offs associated with each option.

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Three future Industrial IoT trends manufacturers should think about now

By Philip Ling - 2022年1月11日

AI may be the headline act, but a greater impact on manufacturing will come from the trends enabled by AI. OEMs can expect to feel the impact in three areas.

FPGA vs. GPU vs. CPU – hardware options for AI applications

2021年3月31日

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) deliver many advantages to artificial intelligence (AI) applications. How do graphics processing units (GPUs) and traditional central processing units (CPUs) compare?

Top 10 pitfalls in developing machine vision systems with artificial intelligence

2021年3月31日

Machine vision (MV) and artificial intelligence (AI) provide valuable inspection and analysis capabilities to a wide range of leading-edge applications. As with all advanced technologies, there are pitfalls to avoid.

The substantial benefits of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronics

By Milan Ivkovic - 2021年3月8日

Silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are two semiconductor materials that are creating a significant shift in the power electronics market.

Avnet and Tapptek collaborate remotely to develop beverage analytics device

2020年6月26日

It was only natural for us throughout this year’s challenges to reach further and find new ways to help our partners develop technology solutions.

Why artificial intelligence at the edge matters

2020年4月10日

AI at the edge will have profound effects on many industries, including transportation, defense, manufacturing and healthcare to name a few. How will AI at the edge change these industries, and why does it matter?

3 ways IoT means true business transformation

By Avnet Staff - 2019年10月17日

IoT is business transformation and will change organizations more than Six Sigma or agile methodologies or social media.

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Your business doesn’t have one IoT use case, it has dozens

2019年10月17日

It’s a well-worn story: finding the appropriate use case is crucial to ensuring that organizations can build an IoT system structured for insights.

Don’t get caught in proof of concept purgatory

By Avnet Staff - 2019年4月9日

Here are the 5 classic signs you are in PoC purgatory.

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Data Defines Your Destiny in IoT

By Avnet Staff - 2019年3月8日

Data can be daunting. It’s intangible, invisible and typically isolated in physical things like the trucks in your fleet, monitors in your hospitals, or machines in your factory.

Two IoT professionals have a meeting to discuss strategy

Does your IoT strategy have a connection problem?

2018年9月7日

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 IoT.

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

2018年9月5日

In the summer of 2018, Avnet celebrated a major milestone: 1 million community members across Hackster.io and element14. Here's the value of these communities from the members themselves.

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

2018年7月17日

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.