Don't reinvent the wheel when it comes to IoT

Finding a vendor with strong SaaS smart app solutions helps speed time to market in IoT.

Discover how to bring your next IoT solution to life with cutting-edge software and hardware from Avnet Silica and onsemi.

As a manufacturer, your goal is to quickly and consistently deliver differentiated value to customers through products powered by innovative technology.

Smart, connected and trusted technology has the potential to dramatically change how companies manage their processes and operations. By enabling your customers to achieve IoT-enhanced operations through remote asset monitoring solutions, you’re helping them operate more efficiently and setting your own organization up for success by generating new service models that lead to recurring revenue.

The path to successful IoT product development is about as complex and rigorous as its end results can be financially fruitful.

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Since IoT is about delivering insights, and insights begin with a use case that defines the problem to solve up front, getting an IoT solution to market often requires careful planning, smart targeting, strategic partners and new expertise. Even seasoned OEMs need help with this, as IoT not only requires a new way of addressing both hardware and software needs, it also involves more stakeholders than traditional technology projects.

Manufacturers like you are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality products and services that differentiate you from your competitors and delight your customers. The power of IoT holds unique promise for achieving success in this pursuit, but it’s hard to balance the investments you should make for tomorrow with the ROI-focused business pressures of today. Projects like these often deliver indirect or intangible results, and, because every company can become a technology company today, the pressure is on you to deliver a product to help these companies launch — and launch quickly.

Transforming your portfolio into a smart, connected and secure IoT-enabled product line is what your customers demand. Getting there can be difficult, costly and highly time-consuming.

The good news? Just because IoT isn’t one-size-fits-all doesn’t mean that organizations like yours have to reinvent the wheel to deliver IoT-enabled products to your increasingly expanding customer base.

To meet the expectations of startups and enterprises alike, you’ll need an IoT, AI and data platform that is not just secure and robust but also manageable and scalable. Such a platform facilitates the connection of devices, machines, people and systems to capture data, drive insights and take actions. And with it comes some overlapping technologies, protocols and specifics related to an industry or vertical market.

Your customers are looking to drive efficiencies, enhance cost-savings and make the most of their assets at every turn. By offering advanced IoT solutions, you’re helping them achieve just that — but that’s far from the end of the story. While you help optimize your customers’ businesses with cutting edge technology, AI and ML engines within your product are hard at work collecting and analyzing the data your customers accrue. This same data that benefits your customers is also highly valuable to you, as it can reveal significant insights into customer usage and ultimately lead you to refine your product, develop new solutions or even devise new, recurring revenue streams by establishing a service-based offering.

Rising costs and limited budgets mean that a solution designed for, say, portable medical devices, fleet management or asset tracking systems has to be inexpensive and be able to produce measurable results as quickly as possible. To meet your customers’ increasingly demanding needs, you may think that you need to reinvent the wheel — but you don’t.

Avnet Silica offers scalable and repeatable vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications which support customers in retail, healthcare, factories and transportation. Our SaaS applications are built on our proprietary IoTConnect Platform and are each between 60% and 80% complete, depending on business needs. Plus, we have IoT experts who help customize and complete the solution with you.

Avnet Silica’s smart applications combine advanced software capability with state-of-the-art silicon component technologies — like ON Semiconductor’s RSL10 SiP multisensor platform, a compact and comprehensive platform that eases the development of IoT applications with leading sensor technology and the industry's lowest power Bluetooth ® Low Energy SoC.

With the support of expert partners like Avnet Silica and ON Semiconductor, you can develop products that transform real-time operational data into insightful information, enabling more informed, strategic decision making. We can help you develop state-of-the-art IoT-enabled solutions so you, in turn, can help your end customers:

• Access the most advanced technology on the market
• Monitor and streamline their operations
• Increase the value of their data
• Achieve the maximum dollars-and-cents impact

You’ll also gain all the benefits of working with Avnet Silica’s global electronic components and integration businesses, including design expertise, component selection, supply chain and logistics. Use as much or as little of these services in your solution as you need.

In today’s IoT development world, there’s no need to build from scratch to deliver the right fit.

By partnering with trusted global technology partners like Avnet Silica and ON Semiconductor, valuable resources can be better focused on intellectual property innovation and other areas that deliver a strong competitive edge. We support you through design optimizations that both accelerate your time to market and differentiate your product offering. Ultimately, a partnership with Avnet Silica can improve business outcomes and customer journeys by providing the safe and reliable operation of advanced connected devices.

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