Avnet Expands IoT Solutions’ Portfolio with New Reference Designs and Starter Kits

Avnet expanded its portfolio of IoT Solutions with the new LSR Wireless Shield, an Arduino form-factor expansion board for prototyping wireless connected IoT products with customizable sensor/peripheral capabilities, which can be used in Avnet’s new TiWiConnect Wi-Fi Cloud Connectivity reference design. The company also introduced an industrial IoT Starter Kit to streamline smart device and cloud development applications with technology from IBM, Wind River and Xilinx.

Speech Processing Solutions, the leading professional dictation solutions company, has just launched their latest update of Philips SpeechLive cloud dictation workflow solution. The latest release now offers a fully-integrated speech recognition service - supporting 21 different languages - which turns audio recordings into text.

At NAMM 2015, Avid introduced Pro Tools First, a free version of Pro Tools, together with Pro Tools 12, introducing new flexible licensing, cloud collaboration, new marketplace services, and cloud publishing. The new colaboration platform extends to Sibelius, Avid’s notation software, now with cloud publishing.

Avid has embarked in a completely new product architecture for its audio, video and newsroom solutions, which basically requires that all users get connected with cloud services to take advantage of what the company calls Avid Everywhere. To encourage its user base to follow the company’s vision, Avid is promoting new licensing for Pro Tools, giving access to future cloud features and software upgrades through March 2016.