LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.,
May 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a global
leader in products and solutions that provide real-time visibility
into organizations' assets, people and transactions, has
collaborated with ARM, the world's leading semiconductor
intellectual property (IP) supplier, to develop an ARM® mbed™ IoT
Starter Kit for Zatar. The IoT Starter Kit powered by Atmel's
Xplained board will enable simple,
standards-based cloud connectivity for creating next generation
Internet-aware, enterprise products integrated with the Zatar IoT
cloud platform. A prototype of the IoT Starter Kit will be
displayed at the Zebra booth at the 2015 Maker Faire event
May 16-17, 2015 in San Mateo, California where developers and
product designers can register for early access.
KEY FACTS
- As enterprises are committing to large Internet of Things (IoT)
initiatives, they need to have a simple, inexpensive,
standards-based artifact to begin development. The ARM mbed IoT
Starter Kit for Zatar is a ready-made, standards-based reference
design to rapidly spur applications such as enterprise asset
management as well as build and release next generation products to
production.
- The kit will leverage the ARM mbed IoT Device Platform,
including mbed OS, and provide a full stack including Wi-Fi
connectivity, security and enterprise-grade cloud integration for
product developers to use.
- ARM mbed is a key initiative for ARM and is being rapidly
adopted by the embedded ecosystem to create and build
standards-based IoT products. As an mbed Partner, Zebra
manufactures devices, and its Zatar IoT platform uses licensed ARM
technologies.
- The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit for Zatar will enable anyone
creating enterprise IoT products to reduce development time and
decrease expenses, with the standards-based reference design that
integrates into Zatar.
- The IoT Starter Kit will use the Atmel SAM W25 Xplained PRO prototyping and evaluation
platform consisting of a pre-configured Atmel | SMART ARM
microcontroller development board - featuring ARM Cortex®
processors, a fully integrated Wi-Fi Network Controller and an
expansion port to a collection of add-on boards for functionalities
such as sensors and user I/O interfaces.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
Zach Shelby, vice president,
Marketing for IoT Business, ARM
"The ability to get to
market quickly is an increasingly critical design factor as the IoT
opens up a world of new possibilities. Developers want to
capitalize on opportunities as fast as possible while maintaining
engineering quality, and that necessitates the need for easy-to-use
secure connectivity to cloud kits such as the new ARM mbed IoT
Starter Kit for Zatar. The kit will simplify enterprise IoT device
and service creation through mbed OS and Zatar, accelerating
solutions by utilizing a complete reference design and open
standards."
Steve Pancoast, vice
president, Software Applications, Tools and Development, Atmel
Corporation
"This WiFi-based IoT platform kit is a great
example of a system-level, edge-node solution that simplifies the
complexities associated with cloud connectivity and provides IoT
product developers an easy-to-use development platform that
supports a wide range of IoT devices and security requirements. We
are pleased to team up with Zebra and ARM to enable more designers
to quickly bring their IoT products to market."
Phil Gerskovich, senior vice
president, New Growth Platforms, Zebra Technologies
"The IoT
is here. To accelerate enterprise adoption, developers and device
manufacturers require IoT kits that make it easy to prototype and
develop IoT products. We are happy to work with leaders like ARM
and Atmel to rapidly widen the appeal of IoT, with the kit our
partners and customers can use to easily start building products
and solutions on Zatar."
SUPPORTING RESOURCES
Website: Zatar
Twitter: Zatar
About Zebra Technologies
A global leader respected
for innovation and reliability, Zebra Technologies Corporation
(NASDAQ:ZBRA) offers technologies that give a virtual voice to an
organization's assets, people and transactions, enabling
organizations to unlock greater business value. The company's
extensive portfolio of marking and printing solutions, including
RFID and real-time location solutions, illuminates mission-critical
information to help customers take smarter business actions. For
more information about Zebra's solutions, visit www.zebra.com.
About ARM
ARM (LSE: ARM) (NASDAQ: ARMH.US) is
at the heart of the world's most advanced digital products. Our
technology enables the creation of new markets and transformation
of industries and society. We design scalable, energy
efficient-processors and related technologies to deliver the
intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers,
including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the
Internet of Things. Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM
Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip
(SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began
in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking
down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and
engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading
electronics companies. Learn more and join the conversation at
http://community.arm.com.
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design
and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions,
advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio
frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is
able to provide the electronics industry with intelligent and
connected solutions focused on the industrial, automotive,
consumer, communications and computing markets.
Media Contact:
Therese Van
Ryne
Zebra Technologies
+1-847-370-2317
Therese.vanryne@zebra.com
Industry Analyst Relations Contact:
Carolyn Buerger
Zebra Technologies
+1-224-316-0066
carolyn.buerger@zebra.com
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