Avnet showcases end-to-end LoRaWAN IoT solution at Cisco's Next Generation Smart IoT Conference.

Avnet (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, recently showcased its end-to-end LoRaWAN IoT solution at the Cisco Next Generation Smart IoT Conference 2017 held at the Hong Kong Science Park.

Avnet showcased a variety of LoRaWAN applications, including disaster prevention, smart agriculture, and medical alarm systems, exploring the limitless possibilities of the LoRaWAN IoT ecosystem in enhancing workplace awareness and driving informed decision-making. Avnet's cost-effective, feature-rich, and user-friendly LoRa kits facilitate the implementation of these applications.

Mr. Fu Jinxiang, President of Avnet Asia Pacific, stated, “Avnet has a strong technology and design team in Asia, enabling us to assist customers in optimizing their IoT solutions. We offer a broad and interconnected ecosystem, bringing together a group of the most trusted vendors, such as Cisco, and their various LoRaWAN gateways, leveraging different expertise to help customers bring new products to market. Avnet will continue to invest in the IoT field while continuously enhancing its ability as a technology partner to provide end-to-end value-added approaches to customer system integration.”

“Cisco has always been committed to helping businesses and cities around the world recognize the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and fully leverage the power of data in practice; we are very grateful to our partners who have provided us with invaluable assistance along the way. Cisco aims to build a truly intelligent digital society using LoRaWAN and Cisco Kinetic. The Digital Living Lab program is our first pilot project in Hong Kong, and Avnet is an important partner of ours. We hope that the IoT can benefit more businesses and citizens in all aspects of their lives, work, play, and learning,” said Mr. Argon Ho, General Manager of Cisco Hong Kong and Macau.

Low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) are wireless wide-area networks that allow for long-distance connections with low power, thereby increasing the battery life of devices such as sensor nodes. Wide coverage expands the scale of data collection and the scope of deployment. LoRaWAN is one type of LPWAN technology.