Farnell launches exclusive new whitepaper: Smart Sensors – Enabling the Intelligent IoT

Farnell, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions has published a brand new, exclusive and free-to-download whitepaper to support electronic design engineers in their Internet of Things (IoT) journey. The paper, titled ‘Smart Sensors – Enabling the Intelligent IoT’, takes a deep dive into the world of sensor technology and how cutting-edge trends are taking the IoT to the next level.

Sensors are bringing the IoT to life; with novel chemical and spectroscopic technologies, senses enable IoT systems to see, hear and even smell the world around them. Sensors already provide the real-time raw data to a growing range of applications that use it to produce insights. A significant recent change is the introduction of smarter sensors – devices that incorporate value-added functions to ease integration into IoT networks and provide valuable information more readily.

The whitepaper describes the choices available to engineers and the various considerations to take into account when selecting and integrating sensors into IoT designs. Key trends highlighted in the whitepaper for engineers to consider include:

• Focus on low power consumption.
• Ability to connect sensors using wireless networks.
• Inclusion of security protections.
• Data-fusion techniques to provide better analysis.

In addition to this free-to-download whitepaper, Farnell also gives customers access to a global portfolio of nearly one million products from over 2,000 world-leading suppliers available for fast delivery, as well as support from local customer service teams and in-house technical experts to help at every stage of the design process.

The whitepaper, ‘Smart Sensors – Enabling the Intelligent IoT’, is available as a free download here.

For more information see the original Press Release.