Avnet is in collaboration with IBM to speed up the time to market for IoT solutions.
Led by its Technology Solutions team, Avnet will hook up with IBM to establish a Watson Internet-of-Things (IoT) Joint Lab within IBM's newly opened global Watson IoT Centre in Munich, Germany.
Avnet will use this environment to showcase, demonstrate, develop and sell IoT solutions.
"There is no limit to how IoT can be used to improve the world," said Patrick Zammit, global president of Avnet Technology Solutions. "We're already seeing tremendous potential in new IoT applications that we're developing with our customers, which range from protecting our children to preventing Legionnaires' disease.
"Avnet's latest collaboration with IBM will accelerate our ability to provide customers with the foundation they need to rapidly develop marketable IoT solutions."