IoT development kits for industrial, medical, and smart home markets
Rapid implementation of smart and connected cloud-based applications

ON Semiconductor has launched a Modular IoT Development Kit (IDK) that provides engineers with the complete set of hardware and software building blocks needed to accelerate the evaluation, design, and implementation of industrial, medical, and home IoT applications.

ON Semiconductor has been supplying a market-leading portfolio of power-efficient semiconductors for smart and connected IoT designs, including sensors, power management, connectivity, processors, and actuators. Integrating these silicon solutions with a software framework, IDK provides a modular, compact platform that enables developers to accelerate cloud-based IoT design development.

ON Semiconductor's IDK includes various module options required for sensing, wired and wireless connectivity, and actuation. This comprehensive software development framework consists of an embedded operating system (ARM® mbed™ OS), drivers, APIs for hardware shields, a graphical user interface (GUI), and sample application code.

This platform, which supports built-in features for cloud software, delivers data to the cloud to evaluate high-value services such as analytics. This scalable modular architecture includes various industry-standard interfaces such as Arduino and Pmod™, and allows for the seamless integration of existing and future modules provided by ON Semiconductor as well as other vendors.

Wiren Perera, Head of IoT Strategy at ON Semiconductor, emphasized, “We offer a diverse range of options for purchasing key semiconductors for industrial, medical, and home IoT applications in a one-stop manner. By providing a single, modular, and scalable platform that integrates both hardware and software and allows for integration with third-party products, this IDK will enable engineers to quickly and easily source ON Semiconductor’s product family of solutions, thereby simplifying the prototyping of cloud-based applications.”

This IDK is applied to a wide range of applications, including industrial automation, intelligent lighting, building automation, smart cities, and various medical monitoring solutions. During electronica 2016, ON Semiconductor plans to demonstrate various technologies using the IDK at its booth, including wireless and PoE-based smart lighting, heart rate monitoring, and fault prevention and automatic window shutters based on energy harvesting wireless sensors.

During the exhibition, visitors to ON Semiconductor's booth can explore various IoT design examples, such as PIR-based motion alarms using SIGFOX cloud connectivity technology, intelligent water meters, and smart power applications, in addition to IDK-based demos.

More detailed information about the IoT development kit can be found and purchased through regional distributors.