Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc., today announced that it has inked a distribution agreement with Gateworks Corporation, the leading supplier of powerful ARM-based single board computers (SBCs) for transmitting and receiving audio, video and data in embedded wireless and wired network systems.
This agreement provides customers in the Americas access to Gateworks’ product portfolio of hundreds of SBC variations that serve across a wide variety of markets and applications. Applications include systems for digital signage, kiosks, points-of-sale, medical monitoring, security/access control, smart phones and tablets, networking, wireless hotspots, military communications, military robotics, unmanned area vehicles and drones, video and communications surveillance, border monitoring, first responder, fleet tracking, energy exploration/mining, agriculture, electric grid and the exploding machine to machine (M2M) market.
Gateworks offers wireless and wired embedded system designers hundreds of SBC choices, which provide the fastest time to market, lowest design risk and lowest design cost, saving the customer six to 18 months in time-to-market and $300,000 to $1.5 million in design cost.
“By adding the Gateworks portfolio to our line card, our integration experts can help our embedded system design customers fast track their designs with a very wide variety of proven ARM-based single board computers,” said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president of embedded marketing at Avnet Embedded. “With an extensive configuration of SBCs, Gateworks supports nearly every market and application that we serve.”
“By working with Avnet Embedded, Gateworks is accelerating the adoption of our products in the exploding M2M and Internet of Things (IOT) markets. Avnet Embedded’s extensive sales force, customer relationships and services will provide customers in the Americas greater access to Gateworks products. We look forward to a long and very successful partnership with Avnet Embedded,” said Orlando Gallegos, vice president of sales and business development at Gateworks.