Speed is of the essence in prototyping. The key to market success is to deploy applications that make new services possible and streamline those that already exist. Today’s embedded systems are becoming far richer in the functionality they deliver, exploiting technologies such as data analytics and machine learning to better handle real-time sensor data. They are also taking advantage of improvements in user-interface technology to make automated systems easier to set up and control.

The agricultural sector is undergoing a major technological overhaul that some are calling the era of Farming 4.0. This agricultural revolution is marked by autonomous machines that carry a raft of sensing and processing devices. These machines collect and analyse data to make decisions in real time that improve productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and cost effectiveness.

Stutensee, Germany. Tria Technologies, an Avnet company, will launch five innovative families utilizing Qualcomm’s Dragonwing and Snapdragon platforms at embedded world. The solutions deliver powerful computing and efficiency for the next generation of IoT devices. The enhanced AI performance opens innovation for AI deployment at the edge.

Edge AI is one of the popular topics amongst the embedded community. It’s the place where decisions are made, data is analyzed, etc. It’s also a place where lots of confusion arises because of its complexity, especially from a development perspective. To get to the heart of where the challenges lie in this phase of design, I spoke with Jim Beneke, a Vice President for Tria Americas, an Avnet company, on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. Jim has a pretty deep history in the embedded space and served as a great resource on this topic.

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Phoenix, Arizona. Avnet launched Tria, and Tria Technologies, to merge its compute design and manufacturing offerings. “The new brand embodies Avnet’s unique ability to deliver standalone modular embedded compute solutions in a world where OEMs are increasingly looking to move from their own chip-down manufacturing to part- or full- pre-made embedded compute platforms,” said Thomas Staudinger, president of Embedded Solutions, Avnet. “It brings together all of Avnet’s compute design and manufacturing capabilities under one brand.”