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Axeda Ready Program Reports Addition of 5 New Partners and Devices [Manufacturing Close - Up](Manufacturing Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Axeda Corp. announced five new partner companies have completed Axeda Ready development, testing and certification, which ensures compatibility and ease of deployment with the Axeda Machine Cloud. According to the company, this brings the total supported devices to more than 20 from a dozen participating partners. Axeda Ready partners offer connectivity and sensor options that allow customers to manage and innovate their connected product initiative across a variety of solutions including asset monitoring and tracking, predictive maintenance, compliance management, consumables management, remote service, usage based billing and warranty management. "Axeda's strategy is clear we provide our customers flexible, cost-effective, tested and proven options for connecting, so their time and energies can be focused on innovating around Big Machine Data and building M2M applications instead of dealing with the challenges of connectivity," said Bill Zujewski, Axeda's CMO and executive vice president for product strategy. "Customers can choose the device that is right for their project knowing the compatibility and quality assurance is backed by the Axeda Ready brand of certification." In addition to new devices, Axeda continues to expand options for connectivity between assets and the Axeda Machine Cloud with the addition of more software agents and extended support for more operating systems. Customers can now choose from five new Linux- based Axeda gateway and connector Agents, including four 64 bit OSs - - Debian Linux; Novell SUSE Linux; Redhat Enterprise Linux; Cent OS Linux and one agent for 32 bit ARM Linux. "The Axeda Ready Program is directly addressing the need for reducing M2M application time to market, one of the keys to speeding M2M market growth," said Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO of leading M2M analyst firm Beecham Research. "The list of new partners just announced shows how broadly Axeda Ready can be applied. The partnership with Raspberry Pi is particularly intriguing, potentially opening up the opportunities of M2M application development to a new mass market." By enabling more devices and services to integrate with the Axeda Machine Cloud, the Axeda Ready program broadens the device options available to customers allowing them to select the right communication device for their environment. Axeda announced the addition of the following Axeda Ready products in Q1. Company: Kontron Axeda Ready Product: KM2M806XT Kontron is a company focusing in embedded computing technology. With more than 30 percent of its employees in R&D, Kontron creates many of the standards that drive the world's embedded computing platforms. The Kontron KM2M806XT M2M comes complete with development platform middleware and supports loading of Axeda Ready agent for this device right out of the box. The development platform is based on the Intel Atom chipset. Company: Libelium Axeda Ready Product: Meshlium Libelium delivers a modular, distributed sensor solution for the Internet of Things enabling system integrators to implement sensor based applications for Smart Cities, Smart Parking, Smart Environment, Smart Water, Smart Metering, Smart Agriculture, Industrial Controls, Logistics Retail, Security & Emergency Management and eHealth. Their distributed architecture allows the Axeda Ready Meshlium Gateway to connect to 100's of Waspmote sensor nodes via a ZigBee network allowing for creation of solutions involving 100's of sensors. Supporting either WiFi, ethernet or 3G connectivity, Axeda Ready Meshliums can be deployed anywhere in the world. Company: Nimble Wireless Axeda Ready Product: Toucan Series Nimble Wireless helps customers wirelessly connect, control and manage their remote assets. Nimble Wireless does this by providing asset tracking and management devices. The Toucan Series family of Fleet tracking offer flexibility in tracking time/ accuracy vs. cost. optimized for direct connection to the vehicle battery power, Toucan has built in sensors to monitor ignition status, speeding and idle timeouts. Community: Raspberry Pi Axeda Ready Product: Developer Kit The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi organization. It is an ARM based developer platform supporting PC-like functionality and I/O at a very low cost. Axeda Ready provides a testing and implementation program that validates their connectivity via the Axeda agent protocol or their own device protocol. Axeda is a cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and delivering machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. More Information: http://www.axeda.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2013 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |