Broadcom Corporation, a Fortune 500 company into semi-conductor solutions for wired and wireless comunications, has launched a developer’s kit for the Internet of Things (IoT) called WICED Sense.
Broadcom said the new development kit will make it easier to create prototypes of IoT applications using a standard wireless platform dubbed WICED. The latter denotes Broadcom’s Wireless Internet Connectivity for embedded devices. It uses low-power protocols to connect devices to each other and the Internet.
The development kit makes it easy for app developers to create sensors with built-in wireless connections. Broadcom’s own chip for this WICED-based platform includes Bluetooth Smart connectivity and five different low-power motion sensors.
The WICED Sense development kit and smartphone app can be connected and can run programs within minutes. The simplified set-up process — it takes less than five minutes — allows users to quickly establish a link from the tag to their mobile device so that they can almost instantly start gathering data from the sensors. This data includes direction, temperature, humidity and more. The BCM20737 Bluetooth Smart SoC inside the tag ensures privacy with advanced security and encryption features and also includes software to support iBeacon technology.
Broadcom plans to charge US $20 for the developer kit.
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