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Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for approximately 700 suppliers and 140,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 300 locations in 50 countries and territories.

Arrow Electronics and Libelium have signed a global distribution agreement. The deal extends Arrow’s portfolio for the Internet of Things (IoT) with the addition of Libelium’s wireless and sensor technology and enables the companies to provide off-the-shelf IoT solutions that require minimal design effort before deployment.   Libelium’s Waspmote hardware architecture has been designed to function with extremely low power consumption. Individual sensor interfaces and radio modules can be turned off digitally to conserve energy and three different sleep modes enable the hardware to operate down to only 7µA when in hibernation mode.   More than 120 sensors are available to connect to the Waspmote base hardware enabling detection and monitoring of gases, pressure, vibration, and the behaviour and chemical composition of liquids, among many options. There are 17 different wireless interfaces for Waspmote including long range (4G / 3G / GPS / GPRS / LoRaWAN / LoRa / Sigfox…