The NXP Rapid IoT Kit was developed to help you turn your product from an idea to a real product that provides a solution to your customers. To learn more about how the Rapid IoT can help you achieve this, I have attached a fact sheet that serves as a quick overview. Here's an excerpt from the fact sheet: "Rapid IoT combines optimized hardware design including processing, connectivity and trusted security with proven software including drivers, middleware and GUI based programming enabling anyone to easily take your IoT idea to a proof of concept (POC)." If you are ready to start developing, click here to get your kit, learn how to get started, and download all the necessary software and documentation so you can start designing your product today. Also, feel free to leave us comments and questions here. We would love to hear from you!  

Two of our interns this summer, Driss and Théophile, worked within a week to develop a connected beehive. Here is the approach:   Module 1 (play): Using Atmosphere only, develop a Beehive monitoring app with following features: Temperature and humidity posted to the Atmosphere cloud. Light detection to warn owner about somebody opening the roof of his beehouse or that it flew off. Gyroscope threshold detection for somebody stealing a beehouse (that becomes an issue in France). Will trigger an alarm on app if beehive is moved.   Module 2 (tinker) : Using click modules and MCUXpresso: Using a NFC reader module on the docking station, allow the user to record his/her behavior  using tags (extract honey, observe bee queen, etc.) Transfer these operations on a cloud via a Wifi module to record operations without having to note time and what operations were performed.   Module 3 (develop): Out of the blue with MCUXpresso: Use Rapid Iot to build a scale and report the weight of the beehouse on the kit display (+ Load cell, docking station and an amp + ADC)   The approach was modular where each module is working with its dedicated kit – but can be integrated into a single kit. All 3 modules were delivered in less than a week by Théo and Driss, which demonstrated that Rapid IoT prototyping kit is capable of taking an idea and turning it into a real product fast. Check out the attached video to meet our interns! What is even better is no bees were harmed throughout this process.

We are excited to announce Avnet has launched a Start-up contest during Electronica with EBV and Silica and both will provide development kits of suppliers.   Silica has selected the Rapid IoT Prototyping kit for the contest and NXP will provide 75 boards. Stay tuned for more details!

Check out this video highlighting the Rapid IoT out-of-the-box experience. We would love to hear what you think about the video and your experience using Rapid IoT. Enjoy! Javier