SAN MATEO, Calif. & ZARAGOZA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Libelium has launched a campaign to support Internet of Things (IoT) technical education on wireless sensor networks and electronics, with new hands-on tutorials for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Waspmote and Intel Galileo, IoT kits, developer training and promotion, and IoT courses for teachers and universities.
Cooking Hacks, Libelium’s open hardware division, has transformed its website to feature over 20 new sensor and communication kits and 70 new tutorials. Now professors can easily create an IoT syllabus for lessons based on platform (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Waspmote, Intel Galileo), skill to practice (sensors, wireless, robotics, soldering, etc.), application, and user level and find the right hardware and software materials—in one place.
Gartner predicts 25 billion connected things by 2020, and a VisionMobile report reckons 4.5 million developers are needed to realize the applications, but there is an ever growing gap between education and industry needs that makes it difficult for companies to find the right talent. “To realize the potential of the IoT market means investing in technology and in education, for more developers – not just more sensors,” said Alicia Asin, Libelium co-founder and CEO. “With Libelium and Cooking Hacks, we are empowering developers to innovate, to be entrepreneurs and build businesses from their ideas. The IoT is a huge opportunity and we aim to increase the speed of innovation and the speed of adoption, at the same time.”
Libelium already offers training courses for professors, with Waspmote as a development tool for the IoT and a curriculum based on standards of the IoT ecosystem, sensor networks, Cloud platforms, hardware and software integration. Available exclusively for the education market, Libelium has designed an IoT Student Kit with sensors and 802.15.4 / ZigBee communication at a reduced price. The campaign will include the IoT Spartans challenge (www.iot-spartans.com), an initiative to rank the best IoT developers, to launch in Q4.
About Libelium
Libelium designs and manufactures hardware and APIs for wireless sensor networks so that system integrators, engineering, and consultancy companies can deliver reliable Internet of Things (IoT), M2M and Smart Cities solutions with minimum time to market. Waspmote—Libelium’s open wireless sensor platform—is modular, easy to deploy and ready to integrate with third-party Cloud systems such as Axeda, Esri, Microsoft Azure, Sentilo, Telefonica, ThingWorx, or MQTT. Over 2,000 developers from 75 countries in organizations ranging from startups to universities to large international corporations have adopted Libelium’s technology for projects in North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Commercial and industrial IoT deployments based on Waspmote include applications as varied as parking, traffic congestion, environmental monitoring, water quality, urban resilience, asset tracking, and precision agriculture.
Libelium’s DIY open source hardware division, Cooking Hacks, is dedicated to making electronics affordable, easy to learn and fun. Cooking Hacks serves a worldwide community of developers, designers, inventors, and makers who love to create electronics with sensors, robotics, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Waspmote.
In 2014, Gartner Inc. named Libelium a Cool Vendor in embedded software and systems. Established in 2006, Libelium is privately held and has headquarters in Zaragoza, Spain. www.libelium.com
