When hooked up, the kit can feed data directly into IBM's Bluemix cloud platform. The combination of hardware and cloud based computing is claimed by the companies to allow rapid prototyping of ideas.
Zach Bradley, vp of IoT marketing for ARM, said the IoT is all about creating innovation platforms. "We're already seeing devices being connected into web servers and the development of new apps which will solve problems."
Highlighting the speed at which the IoT market is moving, Bradley said that, by 2018, more than 50% of apps will have been developed by companies which may not even exist yet and implied the starter kit has been put together with those in mind.
"Using the kit," he claimed, "people can be working with data in less than five minutes. It's easy to get started, but it's only a beginning for use; our plans for the future include wireless starter kits for cellular, Thread and Wi-Fi."
However, Bradley was unable to say when the kit will launch or the target price. "It will be in months, rather than quarters," he said, adding the kit was targeted at anyone from makers to engineers in big companies.
- Meanwhile, ARM has acquired Offspark, a Dutch company which specialises in IoT communications security. According to ARM, its PolarSSL software will form the core of the mbed communication security and software cryptography strategy.
