Future Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, and Afero, the next-generation IoT platform company, today announced a global partnership to assist customers in substantially reducing time-to-market for Smart Home and Smart Industry products.

The combined software, and hardware solution from Future Electronics and Afero address design and implementation challenges effectively through a comprehensive solution architecture, seamless integration, and efficient solution delivery. Using this proven, comprehensive, and customizable platform, customers can deliver solutions to the market as much as three times faster, with a solution that is reliable, secure, and scalable.

"We are thrilled to have Afero join our list of IoT solutions partners," said Matthew Rotholz, Vice President of Future Connectivity Solutions. "As part of our IoT solutions strategy, we continue to build our ecosystem. Afero offers our customers in Smart Home and Smart Industry an excellent platform with which to manage their assets."

The Afero Platform software provides a fully integrated secure environment for IoT software development, connectivity, device management, mobile app, cloud deployment, data management, analytics, and application enablement.

"Working with Future Electronics, a leading innovator in their industry for many years, will advance IoT solutions and will produce immediate benefits for our customers," said Joe Britt, Afero's CEO and Founder. "The expertise and market presence of Future Electronics, combined with the IoT platform from Afero, create the fastest and most secure IoT solution on the market."

To learn more about Afero's IoT platform for Smart Home and Smart Industry, and to order from the largest available-to-sell inventory in the world, visit www.FutureElectronics.com.

About Afero

The Afero next-generation IoT platform accelerates time to market, provides hardened security from sensor to cloud and from factory to customers, simplifies onboarding to help maximize customer connections, and uses data ontology to streamline machine learning. The Afero Platform is supported by elastic, multi-cloud services that deliver reliability, responsiveness, and a new software engineering model that unifies embedded, mobile, and cloud development.

Afero has assembled world-class mobile, hardware, security, and cloud veterans from Google, Apple, Nest, Danger, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, and Netflix. To learn more about Afero, please visit www.Afero.io.

About Future Electronics

Future Electronics is a global leader in electronics distribution, recognized for providing customers with global supply chain solutions, custom-tailored engineering services and a comprehensive suite of passives and semiconductor products. Founded by Robert Miller in 1968, Future Electronics has over 5,500 employees and operates in 169 offices in 44 countries around the world. Future Electronics is globally integrated, with a unified IT infrastructure that delivers real-time inventory availability and access to customers. With the highest level of service, the most advanced engineering capabilities, and the largest available-to-sell inventory in the world, Future's mission is always to Delight the Customer®. For more information, visit www.FutureElectronics.com.

Media Contact

Martin H. Gordon
Director, Corporate Communications
FUTURE ELECTRONICS
www.FutureElectronics.com

514-694-7710 (ext. 2236)
Fax: 514-630-2671
[email protected]

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