Avnet  and Assess-IoT have entered a strategic partnership to accelerate and scale IoT deployments for customers worldwide. Assess-IoT is joining Avnet’s IoTConnect Partner Program, which means Avnet customers will now have access to Assess-IoT’s senior IoT consulting staff in addition to Avnet’s IoTConnect cloud platform.

Avnet is extending the value of distribution to make IoT accessible and scalable for OEMs by providing hardware, software and engineering, consulting and cloud services.

Avnet’s Partner Program enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent design houses (IDHs) to build new solutions and service models for their practice using Avnet’s IoTConnect platform. Avnet’s knowledge of the edge, significant investment in cloud, digital and software services and suite of IoTConnect Partners allows the company to collaboratively leverage solutions to scale and maximize opportunities.

Assess-IoT offers a range of IoT consulting services designed to significantly improve deployed success of an IoT system aligned to drive the required business improvements supported by a rigorous ROI analysis.

Lou Lutostanski, IoT vice president, Avnet said, “Avnet is excited to partner with Assess-IoT in order to accelerate successful IoT projects and bring open, secure, integrated, and scalable end-to-end solutions to their end customers.”

Peter Hunt, CEO of Assess-IoT, said, “We are excited to help customers deploy well designed IoT solutions that make them more competitive in the age of digital transformations. Avnet’s IoTConnect platform provides the ideal backbone for building successful solutions”.