Enables development of the fastest, most responsive smart home accessories for highest growth IoT market segment, 190 million-unit home automation market
London, United Kingdom – 05 October 2015 – Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth® Smart technology, today announced a Bluetooth Smart development kit, with full support for Apple® HomeKit, to accelerate development of smart home accessories. In a recent report on the connected home, BI Intelligence (https://intelligence.business
Dialog’s Bluetooth Smart development kit, based on its SmartBond™ DA14580 (http://www.dialog-semiconduct
“HomeKit is unifying smart home accessories with a common set of controls, user interface elements and end-to-end encryption which is an important step for the home automation market, said Sean McGrath, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Connectivity, Automotive & Industrial Business Group at Dialog. “We are pleased to be on board with our own Bluetooth Smart development kit that fully supports the HomeKit framework. Our kit enables developers to achieve differentiation and a competitive advantage through delivering a superior user experience and accelerating time to market for their smart home accessories.”
The SmartBond development kits feature a power profiler for power-optimised coding and Dialog’s SmartSnippets™ software development environment, based on Keil™ µVision tools.
The kits are available now at https://mfi.avnet.com/MFI/
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