- An Indian tech firm called Bharat Pi has received engineering support from Rowe Electronics Inc. to design and construct enterprise-grade IoT development boards that would benefit millions of smart and connected devices with scalability, quality, and dependability.
- As per Future Market Insights, the market for IoT in India is anticipated to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent throughout the next ten years. This need is mostly being driven by the manufacturing sector’s adoption of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and the growing use of big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence technologies.
- Bharat Pi, which was founded in 2020 by Prabhu Stavarmath, Savitri Patil, and Naveen Gopalkrishna, aims to speed up the development of IoT by creating affordable IoT development boards that enable developers, companies, and innovators to quickly turn their ideas into pre-sales demos in a matter of hours. As part of a joint venture between Arrow Electronics and the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), Bharat Pi is also housed in one of the incubators at the IoT Open Lab in Bangalore. Recently, Bharat Pi released the RedPill STM32G0 series-based development board with assistance from Arrow and its international technology vendors.
- Enterprise IoT applications of today, such as industry 4.0, remote asset monitoring, healthcare, connected cars, and smart cities, need a vast network of resilient edge devices that can analyze and handle enormous amounts of data in real time. According to Prabhu Stavarmath, Chief Business Officer of Bharat Pi, “some IoT development boards on the market are not made to handle a variety of AI or machine learning workflows and frequently require custom design efforts to build a prototype.”
- The engineering team at Arrow has given us all the information we require, including evaluation, technical insights, and product knowledge. We have been able to accelerate and scale up the design and production of IoT development tools thanks to their technological know-how and supply chain knowledge, which has allowed us to expand our plug-and-play products to a wider community of IoT developers.
Key characteristics of the development board based on the RedPill STM32G0 series include:
- Full Pin Access: It is based on the STM32G0 MCUs from STMicroelectronics and exposes all 48 pins on the chip, making a wide range of sensors and devices able to be attached to it.
- Programming Made Easy: It comes with a Silicon Labs CP2102 USB to UART bridge, which makes programming easier.
- Versatile Connectivity: It enables easy integration with a variety of modules, including Wi-Fi and 4G, thanks to exposed headers for programming and 8-pin headers with SPI and UART interfaces.
- Open-Source Compatibility: It works with a number of different open-source development environments and platforms. Additionally, Bharat Pi provides community support and technical resources to help developers, amateurs, companies, and tech enthusiasts advance the field of embedded systems development.
- The IoT Open Lab, which is outfitted with cutting-edge engineering tools and testing modules, has helped the local startup community with its idea-to-prototype-to-product innovation process. These makers and innovators can receive expert guidance from Arrow’s skilled vertical segment experts and engineers, who specialize in embedded computing, sensing, networking, and system integration.
