Arrow and Colorado Smart Cities Alliance team up for innovation lab

Arrow Electronics has teamed up with the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance to launch the Colorado Open Lab, which will be located within the company’s global headquarters in the city of Centennial in Colorado. The Colorado Open Lab, which is an IoT engineering workspace for customer development showcase and innovation collaboration to expedite development of OEM IoT appliances and AI-enhanced applications, is supported by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and the Denver South Economic Development Partnership. The lab includes engineering facilities with the latest bench, test and edge compute equipment, a customer experience centre and a live experience of smart city showcase involving technologies and solutions that are deployed across the region. Smart street lighting, parking and buildings, environment and resource conservation, energy resilience, infrastructure and asset management, intelligent transportation, connected and automated vehicles, and agriculture are some of the components of the smart city showcase.