Arrow Electronics is to represent Things Industries, a full-service LoRaWan provider, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Emea distribution agreement builds on the synergies between Things Industries’ LoRaWan server and stack cloud, and Arrow’s suite of related products. The collaboration aims to reduce the total cost of LoRaWan projects.

Through the agreement, Arrow will provide all three essential elements for a LoRaWan project – components, connectivity and engineering services – from a single source. This integrated approach can offer advantages such as cost savings, time efficiency, simplified procurement and support.

Vitali Damasevich, director of engineering at Arrow Electronics, said: “Customers can accelerate and streamline their LoRaWan-enabled product development by pairing Arrow’s high level of support, from design, development and production and Things Industries secure cloud provisioning.”

With a global installed base of more than 50,000 gateways, 1.5 million connected devices and 500 enterprise customers, Things has a mission to break down the complexities of LoRaWan development, allowing for integration and interoperability across the supply chain and lower the total cost of ownership. The company envisions a platform for anyone who wants to become a LoRaWan expert and build competitive LoRaWan products and services.

Wienke Giezeman, CEO of Things Industries (www.thethingsindustries.com), said: “Our LoRaWan offering, the Things stack cloud, along with Arrow’s IoT hardware and software expertise, will help companies save significantly on upfront development and ongoing IoT operational costs, as well as reduce time to market.”

With 2023 sales of $33bn, Arrow (arrow.com) develops technology that helps improve business and daily life.