Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics is joining the rush to offer a hardware development platform for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Its Synergy Platform consists of microcontroller units and software that can link them to devices such as smartphones.

Enormous growth has been predicted for the IoT industry. Market research company Gartner said last year that there will be 4.9 billion things, such as appliances and sensors, connected to the Internet in 2015, up 30% from 2014, and that figure will reach 25 billion by 2020. Much of that growth, though, will depend on how easy it is for product designers to get their ‘things’ connected to the Internet.

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