12 November 2024
Raspberry
Pi Holdings plc
("Raspberry Pi" or "the Company")
Strategic partnership with
SECO
Raspberry Pi (LSE: RPI), a leader in
low-cost, high-performance computing, announces a strategic
partnership with SECO S.p.A ("SECO"), the leading Italian based
provider of IoT solutions, payment systems and industrial hardware,
ahead of the Compute Module 5 ("CM5") product launch. The
partnership will see SECO bring to market a new Human-Machine
Interface solution based on CM5.
The strategic commercial agreement
highlights further progress in Raspberry Pi's direct to OEM
strategy and is aimed at expanding the business opportunities for
both companies through collaboration on hardware and software
development. This partnership combines SECO's expertise in IoT
technologies with Raspberry Pi's versatile computing solutions,
allowing both companies to address the growing demands of
industrial applications through innovative, customised
products.
SECO will leverage its hardware
design expertise to bring a 10.1-inch Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
solution to market targeting a wide range of industrial and IoT
applications. The product is based on Raspberry Pi's CM5 and
supports Raspberry Pi OS to simplify integration. In addition, Raspberry Pi Connect will be incorporated into
SECO's software stack, Clea, making Raspberry Pi Connect part of
Clea's commercial offering on Raspberry Pi devices.
The partnership will explore
medium-term opportunities in other industrial areas, including
image recognition, edge AI, leveraging SECO's long history and
know-how in sectors including energy management, smart building,
healthcare, coffee and vending and industrial automation. Both SECO
and Raspberry Pi are committed to working together to drive growth,
efficiency, and innovation in the embedded and industrial
markets.
Raspberry Pi CEO, Dr Eben
Upton commented: "Our enhanced public profile in the wake of
June's
successful IPO has opened doors at multiple industrial-focused
OEMs, as demonstrated by this exciting new
agreement with SECO. Our two companies' combined hardware and
software capabilities will allow us to
deliver solutions for our mutual customers that address
demanding use cases at cost effective price
points."
SECO CEO, Massimo Mauri commented: "This partnership
represents a great opportunity for SECO to leverage Raspberry Pi's
widely adopted hardware technology and combine the strengths of
both companies in software development. We are confident that our
combined expertise will drive business growth and innovation in the
industrial IoT space, delivering significant value to our
stakeholders."
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Notes to
Editor
Headquartered in Cambridge, UK,
Raspberry Pi's mission is to put high-performance, low-cost,
general-purpose computing platforms in the hands of enthusiasts and
engineers all over the world.
Raspberry Pi is a full-stack
engineering organisation, with research and development
capabilities spanning the entire value chain, from semiconductor IP
development, through semiconductor and electronic product design to
software engineering and regulatory compliance. The high
performance, low cost, and physical robustness of Raspberry Pi
products make them suitable for a wide range of applications,
across three distinct markets: Industrial and Embedded, Enthusiast
and Education, and Semiconductors.
The Company has distributed
approximately $230m since inception to support the work of the
Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity founded in 2008 and a major
shareholder in Raspberry Pi, to enable young people to realise
their potential through computing. Raspberry Pi has been recognised
with the London Stock Exchange's Green Economy Mark for its work in
reducing the carbon intensity of embedded computing.