To cater to the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, Intel today extended the Intel IoT Developer Kit by releasing the Intel XDK IoT Edition, simplifying the development of IoT apps written in JavaScript. The tool provides makers with an integrated approach to create, run and debug apps on Intel Edison and Intel Galileo boards. The boards are based on Intel's low-power Quark processor and also support scripts written with the popular Arduino hardware and SDK.

In addition, Intel XDK IoT Edition can be used to develop an HTML5 companion app that runs on phones, tablets and PCs to control the IoT devices.

Intel announced the XDK IoT Edition on the same day ARM announced an operating system called mbed for IoT at the TechCon conference in Santa Clara, California.

Intel XDK IoT Edition is available as a free download for Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux.