Internet of Things

Renesas and Sequans will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT. The collaboration between the two companies includes providing support for multiple ...

GlobalFoundries is accelerating innovation in the IoT and wearables markets with the specialised Adaptive Body Bias (ABB) feature of its industry-leading 22FDX platform. The ABB feature affords designers significantly more precision when fine-tuning the transistor threshold voltage of a circuit, enabling them to more effectively optimize the performance, energy efficiency, area, and reliability of a chip to meet the needs ...

The Zigbee Alliance – which oversees Zigbee, the IoT-friendly wireless standard – has launched a Europe Interest Group, made up of volunteer members with a shared focus on Zigbee in the European market. Areas of interest include the Connected Home over IP project (CHIP). This has the aim of establishing a royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home ...

GNSS antenna modules by Reyax are claimed to have smallest dimensions available today. The company’s GPS, Glonass, Galileo and BeiDo modules are now available from Manhattan Skyline. The RYS8830 is a small form factor, low power 1.8V UART/I2C interface GNSS antenna module, built on the high performance Sony CXD5605GF CXD5605AGF GNSS engine. It uses concurrent reception of GNSS systems for ...

U-blox has announced a module combining Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 and dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores – M33 is Arm’s security-enabled small embedded core. Called Nora-B1, at 10.4 x 14.3 x 1.8mm the modules are tiny, and they operate at up to 105°C for industrial and outdoor lighting use. Bluetooth and MCU cores are supplied by a Nordic Semiconductor nRF5340 chip, around which ...

In collaboration with Siemens, codestryke and Shiratech, Arrow Electronics announces cloud analytics for industrial IoT applications, based on Siemen’s ‘open cloud’ IoT-as-a-service platform, MindSphere. The ensemble ranges from sensors to gather data and connectivity hardware to analysis and reporting software, made available to companies to offer access to hardware, tools and consultancy services that match specific requirements of companies implementing industry ...

Cypress’ integrated microcontroller and wireless solutions provide a secure platform for IoT product design, writes the company. IoT-AdvantEdge solutions enable IoT device manufacturers to bring secure, connected products to market faster, cheaper, and with fewer headaches. Now the capabilities of IoT-AdvantEdge have been extended to reduce IoT development risk even more. Reduce Integration Risk AnyCloud in the ModusToolbox suite brings ...

The Z-Wave Alliance has announced the Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification, increasing the low-power protocol’s range and scalability. The standards organisation for developing the wireless smart home protocol, says it increases the wireless range fourfold, with 10x node scalability for larger network support and 10-year coin cell battery life. It also maintains Z-Wave backward compatibility. Basically, Z-Wave connectivity is ...

Software tools in the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm version 8.50.6 have been updated by IAR Systems to include coverage for the low power Renesas RE microcontroller family. The microcontroller family is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ core. It targets low power consumption IoT devices, such as wearables and also sensing applications for homes, buildings, factories and agriculture where recharging or ...

Can something be made to run on the power of its buttons being pushed? Northwestern University thinks so. Working with Delft University of Technology, its researchers built something that looks, feels and works like an 8bit Nintendo Game Boy. “It’s the first battery-free interactive device that harvests energy from user actions,” claimed Northwestern engineer Josiah Hester. “When you press a ...