Internet of Things

The research institute and manufacturer announced a five-year common lab to design components for 5G networks and harsh environments. Announced during Leti Innovation Days in Grenoble, the lab will develop low profile, millimeter-wave antenna solutions for backhaul/fronthaul applications. Figure 1: The backhaul refers to the network links between the radio base stations and the network controller/gateway sites. The fronthaul is ...

Dialog has launched the first Wi-Fi SoC since it bought Silicon Motion’s mobile communications product line in May. The FC9000 is targeted at battery-powered IoT devices such as smart door locks, video monitoring systems, smart thermostats, and wireless sensors enabling direct connectivity to Wi-Fi networks, while typically supporting a battery power lifetime greater than one year. Previously, devices running on Zigbee, ...

Able to detect human body, face and hands, and estimate the gaze, blink, age, gender and facial expressions such as happiness, surprise, anger and sadness, the Human Vision Component is an imaging sensing unit, comprised of a camera module and a separate main board that can be installed on the edge of a flat display. The HVC from Omron Electronic ...

Fractus Antennas is aiming at narrow-band-IoT, LoRa, Sigfox, LTE-M and Zigbee with an antenna evaluation board and application note that covers 824-960MHz and 1.71-2.69GHz through a single input/output port. It uses firm’s FR01-S4-224 antenna (see diagram), which has a 12 x 3mm footprint – a device which featured in an earlier 863-928MHz app note design – but this time in a ...

Believed to be one of the first devices to support Bluetooth Core 5.1, Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52811 SoC is now available from Rutronik UK The Bluetooth Core 5.1 specification was introduced early this year and adds tracking and location functions. The nRF52811 is a multi-protocol SoC that supports IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread and ZigBee and also Bluetooth Direction Finding and Bluetooth Long Range for direction ...

Distributor, Farnell, has added four compact Arduino MKR shields to its Arduino product range. The accessories – three shields and a motor carrier – can be integrated into battery-powered IoT applications in industrial automation, environmental monitoring, agriculture, tracking and energy monitoring projects. The ENV Shield, RGB Shield and Therm Shield have a standard, modular design and are powered by a 32-bit Arm ...

Arrow Electronics, Infineon and Arkessa have joined forces to provide connected devices for the IoT, based on the GSMA’s eSIM specification for secure communications. The agreement sees Infineon’s secured hardware controllers and Arkessa’s secured mobile data services provided by Arrow to OEMs, system integrators and enterprises for secure cellular services. Infineon’s SLM security controllers are based on eSIM and can be coupled ...

MEMS oscillators from SiTime have been added to the range of IoT-targeted frequency control products available from AEL Crystals. The company explains that the IoT brings fresh challenges for frequency control manufacture as it requires products to accommodate multiple protocols, such as Bluetooth,  ZigBee, Z-Wave, 6LoWPAN, CSR Mesh / Bluetooth Low Energy, Sigfox and Thread. Designs are also expected to require lower power consumption ...

Based on Toshiba’s TC35680 chip controller, the PAN1762 is the latest RF module from Panasonic that is now available from Mouser. The low power Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) 5.0 module is designed for used in the IoT, beacon and mesh networks to transmit large amounts of data wirelessly. The single-chip controller has an Arm Cortex-M0 core with a serial wire debug (SWD) interface and ...

Developers and makers can take an existing microcontroller application that does not have wireless connectivity and, using just two GPIO pins, add it without modifying the original firmware, via IoTize‘s TapNLink products for Bluetooth and near field communications (NFC) products. The French start up company has signed a distribution agreement with Digi-Key to resell the wireless connectivity products for microcontroller-based embedded systems as ...