Part its ‘IoT Evolve’ programme, CENSIS teamed up with consultancy FarrPoint to monitor humidity, temperature and visitor numbers in the Ravenspoint Centre Museum (right) using a LoRaWAN network – adding to an existing network which covers the museum’s storage facility. Visitor tracking sensors are now mooted for the on-site café. “The system will automate data collection, a task previously performed ...
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37,000 Aberdeen street lights networked over LoRa
In the The Lighting Up Aberdeen project, North has worked with Aberdeen City Council to build an urban LoRa wireless IoT network to manage over 37,000 lighting units across the city, all from a central management system. “The lighting system also includes custom dimming profiles to manage the level of energy required at any given time, automated fault reporting for ...
LoRa, GNSS and cloud service on Arduino MKR-style module for 15km range IoT
Move-X is aiming at tracking applications that need meter-level accuracy and a long-range battery-powered wireless connection with a module that is physically compatible with Arduino’s 63mm long MKR boards. Called Cicerone, it is built around u-blox’ MAXM10S GNSS (sat nav) receiver module and Move-X’ MAMWLE LoRa transceiver module, which has a Semtech SX126x inside. “This combination allows for synergy between ...
Multi-protocol 700 MHz to 3,000 MHz IoT antenna is over 80% efficient
RangeAnt has created a family of 700MHz to 3GHz antennas, designed primarily for cellular, IoT and GNSS applications. “They feature free-space efficiency of between 80 and 90% and a VSWR below 2:1 across the operating bands,” according to the company. “The high efficiency delivers greater range for available transmitter power, or a lower transmitter power can be used for a ...
Digi-Key to host Private LoRaWAN for IoT webinar
Digi-Key Electronics, along with Machinechat and Seeed Studio, will host a webinar on Private LoRaWAN projects, dubbed ‘How to build and deploy a private LoRaWAN IoT project within days’. Taking place on Thursday 31 March 31, at 11 a.m. (CST) it will be presented by Daryl Miller, head of solutions engineering for Machinechat. You can register for it here. Its ...
Semtech and Lacuna Space add IoT-to-Satellite connectivity to LoRaWAN
Semtech and Lacuna Space aim to extend the coverage of LoRaWAN by adding IoT-to-Satellite connectivity. “We have trials and demonstrations underway in many countries and regions that were previously thought to be inaccessible to IoT,” says Lacuna Space CEI Rob Spurrett, “with this collaboration, we expect to begin commercial services within the first half of 2022.” The collaboration is built on Long Range ...
Digi-Key, Seeed Studio, Machinechat introduce private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box
Digi-Key Electronics is partnering with Seeed Studio and Machinechat for what it describes as the industry’s first private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box solutions for affordable and secure IoT. It’s aimed at IoT developers and engineers, and it combines Seeed’s Studio SenseCAP gateways and sensors with the Machinechat JEDI Pro Seeed Studio Edition software. The aim is to quickly deploy commercial IoT LoRa projects in ...
Sub-GHz wireless MCU for two-layer boards supports LoRa
STMicroelectronics has added a QFN48 package to its STM32WLE5 wireless SoCs. Called STM32WLE5Cx “the new 7mm x 7mm package option makes it suited to a simplified two-layer board design that eases manufacturing”, according to the company – ‘x’ decides how much flash is available. These chips combine an ARM Cortex-M4 STM32L4 microcontroller with Semtech’s SX126x sub-GHz radio IP. They support ...
LoRaWAN HAT for Raspberry Pi
A LoRaWAN Gateway with RAK2245 Pi HAT on a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC is described on Hackster.io by Attila Tőkés. The RAK2245 is a Raspberry Pi HAT featuring a LoRaWAN multichannel concentrator module (SX1301) and a GPS module (Ublox MAX-7Q). There are multiple versions with support for all the major frequency regions (EU433, CN470, IN865, EU868, AU915, US915, KR920, ...
Insight SiP signs TME
Insight SiP, the developer of miniature RF modules with embedded antennas, using SiP and Antenna-in-Package technology, has signed an international distribution agreement with TME of Lódź. TME has a worldwide distribution network with particular strength in Poland and Eastern Europe, and is one of the world’s fastest growing electronics distributors. From today, TME can supply RF modules across Insight SiP’s ...