by Mike Benson | Nov 18, 2019 | Wireless
Wireless Comms Written by Mike Benson November 18, 2019 Nordic Semiconductor has launched the nRF5340, the world’s first wireless System-on-Chip (SoC) with two Arm® Cortex®-M33 processors. The new flagship SoC combines a superset of the most...
by Mike Benson | Oct 29, 2019 | Wireless
Wireless Comms Written by Mike Benson October 29, 2019 Bluetooth 5.1 SoC supporting Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Zigbee, qualified for up to 105°C ambient temperature The ultra-low power nRF52833 is a multiprotocol SoC with a Bluetooth® 5.1 Direction...
by Mike Benson | Apr 5, 2019 | Sensors, Wireless
Microchip has announced the industry’s smallest IEEE 802.15.4-compliant module that combines an ultra-low-power MCU with a sub-GHz radio, accelerating time to market and providing long battery life in wireless-networked sensors. At half the size of the next smallest...
by Mike Benson | Apr 5, 2019 | Wireless
The Nordic nRF52811 SoC builds on the success of Nordic’s nRF52 Series platform and brings greater levels of accessibility for applications that would benefit from advanced wireless IoT capabilities such as Bluetooth 5.1 Direction Finding as well as Thread and Zigbee...
by Mike Benson | Mar 1, 2019 | Embedded/Processing, Wireless
On January 28th the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released a new v5.1 version of the Bluetooth Core Specification supporting a brand-new feature called Direction Finding. This enhances existing Bluetooth Locationing Services with improved accuracy in...
by Mike Benson | Feb 25, 2019 | Press Releases, Wireless
The nRF9160 from Nordic – significantly smaller, lower power, and has more security features than any other cellular IoT module launched to date for both LTE-M & NB-IoT applications. It also has a host of unique IoT-targeted features, is certified for global...
by Glyn High Tech | Oct 25, 2018 | Wireless
Compact, flexible cellular connectivity for IoT devices and gateways New Digi Xbee3 LTE-M / NB-IoT module includes End product certification: One hardware platform for use on LTE-M/NB-IoT networks with multi-band support to integrate with many carriers FCC certified...
by Glyn High Tech | Oct 23, 2018 | Wireless
One of Glyn’s strong product partners Nordic Semiconductor, has recently announced a great product synergy. The Nordic nRF52840 multiprotocol System-on-Chip (SoC) and Nordic Zigbee software solution has been formally certified as a Zigbee Compliant platform to...
by Glyn High Tech | Sep 4, 2018 | Wireless
Telit’s Greg Winner talks IoT With the coming wireless revolution of Internet of Things (IoT), more than 20.4 billion devices are expected to be connected to one another by the year 2020, according to analyst firm, Gartner. Imagine being able to control every...
by Mike Benson | Aug 30, 2018 | Wireless
This overview article about contactless smart cards covers some of the basics of this widely applicable technology as well as looking at physical access control applications. Advantages Over Contact Smart Cards Contact smart cards never gained acceptance for use in...