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By Stefano Moioli, Director Product Management Cellular, u-blox AG and Thomas Nigg, Senior Director Product Strategy Positioning, u-blox AG The rate of growth of machine-to-machine (M2M) connections now far exceeds new connections between people and very soon there will be many more machines than people connecting over cellular networks, as shown in the GSM Association […]

Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of its PD-9001GI and PD-9501GI Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) midspan injectors, expanding the company’s industry-leading PoE product offering into new industrial and outdoor applications. The PD-9001GI and PD-9501GI industrial PoE midspans are targeted at applications including physical security, WLAN infrastructure, cellular infrastructure and industrial automation. According to market research firm Technavio, the […]

By Tony Milbourn, Vice President Corporate Strategy u-blox AG Tony Milbourn is responsible for Strategy at u-blox AG. u-blox is a Swiss supplier of location and communications modules and chips focused on industrial, automotive and consumer applications, particularly in the Internet of Things. Tony has 30 years’ experience in the mobile communications industry. He was […]

In the accelerating consumer and industrial Internet of Things marketplace, the need for enhanced performance, security and power management has never been more prevalent. With an increasing number of power hungry, graphically intense devices entering the market daily, it’s clear the process for system developers is becoming more and more complex – and this is […]

Silicon Labs introduced its highly anticipated Thread networking solution, delivering a software stack built upon years of mesh networking expertise and the industry’s most advanced mesh networking software development tools. Silicon Labs’ Thread solution offers developers the fastest path to developing Thread-compliant products for the IoT including thermostats, wireless sensor networks, smoke/carbon monoxide detectors, connected […]

Renesas Electronics announced a new wireless solution that supports the Bluetooth® Smart near field wireless communication standard. The new RL78/G1D Group of microcontrollers (MCUs) has been developed by combining the low-power RF Transceiver Technology for Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), which the company presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February, 2015, with […]

Now new from ATMEL – Wifi and BLE modules as well. These are already certified modules with the focus on low power IoT applications. This makes it possible for almost any design to be integrated quite easily into the IoT network, and to do it the developer does not need any know-how with regard to […]

SOMNIUM® Technologies has been working closely with Freescale to provide solutions for Kinetis MCU software developers to address the IoT node design challenges. This blog was contributed by David Edwards, founder, CEO and CTO of SOMNIUM. The degree of sophistication within modern embedded system designs is phenomenal. MCUs today provide more processing and memory capacity […]

Easy-to-Use Module, Software Stack and Scripting Language Accelerate Applications Requiring Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth® Classic Connectivity. Silicon Labs unveiled a dual-mode Bluetooth® Smart Ready module solution that gives embedded developers unparalleled flexibility to integrate both Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) wireless technologies while minimizing design time, cost and complexity. The new […]

At the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in Austin, Texas, Freescale unveiled the first product in its new SCM portfolio.Designed to function as a computer on a chip, the i.MX 6Dual SCM is enabled for DDR memory and combines the performance of Freescale’s i.MX 6Dual applications processor together with a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), flash […]