STM: Small and Powerful RS485 Transceiver
The STR485 is a small and powerful RS485 transceiver with a dual data rate and compatibility with 1.8 V power supplies to significantly simplify designs. It also includes many fail-safe features to protect data from interferences and increase the safety of the entire system. No matter how smart a factory or an industrial complex is, the smallest components can cause massive delays and …
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Silicon Labs – BLE for Real Time Location Tracking
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Hrishikesh
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February 12, 2019
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Communication, Internet of Things, News, Wireless
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BLE, BLE 5.0, BLE 5.1, BlueTooth, GPS, IoT, Location based solutions, Location tracking, silicon labs
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US-based fabless semiconductor firm Silicon Labs has introduced its new Bluetooth-based direction finding solution, which is said to be the industry’s most comprehensive connectivity solution for the Internet of Things. The company’s retail, industrial and commercial customers can improve their location-based services like asset tracking, indoor navigation, space utilisation, and point-of-interest engagement, with the help of the direction finding feature …
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The Expansion of the Connected Device Market
The release of Bluetooth® Low Energy laid the foundation for mass adoption in the connected device market. Since 2010, there’s been a steady growth of Bluetooth Low Energy connected devices, and the need for and proliferation of the technology has led to the creation of a number of new connected device market segments, from everyday household items to health and …
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Moving Faster with Bluetooth 5.0
As the speed increases with Bluetooth® 5, don’t you want to move quickly too? Now it’s easy to pick up the pace with the first fully qualified Bluetooth 5 protocol stack for single-mode Bluetooth low energy applications from TI, supporting high-speed mode. Bluetooth 5 is groundbreaking. The new high-speed mode allows data transfers up to 2Mbps, twice the speed of …
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u-blox Announces Worlds Smallest Quad Band LTE Cat M1 Module
u‑blox has released the world’s smallest quad-band LTE Cat M1 module, the u-blox SARA‑R410M. By enabling remote devices to connect directly to 4G networks, the u-blox SARA‑R410M will aid the rollout of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, from smart metering to connected healthcare, and from industrial control and monitoring to smart buildings and cities. The 16 by …
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TI supports sub-GHz and Bluetooth on one MCU
Texas Instruments has announced a microcontroller with radios for both sub-GHz and Bluetooth low energy radios, claiming it to be the lowest power dual-band MCU yet. Called the CC1350 wireless MCU, it offers a range of up to 20km on a coin cell for building automation, factory automation, alarms, security, smart grid, asset tracking and wireless sensor networks. To see …
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USB Type-C: Enabling adoption of new standard for electronics
The days of carrying around multiple chargers and accessories for your smartphone, laptop and other electronic devices may be coming to an end, thanks to the next-generation universal serial bus called USB Type-C. Imagine charging all of your electronics with a single cable, powering your laptop battery as you drive to that next meeting, and simply plugging your notebook into …
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Connecting IoT devices to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub
SIGFOX has announced it will integrate the SIGFOX Cloud with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, enabling customers to use data for real-time analytics, make better decisions across diverse business functions, and intelligently automate operations. Currently operating in 14 countries, including the U.S., and registering over 7 million devices in its network, SIGFOX is the only provider of a subscription-based low-power, wide-area …
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What’s new with TI Bluetooth Smart? See it all at Bluetooth World 2016
Bluetooth® Smart technology is undergoing major enhancements that will enable a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications from connected homes to connected cars to factory automation to asset and people locationing and tracking. These new enhancements, including longer range, mesh networking, higher throughput and higher security, when combined with the huge install base of Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices gives …
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