Renesas to soon bring BLE 5.3 specification MCUs
The Timeline 2009: Bluetooth 4.0 focused on Low Energy as its selling point and was targetting low power/battery-operated devices, especially in the IoT and mobile sector. 2019: Added finding functionality. Calculating the Angle of Arrival or a received packet or providing Angle of Departure in the packet, proved to be a big leap in the asset tracking and management sector, especially again in the …
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Toshiba and Nordic Semi team-up to launch the World’s Smallest BLE Module
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Tokyo, Japan-based multinational conglomerate, Toshiba Corporation, has selected the 2.48 by 2.46mm wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP) version of Nordic’s nRF52811 Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) to provide the core processing power and wireless connectivity for its ‘Bluetooth module with SASP Technology’. The module with integrated antenna comes in a miniaturized 4 …
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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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STM Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0
With 799 parts in the STM32 family, you might expect the MCUs that push the family across the 800-device threshold to be seminal devices — and they are. Today, ST announced the STM32WB, its first dual Arm® Cortex®-M-core MCUs in a new pillar of devices that complement the three existing high-performance, mainstream, and ultra-low power pillars of the STM32 family by emphasizing …
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Nordic BLE powered Data Logger for Cold Chain Shipments
Nordic Semiconductor-powered Bluetooth Low Energy data logger provides verified cold chain monitoring of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical shipments Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Zurich, Switzerland-based technology start-up, modum.io AG, has selected Nordic’s award-winning nRF52832 Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) System-on-Chip (SoC) for its temperature logger. The device offers logistics companies an end-to-end cold chain monitoring and tracking solution for pharmaceutical supply chain …
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New STM32 Kit Integrates Cloud Connectivity and Sensors for IoT Device Development
Let us take a look at the B-L475E-IOT01A Discovery kit announced by STMicroelectronics. The kit combines cloud connectivity with low-power capabilities to allow fast and easy IoT device development. The STM32 MCU The STM32 family of microcontrollers currently has ten different series, based off of five 32-bit ARM Cortex processor cores. The B-L475E-IOT01A Discovery kit was built around an MCU …
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