Bluetooth

Internet of Things (IoT) services provider, Sigfox has awarded SGS ‘Accredited Test Lab’ (ATL) status for its testing and certification facilities in Shenzhen (China), New Taipei City (Taiwan) and Espoo (Finland).

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced a new direction finding feature that holds the potential to significantly enhance the performance of Bluetooth location services solutions. The new feature allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal,

Taoglas, a provider of IoT and automotive antenna and RF solutions, has completed its acquisition of ThinkWireless, Inc., an antenna provider that specialises in the design, development and production of combination antenna systems for the commercial vehicle market.

Silicon Labs has released new software options for its Wireless Gecko portfolio, enabling simultaneous sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) connectivity on a single chip. This Silicon Labs solution enables commercial and industrial IoT applications to combine long-range sub-GHz communications with Bluetooth connectivity,

Sierra Wireless, a provider of integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has released alpha samples of its next-generation mangOH® open source hardware platform.

Ayla Networks, whose Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivers device management and application enablement, has made its first official foray into the low-power cellular IoT market. Sunsea Telecommunications, Ayla’s joint-venture partner,

Wirepas, a provider of mesh software solutions, and Silicon Labs announced they have joined forces to deliver a combined hardware and software solution that unleashes the potential of multiprotocol connectivity for mesh networks.

u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, has announced the new NINA-B2 dual-mode Bluetooth® 4.2 stand-alone module, enabling industrial IoT applications thanks to its built-in secure boot and wide temperature ranges.

Silicon Labs has released the industry’s first comprehensive network performance results based on large-scale, multicast testing of Zigbee®, Thread and Bluetooth® mesh software. Each mesh networking protocol presents unique characteristics and advantages, depending on the use case and end application.

Organisations looking to break into the ever-expanding world of the ‘Internet of Things’ are faced with the monstrous challenge of designing, developing, and deploying their IoT applications, all while trying to source, integrate, and manage the infrastructure that operates behind the scenes to make these applications work. Before taking on this challenge to launch a

ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, will be exhibiting its integrated semiconductor-based systems solutions for the industrial, automotive and consumer sectors at this year’s Embedded World in Nuremberg.

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced the newly updated Renesas Synergy™ Platform website and Solutions Gallery that place the power of the Synergy ecosystem – from software to hardware – into the developers’ hands.

From heating to lighting, music to sensors, nCube gives complete control over the right ambience, security, energy and safety in the home through the modular hub and app. The 4 layers of stylish blue boxes will make any home smarter than ever before by bringing home automation to everyone’s fingertips.

Orange Cyberdefense, the Orange Group’s entity that specialises in cybersecurity, and Check Point Software Technologies have teamed up to deliver a new Orange service called Mobile Threat Protection to help multinational enterprises safeguard their mobile device fleets against current and emerging threats.

Alpha Micro Components announced the availability of the new Laird 60 Series of certified 802.11ac 2×2 MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and Bluetooth v4.2 modules. The 60 Series modules are based on cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, which not only help developers and designers get the most out of today’s most powerful wireless connectivity technologies,

On demand version The IoT is expected to explode as standards for wireless technologies rev-up specifications and capabilities to address the intense densification expected to happen at the edge of IoT to support large sensor and device swarm networks.  Analysts forecast the largest growth in IoT connections will come from wireless technologies that can scale