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Dallas, United States – Texas Instruments has introduced a new SimpleLink family of Wi-Fi 6 companion integrated circuits (ICs) to help designers implement highly reliable and secure Wi-Fi connections at an affordable price for applications that operate in high-density or high-temperature environments up to 105ºC.

Berkeley, United States – LEXI has announced that LEXI IoT gateway with support for LoRaWan is now shipping to customers. Adding LoRaWan to the universal LEXI platform multiplies market potential by bringing together smart home and commercial building technologies into one multi-protocol gateway.

Berkeley, United States – LEXI, the company behind the comprehensive IoT technologies that are transforming how both enterprises and consumers manage and automate their smart spaces, announced the LEXI IoT platform – a sizable step forward in easing the IoT experience for everyone connecting products, across apps, and across ecosystems.

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is helping increase industrial productivity and reduce waste and pollution with its smart wireless module. Conceived for Industry 4.0 applications, this module, the STM32WB5MMGH6, simplifies using ST’s innovative wireless microcontrollers in powerful use cases like I-care Group’s intelligent equipment condition monitoring.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. unveiled a Modular IoT Gateway Solution for large node networks (LNNs) with pre-integrated, tested and RF certified support for a wide array of wireless communications protocols including Thread, ZigBee and Wi-Fi.

CEVA, Inc., a licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, has introduced a new lightweight, multi-purpose, processor IP core to streamline the design of cellular-enabled low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices.

Active Assisted Living Elderly people represent an ever-growing proportion of the population. By 2025, there will be 820 million people aged 65 and older globally. The shift in demographics towards an ageing population will make it impossible to keep everyone who needs care in hospital. Fortunately, advanced bio‑monitoring systems and remote monitoring technologies make it

GreenPeak Technologies will demonstrate its single radio multi-protocol and multi-channel chipset for ZigBee and Thread networks at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The Internet of Things (IoT) push will continue for manufacturers, in 2016 this will still be a technology push rather than a consumer pull.

Consumers are gradually upgrading to smart homes, and radio protocols such as Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, ZigBee, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy are currently the preferred wireless protocols from a global perspective.

Strong growth is expected for the smart connected home appliance market in the next five years, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. In fact many appliance makers are already shifting focus from low-profit, low-growth traditional (non-smart) products, toward the emerging high-margin, revenue-oriented smart connected appliance market.

The new GP712 for gateways and set-top boxes makes IoT solutions future-proof, at no additional cost