Thread vs Bluetooth: The IoT battle of low-power protocols (Reader Forum)
The war of Internet of Things (IoT) connections is here. Following years of trial and error to connect battery-based devices with Wi-Fi — the ubiquitous yet power-sucking internet access …
‘Open to any discussion’ – Sigfox on hooking up with LoRaWAN, scaling up with Google
Let’s cut to the chase: will Sigfox and LoRaWAN, painted as arch rivals at the low-power end of the IoT space, ever be combined into a single IoT solution? Will …
First dual-mode MIOTY and BLE solution released for short and long-range IoT
Toronto-based BehrTech has combined with Texas Instruments to release the first dual-stack low-power IoT chip to run both wide-area MIOTY and short-range Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity. The unit makes …
Nordic Semiconductor Wireless Quarterly
The Wireless Quarter is intended to keep readers up-to-date on what’s happening with Bluetooth Low Energy, low power cellular IoT, ANT+, Thread, Zigbee, low power Wi-Fi and RF proprietary wireless …
DALI Alliance intros new Bluetooth gateway spec for in-building mesh networks
The DALI Alliance, the trade group representing the DALI smart-lighting interface, has released a new gateway specification to allow intelligent lighting fixtures to talk to Bluetooth mesh networks, and to …
100,000 units, ‘and growing’ – Wirepas, Ingy strike monster deal for indoor smart lighting
IoT connectivity provider Wirepas has closed a monster-sized deal with smart lighting provider Ingy for 100,000 units of its mesh networking solution, to be combined with Ingy’s indoor lighting control …
Nordic Semiconductor brings ‘tiny’ AI to BLE-based IoT chips, claims ‘industry-first’
IoT chipmaker Nordic Semiconductor has added artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to its flagship series of Bluetooth IoT chips, to bring contextual insights at the very edge on low-power …
From vehicles to vaccines (and BLE to NB-IoT): five key asset tracking use cases
1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as …
FedEx intros BLE tracking solution ahead of COVID-19 vaccine shipments
FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in …
NHS starts rollout of Covid-19 mesh networks at Scottish care homes
The NHS in Scotland has deployed a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi based mesh network to reduce the spread of viruses including Covid-19 at a care home in Inverness. IoT networking company …
