Month: August 2010

Technical comparison of ANT, ZigBee and Bluetooth

M2M componets
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Market name ANT ZigBee Bluetooth Standard Proprietary IEEE802.15.4 IEEE802.15.1 Application PANs and WSNs PANs and WSNs PANs Host resources (kByte) 2(0 with SensRcoreâ„¢) 100 250 Battery life (with coin-cell battery)§ 3+ years 4 to 6 months* 1 to 7 days* Max. network size (nodes) 2^32 2^64 7 Over the air transmission rate (kbit/s) 1000 250 […]

Beagle Board with UMTS / 3G modem extension

M2M componets, M2M industry news, Wireless M2M app examples
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The goal of the Wild ducks project is to run Symbian on off-the-shelf hardware. This page describes the hardware side of the project. All the large pieces can be bought online on a fairly small budget. We had to build a few cables ourselves to fit the pieces together. This will be described in detail.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-19

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Fastrax Introduces Always Location-Aware GPS Modules with an Battery-Saving Mode http://ow.ly/2oJTL # Low power network module with IP-addresses http://ow.ly/2nVzB # Build Your Own Phone… | Symbian Blog http://ow.ly/2otWZ # GPS Ceramic Chip Antenna http://ow.ly/2nVBe # Single-chip ANT ultra-low power wireless network solution http://ow.ly/2nVCN # ZigBee module on 868.3 MHz (EU) and 902 MHz to 928 […]