In the video they mention public #WIFI e.g. at airports. At Mobile World Congress #MWC 2013 WIFI had its one zone. If WIFI will rise in public locations like airports and railway stations it will rise in industrial applications as well. WIFI in IoT – practical paradigm I already guideline the development of applications where […]
Category: M2M FAQ, hints, tips
How to become a Jedi?
With this new game controller childhood dreams come true. Everyone can now become a Jedi. In addition to video games, you can use it to control a home entertainment system or model air-plane. What’s missing in my opinion, are more new profiles in Bluetooth Smart. We need uniform interfaces and APIs. There is not just […]
Which radio approvels has your M2M device to pass? EA#
The table with radio approvals is not complete. Testing for world region Reference Type of testing Specifiaction Notes Europe R&TTE Directive Article 3.2 Mobile Communication – Radiated Spurious Emission 2G EN 301 511 POS terminal, People tracker, Electricity meter Europe R&TTE Directive Article 3.2 Radio – Radio test EN 300 220 – Transceiver (Tx, Rx […]
How will the ground plane effect your embedded antenna? EA#
The size of the ground plane of your embedded antenna will effect the performance In the introduction it was mentioned that the enclosure and the components close to the embedded antenna like battery or display will interfere. The size of your PCB will have an effect of the performance of your selected embedded antenna as […]
50 ANT slaves talking to one ANT master – ANT vers BLE Part 1
How to connect 50 ultra low power slaves to one master? Bluetooth Low Energy is limited because each wireless slave connected to the master will charge RAM. Nevertheless, Bluetooth Low Energy is just one 2400 MHz technology out of several others. In comparison to Bluetooth Low Energy a technology called ANT charges much less RAM. […]
Nothing will interfere your embedded antenna? EA#
Do you plan an M2M device with embedded antennas? You plan your own people, asset or pet tracker? You are aware that metal will short-cut the radio wave and will use a plastic enclosure? Plastic will not interfere? Sorry, but you are wrong. Everything in the near of your antennas will interfere. The best example […]
Comparsion of Bluetooth Low Energy – BLE – Bluetooth Smart ICs
BLE = Bluetooth Low Energy = Bluetooth Smart = a part of Bluetooth 4.0 Competitor vers. nRF51 (left side third party / right side nRF51 for my application) Switch Mode Power Supply & Linear regulators/ ditto Not supported / Individual power management for all peripherals inside the IC 1 x 10-bit ADC / 8/9/10 bit […]
Ordering pizza smart – by NFC
Message regarding ordering pizza by NFC to me Message: I appreciate the posting about ordering pizza by NFC. I contacted the company to ask if there was a simple way for a pizza shop to order these tags and what the cost was. The tags, at a qty of 1000, are .85 each unless the […]
Wireless M2M – 19 presentations for download – free
19 presentations about wireless M2M for download: https://www.box.com/s/oh7bxu8g23wis1bmqxla Day 1: Positioning: GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou, WIFI, Bluetooth Smart and GSM cell locating Day 2: Controlled by Smartphone: WIFI, ANT+, Bluetooth Smart, NFC, GPRS, HSPA Day 3: Internet of Things If you want for more details about the mentioned M2M components, a free of charge M2M […]
I can not get the modem to respond to AT commands
Support request for GSM modem by email to me I have hooked up my GSM modem to my PC and the SIM is registered on the network. But, I can not get the modem to respond to AT commands. I wonder if it needs a null modem on the rs232? From my terminal I see […]