Tag: Components

Why paying for complier, licence fee, property rights, antennas, schematics and code? Today: Trailer detection by active RFID

Reference design trailer detection for OBU One Board Unit by using active RFID Description of the trailer detection by active RFID At the trailer is a 2400 MHz transceiver working as active RFID tag and it transmits its unique ID each few seconds. By selecting the duty cycle the standby time of the battery will […]

Arduino plus GSM / GPS shield and Google Earth to create a GPS tracker

Arduino with GSM / GPS shield A new version of the library and the example program for the Arduino GSM/GPRS/GPS-Shield is available. Version 1.2 allows for both the Arduino Duemilanove/UNO, as well as for the Arduino Mega2560 to transmit the current GPS coordinates in formatted form via SMS. This data can then be entered to […]

GE864 GSM modem – Hints, tips and schematic diagrams for M2M app free of charge

GE864 GSM modem as a glance Small size (30x30x2.8 mm), lightweight (3.2 g) and easy to integrate GSM Quad Band Low power consumption R&TTE type approval plus CE, GCF, FCC, PTCRB, IC Full RS232 on CMOS level with flow control (RX, TX, CTS, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR, DCD, RI) Embedded TCP/IP Stack UDPIP Stack , […]

Santa, please help with a smart phone including radio link ANT, ANT+ or Bluetooth LE

Santa Claus, I hope for it that you read my blog. I want a smart phone with a low power radio link like ANT+ (also called ANTplus) or Bluetooth Low Energy. I know that you have a lot to do at the moment. There are many smart phones on the web page listed here. Can you give me one of Sony Ericsson?

First snow in 2010 – Santa Claus please help me with a Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy controlled robot to clean the sideway!

We all have access to the new integrated circuit that already comes with Bluetooth and a micro controller like the MD8710 The MD8710 was planned to be used in the healthcare sector for medical applications, but why not using it for my new smart home? As mentioned in an earlier blog post, we all will […]

ANT the coin cell battery powered WSN (wireless sensor network) – Free webinar

ANT is a low-power wireless networking protocol. It has the same audience like Bluetooth Low Energy. In contrast to Bluetooth LE the ANT protocol allows full mesh network topology. Furtermore it is already widespread in sports and healthcare. The ANT alliance has more than 300 members (e.g. Adidas, Garmin or Timex). The member no. 300 was the manufacturer of phones, Sony Ericsson.