In Patras, Greece, they work on smart city technology development using NB-IoT has started. But how can the developers avoid the need for a SIM card and its subscription? Technical needs The smart lighting controller, for example, has been sending one status update message of 40 bytes every five minutes and a message containing energy consumption […]
Rank 1 to 3 I have rated by the number of LPWAN base stations. If I rate by the density of the base stations per square meter then the Netherlands is in the first place. We could also rate by the number of base stations per inhabitant. I decided to rate the base stations per […]
Are we able to make a mint of money with such a low-cost BLE-GPRS-GPS-gateway? If yes then it makes sense to follow a train of thoughts listed in my IoT M2M Cookbook. Everybody can make such a gateway real for less than USD 15. In my IoT M2M Cookbook – excerpt here: http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m_iot_cookbook I explained […]
A dream came true. Within the last days, NB-IoT is moving in big steps. Orders for a new combined module on NB-IoT (LTE-Catt-NB1), LTE-Cat-M1, GPRS and GNSS (GPS, GLONASS) are welcome. If you miss NB-IoT or Cat-M1 for now, then just use the GPRS radio inside the module. Requests for data sheets, orders for samples […]
“akor” is the Proto-Celtic word for “open”. The akorIoT radio adapter with its Arduino R3 header has an open HW and SW concept and supports the multi-mode cellular module B96 as well. Based on that it is the world’s first Arduino shield with the support of both new cellular LPWAN technologies LTE-Cat-NB1 (NB-IoT) and LTE-Cat-M1. […]
Today the bunny will jump out of the heat. Next week at the embedded world you have a chance to win a Gold, Silver, Bronze and Student kit. The Student kit has a higher value than the Bronze kit. Students are our future. All kits together have a value of mare than Euro 10000. The […]
We have extensively tested the HARduino board over the past few days. We have been testing the GSM version due to the lack of NB-IoT coverage in the region of our office in the North of Germany but both NB-IoT and GSM exhibit the same characteristics in the tests we carried out. The AT command set […]
Bluetooth Low Energy to cellular gateway/hub – concept 1 BLE to cellular gateway The concept is based on a Smart Module. Smart modules offer all in one. The radio part and the SOM are inside the same module. The two antennas will have a bill of material of USD 0 because both could be PCB […]
Self Made Embedded Antenna Design versus Chip Antenna The wireless Internet of Things has a need for inexpensive wireless modules and antennas. An LTE-Cat-NB1-module (NB-IoT) will cost less than US$ 6 at 1K order. A self-made NB-IoT antenna on PCB could cost US$ 0. Within 60 minutes you will learn which is commercially and technically […]
This Wi-Fi module arrived yesterday. The complete package includes the Wi-Fi module, a USB connector and a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) to USB converter. The operating voltage is supplied via USB from the PC. After plugging the module into the USB port, a standard terminal software application was started on the PC. With the first […]