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NEWS: Is voice service via LPWAN IoT feasible?

Voice communications using cellular networks from 2G to 3G/LTE is with us for a long time, but does it makes sense to use voice on locations powered by batteries (low power) with LTE-M service as well? In comparison NBIoT is used for even lower powered applications and due to very low bandwidth can’t support voice. According to the chip vendors and two major USA telcos LTE-M + voice makes sense. Potential applications would be smart alarm panel or maybe in the industry vertical where a remote sensor can (apart from sending some data) be used as a voice interface from…

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September 2, 2018

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NEWS: Huawei helping accelerate power line communications IoT standard

PLC stands for Power Line Communications and it is a way to communicate via power lines. This is a great thing since existing power lines can be used hence no additional fixed cabling and no wireless is necessary. However, there are some bandwidth and range constraints. The new IEEE 1901.1 standard that is now backed by Huawei promises to support bandwidths of up to 4 Mbit/s and range of around 1 km (bigger range can be achieved using repeaters). There are quite a lot of interesting use cases for this PLC-IoT solution including Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), smart metering solution,…

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September 2, 2018

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Company review – myDevices

MyDevices is an IoT solution company with the idea of helping people to quickly design, make a prototype and go to market with their IoT solution. This seems a bit bold statement, so I decided to check out their business concept. They have simple drag and drop IoT project builder called Cayenne. It contains a "Cayenne IoT ready" catalog of devices but it also allows adding new device to the library by utilizing MQTT API and on the IoT Ready Program partners we see a lot of well known names. Also, there's a myDevices Cayenne Community that can help you with your project…

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September 1, 2018

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NB-IoT and LTE-M development kits

We’ve already been writing about Arduino development boards, but now I’d focus on development boards that do offer NB-IoT and LTE-M connectivity. The reason for this is the fact that lately we see a lot of IoT business development being done by the MNOs, thus availability of NB-IoT and/or LTE-M connectivity is becoming a common thing these days all over the world. If you’re aiming a large scale IoT project or just some hobby IoT project, I believe that it would be a waste of time to do it all by yourself. The best practice would be to use all…

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August 26, 2018

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Libelium – company review

About the company Libelium is a Spanish company founded in 2006. with deployments in more than 120 countries. Their motto is to connect any sensor via any connectivity to any cloud platform. Libelium’s main product is Waspmote, an IoT end device supporting various connectivity protocols. Good thing about Libelium is that they offer more than 110 sensors of various kind to detect gases, events, water, ions, cars, and even radiation. With it’s products, Libelium is covering quite a lot of verticals: smart cities, smart environment, smart water, smart metering, security and emergencies, retail, logistics, industrial control, smart agriculture, home automation…

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August 24, 2018

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Kerlink – company review

About Kerlink Kerlink is French company founded back in 2004. When it started offering M2M products and solutions, and currently it is focused on offering end-to-end LoRaWAN connectivity solutions. LoRaWAN is LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) technology built on top of Semtech’s chips that is low power, long range, fully bidirectional, has native geolocation, deep indoor penetration, is secure, cost efficient uses a free unlicensed band and is an open standard. More about LoRa in my previous comparison LoRa vs SigFox. Kerlink is co-founder of the LoRa alliance which puts them in a good position to be on the…

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August 23, 2018