Mikroe has introduced a narrowband LTE IoT communication development board in its ‘Click’ format. It is called ‘NB IoT 6 Click’, and its active wireless module is the BC65 from Shanghai based Quectel, a low-power (4μA) device compliant with 3GPP Release 13 and Release 14, supporting LTE bands B1, B3, B5, B8, B20 and B28 across 700MHz to 2.2GHz. LTE ...
Leankon has announced a 40 x 5 x 1mm surface-mount antenna intended to support 4G LTE and GNSS globally. Called LK1830201, it covers three bands simultaneously through a single 50Ω port: 698 – 960MHz: <-6dB return loss, <3 VSWR, >60% av efficiency, 1.4 dBi peak gain 1,710 – 2,690MHz: <-7dB return loss, <2.6 VSWR, >65% av efficiency, 3.5dBi peak gain ...
The Spanish satcoms startup Sateliot has closed its €70 million Series B funding round with the addition of €10 million from Hyperion Fund. The Hyperion investment follows those of SETT (a Spanish Government fund), Global Portfolio Investments, European Investment Bank (EIB) and shareholders including Indra, Cellnex, and SEPIDES. The company says it will fund the deployment of a constellation of ...
Mikroe has introduced a dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT tranceiver in its ‘Click’ board circuit prototyping format. Called ‘LTE IoT 10 Click’, it is built around Sequans’ Monarch GM02S IC, which supports global 617MHz to 2.2GHz operation. The board is 3GPP LTE Release 14 compliant, and can be upgraded to Release 17, according to Mikroe. Transmission is at up to +23dBm, ...
Digi International and SparkFun Electronics have designed a development board that adds peripherals around a socket for Digi’s XBee wireless modules. Called ‘SparkFun Digi XBee development board’, it is designed for prototyping cellular IoT applications using one of several Digi’s XBee wireless modules – the socket footprint is Digi’s 13 x 19mm XBee 3 micro form factor – in particular ...
Linx Technologies is aiming at sub-6GHz 5G New Radio, LTE, LTE-M and NB-IoT with a range of flexible stick-on antennas. Measuring 120 x 20mm, “ANT-5GW-FPC antennas provide a ground plane-independent dipole,” according to the company, which is now part of TE Connectivity. “The flexibility and adhesive backing make the series easier to mount in RF-transparent – for example plastic – ...
RangeAnt has created a family of 700MHz to 3GHz antennas, designed primarily for cellular, IoT and GNSS applications. “They feature free-space efficiency of between 80 and 90% and a VSWR below 2:1 across the operating bands,” according to the company. “The high efficiency delivers greater range for available transmitter power, or a lower transmitter power can be used for a ...
U-blox has combined LPWA (low-power wide-area) connectivity and GNSS (satellite navigation) into a single 14 x 14 x 1.5mm package – half the size of the company’s functionally-similar Sara-R5 module (16 x 26 x 2.2mm). Called Alex-R5, it is based on u-blox’ secured UBX-R5 LTE-M and NB-IoT, plus its M8 GNSS chip. “By bringing all technology building blocks in-house and ...
UK consultancy 42 Technology has ported a Rust programming language application to a single-chip IoT device, claiming it as a world first. “Rust is a very-high-performance alternative to systems programming languages such C and C++, which avoids the memory safety issues that plague those languages, and without the complexity and overhead of Java,” according to the firm. “It is the ...
U-blox has announced a series of LTE-M and NB-IoT modules for low power wide area (LPWA) IoT applications, its most advanced, secure and highly integrated cellular product. Called SARA-R5 and built on the firm’s UBX-R5 cellular chipset and M8 GNSS receiver chip, “by integrating a hardware-based root-of-trust in a discrete secure element within the UBX-R5 chipset, we are paving the ...
