A European Electronic Communications (EEC) committee has approved the new Low Power Device-to-Satellite (LPD-S) regulatory framework. The draft decision follows a multi-year initiative by the LoRa Alliance to formalise this LPD-S category. Basically, it formally defines the conditions that low power devices communicating with satellites will need to fulfil. This is for connecting directly to satellites without the need for ...
The European-funded SPACE4Cities initiative has selected 20 innovative projects for its €2.8 million competition winners. The winning systems focus on using satellite data to support urban planning and tackle challenges in both climate adaptation and sustainable mobility. Basically, the smart use of European satellite data for the better management of public spaces. Each of the 20 winners will receive up ...
Tiago Rodrigues provides an update on the long range, low power connectivity standard that he believes is the next big thing for the IoT. Wi-Fi HaLow has been called an IoT enabler that overcomes the challenges faced by wireless low-power IoT devices, but what is it, and why does it matter? Also known as IEEE 802.11ah, Wi-Fi HaLow began life ...
LG Electronics has showcased its latest IoT-NTN (Internet of Things – Non-Terrestrial Networks) technology in a vehicle out on the streets of Paris. It features AI-powered voice compression. A live test featured the car equipped with the company’s IoT-NTN-based Telematics Control Units (TCUs). LG said it demonstrated uninterrupted, conversation-level voice communication switching between terrestrial and non-terrestrial network environments. “Our IoT-NTN ...
Silicon Labs has moved to 22nm for its latest series of wireless MCUs for IoT nodes. Announced today, there are parts for Zigbee, Bluetooth and Matter-over-Thread, and for mains or battery power. SixG301 is the mains-powered (line-powered) family, where ‘x’ becomes ‘B’ for the Bluetooth LE (and Bluetooth mesh) focussed variant, or ‘M’ for multi-protocol types. Concurrent multi-protocol operation will ...
At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Lee Harrison, Director of Product Marketing at Siemens, and Dr. Shahram Mossayebi, Founder and CEO of Crypto Quantique, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. They discuss how design for test is a critical part of any semiconductor, but with DFT requirements around the collection of in-life silicon health ...
CSignum, a startup for wireless IoT communications from beneath the surface, has completed a £6 million Series A funding round. The Edinburgh company says the investment will accelerate growth of its EM-2 family of products. These use patented electromagnetic field signalling (EMFS) for communicating through challenging sub-surface environments. For example, through water, ice, soil, rock and concrete to networks above ...
Lyon-based ITEN has released more details of its 3.5 x 5.1 x 1.6mm surface-mount micro-battery, intended to be the main store in energy-harvesting wireless IoT nodes, and now due for release in Q3 of this year. Called PWY0150S, it will has a minimum capacity of 150µAh and a nominal 2.3V terminal voltage – actual charge-discharge range is 2.7 to 1.5V, ...
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 ...
STMicroelectronics has announced a series of AI-enabled and security-enabled industrial and IoT microcontrollers: STM32MP235. The parts have dual Arm Cortex-A35 cores (1.3 or 1.5GHz depending on version), a 400MHz Cortex-M33 and an 0.6Top/s neural network accelerator. On board is a 400MHz VeriSilicon GC8000UL 3D GPU capable of up to 66.5Mtriangle/s or 400Mpixel/s, Open GL ES 3.2.8 or Vulkan 1.2. This ...
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