If you are in GPS tracking business and have customers or plans to deliver to Russia, then it makes sense to have a look on a combined GPS/Glonass module.
Category: M2M componets
Bluetooth Low Energy – the digital Swiss knife – part 1
What to do with Bluetooth Low Energy? Which applications can we cover? Several short articles shall give you an idea for useful applications on BLE. The first article is related to my lost key-fob. BLE beacon at key-fob (1) Estimated twenty-five years ago I lost my keys at the ruins of Corinth in Greece. I […]
Quad-band GSM / GPRS module with embedded Bluetooth module
Quad-band GSM / GPRS / Bluetooth module Just have a look on the world smallest Quad-band GSM / GRPS module on LCC packaging. On top a Bluetooth 3.0 module is already included. Even if there are two radios inside, the price of the combined is close to the half of a standard GSM / GPRS […]
What is an iBeacon?
iBeacon are radio devives on in 2400 MHz range. They use the new Bluetooth 4.0 specification. BT 4.0 is split in classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy. Bluetooth Low Energy was previously called Bluetooth Ultra Low Power, and in early 2001, was WiBree. “Wi” for wireless, and “Bree” for Bree in the Lord of the […]
Bluetooth Low Energy – BLE – in home automation
Question about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in home automation to me: Q: I’m working for an IoT start-up and we are looking at BT 4.0 for communication in home automation. We would really like to know about your opinion about BT 4.0, while we have ZigBee and other protocols for home automation, I feel the […]
6LoWPAN test setup
Test of 6LoWPAN in a city In the first step you need an 6LoWPAN evaluation kit with its two main and RF adapter boards and sensors plus one USB dongle. The USB dongle you connect to your laptop. The source code of the main boards will run as node and router in same time. In […]
6LoWPAN evaluation kit
6LowPAN evaluation kit with 2 low power, RF transceiver boards on 868 or 915 MHz band 2 MCU boards with ARM Cortex M3 (STM32L) on main board Suitable for 6LoWPAN, wireless M-BUS and two proprietary stack Software development kit with documentation, STM32L firmware and GUI Debug connector, USB interface, SPI interface between MCU and RF […]
Embedded LTE antenna in detail
Ceramic embedded LTE antenna This LTE antenna with is very detailed documentation is a good example to explain the working of ceramic antennas on a PCB with different size of ground plane. I. Embedded LTE antenna efficiency The antenna is resonating in all major LTE, GSM and HSPA bands and on Wi-Fi 2400 MHz and […]
Kostenfreie Bluetooth Low Energy Eval-Kits
Bluetooth Low Energy Eval-Kits für ihr funkendes Projekt Wer ein reales BLE-Projekt mit Forecast hat, konnte sein Projekt melden und hat eine Chance auf ein Eval-Kit für Euro 0. Das Eval-Kit hat von Haus aus einen Temperatursensor und Beschleunigungssensoren. Weiterhin kann es leicht um andere Sensoren erweitert werden. Ich packe gerne noch folgendes oben drauf: […]
Ceramic GSM chip antenna on small free space
Selection of ceramic GSM chip antenna I. Size of GSM ceramic chip antenna The size of the ceramic GSM chip antenna is 21 x 7 x 3 mm only. The distance for the selected ceramic chip antenna to the ground plane has to be to be 7 mm. There is a need for a gap […]