Just to let you know that you don’t have to wait longer for home automation gadgets based on Bluetooth 4.0 or ANT any more. Radio beacons and tags on BLE and ANT have become available at present. These can be deployed as miniature beacons in buildings, parking garages, shopping malls and airports without significant installation […]
Tag: Android
Indoor locating – positioning by Bluetooth Low Energy
Indoor locating of a smart phone by Bluetooth Low Energy (e.g. iPhone or Android phone) Locating of smart phones like an iPhone or Android phone can be done with an app on the device. The app will download the floor plan of the building. Google maps already offers a floor plan generator. Nevertheless such an […]
Hackathon @ Droidcon in Berlin – Great prizes – cash, products and media exposure
Join the ANT Challenge at the Droidcon Berlin Hackathon Sunday, April 7,| 9am-6pm The ANT Challenge is an excellent opportunity to create new and dynamic applications with cutting-edge technology and use cases using the latest release of the ANT Android API. Great development opportunity. Great prizes – cash, products and media exposure! 60 M ANT+ […]
NFC in your smart phone – what are the benefits?
With NFC your life can be more comfortable. It can be saver as well, because in your car the Bluetooth hands free kit will be connected automatically. Your wife will receive a message that you are available in the car automatically as well. An Android phone with NFC can start any app or can start […]
RS9113 wireless M2M combo
What is the RS9113? The RS9113 is a chip or wireless module (RS9113-11-3) that comes with: WIFI 2.4 WIFI 5.8 GHz ZigBee Classic Bluetooth BT 2.1+EDR, BT 3.0 Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Low Energy) Calculation power on internal MCU for your own application Huge amount of interfaces for periphery like I2C, I2S, SPI, QSPI, […]
Internet of Things Around the Smartphone
Wednesday 10th of March 14:45 – 15:20 Droidcon 2013 in Berlin Mr. Klaus Starnberger, Starnberger Innovation & Technologie GmbH Ultra low power wireless technologies like Bluetooth 4.0 or ANT+ are about to revolutionize our daily life. The smartphone reaches out for sensing, controlling and utilizing its proximity and neighbourhood. New technologies enable proximity and find […]
NFC / RFID evaluation kit – free of charge
The NFC /RFID evaluation kit comes with two different PCBs. Both PCBs come with the schematic diagrams. They are ready to copy. EEprom with NFC / RFID interface M24LRxxx The EEprom has an I2C interface as usual. The foot print of the EEprom is a well known shape from EEproms of the past. Three pins […]
iPhone user are living on an i(s)land = iLand. Do they live iSolated?
5 new features of the next iPhone – no satire – Headlines from iPhone magazine – Jan 2013 http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/30704/iphone-101-five-features-you-have-know-about? 1. Turn your phone sideways to display a larger keyboard Wow, a great feature that all Android phones and tablets already have. BTW, I installed a keyboard planned for Android phones on my Android tablet. I […]
Ordering pizza smart – by NFC
Message regarding ordering pizza by NFC to me Message: I appreciate the posting about ordering pizza by NFC. I contacted the company to ask if there was a simple way for a pizza shop to order these tags and what the cost was. The tags, at a qty of 1000, are .85 each unless the […]
Apple versus Samsung versus Google – and the magic of round corners
Out of the bothering patent war – the most innovative products lately are by Samsung. But all offer round corners – what is state of the art on any mobile product – not just for tablets or smart-phones only. Round corners save mechanical stress. It saved stress before somebody launched any tablet. Just go to […]