There are many places where you can repeatedly read about the mystical range of 15 km at LPWAN. A manufacturer of LPWAN radio transceivers even advertises with 15 miles to 30 miles on its homepage, which would be 24 km to 48 km. Why not 700 km or 4300 km? None of the range specifications […]
In order to understand why more base stations automatically represent a better network, some explanations are necessary. Sigfox has planned 2400 gateways for Germany. These 2400 gateways are confronted with 24,000 LTE base stations from Vodafone and approximately the same amount from Deutsche Telekom. These 48,000 LTE base stations do not all need to be […]
The link budget is the total of all losses and gains from the transmission of a radio wave. A wave is amplified or attenuated by the antenna. During the transmission of a signal between transmitter and receiver, data can be lost. The study of losses and gains is therefore important to calculate the reliability and […]
The link budget (LB) describes the delta of the transmitted and received power at the receiver. If the Maximum Coupling Loss (MCL) is exceeded, reception is no longer possible. For NB-IoT this is 164 dB. At 164 dB LB, the number of frame repetitions is already high. 164 dB can only be achieved in stand-alone […]
In order to save development and approval costs, the antenna, frequency bands, ground plane size and housing should be carefully designed at the beginning of development. If the company lacks in-house experience with radio, antennas and worldwide approval, we recommend consulting an external consultant. The following text is intended to make you think. I use […]
On Dec. 12, the world’s first NB-IoT Christmas party with integrated NB-IoT seminar will take place in Tilburg in the Netherlands. Agenda (PDF): IoT2Learn-agenda-hotel-arrival IoT2Learn at a glance NB-IoT SIM cards to test for the guests on the day before the seminar www.iot2learn.com Surveying of your antennas free of charge after arrangement on return loss […]
Light indoor penetration and deep indoor penetration with LPWAN is yesterday’s news. The new record for the penetration through walls and floors was achieved in Munich on August 10, 2018 with NB-IoT. Due to the great heat in the office, our Munich team continued the NB-IoT tests in the Munich subway tunnels. With NB-IoT you […]
Wireless Congress: Systems & Applications 14. November 2018, Munich, Germany Time 17:00 – 18:00 Session/Workshop Speaker: Wilhelm Oelers, Triptec HL UG Language: English Registration: https://www.wireless-congress.com/home.html Get your hands dirty with an NB-IoT application NB-IoT is the new shining constellation on the LPWAN sky. It stars are called low energy consumption, low price, small sized and […]
As Freddie Mercury sang: “The show must go on”. After our Successful NB-IoT Roadshow with stops between Berline and Vienna in 2017, we return to Berlin on June 28th. “Berlin ist eine Reise wert” (“Berlin is well worth a visit”). June 28th is a Thursday. so anyone who will can take Friday as a day […]
After comparing NB-IoT, LoRaWAN and SIGFOX’s energy consumptions during transmission in the USA and Europe, here is another direct comparison with GSM and SMS. SIGFOX and LoRaWAN repeatedly call out their low energy consumption when compared to SMS with wake-up and registration on the GSM network. Their commentary is that the two unlicensed LPWAN technologies […]