Achieving Ultra Low-Power IoT Beyond the Protocol
As IoT adoption accelerates toward massive-scale deployments, the demand for ultra low-power operation has shifted from a desirable feature to a business-critical requirement. Battery-powered devices are expected to operate for years without intervention, yet the economic reality is unforgiving: truck rolls, premature battery failures, and shortened device lifespans can quickly erode the viability of IoT business cases.
Single sourcing hardware, connectivity and RTK corrections simplifies precise positioning and accelerates time-to-market
Precise positioning down to the centimeter level underpins a new wave of IoT and connected applications. These range from consumer devices to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and countless applications in professional markets from logistics to micromobility management in smart cities, as well as mining and agriculture. The challenge here is that precision is hard to achieve and relies on a blend of components, devices, cellular and satellite connectivity plus mastery of complex techniques to eliminate errors and enhance accuracy.
Why smart IoT modules are the enabler for advanced, intelligent edge device
A smart IoT module, as the name suggests, is a module that brings greater intelligence and capability to an IoT device than a single-function connectivity modem, for example.
Smart Meters and IoT: Enhanced Energy Management for a Sustainable Future
In the era of digital transformation, IoT (Internet of Things) technologies have quickly become a staple of smart industries, being deployed across scenarios as diverse as factories, smart housing, and the ground-up development of smarter cities.
Why combo antennas are finding new markets with robust, multi-technology connectivity
With new product launches and evolution of existing devices requiring multiple radios, smaller form factors, and greater device breadth, OEMs are increasingly challenged both at the design phase and when getting their products to market. The majority of this market is made up of embedded antennas that are challenged to find space within devices that allows them to connect without interference but not all use cases face the same constraints.
How to accelerate, simplify and optimize IoT device certification
Certification is an inescapable requirement for all new IoT devices. It requires investment of both time and money to ensure that the devices can be deployed in each target country and comply with all local requirements.
Which connectivity is the smart choice for POS and vending?
Wireless connected payment devices have already been widely embraced across the globe with consumers preferring the convenience of card or mobile phone-enabled payments over handling cash. Since the pandemic, this has become even more apparent and cashless is not only the favored payment method but now the default for most users. In 2020, global consumer preference to pay with cash fell to 15%. The move away from cash and increased trust in near-field communication (NFC) for payments, has seen connected terminals for in-store remote payments become part of everyone’s daily lives and the global point of sale (POS) terminal market is growing even more rapidly because of this.
How to optimize RF performance for 5G connected devices
Everyone understands that 5G will bring with it a huge uplift in speed and capacity as well as device density per cell to support massive IoT. 5G is fundamentally changing the way we communicate, delivering improved latency and throughput. These benefits, plus network slicing, are just a few ways in which 5G will transform life for businesses and consumers. Central to 5G’s delivery will be antenna technology, and as such, the entire RF front end design layout. This is highly complex and 5G IoT deployments are reliant on optimized antenna and RF performance so 5G can deliver on its promises.
How to test and analyze IP throughput on 5G networks
The promise of 5G is increased speed and capacity through extended mobile broadband (eMBB), but significant challenges exist in terms of spectrum availability which broadly divides 5G deployments into Sub 6GHz and mmWave bands. In 3GPP Release 15, FR1 describes the sub-6GHz spectrum while FR2 describes the range above 24GHz which extends to 100GHz – and beyond. Spectrum therefore has a significant effect on the throughput that 5G networks can achieve.
Unlocking Massive Data Capabilities With 5G and mmWave
With the advent of 5G technology comes the promise of ubiquitous connectivity, low latency and high capacity across a wide range of use cases. As the Internet of Things (IoT) ushers in an era of up to a million connected devices per square kilometer, existing network architectures such as 4G, won’t be able to keep up with increased data usage needs.
A Comprehensive Guide to Manage the 2G/3G Shutdowns
According to Machina Research, the number of global IoT conections will reach 27 billion by 2025. Among them, the total size of cellular lot connections is expected to exceed 5 billion. Technologically, as the world is moving towards the 5G era, and 4G has become the mainstream mobile communication system, shortcomings of 2G/3G become increasingly obvious either regarding spectrum allocation efficiency, wireless peformance, or operation and maintenance costs. The worldwide 2G/3G sunset is in progress with many countries giving their own timelines based on their needs for telecommunications networks (see Figure 1).
IoT Antennas: Accelerate IoT device time-to-market by combining antennas and modules
Quectel’s off-the-shelf and customized high-performance antenna portfolio boosts wireless connectivity significantly by offering the highest quality antenna and module products in the industry. Quectel also offers a complete range of engineering support services to achieve your optimal design.
