The European Union has today announced the launch of METIS - Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society - a large EU co-funded research project whose objective is to lay the foundations for the next generation of the mobile and wireless communications system in anticipation of society's needs in the year 2020.
RF Micro Devices (RFMD) has announced that it has teamed with Silicon Laboratories to produce a reference design for a broad range of smart grid applications. The reference design gives developers an accelerated path to boost output power to 1W in a small form factor without sacrificing exceptional low-power operation.
Launched yesterday, the first commercially available radio networking system for broadband over TV whitespace is aimed at bringing affordable broadband to millions around the world. Developed by Carlson and Neul, RuralConnect is for WISPs (wireless internet service providers) and is the first in a product line following the companies’ partnership announcement last autumn.
With growth across Europe a key objective for UK-based M2M connectivity specialist Wireless Logic, the organisation is expanding its business to Germany with the launch of a subsidiary in Munich. Ulrich Kaindl joins the organisation as Managing Director of Wireless Logic GmbH Germany with a brief to exploit the potential being witnessed across a growing number of vertical markets.
Texas Instruments has unveiled the SimpleLink product family of wireless connectivity technologies for low-power, low-cost embedded applications. The cornerstone offering in this new family is the new SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000: an easy-to-implement Wi-Fi solution designed for M2M communication, commonly called the Internet of Things.
Representatives of major standards development organisations from around the world (including ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TIA, TTA, and TTC) have identified the need for a common cost-efficient, easily and widely available M2M Service Layer, which can be readily embedded within various hardware and software. They also identified the need for a cooperative M2M community standards activity, and have agreed to jointly address the challenge of common standardised solutions. Initial steps to form a global initiative for M2M Standardisation have been taken.
