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  • Telit releases two modules for European IoT

    Telit’s two latest modules are aimed at the European internet of things (IoT) market.

    Modules WE866E4-P and ME910C1-E2 are designed to meet European specifications requirements, providing the ability to bring advanced IoT applications to market such as smart buildings, smart energy, industrial applications, medical devices and others.

    “Our modules were designed with the European market in mind, eliminating the guesswork associated with what standard to use for IoT projects in the region,” said Yossi Moscovitz, Telit president of products and solutions.  “We are providing the industry the ability to digitally transform by creating new opportunities for our customers to achieve innovation. We’re pleased to be a key part of enabling the promise of Smart IoT that we are seeing during this week’s conference.”

    The WE866E4-P is a fully integrated dual-band, dual-mode combo Wi-Fi (802.11 a,b,g,n) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 module, with an small footprint (285 sq. mm) that provides a cost-effective way for manufacturers to add wireless connectivity to the products. It has an integrated tri-core system-on-chip with dedicated CPUs for IoT applications, Wi-Fi and BLE.

    The module is self-contained with full Wi-Fi, BLE and TCP/IP networking stacks along with a complete suite of security features such as secured boot, Flash encryption, copy protection, HTTPS and WPA/WPA2 personal and enterprise security modes.

    The ME910C1-E2 is a member of Telit’s flagship xE910 module family delivering 4G radio access technology in the 28.2 x 28.2 x 2.2 mm family form factor. This module increases the addressable market for LTE technology to include a broad range of new applications and use cases best served with lower maximum data rate, ultra-low power, reduced complexity and cost, and is capable of Cat M1, NB-IoT and 2G fallback. Examples of use are smart meters, industrial sensors, health-care monitors, home automation, asset tracker and other low-data-rate IoT devices.

    For more information please visit Telit during this week’s Smart IoT Conference in London at Stand T2865.

  • Expert Opinions: Integrity in the vehicle environment

    Expert Opinions: Integrity in the vehicle environment

    Q: Why do we need to take integrity seriously in the vehicle environment?

     

    Chris Rizos, Professor, Geodesy and Navigation, University of New South Wales
    Chris Rizos, Professor, Geodesy and Navigation,
    University of New South Wales

    A: Since the 1980s, surveyors and geodesists have used GPS for high-accuracy positioning. We take for granted centimeter- and even millimeter-level accuracy positioning capability that is faster, more reliable, at a lower cost and with fewer constraints than ever before. However, the demand for “trustworthy positioning” dismisses such achievements, and the mantra is more “availability” and greater “integrity” to support highly automated driving. Our positioning and navigation community must rise to this challenge.

    Rod Bryant, Senior Director, Technology, Positioning, u-blox
    Rod Bryant, Senior Director, Technology, Positioning, u-blox

    A: In autonomous vehicles, a GNSS/inertial module will be just one of several sensors used for location. The risk of contributing to accidents and serious injury will be decomposed and allocated between subsystems by the OEM or system designer. Taking aviation as a model, the allocation to GNSS may be in the form of an alarm limit of a few meters with integrity risk less than 10-6/hour. However, multipath and obstructed sky make automotive risk far more difficult than aviation. Carrier-phase techniques will come into play and new approaches to protection limit estimation will be needed.

    Sam Pullen, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University; Consultant, Sam Pullen Consulting
    Sam Pullen, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University;
    Consultant, Sam Pullen Consulting

    A: Advanced sensor fusion techniques now make it possible to achieve very accurate PVT results by combining multiple dissimilar sensors. Once we rely on these capabilities for autonomous driving, the primary threat to safety will come from confluences of rare events that were not observed or foreseen during system development. Design for integrity focuses attention on the identification and mitigation of potentially hazardous anomalies before they happen, not afterward.

  • U-blox, Wirepas partner on industrial IoT module

    NINA-B1-ublox-module
    NINA-B1

    Wirepas and u-blox have partnered on an advanced decentralized radio communications solution, the NINA-B1 module, for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The goal of the partnership is to make large scale, decentralized industrial IoT networks easy to deploy for the companies’ customers.

    The small NINA-B1, which the companies say is comparable to advanced mesh technology,  is a stand-alone Bluetooth low energy module with the latest power performance. It can be used for applications such as healthcare, connected buildings, manufacturing and telematics. The module has been certified for a range of countries world-wide, according to the companies.

    “The NINA-B1, in combination with the Wirepas Connectivity software, enables short time to market for easy-to-install, large scale, decentralized industrial IoT applications in segments such as lighting, sensor, asset tracking and beacons,” says Hakan Svegerud, head of product strategy, short range radio, at u-blox.

    “We believe that technology should never be the starting point; instead, we should concentrate on business and application needs,” says Wirepas CEO Teppo Hemiä. “As needs evolve over time, so should the technology. Wirepas and u-blox share this core value and that is what makes us stronger together.”