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Silicon Labs featuring wireless solutions for advanced metering at Distributech Smart Grid Conference
Ember® ZigBee® and EZRadioPRO® Sub-GHz Wireless Technologies Optimized for Smart Grid Infrastructure. Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, will showcase its wireless solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) at DistribuTECH, the utility industry’s leading smart grid conference, held in San Diego, California, Jan. 29-31. Silicon Labs’ mixed-signal devices, including wireless radios, ultra-low-power 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), 32-bit Precision32™ [...]
Redpine Signals Offers Complete Suite of Wireless Technology for System-on-Chip (SoC) Integration
SoC designers can now leverage Redpine's proven Wi-Fi chipsets and systems experience to develop their own solutions for mobile, networking and M2M markets. Highlights: +Extensive portfolio of wireless technology including ultra-low-power 802.11abgn/ac (Wi-Fi®) supporting three MIMO streams, Bluetooth® 4.0, ZigBee® to enable SoC developments in multiple markets. +New IP offerings work seamlessly with Redpine's own RF front-end and Wi-Fi certified software stack, and make the target SoC a deployable product. +Reference design is [...]
ZigBee Alliance Celebrates 10 Years: Delivering The Internet Of Things And Energy Management And Efficiency
One technology, nine standards, 600 ZigBee Certified products and billions of ZigBee chips sold. The ZigBee® Alliance celebrates its first decade of successes this month, most notably in enabling the growing machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) trends and providing utilities and energy service providers with new consumer energy management and efficiency capabilities. Hundreds of manufacturers have shipped hundreds of millions of ZigBee products for a variety of energy management, commercial and consumer applications, [...]
Wireless Sensor Network Market to Exceed 80 Million Units Shipped in 2012, Metering Still Strong but Home Automation/Entertainment Growing Fast
The wireless sensor network market, led by ZigBee, grew ten-fold from 2007 to 2010 and exceeded 45 million annual shipments in 2011. “Strong growth is expected for 2012 and beyond as ZigBee pervades the home automation and home entertainment markets, whilst Smart Meters continue to be rolled out across the globe,” commented Peter Cooney, wireless connectivity practice director. Smart metering is the largest market for ZigBee in 2012 and will continue to be the major market growth driver as global roll outs of smart meters continue [...]
Sensinode Releases NanoService Free Trial
Sensinode Releases Trial Software Version for Building Embedded Web Applications. Solution provides efficient end-to-end Web applications for M2M. Sensinode Ltd., a leading provider of software that powers the Internet of Things, today announced release of a free Trial version of its NanoService™ software, a highly-scalable end-to-end solution for M2M. The NanoService™ solution is designed to enable the rapid deployment of challenging M2M systems by providing efficient management of M2M data and allowing applications to be easily [...]
Telit becomes first module maker to attain ZigBee PRO and Smart Energy certification
Leading M2M module manufacturer becomes first to certify its own ZigBee Stack to stringent ZigBee PRO and Smart Energy requirements to strengthen the company’s position in the fast growing smart-metering and smart-home opportunities worldwide. Telit Wireless Solutions (http://www.telit.com), a leading global vendor of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) modules and value-added services, today announced the achievement of ZigBee PRO and Smart Energy software certification. Telit’s in-house-developed software stack received [...]
Bluetooth and Zigbee on Collision Course in the Connected Home and Wireless Sensors
Bluetooth Smart and ZigBee will compete in a number of new and emerging markets that require low power wireless connections and interoperability with other devices. Key battlegrounds include connected home devices (remote controls, TVs, STBs, etc.) and wireless sensors (medical, health, sports, home automation, etc.). When analyzing these markets holistically there will be competition between Bluetooth Smart and ZigBee but when delving deeper into the markets it is clear that there are specific sections that will be more suited to [...]
Ember Introduces Multi-Network Support
ZigBee market leader notches another industry first with multinetwork support for ZigBee PRO networks. Ember, a leading provider of low-power wireless mesh networking technology, became the world's first ZigBee technology provider to support multiple interconnecting networks on a single system-on-chip (SoC) or network co-processor (NCP) for Connected Home applications. The Ember breakthrough enables a single SoC or NCP device to operate on multiple ZigBee PRO networks or Personal Area Networks (PANs). Thus, Ember-enabled Connected [...]
Freescale Introduces Scalable Kinetis Wireless Solutions for ZigBee® Smart Energy Version 2.0
Alpha samples of Kinetis KW20 microcontrollers and MC13242 RF transceiver planned for Q3 Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) is expanding its Kinetis microcontroller (MCU) portfolio with the industry’s first wireless solution built on the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor for smart energy, smart metering and building control applications. Freescale’s new generation of Kinetis wireless solutions brings together performance and security in a scalable ZigBee® platform, allowing designers to optimize [...]
Meshlium Xtreme gives 3G connectivity to ZigBee, Wifi and Bluetooth Sensors
Libelium's new multiprotocol router allows the connection of any sensor or actuator to the Cloud by accessing high speed 3G networks, opening a wide range of possibilities for the Internet of Things development. The new multiprotocol router by Libelium allows the connection of any sensor or actuator to the Cloud via high speed 3G networks, opening a wide range of possibilities for the Internet of Things development. Meshlium Xtreme is the new multiprotocol router for wireless sensor networks designed to connect ZigBee, Wifi and [...]
