GPS running watches such as Garmin Forerunner, Tomtom Spark or Polar M400, make up one of the fastest‑growing segments of the wearable device market, and for good reason. While simple wrist‑based fitness trackers need to tether to a smartphone for positioning and distance information, GPS watches have onboard GNSS reception. For runners, hikers, and other…
Compact, ready‑to‑use NINA‑W1 Wi‑Fi modules support secure boot and latest security standards Thalwil, Switzerland – March 14, 2017 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced two new Wi‑Fi modules for industrial markets. NINA‑W131 and NINA‑W132 are ultra low power Wi‑Fi modules supporting 802.11 b/g/n in the 2.4GHz…
By Zhu Shenshen | March 6, 2017 – Courtesy of www.shanghaidaily.com THOMAS Seiler, chief executive of Swiss firm U-blox, didn’t hide his enthusiasm when talk turned to the technology of “smart” cars during his recent visit to Shanghai. U-blox just completed the US$52.5 million acquisition of Shanghai-based SIMCom’s cellular modem product line, its research and development…
Thalwil, Switzerland and Arcugnano, Italy – February 27, 2017 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, Pietro Fiorentini S.p.a., a leading company producing components, systems and services for the regulation and metering of natural gas, and Terranova, Software the Italian market leader for Meter Data Management SW and part…
Wi‑Fi (IEEE 802.11) is a short range wireless technology that enables data exchange or internet connectivity over the unlicensed 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. www.u-blox.com Ideal for wireless connectivity with LAN infrastructures Wi‑Fi is the preferred short range wireless technology to connect to a LAN infrastructure and to achieve high data rates. It is…
The u‑blox GNSS module NEO‑M8U is at the core of the new GNSS receiver series Thalwil, Switzerland – February 8, 2017 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced that its Untethered 3D Dead Reckoning (UDR) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) module NEO‑M8U is at the core of…
It has been ten years since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, a decade in which his “widescreen iPod, mobile phone and Internet communications device” completely changed the way that people communicate, access information, and consume media. The iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, but it made accessing data services so easy that people didn’t really think…
Wi‑Fi is integral to today’s modern connected car. Powered by LTE, vehicle Wi‑Fi hotspots are an option on virtually all the latest car models. Most new cars can also use Wi‑Fi to integrate the smartphone with a car infotainment system, for example via Apple CarPlay, or Android Auto. The increasing use of Wi‑Fi in our…
It seems almost laughable now to think that voice was the driving force behind the development of the original telecommunications services. How surprised those early pioneers of telephony and telegraphy, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, would be to find teenagers wandering around, mobile phone in hand, downloading and watching videos as they…
Although people intuitively see the human body and mind as somehow distinct from the hard machinery of science and engineering, the healthcare industry has always been an early adopter of the new technologies – from the first surgical tools and prosthetic limbs to more recent innovations, like MRI scans, heart pacemakers and wearable monitoring devices….
