Courtesy of www.mikroe.com 3G SARA click is a mikroBUS™ add-on board with the smallest UMTS/HSPA cellular modem available today – the u-blox U201, from the award-winning SARA series. The board has everything you need to add 3G to your devices and make them respond and react to phone calls and messages – or send/receive data at speeds…
The NEO-M8P module combines the high performance u-blox M8 positioning engine with u-blox’s Real Time Kinematic (RTK) technology. The NEO-M8P provides cm-level GNSS performance designed to meet the needs of unmanned vehicles and other machine control applications requiring high precision guidance. www.u-blox.com/en
Courtesy of www.u-blox.com/en/blog Enabling the “Where and When” of IoT For many designers of IoT devices that will be communicating over a range of about 100 meters, the options are many and somewhat confusing. There’s Bluetooth IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee, Thread, Wireless Hart and others), Z‑Wave, and of course Wi‑Fi, with all its various flavors. Sorting…
www.u-blox.com Whether it’s called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industrie 4.0, the sensing, communication and analysis of data toward improving processes and outcomes is transforming industries from manufacturing and healthcare to transportation, fleet management, mining and agriculture. While much of the attention has been place on acquiring as much raw data as possible,…
Courtesy of www.iot-now.com Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive ofBeecham Research, met Thomas Seiler, the chief executive of u-blox, a provider of wireless semiconductors and modules for consumer, automotive and industrial markets, at the CTIA show in September 2016. They discussed emerging low power wireless technologies, the direction of the industry and u-blox’s future plans. Robin Duke-Woolley:…
The u-blox customer Freefly has with its ALTA 8 opened up new possibilities for most demanding customers who want to carry the largest cinema payloads on the market. Freefly makes full use of the centimeter level GNSS positioning capabilities of the u-blox NEO-M8P. To learn more about NEO-M8P, go to www.u-blox.com/product/neo-m8p. To learn more about…
Courtesy of www.u-blox.com Thalwil, Switzerland and Tokyo, Japan – October 10, 2016 – Nikken Lease has tapped into cutting‑edge positioning and cellular technologies from u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, for its new trackable pallet, Transeeker. Transeeker is a pallet equipped with u‑blox’s cellular and positioning technologies for accurate tracking:…
Courtesy of www.mynewsdesk.com Telenor and Q-Free will be first in Norway to use the new communication technology Narrow-band Internet of Things. A pilot for smart parking will be launched in the city of Trondheim. This is the first step towards a full scale commercial network for the Internet of things. The smart parking spaces belong to…
Courtesy of Alpha Micro – www.newsroom.alphamicro.net At around 20,000 km above the Earth’s surface there are now at least 55 satellites in orbit, forming two Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); GPS (also known as Navstar, and owned and operated by the US) and GLONASS (owned and operated by Russia). These will soon be joined by the…
October 4, 2016 – By Cecile Mongredien, Chris Hide, Peter Fairhust and Daniel Ammann Courtesy of www.gpsworld.com UAVs, precision agriculture and robotic guidance require high accuracy at low cost. Emerging high-volume markets call for RTK technologies previously limited to niche markets by complexity and cost. This article discusses design and implementation of a very precise RTK-based module…
