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….
Background Many different industries and application areas make use of standalone devices. These are devices that without need for interactions are used to control local equipment. A good example is a heating control system hidden in the basement of a building, quietly doing its work without any need for interaction with the device. There are…
Industry’s smallest GNSS module, u‑blox EVA‑M8M, at the heart of new asset tracker Thalwil, Switzerland – December 20, 2016 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced that two of its products have been used by Cobilsys to create South Korea’s smallest battery‑powered asset tracking device. The…
Voice Caddie GPS Watch and Band take advantage of compact, low‑cost location detection components Thalwil, Switzerland – December 14, 2016 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced its components are at the core of two new cutting‑edge GNSS products. The golf rangefinder wearables were launched by Voice…
By John Leonard December 14, 2016 Firefighters, security guards and health workers routinely risk their lives whilst trying to protect people and their property from harm. It’s vital that risks are minimized as much as possible. Technological advances present new ways to help meet this need. A firefighter enters a burning office block to try to save workers…
By Stefano Moioli, Director Product Management Cellular, u-blox Developers of the first analogue cellular networks that began to proliferate in the 1980s would be amazed to see how far cellular technology has advanced in the intervening thirty years or so – if they’d been entirely out of the loop in the meantime. While their networks…
For any industrial IoT application, ensuring signal integrity is crucial for safety and operational reliability. However, even the most robust system has many attack surfaces that are vulnerable to would‑be hackers’ intent on compromising a system. This is unacceptable for high‑reliability systems in general, but as more contextual information gets added, including time and position,…
Thalwil, Switzerland – December 7, 2016 – u‑blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced that REYAX Technology, a leading industrial and telematics systems provider for aftermarket telematics, has launched a new industrial router platform that incorporates cellular, short range and GNSS modules from u‑blox. The RYW2000 4G LTE…
u-blox M8 compact GNSS antenna module www.u-blox.com Highlights Easy to design‑in; no RF expertise required Consistently strong performance regardless of installation High accuracy thanks to concurrent reception of up to 3 GNSS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS) Tiny form factor 15.5 x 15.5 x 6.3 mm Embedded wide‑band patch antenna Surface‑mount device, enabling simple and automated manufacturing…
