Wireless

u-blox has announced the results of its collaboration with Korean broadcast media company MBC. With assistance from u-blox, MBC has launched an ultra-compact L1/L2 Real Time Kinematic (RTK) multi-band device, the MBC MRP-2000, featuring a u-blox ZED-F9P high precision GNSS module. The solution is the first to offer the Korean market a GNSS RTK receiver and wireless access to a GNSS correction service in a single box.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that Wi-SUN Alliance has adopted Renesas’ sub-gigahertz (Sub-G) wireless solution as a candidate of the interoperability test bed units (TBUs) for the Wi-SUN FAN (Field Area Network) Certification Program.

It has been made public by Transatel and Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security (G+D) that they have entered a partnership to enable Scania’s embedded telematics units with global connectivity. Scania provides its customers with a telematics service but is now going one step further, as it is looking to deploy worldwide. 

What is the future direction of connectivity? By now everyone is familiar with the range of issues – and range issues – that happen with your home WiFi, just as everyone is used to hearing grand promises made by the oncoming storm of 5G; but how much of a part will WiFi have left to play? Electronic Specifier caught up with Cees Links, GM at Qorvo, who shared his thoughts on the future of connectivity.

  Technology seems to be getting smarter and smarter. From our cars and homes, to buildings and cities. All of these things are constantly evolving, being connected to the internet, which means that through almost every device we are generating and consuming data. But who controls and owns that data?

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Provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, u blox, has announced the StarLink TrackerWiFi, an advanced vehicle tracking device produced by ERM Advanced Telematics, a provider of device-based telematics solutions. The device combines u-blox GNSS, 4G and WiFi Technology eliminating the need to equip vehicles with a separate mobile WiFi hotspot.

  A comprehensive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) IP offering has been announced by Imagination Technologies. The Ensigma Location GNSS IP core supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou as well as several Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) including WAAS and EGNOS. 

A development system for wireless power transfer onto the market has been jointly brought by Würth Elektronik eiSos and Infineon Technologies. This development kit serves to develop applications outside the Qi standard up to a power of 200W, and data can also be transmitted via transmitter and receiver coil, as well as receiver sending data to the transmit coil. 

In a world where space on any mobile or connected device is the most valuable asset, the ongoing miniaturisation of components is the means by which more functionalities are realised. But it’s not just size that matters: the consumer demand for more flexibility and customer-centric services is also increasing – whether it is the hassle-free change of a mobile device or switching mobile network providers.