Applus+ Laboratories has increased its range of testing and certification services for wireless devices and IoT solutions. Weightless SIG has named Applus+ as its official testing and certification laboratory for wireless devices which use Weightless connectivity technology. Applus+ will additionally provide development support services to Weightless technology adopters as part of its new IoT Lab offering.

The availability of Weightless-P hardware has been announced by the Weightless SIG, as well as the pre-launch of a Weightless-P Software Development Kit. In conjunction with Weightless Vendor partner, Antenova, Weightless-P hardware is going to be on show at CTIA SuperMobility in Las Vegas, from 7th to 9th September.

The Weightless SIG has announced that it is partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Simultaneously, the SIG is announcing the appointment of key ultra narrow-band (UNB) LPWAN technology and applications provider, Telensa, to the board of the Weightless SIG.

The Weightless SIG has announced availability of feature-rich Weightless-P technology tailored to deliver on the promises of premium ubiquitous wide area IoT connectivity: fully acknowledged 2-way wireless link, adaptive data rates up to 100kbps, scalable cellular-inspired network technology to deliver higher capacity than existing LPWAN technologies and on unique features.

The Weightless SIG has announced a complete Weightless-N development environment for LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) connectivity in IoT projects. The dev kits include a desktop base station with the same functionality as a commercial grade base station packaged in a non-ruggedised casing, a base station antenna, an end product module mounted on a development carrier board with external connections, a module antenna and a complete set of cabl...

The Weightless SIG has announced that M2COMM has joined the Weightless SIG to lead a Weightless Working Group for the development of a new high performance LPWAN Standard. This latest standard, called Weightless-P, will offer uplink and downlink capabilities to significantly enhance quality of service especially important in the very stringent industrial IoT sector. Adapted from field-proven experiences, Weightless-P supports all major license-ex...

Weightless SIG has announced the deployment of Weightless-N smart city networks from Nwave Technologies across Copenhagen and the south of Denmark around the city of Esbjerg. Copenhagen is Denmark’s capital and largest city and Esbjerg the second largest port city and a leading European offshore energy industry centre.

The Weightless SIG has announced the deployment of a Weightless-N Smart City network in the heart of the UK’s capital. The network, operating on Nwave technology, has been deployed in conjunction with the Digital Catapult, a national centre to rapidly advance the UK’s best digital ideas which is making available the infrastructure on which a Weightless base station is deployed.

The publication of version 1.0 of the latest Weightless-N open standard based on a low power wide area star network architecture has been annouced by The Weightless SIG. Operating in sub-GHz spectrum using ultra narrow band technology, Weightless-N offers best in class signal propagation characteristics leading to a range of several kilometres even in challenging urban environments.

The Weightless SIG has announced that it has completed its first quarter Weightless-N Working Group conference, convened to progress development of the IoT specification for sub-GHz spectrum. Focused on timely execution and reporting rapid progress, the group reaffirmed its commitment to a Q2 2015 publication timescale for version 1.0 of the Weightless-N standard.

NWave Technologies has joined Weightless SIG to contribute to the rapid evolution of the recently announced Weightless-N specification. Weightless-N is the new and unique open connectivity standard for IoT/M2M over ISM bands. NWave is a leading provider of connectivity technology for the Internet of Things in unlicensed spectrum – specifically the Industrial, Scientific and Medical bands below 1GHz.

The roadmap for the roll-out of Weightless compatible hardware from SIG founder and Promoter Group Member, Neul, has today been introduced by The Weightless SIG. At the recent inaugural Weightless Summit in London, Stan Boland, Neul CEO, set out the company’s launch schedule for the long awaited hardware widely anticipated to catalyse proactive Weightless development activity.

The Weightless SIG today announced that NextG-Com, protocol stack and wireless embedded system component developer, has joined the Weightless SIG as its one thousandth Member. NextG-Com joined the SIG earlier this year as an Associate member as a first step in understanding the opportunity for Weightless technology. Since this time the company has been developing a series of M2M terminal protocol stack solutions and related components.

The Weightless SIG announce the world’s first public, televised demonstration of machine to machine communications over a pre-certified Weightless air interface. The wireless sensor application simulating the deployment of strain gauges and other wireless sensors into road, building and bridge infrastructure was shown at the 5th Future of Wireless International Conference by Weightless SIG Core Member, Argon Design. The demonstration was shown ...

The Weightless Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced that it has welcomed over 600 Members worldwide in the rapidly growing M2M ecosystem. To mark the milestone achievement the group today announced the launch of the inaugural issue of Zero-G, the Member publication for the Weightless SIG.

The Weightless Special Interest Group today announced the release of the world’s first transceiver chip using the Weightless Specification and operating over white space spectrum. Capable of tuning across the entire UHF TV white space spectrum (470 – 790MHz), the single chip solution draws very little power while delivering reliable, secure, long range wireless connectivity for next generation M2M applications using the Weightless Standard.

The Weightless SIG announced that it has won the prestigious Wireless Innovation Forum Technology of the Year 2012 for its global machine communications standard, called Weightless. Weightless is a proprietary, royalty-free, open standard for wireless machine-to-machine communications using TV white space spectrum. The combination of the unique characteristics of M2M traffic, the freeing up white space spectrum and development of a new standard i...

Weightless today announced the release of version 0.9 of its innovative M2M Specification. Weightless enables M2M systems featuring a chipset cost of less than USD$2, a range of up to 10km and a battery life of 10 years.