Wireless

The team behind the wireless underground soil monitoring solution Soil Scout has announced a new equal distribution partnership with US-based GreenSight, a provider of autonomous aerial intelligence services for golf courses. The technology partnership will give greenkeepers a real-time understanding of how to create optimal above and below ground conditions for their courses while increasing efficiency on water and nutrient usage. ...

KPMG and SAS have announced a plan to establish Cloud Acceleration Centres with specific focusses in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The organisations will work together to help accelerate the move to the Cloud for SAS clients. 

An ultra-low-power Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 module that enables the transmission of large amounts of data in connectionless environments is in stock at Mouser Electronics.

John Fitzpatrick, Product Manager at Solid State Supplies Ltd, examines the latest Cellular and Wi-Fi standards and what it means to customers.

For a broadband 3GHz to 20GHz SiGe passive mixer requiring only 0dBm LO drive, a new balun structure is the key innovation that enables the wide RF bandwidth. The same balun topology is used on the IF, enabling a wide, 300MHz to 9GHz IF. This high performance double-balanced mixer can be used for up conversion or down conversion. The mixer is packaged in a tiny 2mm×3mm, 12-lead QFN package and delivers 23dBm IIP3 and 14dBm P1dB. The mixer c...

CEA-Leti has announced its researchers have broken the throughput world record of 5.1 Gbps in visible light communications (VLC) using a single GaN blue micro- light-emitting diode (LED). Their data transmission rate of 7.7 Gbps achieved with a 10µm microLED marks another step toward commercialization and widespread use of LiFi communication.

Panasonic’s PAN1740A series Bluetooth 5 low energy RF module is in stock at distributor Digi-Key.

Analysing the 31 most popular tourist destinations, Business Fibre has analysed each location by a series of metrics to determine the most internet-friendly city, looking at the number of free WiFi spots, the average cost of data, the number of restaurants with free wifi, as well as the average upload and download speeds.

M5Stack's ATOM ECHO is a Bluetooth speaker designed based on ATOM. It is available at distributor Digi-Key.

Two RF switches, the BGS14WMA9 and BGS12WN6, boast high switching speed and are optimised for WLAN and Bluetooth applications.