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Global Certification Forum (GCF) and 450 MHz Alliance formalized a new partnership with the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that will see a GCF certification initiative extend to users of the 450 MHz band. The new collaboration means that global wireless carriers, equipment manufacturers and other device manufacturers in the IoT and machine-to-machine vertical markets can eventually have access to a program that provides a level of confidence in interoperability in this spectrum.

Qualcomm Technologies announced a new NB-IoT modem to drive the growth of cellular IoT, the Qualcomm® 212 LTE IoT modem. Qualcomm says it is the industry’s most power-efficient single-mode NB2 chipset.

Yanmar R&D Europe helps the agricultural industry by conducting field-based studies to bring added value to the agriculture industry—and possibly even attract a new generation of workers to the land. These include the two-year, four-million Euros ‘SMASH’ project being carried out in cooperation with 10 technology partners to develop a mobile agricultural ‘eco-system’ to monitor, analyse and manage agricultural crops. 

Skyworks has launched a 2.4 GHz FEM designed for Zigbee®, Thread and Bluetooth® ultra-low power IoT applications, providings increased efficiency and more than a 4x range extension over previous models.

In this survey, I only included 77 and 79 GHz radar sensors and ICs as 24 GHz sensors will be sunset by 2022. Therefore, companies like ADI, Valeo, Hella, UMS, etc., that are currently mostly involved in only the 24 GHz solutions are not included but expect many of them to move into the higher frequency solutions soon.

u-blox has completed AT&T’s chipset verification process for the UBX-R5 multi-band low power wide area chipset platform to operate on the carrier’s LTE-M network for the Internet of Things. The chipset features end-to-end device security, data security and access control management.

Rohde & Schwarz and CommSolid have partnered up to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NB-IoT Release 15 feature wake up signal in reducing the power consumption of NB-IoT devices.Test functions newly implemented on an R&S CMW290 Functional Radio Communication Tester are employed to outline the difference in power consumption for NB-IoT devices with and without the wake up signal technology.

Autotalks completed Wi-Fi 5 pre-certification for its evaluation kit based on its second generation ehicle-to-everything (V2X) chipset. Autotalks dual-mode (DSRC and C-V2X) chipset recently achieved this milestone for its dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) supporting standards 802.11a/b/g/n/ac.