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March 15, 2022

IoT Technology Focus

GNSS Active Ceramic Patch Antennas Roll

Linx Technologies has introduced seven Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) active ceramic patch antennas. These antennas support global GNSS applications including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou, NavIC and QZSS systems in the L1/E1/B1, L2/E5/B2B and L5/E5/B2A bands. Each antenna integrates a high gain low noise amplifier (LNA) and right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) to provide a high-performance solution for GNSS signal reception.

Semtech LoRa Devices Used for Cattle Tracking

Semtech has announced its collaboration with Smart Paddock for the implementation of Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard into Smart Paddock’s “Bluebell” smart GPS ear tag. The tag is used to monitor livestock location in real time as well as to analyze the cattle’s behavioral data to solve real world livestock management issues.

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Tiger Lake-U System has Dual 2.5GbE and Six PoE+ Ports

Lanner has announced a fanless embedded computer that runs Linux on Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake ULP platform. The system is designed for machine vision, surveillance and compute-intensive video-related applications. The IIoT-I530 is loaded with Ethernet ports. Six Gigabit Ethernet ports are dedicated to PoE+ for driving IP cameras for machine vision, and the other two are 2.5GbE ports.

Datasheet: Sensor ICs

The IoT phenomenon continues to rev into high gear and sensor innovations have had to keep pace. That’s driven manufacturers of sensors ICs to develop highly integrated, high-performance devices. This Datasheet piece updates readers on this technology and provides a product album of representative Sensor IC products.

Cellular IoT Tech Tapped for LED Streetlight Control

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that Urban Control has specified a Nordic nRF9160 multi-mode NB-IoT/LTE-M System-in-Package (SiP) into each of its Urban Node 324 city streetlight LED luminaire controllers. Each Urban Node 324 simply plugs into an industry-standard "Zhaga" LED lighting socket and connects over the local cellular IoT network.