Key Trends in Multi-Protocol SoC/Modules for Medical and Industrial IoT

As multi-protocol mesh networks become increasingly popular in industrial and medical IoT applications, ensuring excellent wireless performance in the congested 2.4 GHz band is a major challenge for device manufacturers. In light of these challenges, Silicon Labs (also known as “芯科科技”) has launched the ultra-low power BG24 and MG24 wireless SoC and module product series … Read more

What Is Ambient IoT? A Comprehensive Overview

What Is Ambient IoT? A Comprehensive Overview

Author / Yuyou Caicai Word Count / 4200 Energy is everywhere around us. Light, heat, wind, waves, sound, electromagnetic radiation, and mechanical vibrations are all forms of energy. If IoT devices could free themselves from the limitations of power sources and batteries, relying entirely on harvesting energy from the environment for communication, true ubiquitous connectivity … Read more

What Is the Internet of Things and How It Works?

What Is the Internet of Things and How It Works?

With the arrival of the 5G era, the development of the Internet of Things is rapid, and its connection with daily life is becoming closer. From picking up packages at smart lockers to riding shared bicycles, you can check smart locks, cameras, and video doorbells through your mobile APP. Large-scale applications like smart cities, smart … Read more

Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT) Basics

Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT) Basics

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new world, a world that is quantifiable and measurable. In this world, people can better manage their lives, cities can better manage their infrastructure, and companies can better manage their businesses. This new intelligent interconnected world will fundamentally change society and consumers, leading to profound transformations across … Read more

Analysis of 50 Chinese MCU Suppliers’ Comprehensive Strength

Analysis of 50 Chinese MCU Suppliers' Comprehensive Strength

Click Blue Text Follow Us The global MCU market is mainly occupied by companies from Europe, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan. Only European companies NXP, U.S. companies Microchip, ST, and Infineon account for over 80% of the market share, while TI, Nuvoton, Rohm, Samsung, and Toshiba occupy 11.4%. The share held by mainland Chinese … Read more

Exploring Wireless Technologies for Smart Products

Exploring Wireless Technologies for Smart Products

Introduction: WiFi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee are the most widely used wireless technologies, each with its advantages, suitable for different scenarios. Currently, wireless products and solutions are flourishing in the market. This article reviews the WiFi/Bluetooth/ZigBee wireless chip solutions or module solutions specifically designed for wireless smart products from mainstream manufacturers such as TI, ST, Marvell, … Read more

Applications of Sensor Networks in Industrial Internet

Applications of Sensor Networks in Industrial Internet

The Industrial Internet represents a new strategy, technological layout, and vision for the future, emerging from the powerful technological accumulation of industrialized nations over the past few decades and its integration with the internet. Interpreting these visions and strategies solely from an internet perspective is far from sufficient. In fact, the Industrial Internet is supported … Read more

NB-IoT Claims to Be NB, LoRa Disagrees!

NB-IoT Claims to Be NB, LoRa Disagrees!

Author: iot101 Comic King Original from IoT Think Tank Public Account ID: iot101 Last week, we talked about the growth journey of the NB-IoT baby. In fact, in the LPWAN field, there are many babies that have already gone out to make money (but it’s all done privately by some companies). For example, LoRa, which … Read more

A Brief History of Wi-Fi

A Brief History of Wi-Fi

In 1896, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi achieved the first wireless communication in human history. From then on, humanity opened the door to the world of radio. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) The radio telegraph at that time used a spark-gap transmitter, and the transmitted signal content was Morse code. This radio telegraph could not receive and send … Read more

The Origin of Wi-Fi Technology

The Origin of Wi-Fi Technology

In the late 19th century, humanity invented the wireless telegraph, thus beginning the exploration of the wireless world. The wireless telegraph machines of the time used a spark-gap transmitter, primarily to transmit Morse code. Early wireless telegraph machines, with the Morse code design in the lower left corner This telegraph machine could not receive and … Read more