Tag: Wireless

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Sysmocom Discounts Fernvale Open-Source GSM Development Kits

Sysmocom’s Harald Welte has announced a steep discount on his company’s stock of Fernvale kits, development boards put together by Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang and Sean ‘Xobs’ Cross for cellular networking projects, dropping the price per kit from €110 to €58.82 (excluding VAT.) Unveiled during a presentation at the 31c3… Read More

Iridium, Amazon Partner on Globe-Spanning Satellite IoT Network

Satellite communications giant Iridium has announced a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services arm to launch a globe-spanning cloud-powered communications network for the Internet of Things (IoT): Iridium CloudConnect. Based on Iridium’s constellation of 66 cross-linked communications satellites, Iridium CloudConnect ties the company’s satellites into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud… Read More

OsmocomBB SDR PHY Project Achieves GSM-on-Any-Frequency Milestone

OsmocomBB SDR PHY, a project to replace the currently-proprietary Layer 1 of the Osmocom GSM mobile baseband stack, has announced a major milestone: unlocking the ability to run a cellular network on any radio frequency, including unlicensed frequencies. The Osmocom project was founded with a laudable goal: to create a… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Edge AI, microPlatforms, MQTT Woes, and More

AB Open is proud to confirm its sponsorship of ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference, to be held this year at the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. Officially announced by the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation today, AB Open’s sponsorship follows our commitment in the… Read More

Dragino LoRaST Adds LoRaWAN Support to NGFF Devices

Devices with M.2 Next-Generation Form Factor (NGFF) slots, typically used for storage devices, can now become LoRaWAN clients thanks to an open-source add-on board from China’s Dragino: The LoRaST. Designed to fit into the M.2 NGFF slots on modern desktop, laptop, and embedded systems, the Dragino LoRaST is based on… Read More

CRU: RISC-V SSDs, Open Satellite Radio, LoRaWAN 1.0.3, and More

This fortnight has been a strong one for the open RISC-V instruction set architecture, starting with the news that IIT Madras has partnered with Intel and HCL Technologies to create an I/O-packed microcontroller test chip in 22nm FinFET that takes aim at ARM Cortex A35/A55 and has successfully booted Linux… Read More

Planet Labs Launches OpenLST Satellite Radio Platform

Satellite imaging specialist Planet Labs has announced the launch of OpenLST, an open hardware satellite radio platform for communication with remote vehicles, instruments, and stations using low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components. “Radio system design is often viewed as a ‘black box’ that is out of reach to all but the most… Read More

LoRa Alliance Releases LoRaWAN 1.0.3 Specification

The LoRa Alliance has announced an update to the LoRaWAN 1.0.3 specification for low-power wide-area wireless networks, adding unicast and multicast support to Class B devices and new time synchronisation features for other classes. In its latest update to the open LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network standard, proving popular globally for… Read More

China’s Tencent Joins LoRa Alliance, Plans Shenzhen LoRaWAN Launch

Chinese technology giant Tencent has announced its membership of the LoRa Alliance, as part of a plan to launch a LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) network in the bustling city of Shenzhen. “It is clear that LPWANs [low-power wide area networks] are essential for IoT technology and applications, and the… Read More

SparkFun Publishes Introductory LoRaWAN Tutorial

Those interested in experimenting with the LoRaWAN long-range low-power standard now have a new resource, in the form of an introductory tutorial by Nick Poole published on SparkFun. Based around SparkFun’s own SparkX Pro RF USB-connected development board, Nick’s detailed tutorial introduces the LoRa and LoRaWAN standards, The Things Network… Read More

CRU: Open Silicon, LoRa Growth, LPWA-CB, and More

RISC-V pioneers OnChip and SiFive have separately announced new microcontroller chip designs, taking aim at the low-power sensor market with their own takes on the open architecture. In a message to social networking service Twitter, OnChip revealed a RISC-V microcontroller design described as having always-on features, three power states… Read More

Open-Source LoRa Stik Hits Crowd Supply

Steven Osborn, of Oregon-based Third Venture Inc, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a low-cost USB-connected LoRa transceiver: the LoRa Stik. “In 2013 I worked on a solution for vineyard owners to monitor wine grapes. Back then we were using expensive and not very robust xBee radios and had poor… Read More