Cognitive Testbeds
By 2015, the worldwide installed base of digital radio receivers, excluding handsets, is expected to reach nearly 200 million units according to ABI Research’s recent “Digital Radio” study. The digital radio market has just began to see consumer adoption in the US and Western Europe. By the end of 2010, about four million digital radios [...]
NXP Semiconductors has announced it will make the IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless connectivity network layer software it inherited from the acquisition of Jennic, JenNET-IP, open source, in a bid to generate greater interest in the ‘Internet of Things’ concept. It will create an open source consortium with a focused set of charter members to manage [...]
A handful of companies are have agreed to draft a standard that could help unify fragmented wireless and wired home networks. The IEEE 1905.1 group has backing from Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Intel, Marvell, Toshiba and others.
About twenty engineers are expected to attend the group’s first meeting in Paris this week. They [...]
Tech. news from Microwave Engineering Europe
Until recently, radio chips have been used primarily for the identification of products. Researchers have now developed a transponder which measures temperature, pressure and humidity. The chip enabled with sensor functions could find numerous applications in the logistic of temperature or humidity sensitive goods.
With extended RFID [...]
