Author: duncancolquhoun

With billions of IoT devices now live across the world, we’re in the era of massive IoT, and this creates significant challenges for IoT organizations. Traditional businesses that are transforming their offerings by adding IoT functionality need to get ready for hyperscale deployments. Similarly, brand new businesses or departments are being launched to provide IoT […]

Intelligence at the edge is increasingly being deployed, often in tandem with AI, to enable lower-latency decision-making on devices. This saves the delay associated with communicating data to a central server and then communicating an actionable response for the device to follow. It also saves on the costs of connectivity. By building more intelligent devices, […]

A series of new IoT cybersecurity certifications is coming into force in markets across the globe, increasing compliance obligations for enterprises. New requirements include the EU’s CE RED Article 3.3, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (2027), the US Cyber Trust Mark, and the US Department of Commerce Connected Vehicle Rule. These create new challenges but […]

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are increasingly seen as a means to bring wireless network coverage to previously unsupported areas while avoiding the expense of traditional satellite connectivity. The technology is being utilized to extend existing cellular network coverage by augmenting it with additional assets on the ground, in the air and in space. These assets include […]

The headline difference between LTE and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) is the data rate. LTE, with its near-ubiquitous global coverage, offers a peak data rate of 300Mbps while LTE-Advanced, if it utilizes everything in the LTE-A armoury including carrier aggregation, 4×4 MIMO, and 256QAM modulation in the downlink, can deliver downlink speeds of up to around 1Gbps. […]

Southeast Asia is poised for massive growth in smart IoT, with revenues set to reach more than US$50 billion by 2030, according to Statista projections. This growth comes from the high-speed innovation in electronics that is pervasive across the region, growing smart city projects, and the unstinting support provided by government initiatives. In addition, demand […]

A LoRa module enables a device to connect to a LoRa network which is built on the long range, low power wireless communication standard specifically designed for internet of things (IoT) use cases. LoRa is the physical layer technology that provides long-range, low-power radio communication. It utilizes a spread spectrum modulation technique derived from chirp […]

The first step in choosing a Wi-Fi module is to decide which Wi-Fi variant to select. In recent years, the available options have increased substantially, and Wi-Fi should no longer be identified as the wireless home or work reception area connectivity option that it was for previous generations. Certainly, Wi-Fi 5 still provides a cost-effective, […]

Smart farming covers a broad range of use cases from simple soil monitors for arable farms to high-precision, connected agricultural machineries and equipment that need to be operated accurately to the centimeter level. Selecting the best module for smart farming is highly dependent on which use case you’re looking to address. A soil sensor might […]

Antennas designed for operation in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) bands serve a wide range of wireless applications, particularly those requiring low-power, license-exempt communication. These frequency ranges—such as 13.56 MHz, 433 MHz, 868/915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz—are standardized internationally by the ITU-R and adopted regionally with specific regulatory constraints. While originally intended for scenarios other than communication […]