Author: duncancolquhoun

Smart city deployments have grown from modest point solutions to address specific operational challenges to vast, all-embracing infrastructures that integrate disparate smart city functions across transport, safety, garbage collection, streetlighting, citizen services, and many other functions. At the same time, the application of intelligent computing to smart city use cases has increased automation, reduced costs, […]

The trend toward greater on-device and edge intelligence is seeing greater adoption of smart module and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for IoT projects. The ability to combine multiple functions across processing, power optimization, connectivity, and security into a single component can streamline product design and simplify manufacturing. On the flipside, there are significant variables with SoCs […]

Antennas form the vital link between an IoT device and the network, and although that’s simple to say, there are numerous complexities involved in making sure antennas perform to the best of their ability. Antennas can’t simply be bought and added to a device. Careful configuration and optimization needs to take place to ensure devices […]

AIoT, the convergence of intelligent computing and IoT, is seeing an uplift in intelligence in IoT devices which is enabling greater autonomy and automation as IoT devices contain capabilities to analyze data and make decisions on the device. This is particularly useful for constrained devices which have limited battery power and seek to minimize the […]

As the name suggests, a small cell antenna is an antenna that is more compact than a typical large – or macro – cell antenna. Size isn’t the only benefit, small cells also consume less power than large antennas, enabling them to be used in both power and size constrained situations. Small cells are typically […]

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. […]