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Redefining Battery Life at Wireless Congress: Systems & Applications By Srinivas Pattamatta, Vice President of Business Development of Atmosic Wireless technologies are always advancing and expanding their reach in our current world. Platforms such as Bluetooth 5.0 (BLE) enables wider ranges of connectivity at lower power thresholds and battery-free wireless solutions are becoming more accessible and easier to use. This past month, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Wireless Congress: Systems & Applications in Munich. I was able to discuss some of the major challenges industry leaders and wireless professionals face when implementing energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) devices within an array of industries including healthcare, smart homes and smart cities. Healthcare automation is one of the largest drivers in the medical industry from applications such as hospital asset tracking and indoor locationing to patient health monitoring and tracking. The IoT has amazing potential to help improve healthcare for both patients and medical professionals alike. Historically, it has been a challenge for the healthcare industry to ensure that the data communication not only works with existing infrastructures, but is wirelessly powered. However, with current technologies, the cost of manually replacing batteries and losing equipment can be…
The use of smart tools, sensors, and machines to improve manufacturing and industrial processes is known as the Industrial IoT (IIoT). The IIoT enables manufacturers to digitize nearly every aspect of their operations and reduce errors. Furthermore, manufacturers can increase the safety of their operations while also boosting productivity at the same time. Let’s explore how this new era of the IIoT, often called the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, is reshaping manufacturing as we know it. Every organization dealing with physical assets such as vehicles, product shipments, or rented machinery needs a way to keep track of the whereabouts of these devices. In the past, companies had to fill out paperwork to track an asset’s journey and document the transfer of goods. Today, many manufacturing and fulfillment centers use asset trackers such as small beacons to help keep track of equipment and shipping goods. Asset trackers can not only monitor the location of items but also track other metrics such as temperature to ensure that goods are being stowed properly. Another IoT application gaining popularity in factories is wearable devices. Wearable IoT devices like RFID tags and smartwatches can help enhance worker safety conditions. For example, IoT wearables…
Direction Finding Technology Bluetooth Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) Selecting the Right Direction-Finding Technology A variety of direction-finding technologies are available on the market today, but as with most engineering decisions, the choice of which is best for any given application deployment requires balancing various tradeoffs. This being said, because of its low cost, low power, high accuracy, and inter-operability with legacy Bluetooth systems, Bluetooth AoA (first introduced with the Bluetooth core specification 5.1) is fast becoming the solution of choice for both consumer and industrial IoT across diverse segments. Mall visitor engaged in wayfinding navigation via precise indoor positioning, made possible by a BLE Sensor-Infrastructure with AoA. The route to the desired point is displayed on a map on the user’s mobile phone or tablet or the route is announced by the output device. In 2022, there will be 250 million Bluetooth location devices shipped worldwide, with 350 million expected to ship by 2026. With Atmosic’s Bluetooth AoA solutions, organizations get a robust and highly accurate RTLS (real-time location system) that is specifically designed for IoT asset tracking and wayfinding applications inside buildings. Functional down into sub-meter accuracies, with the Atmosic RTLS approach, consumer and industrial users can now greatly…
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Ultra-low power module from Atmosic and Tonly will help companies accelerate the development of IoT devices with long-lasting battery life January 13, 2020 07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Atmosic™ Technologies, an innovator of ultra-low-power wireless for the Internet of Things (IoT), and Tonly Electronics Holdings Limited, a leading IoT solutions provider, today announced a partnership to develop a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module, the TBMO2. The TBMO2 module will integrate Atmosic’s ATM2 system-on-chip (SoC), which is built with Atmosic’s groundbreaking Lowest Power Radio and On-Demand Wake Up technologies, to enable significantly longer battery life for IoT applications. The feature-packed TBMO2 will help companies accelerate the development of innovative wireless devices with extended battery life, helping to reduce the costs of IoT deployment and maintenance. “We built our ATM2 solutions from the ground up to revolutionize the IoT market with ‘lifelong battery operation.’ We are excited to enable device makers to more quickly and easily develop smart devices from smart home products to wearables to consumer electronics with our cutting-edge low power and wake up technologies,” said Atmosic CEO David Su. “Our collaboration with Tonly for the TBMO2 module is another step forward to dramatically reducing IoT devices’ dependence…
Atmosic Launches the Lowest Power Bluetooth® 5.3 SoC Advanced Product Family with Energy Harvesting Technology Atmosic adds to its award-winning portfolio, delivering high-performance IoT with a 3-to-5x longer battery life and battery-free solutions CAMPBELL, Calif. – Jan. 19, 2022 – Atmosic, the world leader in energy harvesting wireless platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT), today unveiled the ATM33 Series Bluetooth® 5.3 family of high-performance system-on-chips (SoCs), further enhancing Atmosic’s patented advanced energy harvesting and ultra-low power technology. To reduce the need for costly battery replacement in connected products and its associated environmental toll, Atmosic is supplementing its eco-friendly SoC portfolio with the addition of the ATM33 series of products that supports unparalleled battery life and battery-free operations. The ATM33 SoCs provide best-in-class radio power performance with a 0.7mA receiver and a ground-breaking transmitter that can operate efficiently with output power from 0dBm to 10dBm. These solutions provide 3-to-5x longer battery life compared to the competition. “Building upon our proven ultra-low-power radio technology and market success, we are enhancing the SoCs with the processing power of the Arm® Cortex-M33F, embedded non-volatile memory, as well as the latest Bluetooth standard,” said David Su, CEO of Atmosic. “With the launch of our…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing the benefits of wireless communication to devices everywhere. Whether it’s adding connectivity to devices in your home, tracking the location of your keys, or adding sensors in an industrial plant, low-power wireless connectivity has become a must-have for the IoT. However, adding connectivity requires a power source in all these devices, which sometimes means using a battery, creating an environmental issue as billions of batteries are added to the waste stream every year. Making the IoT revolution sustainable means we need to drastically reduce our reliance on batteries. Here is where harvesting light energy offers a potential solution. Because communication in many IoT applications generally consumes very little power and is only intermittently used, reliably power ing devices with harvested light energy is feasible. But for photovoltaic energy harvesting to be a more common feature in IoT, we first need to overcome some stubborn misconceptions. Misconception #1: All Usable Photovoltaic Energy Comes from Solar When most people think about photovoltaic energy today and consider its role in a sustainable energy future, the images that tend to come to mind are often related to things like utility-scale solar arrays or residential solar panel microgrids….
Samsung Leverages Atmosic’s Ultra-low Power SoC for Eco-friendly Consumer Devices Samsung recently unveiled the Samsung Galaxy SmartTag2, which offers an easy way for consumers to keep track of their prized possessions. This tiny device integrates Atmosic’s ultra-low power ATM3325 Bluetooth 5.3 SoC to help significantly extend its battery life. The ATM3325 reduces power consumption in the SmartTag2 by over 43% compared to Samsung’s previous generation SmartTag+ SoCs. Samsung has provided further differentiation by incorporating a power save mode, which can extend the battery life up to 700 days for the tag. This impressive battery life is a huge perk for users and one of the standout features of the accessory. “Atmosic’s SoC helps Samsung to offer an extended battery life in our latest SmartTag2,” said Jaeyeon Jung, Executive Vice President and Head of SmartThings, Device Platform Center at Samsung Electronics. “With Atmosic’s innovative technology, we can improve our environmental impact as well as our customer experience through extended battery life.” Consumers can use Samsung’s SmartThings Find Service to easily find their tags and keep track of where their valuables are located. Plus, Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem is open to third-party devices as well. For any brands looking to design eco-friendly…
