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SAF Tehnika JSC introduces Spectrum Core, a new compact, cost-effective USB controlled RF spectrum analyzer that operates up to 3 GHz. As a more cost-effective version of Spectrum Compact, Spectrum Core delivers the same high-performance RF spectrum analysis while eliminating the touchscreen and built-in batteries—achieving significant savings. Continue to read - https://ow.ly/HOkv50VlmuW #testandmeasurement #rf #testing #satellite #military #usbinterface #spectrummonitoring

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🆕 Mioty 450: Three base stations replace 480 #LoRaWAN gateways 🆕 🔵 #Mioty 450 covers Schleswig-Holstein with only three outdoor base stations, whereas LoRaWAN requires 480 gateways. 🔵 Mioty uses the 450 MHz band with 35 dBm transmission power and achieves up to 21,162 km² per station. 🔵 One Mioty station serves 251,379 people 🔵 The low number of base stations significantly reduces infrastructure and maintenance costs. 🔵 Mioty is ideal for large-scale IoT applications in agriculture, energy and logistics. 🔵 Network planning is greatly simplified and accelerated by Mioty's enormous range. 🔵 Robust modulation ensures reliable data transmission even in the presence of interference. 🔵 Mioty 450 is vastly superior to LoRaWAN in terms of range, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 🔵 Act now: Contact us for consulting, network planning or pilot projects with Mioty 450 in your region! harald.naumann (at) antennity .com 🔵 Take advantage of Mioty 450 and take your IoT applications to the next level! The Mioty 450 network was simulated with the tools out of my LPWAN Cookbook. The #comparison shows that Mioty 450 is much better than LoRaWAN 868.

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🚀 Mioty is 65536 times better than LoRaWAN! 🚀 The covered area with Mioty 450 is approximately 1024 to 65,536 times larger than with #LoRaWAN 868, as #Mioty 450 offers a significantly higher link budget and better interference immunity. The two circles show the difference in flatness with a factor of 1024. At a factor of 65636, the circle becomes invisible for LoRa. 📈 The difference starts with the link budget, which describes the maximum possible attenuation between transmitter and receiver. LoRaWAN 868 achieves a maximum coupling loss (#MCL) of 159 dB with an approximate sensitivity of -141 dBm, a transmission power of 14 dBm, and an antenna gain of 2.15 dBi at both the node and gateway. Mioty 450, on the other hand, achieves an MCL of 184 dB with the same antenna gain, a sensitivity of -141 dBm and a transmission power of 35 dBm. The lower frequency (450 MHz) reduces the free-space attenuation, which increases the range by around 6 dB. With permitted sector antennas (e.g. 9 dBi) and more transmitting power at the base station, the link budget increases to up to 191 dB. 📈 The difference in the link budget is thus up to 32 dB (191 dB - 159 dB). Each increase of 6 dB doubles the radius, so 32 dB results in five doublings: 2^5 = 32. The area increases with the square of the radius: 32^2 = 1024. 1024-fold area gains are realistic in practice, with strong interference (LoRaWAN loses approx. 18 dB sensitivity). The area is 2^8 = 65,536 times larger because Mioty 450 retains its range due to the high link budget and robustness against interference. 🏔️ In Germany, for example, only around 80 Mioty 450 base stations are required for outdoor coverage. This enables extremely cost-efficient, robust LPWAN networks for large countries in Europe or Africa. In the Vatican, Lichtenstein, Andorra and Monaco, a Mioty BTS is sufficient. Even Malta can be supplied with a Mioty base station as well. 📧 Enquiries for your Mioty 450 test kit are welcome at harald.naumann (at) antennity .com . Like👍| Share ➡️| Comment 💬| Stay Informed 📚| Register to our webinar ‘Beyond LPWAN’ 🖥️| Place a pre-order for the LPWAN Cookbook 📖|

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The fastest route to smart metering is on your network. With IntelliLog G-Setu, there’s no need to replace every meter to go digital. Our retrofit Meter Interface Unit upgrades existing gas meters with smart capabilities. From remote reading and theft alerts to remote syncing and app-based consumer insights. It’s faster, cost-effective, and disruption-free, helping utilities modernise networks, recover revenue, and unlock data-driven decision-making without starting from scratch. At Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd, we believe progress should be practical, and smart should start now. #GenusPower #SmartMetering #IoT #IoTInUtilities #RetrofitTechnology #DigitalUtilities #SmartGasMeter #EnergyEfficiency

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New job for old phones… A team in Estonia took four discarded smartphones, pulled the batteries to avoid leaks, and built a small data center. The setup included 3D-printed housing, power control circuits, and likely some external sensors. They sank it underwater to monitor marine life. It worked without a diver or any wired setup. The phones collected and processed the data directly on-site. This kind of work used to need a human with a camera, diving down and bringing footage back up. Now the system handles everything in place, without delay. When one phone breaks, they just swap it out. The casing and wiring stay put. That’s modular thinking. You design for reuse, not just for recycling. They’re testing it on land too. At a bus stop, it counts passengers in real time and helps improve transit using local processing, not new hardware. Since e-waste is rising fast, with over 62 million tons dumped in 2022 and most unrecycled, putting old devices to work near the data could make a real difference. We’re not short on computing power. We’re short on smart reuse. How many old devices are we wasting just because they look outdated? Daily #electronics insights from Asia—follow me, Keesjan, and never miss a post by ringing my 🔔. #technology #innovation

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WiFi and Cellular Are Not Friends Europe just made a call that exposes a deeper collision in connectivity. Brussels decided to allocate most of the upper 6GHz band to mobile networks. About 540 MHz is allocated to licensed mobile use, leaving only around 160 MHz for later review. This is the last large mid-band slice in Europe capable of delivering real multi-gigabit performance. Both sides wanted all of it. Mobile operators need wider channels for advanced 5G and early 6G. Wi-Fi 7 requires the same channels to sustain rising indoor traffic and device density. Europe picked mobile, and the result is a global signal. This fight is not new. WiFi and cellular collided in the 5Ghz LAA era. They collided again in CBRS in the United States. They collided in Canada, Brazil, South Korea, and Japan during consultations at the upper 6 and 7 GHz bands. The same pattern repeats for a straightforward reason. WiFi and cellular now chase the same physics, the same enterprise workloads, and the same edge intelligence. Most of the world's traffic originates indoors, and Wi-Fi still accounts for most of it. At the same time, private 5G is expanding in factories, ports, mines, and campuses, where users demand low jitter, a reliable uplink, and stable mobility. Both ecosystems now embed compute at the access layer. Nokia and NVIDIA bring GPU acceleration into the RAN. Cisco adds machine learning silicon to Wi-Fi-7 access points. Both want to be the first computer hop. Both want to own the inference path. The story is no longer indoor versus outdoor. It is no longer fixed versus mobile. It is a direct structural collision driven by spectrum, economics, and intelligence at the edge. Europe just gave the world the latest example. WiFi and cellular look like partners in public, but the fight for mid-band and enterprise control shows they are far from friends. https://lnkd.in/ggRYs7Mg

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IoT is growing up:  My recap from MWC     MWC is sometimes called the “The Superbowl of Tech”—a dizzying mix of innovation. In this constant flow of impressions, it’s not always easy to find a clear theme. On my way home, I reflected on how to summarize this year’s event in a simple way. Of course, I could say that “it was all about AI, a lot about cybersecurity, and quite a bit about 5G/6G—plus some robots”—because that’s true. But the biggest takeaway for me was realizing that the IoT industry is now clearly moving into its next phase. When I first entered the IoT space 17 years ago, it was an emerging industry with many players, unclear roles, and technologies not originally designed for IoT. While mobile networks had some standardization, many proprietary solutions existed. A lot has changed since then. IoT adoption still grows at a double-digit rate, but awareness is now high, and we have technologies specifically built for IoT applications. No matter how you see it, IoT has undoubtedly outgrown its development phase and is entering a more established stage—one where the next wave of innovation can take off.    Here are a few key observations from the event—things that have already started to make a real impact or soon will: • SGP.32 and the Push for Standardization  Technology has been the primary driver of our industry. The new eSIM standard, SGP.32, is expected to be commercially available this fall, significantly simplifying future network switches for customers. This will act as a catalyst for greater reliability, efficiency, and global scalability—while also pushing the need for standardized solutions to ensure long-term futureproofing.    • The Tailored Connectivity Mix  Another trend gaining traction is the shift towards a customized mix of connectivity technologies instead of relying on a single solution. Depending on the industry, one technology may serve as the primary connectivity method for most use cases, while one or two complementary technologies support others. This approach increases flexibility and customization—but also adds complexity for customers to manage.    • Partnerships and Specialization  For real change to happen, technology isn’t enough- new ways of working are just as crucial. And this is where I see another major shift taking place.  As the industry matures, growing complexity makes future-proofed connectivity more challenging for customers. We've long believed businesses should focus on their core operations while leveraging specialized partnerships. This year, I saw countless real-world partnership examples. Strong partnerships are a true shortcut to faster innovation.    So to summarize: IoT is no longer in its early development phase—it’s evolving rapidly with standardization, diversified connectivity strategies, and deeper industry collaboration. As technology matures, the real game-changer will be how businesses embrace these shifts to drive efficiency, scalability, and long-term innovation.  

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IoT is full of contradictions. Suppliers talk about scaling. While starting is very hard. Some tracking companies are fighting to get beyond a handful of small pilots. Others are managing hundreds of thousands of assets. Some say we're still at the very beginning. Others say 'this market is already mature'. One hardware company swarts that LoRaWAN is only for hobby projects. Another has used it to make entire cities smart. Smart water management is, depending on where you are, either a very mature market or something for the distant future. Some say IoT was hype. Others says that no one knows about it. IoT works great from a tech point of view. But it often fails at organsational level. The same use case can be both proven and impossible at the same time. While thousands of devices are already running, every new project still has to explain from scratch that it really works. There are more reasons why these contrasts exist: 1. Region. In some countries certain use cases are simply not relevant yet. While in other they're already mission critical. 2. Timing (luck). You were in the right place at the right time. But your competitor with the exact same product just wasn't there. 3. Silo expertise. This space is full of experts. But very often they are only experts of their own context. What they say is true, gets repeated as general truth. And this is how the market becomes confused without even knowing it is confused. This is also why I started Hello Things. To be consistent and honest towards end users about what's possible and what's not. And that only happens when you agree with each other on how things should work and how they should not. Shared understanding. Clarity. Reducing the noise.

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