As we approach the seasonal holidays, and competition online to sell the latest gadgets and tech hots up, one thing keeping product manufacturers up at night is how long they are able to hold on to an exclusive market of…
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Cyber Monday & Internet of Insecure Things ?
We hope everyone had a good Cyber Monday and bought lots of cool, discounted tech off the Web. The question is have you inadvertently invited a criminal or foreign government into your house ? As more products become Web enabled,…
30cm GPS Accuracy Gamechanger by Broadcom
In an earlier than expected move, Broadcom have just announced the imminent availability of the dual band L1/L5 BCM47755. Whilst this may not mean much to many people, it will be a future gamechanger for consumer tech currently in development that…
4G/5G, LPWANs and the Internet of Things
Here at Milliamp we are huge advocates of the Internet of Things, and in particular license free LoRaWAN and The Things Network (including TTN Lancaster), yet many people ask us why we bother with this technology and why we don’t just…
LoRaWAN FOTA Breakthrough
The Things Network have recently announced a major breakthrough in solving one of the biggest challenges of LoRaWAN: “Firmware Over-the-Air” (FOTA or FUOTA) updates – a killer feature that allows IoT deployed devices in the field to be updated remotely. One of the…
Android Studio 3.0 with IoT
Google has released Android Studio 3.0 (Canary) preview beta, its purpose-built IDE for Android development, with an interesting range of support for new features, in particular support for Android Things, their excursion into the Internet of Things (IoT) development. Core…
ST invest in Decawave
Real time location system (RTLS) and indoor positioning system (IPS) company Decawave has recently received a $2.5M cash injection from ST New Ventures (part of manufacturer ST Microelectronics), which is in addition to the $30M already raised from other partners. This signals…
TTN Lancaster moves to Production Servers
Following on from our recent post announcing that The Things Network production platform has now gone live, we are please to report we have successfully migrated our TTN Lancaster kit to v2.0, with our Multitech Conduit 210L gateways. We are currently…
Semtech brings IoT indoors with SX1308
Semtech has announced it will shortly be releasing the SX1308 picocell digital baseband parts which will bring within reach their LoRaWAN Internet of Things (IoT) gateway technology within the cost bounds of manufacturers of home consumer goods and embedded smart home tech. Combined…
Milliamp evaluating new Murata LoRa modules
For the past couple of months we have been evaluating some interesting new tech from Murata – the CMWX1ZZABZ-078 LoRa wireless module. In a 12.5×11.6×1.76 mm package, this incorporates a SX1276 RF transceiver from Semtech and a STM32L Cortex M0+…
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