RF remote controls are rapidly replacing traditional infrared IR remote controls, particularly in smart TV and set-top box applications. Unlike RF remote controls, IR remotes cannot support non line-of-sight operation, motion, bi-directional data streams or higher data rates.
Atmel recently extended its wireless product offerings through the acquisition of Ozmo, Inc. Able to directly communicate with the integrated Wi-Fi technology found in millions of products today, the fully integrated Atmel Wi-Fi solution can be used for many wireless HID and audio applications. Atmel Corporation Nasdaq: ATML is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency RF components.
Celeno provides high performance Wi-Fi chips and software for HD multimedia and entertainment home networking applications. You must be logged in to post a comment. Sponsored by Synopsys. The demo shows excellent performance, BER at 1e and total insertion loss of 37dB. The system comprises a number of components, including the m! Qbe central module, m! The m! Qbe is designed to be used in one room with an m! Base and should, depending on the layout, cover a circle with a diameter of 20 meters.
Qbe rep explained in a recent Indiegogo post. Indeed, the m! So you can go to bed or leave your home in bright light for instance. Qbe [will] automatically turn off all your [lights] after a while. As you can see in the video above, the m!
Qbe can be rotated to manually change color or brightness, while a brief touch on the icon switches from one light to another, allowing the user to easily select and adjust specific fixtures. So, how does the platform work? Essentially, the m!
Base component communicates with the m! Qbe and the network of lights. Base is a plug and play solution. In its standard configuration you connect the m! Base with a cable to your network. If you want to connect it wirelessly, please order the WiFi option. As noted above, the m! Qbe is built around an Atmel 8-bit microcontroller MCU , which uses data generated from a three-axis acceleration sensor and a three-axis gyro sensor to precisely calculate motion. In the m!
Base a Linux system transfers the commands received via bluetooth from the m! If you want to extend the functions of the m! Qbe the easiest way is to modify the software of the m! Last, but certainly not least, m! Qbe supports the Philips Hue system that includes not only the connected bulbs but also Friends of Hue such as LightStrips and LivingColors Bloom, along with dimming plugs for more traditional lamps.
You can check out the official m! Qbe page on Indiegogo here. The Atmel-based Digispark dev board has gone Pro on Kickstarter. This means it can appear to your computer as if it were that type of device — allowing you to easily have your device type, move the mouse, act as a joystick and more. Especially, this holds true with the effects of globalization, balancing, localization, connectivity, and ubiquity.
Internet of Things has a large appetite for ultra low power connectivity using wireless standards. There are many competing standards: Zigbee , SA Tom Vu TV : What would be the most important design decision that supersedes the eventual success of an open source Internet of Things compliance? The first most important decisions are to do open source design based on needs and use cases. Just like the Internet, built on open source and open standards, the starting data models are important for building on and building out.
A browser can understand all of the current platforms because they are all based on common abstractions. We believe that the Semantic Web provides a solid basis of standard web technology on which to base the data models. What are the differences?
The IoT has started off fueled by crowdfunding , VC money and other sources that have to some extent built on a business model based on vertical integration. Vertical integration has a big advantage; you need to have a self-contained development to get things done quickly for proof of concept and demonstration.
Vertical integration is also a big driver of the current machine-to-machine, or M2M , communication market. This is the paradigm supporting the initial deployment of connecting things to services for management on an individual thing basis. The downside of vertical integration is that it leads to silos, where the code developed for a system, the data collected, and even the user interfaces are all unique to the system and not reusable in other systems.
Moreover, the vertical integration is often seen as a proprietary advantage and protected through patents and copyrights that are relatively weak because they apply to commonly known patterns and methods. As an example, the Eclipse foundation is open source, allowing their M2M system to be used for vertical application development as well as integrated with IoT Toolkit data models and APIs to enable interoperability with other platforms. Connected things connect through WSN gateways and routers to Internet services that fulfill the application logic for the user.
Today, for the most part, each vendor provides a cloud service for the devices they sell, e. Twine , Smart Things , or the Nest thermostat. There are also some cloud services that allow any connection, providing an API for anyone to connect, for the purpose of integrating multiple devices. Many IoT services today are based on providing easy access to the devices and gateway, with open source client code and reference hardware designs, selling hardware on thin margins, and Kickstarter campaigns.
These systems contain a highly visible open source component, but much of the functionality comes from the cloud service. There is the beginning of an ecosystem here, where some devices are being built to use existing services, e. Good Night Lamp uses Cosm as their cloud service. As a result, sensors and gateways must be programmed for each service they need to interact with.
The current system also leaves users vulnerable to outages of a single provider. Even if there was a programmable cloud service that all could connect to that ran user applications, there would be a vulnerability to provider outages. Much better and more robust would be an ability to configure more than one service provider in parallel in an application graph, for a measure of robustness in the face of service outages.
Even more, it should be possible to run user application code in IoT gateways , local user-owned servers, or user-managed personal cloud services.
These are businesses that are built on a model of vertical integration. In these models, value is added by integrating services together to serve one function, hence vertical. With the Internet of Things, traditional value chains are collapsing down and flattening. There is a bit of a disruption in the business model services, etc , but also new opportunities emerge to create new Internet of Things services, which is good for business and consumers. Companies will continue to build out vertical models to specialize in their services.
IoT can potentially augment service models with the customer even further and offer creative possibilities of cost savings and experience and deploy more customer centric business fabrics, which will result in better service for consumers. If companies build their vertically based infrastructure of applications integrating into the IoT Toolkit platform, the basic enablement for horizontal connections will already exist, making it easy to create horizontal, integrative applications based on automatic resource discovery and linkage.
Access to the knowledge can enhance the customer experience and ROI for businesses. We are at the brink of the new era, where companies and products can arise from the information economy; only now motivation via implicit or explicit engagement is tied to things, assets, information, sensors, education, and augmentation; and everything is more intertwined and involved.
Tom Vu TV : Please assume the role of a futurist or even contemporary pragmatist. How does the landscape of Internet of Things fit into that picture for an individual? It goes back to the idea that your life is going to change in ways that we are no longer be driven by the scarcity pressures we experienced as hunter gatherers. IoT will trigger the overall shift from the resource accumulative, to the interaction driven and resource sharing-enjoying model due to the ubiquitous connectivity and the right kind of applications we can use to bring this experience to maturity.
We expect the Internet of Things to be where the interaction moves away from screens and becomes more like everyday life, only more convenient, comfortable, and easy to manage. Yes, of course, everyone has a part in the build up and build out of Internet of Things.
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