PRODUCTS EDITOR’S CHOICE INDUSTRIAL-GRADE LPWAN GROUP
M²Communication (M2COMM), a provider of industrial IoT connectivity technologies, has joined the Weightless SIG to lead a Weightless Working Group for the development of a new high performance LPWAN Standard. This latest standard, called Weightless-P, will offer uplink and downlink
capabilities to significantly enhance quality of service especially important in the very stringent industrial IoT sector. Adapted from field-proven experiences, Weightless-P supports all
major license-exempt SRD/ISM bands including 169, 433, 470 - 510, 780, 868, 915 and 923MHz, ensuring worldwide availability. The Standard provides fully acknowledged 2-way communication offering best in class quality of service at data rates ranging from 200bps to 100kbps. It enables higher capacity than existing LPWAN and cellular technologies for uplink-dominated traffic with short-to-medium payload sizes. Using common commercially-available chipsets it will also support both stationary and mobile end devices by utilising low-power, innovative handover, cell re-selection and roaming methods. Other advanced reliability features include fast network acquisition, paging, FEC, ARQ, power control and adaptive channel coding. Whilst offering the promised performance, network reliability and security characteristics of 3GPP carrier-grade solutions, still unavailable for some considerable time, Weightless-P promises substantially lower costs and power consumption, <100uW in idle state compared to more than 3mW for the best cellular technologies and a price point equivalent to existing LPWAN solutions. Derrick Wei, CEO of M2COMM, commented, “Weightless-P will breathe
new life into an IoT market that is waiting on a reliable LPWAN technology. Many IoT sectors require reliability to be addressed with ultra-low energy wireless communications not accessible through operator services today. The slow adoption of wireless IoT solutions highlights a huge technology void that Weightless-P will address without requiring custom hardware”. SIG
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS AND COMPUTING LAB
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) has launched an Open High-Performance Analytics and Computing (HPAC) Lab for the real-time application needs of enterprise and cloud computing end users. The lab has been set-up to support heterogeneous processing technologies from industry-leading CPU and accelerator vendors who are connecting their hardware with IDT’s portfolio of RapidIO and PCIe interconnect semiconductors, advanced timing and memory interface products. Based at the company’s facility in Ottawa, Canada, the Open HPAC Lab runs on a contribution model. It has been seeded by IDT and partner companies to enable end users to develop application software for analytics and high-performance computing (HPC) requiring a variety of processor types with low latency, high throughput and energy efficiency. Target applications for the lab workload include real-time analytics, deep learning, pattern recognition, video analytics and image processing. The technology at the centre of the lab was used for analysing the content of Twitter traffic during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals, and was recently adopted by CERN for its Large Hadron Collider and data centre analytics. The lab is based on industry-standard IT form factor solutions that align with the Open Compute Project (OCP) High-Performance Computing initiative, which IDT co-chairs. “As analytics of large amounts of unstructured data become more
important in the hyperscale cloud data centre, the need for using accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs in conjunction with processors is paramount, and low-latency interconnect is key to keeping up with the workload in distributed multi-processor systems,” said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Global Operations. “We kicked off the Open HPAC Lab to provide an area of collaboration for those requiring the low latency and energy efficiency that RapidIO interconnect delivers.”
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