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Smart buildings and the IoT: Zoning systems

April 20, 2022 By Asem Elshimi

buildings and IoT

There are significant benefits to moving some decisions in smart HVAC systems close to the application and away from the cloud. Asem Elshimi, Silicon Labs We’ve probably all experienced an office environment that always felt too cold or hot no matter the weather. And we’ve all experienced the fruitlessness of asking the building facilities team […]

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Managing smart street lighting design

November 1, 2021 By Soumya Shyamasundar

Wi-SUN

Wi-SUN may well be the linchpin that turns street lighting into a scalable IoT umbrella offering a multitude of solutions beyond illumination. Soumya Shyamasundar, Silicon Labs According to the World Bank, legacy street lighting systems based on traditional technologies can account for as much as 65% of a city’s electricity consumption. The energy consumption, of […]

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Wi-SUN chips simplify low-power LPWAN deployment for smart cities

April 13, 2021 By Lee Teschler

silicon labs

New standards-driven Wi-SUN technology opens the door to new Internet of Things (IoT) market opportunities and smart city application development. Silicon Labs’ certified Wi-SUN solution combines the industry-leading EFR32 hardware platform, full-featured IPv6 mesh stack, and advanced development tools to enable secure wireless connectivity for a broad range of applications, from advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) to […]

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Bluetooth direction finding brings a new dimension to indoor asset tracking

May 12, 2020 By Aimee Kalnoskas

By Mikko Savolainen, Senior Manager, Industrial and Commercial IoT Products, Silicon Labs Since opening the Global Positioning System (GPS) for civilian use in the 1980s, GPS technology has become a mainstream and de facto solution for outdoor positioning and asset tracking, finding its way first from commercial airplanes to smartphones and smartwatches to match-box-sized GPS […]

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Simplifying product returns through device security

May 29, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas

device security

by Oivind Loe, Chief Technology Officer, Sipsby.com, and Josh Norem, Staff Systems Design Engineer, Silicon Labs Product returns for Internet of Things (IoT) devices can be challenging. On the one hand, connected the device should be locked down as much as possible when going out to the field. On the other hand, when a device […]

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PCI Express Gen 5 clocks and buffers lead in performance and power

April 16, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas

PCI Express Gen 5

Silicon Labs has introduced a comprehensive portfolio of timing solutions that provide best-in-class jitter performance to meet the latest generation PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 specification with significant design margin. The Si5332 any-frequency clock family generates PCIe Gen 5 reference clocks with jitter performance of 140 fs RMS, optimizing PCIe SerDes performance while meeting the Gen […]

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Clock IC,quartz-crystal reference combined in the same package

August 13, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

Si5332

Silicon Labs has expanded its Si5332 any-frequency clock portfolio with new versions combining the clock IC and a quartz crystal reference inside the same package, simplifying board layout and design. The all-in-one Si5332  solution guarantees reliable start-up and operation over the lifetime of the product, unlike traditional solutions that source the clock IC and crystal […]

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Software option simplifies in-field set-up of sub-GHz IoT devices

June 13, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

Silicon Labs has released new software options for its Wireless Gecko portfolio, enabling simultaneous sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) connectivity on a single chip. This Silicon Labs solution enables commercial and industrial IoT applications to combine long-range sub-GHz communications with Bluetooth connectivity, simplifying device setup, data gathering and maintenance. By avoiding the complexity […]

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New study benchmarks Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth network protocols

April 9, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

PCI Express Gen 5

Silicon Labs has released the industry’s first comprehensive network performance results based on large-scale, multicast testing of Zigbee, Thread , nd Bluetooth mesh software. Each mesh networking protocol presents unique characteristics and advantages, depending on the use case and end application. All testing was conducted at Silicon Labs’ Boston design center using the company’s Wireless Gecko […]

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Wi-Fi devices cut power in half, bring security to battery-powered IoT applications

February 27, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

battery-powered IoT

Given the crowded field and reasonably mature market of Wi-Fi, it is noteworthy that Silicon Laboratories recently introduced a new Wi-Fi portfolio aimed at simplifying the design of power-sensitive, battery-operated Wi-Fi products including IP security cameras, point-of-sale (PoS) terminals and consumer healthcare devices. Siddharth Sundar, Design Manager at Silicon Labs, explained, “We look at Wi-Fi from a different […]

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