This folder is a digressive in nature and can be skipped. It does NOT relate to QUIK that we know of yet.How Sigfox plans to spread its low-power IoT network across the U.S.RELATED Sigfox, a French networking company whose technology is already supporting large Internet of Things (IoT) deployments in several countries in Europe, has its sights set on the U.S. market.READ NOWThe company hasn't been shy about its plans for U.S. expansion in 2016. By the end of the first quarter, Sigfox claims its networks will be up and running in 10 U.S. cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Austin, Texas.So, how does the company plan to accomplish this? And how can it succeed in establishing a nationwide network for the IoT?What is Sigfox?Sigfox deploys Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) that work in concert with hardware that manufacturers can integrate into their products. In terms of compatibility, the network takes a similar approach to traditional GSM networks. Any device with integrated Sigfox hardware can connect to the internet – in regions where a Sigfox network has been deployed – without any external hardware, like a Wi-Fi or Zigbee router. But, in another sense, the Sigfox network is entirely different than traditional GSM networks, in that it can only transmit small amounts of data, at just 100 bits per second.CNET article from last March.How do they build the network?The focus on low-power, low-bandwidth communications also makes the Sigfox network relatively easy to deploy. Nicholls says the company completed its nationwide deployment in Spain in about 10 months, for example.With a base station the size of a briefcase, Proithis claims the company can do multiple site installs in one day, sometimes on rooftops in major cities but also in less conventional places, like billboards. And because the network sends such low amounts of data, it can reach farther distances with fewer base stations. Nicholls added that Sigfox's network is designed as a collaborative network, which prevents base stations from recognizing each other after they've been deployed. This eliminates the need to reconfigure the network when deploying a new base station."When you put up a new Sigfox cell, you just basically plug it in and it's part of the network," Nicholls says. "So you just extend the capacity and the reach of the network by installing a new node, but there's no reconfiguration to do on the others. One base station doesn't know the other one."What kinds of 'things' is it connecting?Nicholls says Sigfox considers its market split into three categories. The first involves existing use cases, such as utilities, that could become more efficient or less expensive by integrating its low-power connectivity. The second is the kinds of devices that haven't been connected before. A good example of this is Sigfox's recent collaboration with French postal service La Poste, which involves attaching a small, internet-connected button to mailboxes that customers can press to alert La Poste when they have a package to send.The third market segment that Nicholls laid out is when Sigfox's technology can be complementary, in a sense. As an example, Nicholls cited a security camera company that used 3G to send its video feeds to security personnel, which became concerned over the availability of GSM signal jammers that could disrupt the video feed. By integrating Sigfox's technology alongside the 3G networking technology, the device could fall back on the Sigfox network to send a low-power message to alert personnel in the event that the 3G signal was jammed.Will it succeed in the U.S.?Sigfox has had some success in Europe, with live coverage throughout France, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, and parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and Ireland. In addition to its U.S. plans, Sigfox is still in the process of rolling out its networks in Italy, Czech Republic, Denmark, and further throughout the UK and Ireland.It'll surely face competition from networks based on technology from the LoRa Alliance, although at least one company has developed a chip that integrates both technologies. Open Q to ponder..Could QUIK somehow make a Universal connectivity LPWAN AL IV? And though some experts claim the forthcoming 5G networking standard will be designed to accommodate the Internet of Things, Sigfox doesn't seem too concerned about it. While some early discussion may suggest 5G will accommodate the IoT, the network's first priority will be high-bandwidth applications, Proithis says."When you have a hammer, everything works like a nail," Proithis says. "And so, I think there's some great spectrum efficiencies, some peer-to-peer stuff, some of the things they're doing with 5G that will be very valuable. But to say that one thing is going to provide a premium service and at the same time provide the lowest-battery service, it's like saying Nordstrom is going to start opening dollar stores. You sort of have to say 'which one do you want to be?'" "No one person or company can be all things to all people," Proithis added.Proithis points to Sigfox's investors, such as Telefonica and NTT Docomo, that will be intimately involved with the development of the 5G standard. Their support in itself is a sign that Sigfox's market will exist even as 5G becomes a reality.Above all else, the IoT represents an opportunity for an entirely new approach to connecting devices. QUIK- If it thought up the FFE the AL IV may be more interesting that past connectivity items? That's the need Sigfox is aiming to fill."The IoT is very, very different from mobile phones," Nicholls says. "This is a volume market. It's not about national deployments, it's about worldwide markets. So it's a very, very different place. It's a place where you need a much more agile approach to the connectivity." Its nice that connectivity is talked of so MUCH in the IoT.QUIK can you help them out?Thanks in advance.
Long-Distance Battery-Powered Sensors for the IOT- SigFox 1. The first cellular network operator for the IoT 2. Topology Countrywide networks being installed around the world 3. SCALE: Safe Community Alerting Network “Democratizing safety by bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to everyone” 4. SCALE Concept 5. Goals and Objectives • Demonstrate our ability to extend a connected safe home to everyone at a low incremental cost, regardless of income or ability (focus on vulnerable populations) • Identify suitable sensors/algorithms for detecting possible emergency/safety events,Jump-start a live testbed for research and identifying IoT challenges • Identify proper schemas for sensor data, test analytics and alerting workflows • Demonstrate the efficacy of an open data platform in connecting disparate systems with little to no coordination We want the Eos 3 LP in as many platforms as possible- use Telit as a mental model. 6. SCALE multi-sensor boxes designed with off-the-shelf components: • Client software designed to easily incorporate new sensors with minimal programming effort, allowing easy customization of boxes • Client performs local analysis on data, publishing unusual events immediately as well as periodically updating readings • Sensor data transmitted through best available network medium • Plans to integrate mesh networking solutions for increased reliability Multi-networks and Multi-sensor Box 7. • DIME is a one-stop shop for sensor data and associated analytics • Publish-subscribe model: IoT devices exchange data and receive actionable messages via DIMEwithout coordinating directly with DIME maintainers • A New Data Ecosystem: Protocol-agnostic design avoids “vendor lock-in”; devices and people freely exchange data and analytics, building on the contributions made by others Middleware – Virtual Sensors and Data In Motion Exchange • Virtual sensors translate raw sensor streams to a semantically meaningful stream at a certain level – programming simplicity and flexibility • SCALE instantiates virtual sensors, performs analytics on data pulled from DIME, and publish observations to DIME 8. Alerting and Notification Dash Board at Dispatch Center 9. Get in touch This stuff is very interesting. The land grab phase will be interesting to watch. There will be names we have not even come across yet and a whole new species of BIG fish that participate in the grab.This will be fun. The Eos 4 that started design work last Q is going to be specialized for such applications.
Keep this info alive in your minds and then read this oneJan 22, 2016Previous Release | Next Release PDFAdd to BriefcaseQuickLogic's CTO to Present at Telit DevCon IoT Innovation ConferenceSUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/22/16 -- QuickLogic® Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the innovator of ultra-low power programmable sensor processing solutions, today announced that Dr. Timothy Saxe will be presenting at the Telit IoT Innovation Conference in Florida. This event brings together a diverse set of development, sales, marketing and executive professionals to learn how industry leaders are using the IoT to create new markets, transform their business and achieve measurable ROI.Dr. Saxe will give a presentation showing how it is possible to use the intelligence of QuickLogic's low power EOS™ sensor processing platform to achieve multi-year battery life in IoT sensor nodes and end points that use Telit's M2M (machine-to-machine) AIR cloud to report on room occupancy and air quality.Location: Fort Lauderdale Convention Center (Grand Ballroom A/B)Presentation: Monday, January 25 at 12:00 noon ESTEvent URL: http://iotinnovation.telit.com/2016
and then add this one in....a job opening...........This position in the Office of the CTO is a key contributor position.The responsibility of the Office of the CTO is to explore new ideas and markets that will lead to future growth.The role of the S/W engineering position is to work with other members of the team and ecosystem partners to understand market needs, identify software and hardware options for meeting those needs, develop prototypes based on the preferred options and use the prototypes to get customer feedback and refine the ideas.The technical requirements of the position are diverse, ranging from sensors, to embedded software, to networks, to cloud and web based software.Since in-depth familiarity with all of these areas is not possible, the ability to learn new areas sufficiently well to be productive is vital.Since we are a silicon company that interfaces sensors to the cloud, familiarity with hardware operations and debug is required, as well as embedded software such as drivers and near real-time operation.There WILL be EOS 3/4 in mutliyear sensor nodes aimed at the IoT that load their data into the cloud over the LPWANs that SixFox ( and others) are building now.QUIK has a roadmap that really goes somewhere. The roadmaps of the past were not toward such a future as can be glimpsed from thread like this.......this will be FUN and hoefully we read about more ecosystems as we move forward into '16.Consider that when the concerns of the day are retired there is real reason NOT to sell your part of the QUIK biz when it reaches the purchase price?
