Page 21 - Mindmail _June_2019

NEWS

1 Sony’s first IoT which can be over 60 miles To circumvent interference or detect flooding and aid
(100 km) away. If the data
maritime rescue. In an
problems it repeats each
chip brings a was destined for a server signal four times, with urban environment, Eltres
60+ mile range, the base station may have synchronization bits could track deliveries,
an internet connection,
rental cars and bicycles,
interspersed so that the
can transmit but it doesn’t have to. receiver can account for or it could monitor for
from Sony gives the example variations caused by a timetable disruptions on
train and bus networks.
of a drone tasked with
change in direction of
fast-moving monitoring an offshore motion. The chip is only
vehicles farm, which could use the 16mm x 16mm and will run These things aren’t exactly
impossible with current
Eltres network to transmit
off a single coin/button
IoT devices have location and sensor data. battery (like a watch) networks. Sony’s plan
penetrated our homes with for possibly months. It’s though is to make them so
startling success, yet now Sony’s first gen chip, the available to developers on cheap and easy that they
they face a new challenge: LTE networks, yet those require affordable long- CXM1501GR, paired with request and should appear become ubiquitous, which
making it in the big scary both come with significant range networks that work a 20 mW antenna can in devices soon. is what IoT is all about.
outdoors, where threats compromises. Wi-Fi has in moving vehicles and can transmit a 128-bit signal
like power and motion a short range and suffers handle high interference. at up to 6.35 kbps while Sony believes it will create
have kept companies back. from signal interference moving at over 60 mph. It a new market of IoT
No more, says Sony, who if too many devices are Eltres is Sony’s spin on the can automatically switch devices. A ski resort might
announced their first chip connected, while LTE is concept, and it will launch between 23 channels on give out Eltres trackers so
supported by their Eltres expensive and requires in full in Japan later this the 923.6 MHz to 928 MHz that friends can find each
LPWA (low-power wide a SIM. Both have a high- year. Eltres employs small bands and when more other on ski slopes, or
area) network last week. power drain. If we truly microchips and antennas of the band is available detect if a guest has gotten
want everything connected to relay a signal-like sensor it uses chirp modulation lost or is caught in an
IoT has taken off with the to the internet, then we data to a base station, (frequency jumping) to avalanche. Ships could be
help of existing Wi-Fi and utilize more bandwidth. equipped to track racers,
20 21
Mindmail - June 2019 Mindmail - June 2019