FUTURE-PROOF CONNECTIVITY
Here we explore the challenges with wireless connectivity and why Future-Proofing your products is important.
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The challenge with connectivity
Today billions of sensors and actuators are being wirelessly connected and new business opportunities arise. How will this effect your connected product in 5 years and what do you need to consider when choosing wireless technology?
The frequency spectrum
All those connected products and all other wireless systems like WiFi, ZigBee, Thread and Bluetooth all use the same frequency channel. The frequency spectrum gets more and more congested and will soon become one of our most precious natural resources.
This congestion could result in a communication breakdown and make your wireless enabled product have degraded quality of service or even stop working completely.
Our founder Niclas Norlén gave a TEDx talk about the Frequency Spectrum: “The network is busy – please try again later”
Firmware updates
Firmware updates is critical for building a future-proof system. Can your chosen wireless technology do firmware updates over the air? A smart building could have thousands of nodes installed and doing a manual Firmware update would be a extremely time consuming and expensive task and sometimes even impossible if you are not granted access to the building.
Questions to ask
Firmware update over the air is far from common among the wireless technologies out there. And even if a technology is claimed to support Firmware update, test and ask the critical questions:
- How long will an update of thousands of products take and is it even possible?
- Will battery powered products be possible to update?
- Can the system be operational during the update?
You need to coexist
We are witnessing a massive increase of wirelessly connected things and with that congestions in the frequency spectrum.
The wireless connectivity technology you chose for your products will have to deal with this fact. It needs to find a way through the frequency noise of today and adapt to the congestions of tomorrow…. Otherwise – no communication.
Frequency coexistence is becoming crucial for successful IoT deployments.
The LumenRadio Cognitive Coexistence technology will like a weather forecaster, predict on millisecond basis how the frequency spectrum will be utilized going forward. This prediction is used to adapt to the best available and least congested frequencies.
Adaptation to a new reality is the key ingredient of being future-proof. With our technology our customers products are future-proof as those will coexist along with other wireless technologies, not being interfered and not causing interference.
We have a decade of experience of providing and perfecting our frequency friendly connectivity technology.
We call this FPCC – Future-Proof Coexistence Connectivity.
Become future-proof!
Your decision of wireless technology for your modern products and solutions will have huge impact on the future success or failure.
This white paper will give you an overview of the current existing technologies so that it will be easier for you to understand the different options and decided for what technology that will deliver the best value for you over time.
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Becoming future-proof with wireless Cognitive Coexistence