An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc wireless ...

Typically associated with circuitry projects and real-time operating systems, microcontrollers are great for tinkerers who prefer working with embedded devices. But unlike their SBC counterparts, you ...

For smart home deployments, there are a lot of ways to track the presence of individuals in a room. There are motion detection sensors that use mmWave and PIR, and you can also use simple detection ...

Atlantik Elektronik’s CSR Mesh aims to place smartphones at the center of the Internet of Things (IoT), allowing for an almost unlimited number of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled devices to be ...

Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us ...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is everywhere these days. If you fire up a scanner on your phone and walk around the neighborhood, we’d be willing to bet you’d pick up dozens if not hundreds of devices. By ...