#802.15.4

Come to visit Raytac at Embedded World 2020 #Hall 3 / 3-520

With over 1,000 exhibitors gathering in Nuremberg, Germany on 25 Feb.~27 Feb., 2020 , Embedded World already is one of  the biggest trade fair among the IoT Technologies.

Raytac is pleased to be in attendance and present our full range of module family based on Nordic nRF52840, nRF528333 and all others.

We welcome all developers come to meet us and look forward to seeing you there.

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Raytac nRF52 Modules Bluetooth Specification Updated to BT5.1

Raytac nRF52 series module now has been updated to BT5.1

QDID: 139361 / DID: D047708

Raytac Module BT5.1 Specification

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It’s a weird thing that the article claims Nest uses ZigBee. Both are built on 802.15.4, but Nest uses Weave.

Raytac BT5 MDBT50Q Series Module (Nordic nRF52840 Solution) Mass Production

MDBT50Q Module Series Mass Production has completed, customers who are interested in nRF52840 solution may contact with [email protected] for further information.

Raytac’s MDBT50Q module deploy Nordic nRF52840 is a Bluetooth 5 (BLE), Zigbee and Thread (802.15.4) modular solution and is an advanced multi-protocol SoM with an ARM® Cortex™-M4F CPU and featured built-in USB and 5.5V compatible DC/DC…

This article makes me a lot more exciting for Android Things. In particular, if people start building 6LoWPAN devices - light switches, sockets, crockpots, all the stuff that WiFi is being put into - we might actually see the Internet being extended down the the device level. I.e. we’d have an Internet of Things.

The i.MX6_SL has WiFi and BLE … and ZigBee. It’s not inexpensive though - $200 ordered from here. Still for more industrial applications maybe this makes more sense than a Raspberry Pi in a sturdy box. The presence of ZigBee makes me assume that it potentially talk talk to other 802.15.4 stacks such as 6Lo and Thread.