• Should BLE (now called Bluetooth Smart) be the backbone of IoT?

    Bluetooth Smart (formerly Wibri and then BLE) is being positioned as the likely backbone of IoT device communications. But, it has some serious limitations that call that concept into question:

    1. It is a star bus type: one central node (today a smartphone…

  • Connected devices -- Estimating the number of IoT devices

    Nick Hunn, author and creator of the blog – Creative Connectivity, has a neat approach to

    determine the volume projections of IoT node devices (he focuses on Bluetooth Smart technology).

    His analysis forecasts a market value based on Bluetooth smart…

  • Bluetooth connection with ATBTLC1000-XPRO

    Hello all,

    I have access to both a SAMDA1-XPRO and a SAMC21-XPRO. I also have an ATBTCL1000-XPRO with which I need to establish a bluetooth connection to a smartphone. I powered up the ATBTLC1000-XPRO which was connected to the SAMC21-XPRO and tried locating…

  • Running five Eclipse IoT projects on a single MCU with MicroEJ.

    Developing for the embedded world is a really interesting challenge, as any object may become part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Even though you have “only” few dollars to put in your “Thing” to make it smart, you can still manage to run multiple…

  • Atmel launches low-power connected platform targeting IoT and wearables

    During CES 2016, Microchip unveiled a complete, ultra-low-power connected platform for cost-optimized IoT and wearable applications. This new platform features the world’s lowest power ARM Cortex-M0+, the Atmel | SMART SAM L21, and award-winning…

  • 7 "Do you really need these" Connected Gadgets from CES 2015

    Holy moly connected everything explosion at International CES 2015! As the connected home products and autonomous auto announcements took majority of the spotlight (as they should), you always have those quirky gadgets that too make some noise. Here are…