Since 2013 u-blox has been helping to provide for projects including building new schools in the Lawra District. Launched in 2005, the Savannah Education Trust is a British charity providing disadvantaged rural communities in Northern Ghana with education programmes.

u-blox announces its association with the Fleetlights Initiative from UK’s Direct Line Insurance. The prototype service aims to provide ”on-demand” light from a fleet of drones when and where it’s needed, to individuals and emergency services, at the press of a button. u-blox’s M8 concurrent reception of up to 3 GNSS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou) modules were used in the development of the drone technology.

u-blox announced its components are at the core of two new cutting-edge GNSS products. The golf rangefinder wearables were launched by Voice Caddie, a leading international brand of rangefinders and trackers based in South Korea. The first product, the T3 Hybrid Golf GPS Watch, uses the compact u-blox UBX-G7020-KT professional-grade GNSS chip, which links with GPS/QZSS or GLONASS satellite systems.

It seems almost laughable now to think that voice was the driving force behind the development of the original telecommunications services. How surprised those early pioneers of telephony and telegraphy, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, would be to find teenagers wandering around, mobile phone in hand, downloading and watching videos as they go.  

u-blox announced that REYAX Technology has launched a new industrial router platform that incorporates cellular, short range and GNSS modules from u-blox. The RYW2000 4G LTE and Wi-Fi hot-spot router platform uses the EVA-M8M, industry’s smallest concurrent GNSS module, a TOBY-L2 cellular LTE module that offers the highest throughput of up to 150 Mb/s with LTE Cat.4, and an ELLA-W131 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module.

A GNSS receiver with integrated antenna has been announced by u-blox, the SAM-M8Q. Housed in a 15.5x15.5x6.3mm package, this module can be easily embedded in small devices that require location information, such as asset tracking and telematics systems and generic automotive after-market applications.

Enabling the “Where and When” of IoT For many designers of IoT devices that will be communicating over a range of about 100m, the options are many and somewhat confusing. There’s Bluetooth IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee, Thread, Wireless Hart and others), Z‑Wave, and of course WiFi, with all its various flavours.

Whether it’s called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industry 4.0, the sensing, communication and analysis of data toward improving processes and outcomes is transforming industries from manufacturing and healthcare to transportation, fleet management, mining and agriculture.

u-blox announced its technology is powering a new smart bus solution from Baoruh Electronic in Taiwan which combines LTE-based telematics and Automated Fare Collection (AFC) for intelligent fleet management. The new POS One smart bus solution uses the NEO-M8U positioning module from u-blox for enhanced positioning accuracy thanks to acceleration and gyroscope sensors incorporated in this module.

Autonomous driving vehicles are on the road today. To name just a couple of examples, Volvo has already launched autonomous driving trials on the streets of Gothenburg, close to its headquarters, and has announced plans to extend trials to London and China. Google’s self‑driving cars, on the other hand, have amassed close to two million autonomous miles driven, according to the company’s latest report.&...

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electronica 2016 saw the launch of u-blox’s SARA-N2 Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) module, which the company claims is the world’s first cellular radio module compliant to the 3GPP Release 13, Narrowband IoT (LTE Cat. NB1) standard.

u-blox announced its first RPMA module for Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWA) IoT applications, as well as four new LTE Cat 1 cellular modules. u-blox will be showing the NANO-S100, its first RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) module for the IoT, made in partnership with Ingenu, at the European Utility Week 2016. u-blox is also showcasing four new LARA and TOBY LTE Cat 1 modules.

  u-blox announced the LARA-R3121, a new module comprising a single mode LTE Category 1 modem and a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning engine specifically designed for IoT and M2M devices. LTE modem, GNSS and module technology were all developed in-house at u-blox.

  u-blox will demonstrate its new LTE Cat 1 technology as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth gateway connectivity at the forthcoming electronica, the world's leading trade fair for electronic components, systems and applications. First to be featured is u-blox’s own UBX-R3 LTE Cat 1 modem technology platform, as it is used inside the LARA-R3 module.

  u-blox announced ARM mbed OS 5 support for the ODIN-W2 wireless IoT gateway module and the NINA-B1 Bluetooth low energy module – a unique combination of features currently offered by no other manufacturer. The ARM mbed OS 5 incorporates a real-time operating system (RTOS) in the core of the operating system.

u-blox has announced plans to launch a module supporting Verizon's new Category M1 (Cat M1) LTE network, designed to allow a larger number of devices to connect to the IoT. The SARA-R404M module is based on Qualcomm Technologies’ MDM9206 LTE modem and is anticipated to be available for the Q4 2016 launch of Verizon's LTE Cat M1 network, which is scheduled to achieve nationwide US coverage by the end of Q1 2017.

u‑blox demonstrated VoLTE (Voice over LTE infrastructure) capability using its LTE Cat 1 module (TOBY‑R202), as well as Narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) technology and IoT sensor‑to‑gateway‑to‑cloud capabilities at its booth of the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 conference and exhibition of Las Vegas.

In the PC age, the computers we used mostly were found on our desk tops. Now, the computers we use the most are carried, as smartphones. Soon there will be a proliferation of devices worn moving beyond today's Bluetooth headsets, fitness wristbands, chest straps and smart watches, to other forms and functions, including embedding electronics in our clothes.

Nikken Lease has tapped into cutting-edge positioning and cellular technologies from u-blox for its new trackable pallet, Transeeker. Transeeker is a pallet equipped with u-blox’s cellular and positioning technologies for accurate tracking: u-blox cellular UMTS/HSPA(+) module LISA-U200-62S and u-blox 7 standalone GNSS module, EVA-7M. For the first time, Nikken Lease is offering their GNSS enabled pallets as a rental service.