RF development platform targets AMI applications

The Semtech SX1276 has a 168db link budget for maximum range and constitutes the wireless portion of the solution. The LoRa technology, combined with the Nissin software stack, enables customers to reduce infrastructure cost and improve quality of service. 

“As an active member of the Wi-SUN Alliance™, Semtech is promoting not only its RF chips, but also the availability of a ready-to-integrate solution targeting the Japanese AMI market,” says Marc Pegulu, Vice President of Marketing for Semtech’s wireless sensing and timing business unit. “For the first time, a Wi-SUN ready platform, including RF transceiver, MCU and software stack is made available to industrial customers building Japan’s metering infrastructure.”

“Thanks to its low-power characteristics, on-chip analog  and security integration, as well as scalability across a wide memory footprint, the Freescale Kinetis MCU architecture is particularly suited for AMI and currently used in many metering applications,” said Emmanuel Sambuis, Director for IoT & Connectivity at Freescale Microcontrollers. “When used in conjunction with Nissin software and the Semtech transceiver, Kinetis MCUs offer Freescale customers the best possible combination for performance, cost and time to market. Freescale is extremely proud to deliver a new hardware and software solution that will help deploy a complete smart meter infrastructure across Japan in the coming years.”  

Toshiaki Ishikura, Executive Officer of Solution Business, Nissin Systems Co., Ltd., ltd. sees a great opportunity in this solution: "This project is a very attractive solution to the customer of IoT markets, including HEMS of Japan. Our platform would contribute to dramatically faster time to market for a customer's product development."