Feb 15

Mobile asthma monitoring from iSonea

iSonea is planning to integrate its Acoustic Respirotory Monitoring (ARM) device with Qualcomm’s 2net platform, to automatically and securely send asthma symptom data to iSonea’s cloud-based portal. This will give physicans and caregivers instant access to their patient data on a real-time basis. Qualcomm recently launched 2net hub, a medical gateway device that provides 2G and 3G cellular connectivity.

Feb 15

Security solution for M2M developers

MerlinCryption, a software company based in Austin, has introduced MerlinM2M, a security encryption solution for M2M developers. This solution prevents cloning and enables end-to-end security for M2M applications. The dynamically changing keys enables different encrypted transmission every time thereby improving M2M security.

Feb 15

Calamp to provide LTE router for smartgrid applications

Calamp has won a contract to supply its Fusion-LTE router to Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) and Green Mountain Power (GMP) for smart grid applications. Fusion LTE router supports public safety band 14 for private infrastructure and Band 13, 17 and 4 for public use. The router also supports secure IPSec VPN and GPS capabilities. It is likely to use a 4G LTE module in a PCIe form factor.

Feb 14

Spirent’s VR5 enable LTE antenna testing

Spirent Communications has announced that several companies has are now using its VR5 HD Spatial Channel emulator for advanced MIMO beamforming testing. VR5 emulates radio conditions of real-world networks and helps identify issues with antenna design before deployment. Here is the link for Spirent’s VR5. Radio test equipments such as VR5 play key role in LTE product development projects such as 4G LTE modules, where simulated networks are needed for both module and host level testing.

Feb 14

M2M projections by Cisco

Cisco has released Visual Netwroking Indes (VNI) forecast 2011-2016 for M2M. According to that report, M2M traffic will grow 22-times betwween 2011 and 2016. M2M traffic will account for 5% of total mobile data traffic in 2016 and number of M2M modules is expected grow 5.8-fold to 1.9 billion in 2016. Here is the link to Cisco’s M2M forecast.

Feb 14

Web-based Fleet Management solution from Sylectus

Sylectus has announced the availability of SylectDash, a new web-based dashboard solution for fleet management. Real-time access to information will improve the decision-making process.Other features includes sensitivty analysis report, event forecasting, strategic planning for fleet managers. This solution is designed for managing up to 400 trucks. Sylectus is a business unit of Qualcomm.