Advanced Connectivity Enriches Smart-Home Apps
Smart homes offer functionality for homeowners to monitor and control a wide range of useful applications while improving energy efficiency and security. Qorvo enables faster communications, increased network capacity, and solution scalability with its latest smart-home and IoT solutions.
Especially useful is the company’s ConcurrentConnect technology, which provides simultaneous operation of single and multi-protocol smart devices over a single home network.
The company's QPG6100 is a multi-standard Smart Home Communications Controller for ultra-low-power wireless communication. Targeting connected lighting applications, switches, and other smart-home end nodes, it enables Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth Low Energy to operate simultaneously in a single-chip design.
The QPG7015M is presented as the first transceiver with real-time concurrency, allowing for seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Zigbee/Thread network management simultaneously. Optimized for Central Hub use cases, it has a novel antenna diversity and isolation scheme that can double the effective range.
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About the Author
Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.