What is your biggest nightmare when planning a new industrial sensor network? That you cannot trust the communication link? That it is not secure and easily hacked? Or simply that you need to pull miles of cable in an industrial site that is already full of equipment? Or maybe replacing batteries every second month? Why … Read more
Increasing Range, Reliability & Security for Wireless RF Modules Achieving reliable, secure, and long-range wireless data communication is possible if you know what to look for in a RF module. Radiocrafts has off-the-shelf solutions to meet these operational demands on your wireless system. Increasing Range via Higher Power A transmitter’s signal strength (its travel range) … Read more
A not very well protected secret is that LPWANs are already deployed and in use by many of the utility companies in Europe to read the meters automatically. The technology behind in Europe is often Wireless M-Bus on 169 MHz, particularly for gas and water meters. One of the reasons to select this technology is … Read more
Radiocrafts AS, a leading provider of RF modules, today presents a cloud connection solution for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, connecting low power radio sensor networks to cloud services. The FX30 expansion boards from Radiocrafts makes up a complete gateway together with the 3G/4G LTE modem from Sierra Wireless. By using the Radiocrafts expansion board … Read more
Radiocrafts AS, a leading provider of RF modules today presented a long range LPWAN solution for IoT applications based on an ultra-narrowband radio at 169 MHz. Radiocrafts offer a solution that covers 40 km2 in a real urban range test with a 169 MHz RF module (RC1701HP-MBUS4), showing the benefits of an ultra-narrowband 169 MHz … Read more
Given your AMR application, which wireless technologies/protocols/standards make the most sense? There are a number of considerations to factor into your decision: Is the meter located below grade, or in another radio-hostile location? Is the meter battery-powered? Do you want to communicate to an in-house display, a walk- or drive-by reader, or to a fixed … Read more
Radiocrafts AS, a leading provider of RF modules today announces the appointment of Anders Oldebäck as our new Sales & Marketing Director. Anders has an extensive background in component sales and marketing, having spent 25 years within various sales and marketing functions at international and local hi-tech companies. He most recently comes from Atmel (Microchip), and before that … Read more
Radiocrafts AS and Tiny Mesh AS, a leading provider of wireless mesh network protocol and cloud services, announced today they have established a joint venture sales company in India. After joint success in the Indian market with compact RF modules for Smart Meter applications based on Tinymesh network technology, the companies are increasing their local … Read more
Radiocrafts AS announced today a SIGFOX Ready™ radio module for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The new compact RF module has been certified to assure optimal connectivity performance on the SIGFOX global network. The combination of Radiocrafts’ SIGFOX-certified module with SIGFOX’s global network offers low-cost, low-power and out-of-the-box wireless connectivity for a wide array of … Read more
Radiocrafts AS announced today it has been awarded two major contracts in the smart metering market in India. Two leading electricity meter manufacturers in India have chosen a wireless meter reading solution from Radiocrafts. The cost competitive wireless mesh network module has been developed together with Tiny Mesh AS, a Norwegian based software development company … Read more