Did you know that approximately 70% of the total volume of water withdrawals in the world are used for irrigation? And as you might guess, that is also where most water waste happens. Around 60% of the water meant to be used for irrigation is lost, either due to evapotranspiration, land runoff, or simply inefficient … Read more

All wireless solution operating in the 902-915 MHz frequency band in the US and Canada must be certified to FCC requirement in US and IC requirements in Canada. Requirements in US and Canada is very similar and for the rest of this text on US and FCC regulation is considered. For FCC, the different sets … Read more

The sudden and seemingly endless increase in the urbanization process currently taking the world by storm is raising problems and concerns about the perceived quality of life in urban environments. Smart and effective solutions must be conceived and deployed in order to tackle the many issues related to public and private safety, healthcare, supplying of … Read more

All LPWAN connected sensors serve a purpose, they generate some insight. This insight is used in a business process to generate value for the business or their customer. Let us exemplify: A parking sensor sends data each time a parking place is occupied or made available. This data can be used to guide the cars … Read more

Radiocrafts has sold over 1 million of our Industry leading RC1180-MBUS3 modules to various Smart Metering applications. Our Wireless M-Bus modules are always compatible with the latest additions to the Wireless M-Bus standard as we take an active part in the standardization process in both CEN and OMS groups. Our RC1180-MBUS3 module operates in the 868 MHz license … Read more

A large mesh network can have hundreds of nodes where sometimes, a collective message needs to be sent to all devices or a large group at once. Sending a collective message is important when you want to update a certain parameter in the entire network, for example, sending a “DIM UP” message to a street lighting … Read more

When a customer wants to design a wireless mesh network(WMN), it is harder to predict how the network will behave compared to regular star network. And two identical networks do not exist. Parameters that differ from case to case are: • Number of nodes • Network Topology (where nodes are placed relative to each other) … Read more

Cloud computing is gaining popularity as more and more businesses are launching public and private cloud computing initiatives. In fact, the cloud computing industry is one of the fastest growing today. According to Gartner, a leading research and advisory company, the revenue for global public cloud services is forecasted to reach $411.4 billion in 2020. … Read more

The sudden and seemingly endless increase in the urbanization process currently taking the world by storm is raising problems and concerns about the perceived quality of life in urban environments. Smart and effective solutions must be conceived and deployed in order to tackle the many issues related to public and private safety, healthcare, supplying of … Read more

Energy Management… Everyone at some point in their lives have heard of this term, especially in recent years, where saving energy is becoming paramount to the future of organizations worldwide and planet Earth itself. Much of the importance in saving energy stems from a global need to save energy which affects global energy prices, emission … Read more