Taiwan-based M²Communication (M2COMM), a leading provider of industrial IoT connectivity technologies, has joined the Weightless SIG to lead a Weightless Working Group for the development of a new high performance LPWAN Standard, called Weightless-P that is designed to offer uplink and downlink capabilities to cater to industrial IoT.
The new standard which is expected to be launched by the end of the year promises substantially lower power consumption and costs, 100uW in idle state compared to more than 3mW for the best cellular technologies and a price point equivalent to existing LPWAN solutions.
The Standard provides fully acknowledged 2-way communication offering best-in-class quality of service at data rates ranging from 200bps to 100kbps. It enables higher capacity than existing LPWAN and cellular technologies for uplink-dominated traffic with short-to-medium payload sizes.
Using common commercially-available chipsets, it will also support both stationary and mobile end devices by utilising low-power, innovative handover, cell re-selection and roaming methods. Other advanced reliability features include fast network acquisition, paging, FEC, ARQ, power control and adaptive channel coding.
Derrick Wei, CEO of M2COMM
Weightless-P will breathe new life into an IoT market that is waiting on a reliable LPWAN technology. Many IoT sectors require reliability to be addressed with ultra-low energy wireless communications not accessible through operator services today. The slow adoption of wireless IoT solutions highlights a huge technology void that Weightless-P will address without requiring custom hardware.
Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG
We are delighted to welcome M2COMM to the group and very excited about what Weightless-P brings to the IoT market. Asked how the technology impacts on existing Weightless technologies. This new technology is bringing unique capabilities to the space - it fits perfectly within the Weightless stable of technologies.
