The Weightless SIG has announced that it has completed its first quarter Weightless-N Working Group conference and reaffirmed its commitment to a Q2 2015 publication timescale for version 1.0 of the Weightless-N Standard. The SIG has formally commenced on the development of the Weightless-N standard in the third quarter of 2014. The Weightless standard is an emerging industrial LPWAN-based global standard for IoT/M2M wireless connectivity over ISM spectrum. The Cambridge-born Weightless standard is designed to accelerate the networking of sensors for IoT, with applications across a range of industries including agriculture.
Version 1.0 of the Weightless-N Standard will provide uplink connectivity based on Ultra Narrow Band technology enabling vendors to quickly offer product to the developer market; future iterations of the Standard will incorporate bidirectional communications. Meanwhile, the Standard supports frequency hopping to provide best in class interference tolerance, mobility support with work already underway within the sub group to assess the requirements for multi-country roaming, proven, best in class security regimes.
Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG
Solid development work within the working groups responsible for Weightless-N has progressed the specification significantly since October 2014. We are looking forward to publishing v1.0 of the standard in the second quarter.
Jonathan Wiggin, CEO of NWave
NWave Technologies Ltd., a leading IoT connectivity technology vendor and Core Member of the Weightless SIG, is heading up the Weightless-N working group developing the specification. The Weightless-N standard is rapidly evolving and we are on target to deliver compliant development kit hardware to IoT engineers in Q2 2015.
