Webinar on developing your own antennas. Simulation of antennas. Implementation of the simulation prototypes. Measurement and verification of the simulated antennas.

What is LwM2M? Where are the advantages? When does one use L.wM2M? Difference CoAP versus MQTT. Energy consumption CoAP versus MQTT.LwM2M Server liveLwM2M Server without PowerPoint followed by questions and answers.

Presentation of the results of the study „Low cost PCB antennas for the wireless IoT“ followed by Face2face meetings at the exhibition stand.

Presentation of the results of the study „Energy consumption with NB-IoT, SMS, LoRaWAN and Sigfox“.

Clarification of the technical differences between NB-IoT and LTE-M and innovations in NB-IoT Release 15, 16 and 17. Radio approvals for NB-IoT and LTE-M in the USA and the EU with practical examples.  Tips on antenna selection, antenna design and design-in.  Live measurements of antennas with the Vector Network Analyser. PCB layout and power supply. Analysis of network parameters for NB-IoT and LTE-M. Energy consumption NB-IoT, LoRaWAN and Sigfox.

Lecture on the design of integrated antennas followed by live measurements on show objects in the presence of the audience with the Vector Network Analyser MegiQ VNA.

A workshop based around the open IoT HW platform on NB-IoT, LTE-M, GPRS and GNSS.  This is a credit card sized design which includes an embedded PCB antenna, GNSS module, and 7 sensors plus the ability to add a further107 off the shelf PCB sensors. The workshop used the well-known Arduino SDK to read the sensors and to upload the data to the cloud or to send an SMS. The workshop further gave instruction in the using STM32 Nucleo 32 with free of charge GNU- C-Compiler.

We repeated the offer of free antenna testing.  The previous year at a similar workshop over half of the antennas tested by the team were faulty, which underlines the importance of testing at every phase of design, prototyping and mass production.  Using a Vector Network Analyser, we measured the return loss of U.FL, FME and SMA antennas free of charge. This measurement was worth more in equivalent consulting time than the registration fee for the event.

Exploring the difference between an in-house embedded antenna versus an off-the-shelf chip antenna.  The difference is between US$0 and US$6 in 1,000 piece quantities.  Attendees of this seminar could make an informed decision after 60 minutes’ training from the akorIoT team.  The seminar covered antenna basics, how to read and understand datasheets that have measurements made in free space and the technical design considerations for antennas for multiple wireless standards and GNSS.