Integrating wireless connectivity and 5G into your industrial devices

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Wireless solutions can radically transform the future of manufacturing, enabling cost saving opportunities through predictive maintenance, automation, and energy conservation.

And as the key to achieving a smarter, greener, and more sustainable production process, choosing the right industrial connectivity and networking solution for your operation is essential. However, it is often easier said than done.

Join Avnet Silica and our supplier partners to learn more about the optimal connectivity solution for your application, including:

• Wi-Fi 6 for classrooms, homes, and public buildings
• High performance and battery focussed BLE Solutions for sensors and actuators
• Lighting systems combined with BLE and UWB RTLS (Real time Location Systems) to keep track of goods, things, and people
• How 5G supports real-time controls in industry with low latency and high data throughput
• Smart devices with integrated UWB (Ultra-Wide Band) for secure and easy access and tracking
• LPWAN for remote maintenance in industry
• Battery saving metering solutions using Thread, Zigbee and LoRa for mesh and LPWAN networking

Agenda

Topics

Day 1

29/06/2021 – 09:30 AM CEST

How to implement 5G into Smart City and Industry applications (Dominikus Hierl, Quectel)

As the world's leading provider of cellular modules, Quectel is at the forefront of development in the global IoT market, which has so far been dominated by 2G and 3G solutions. The arrival of 5G and enhanced mobile broadband brings about countless new applications for machine-to-machine communication, while NB-IoT and LTE-M will provide future-proof alternatives to technologies currently serving low-data use cases. Quectel offers a wide portfolio of modules that meet current and future requirements for 5G; our current focus is on maximum compatibility between products, and ensuring they can easily migrate to new standards.

Quectel offers extensive technical assistance to enable our customers to integrate 5G technology quickly, providing support on all design-relevant aspects such as power supply, antenna integration and application development. This webinar provides an overview of how 5G's features can support IoT applications, as well as guidance on implementation.

29/06/2021 – 10:00 AM CEST

Adaptive SoCs Enable Wireless Factory Automation within 5G Non Public Networks (Michael Zapke, AMD-Xilinx)

Modern networked factory equipment hosts advanced applications which don't need awareness of the underlying network physics. Middleware like DDS and OPC UA enables access to information from all connected nodes. A common and scalable network infrastructure is the backbone across which data with appropriate low-level characteristics like latency and throughput can be exchanged.

With Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), stream identification practices on ISO/OSI Layer 2 became the main method to determine the characteristics with which each individual data frame will be transported. Latency bound traffic shares the network with high bandwidth peer-to-peer and multicast connections, with Audio/Video streams and with Best Effort traffic. Hardware logic identifies streams and schedules their transmission frame-by-frame, so that isochronous and cyclic data can use the same cable as all other traffic.

Today, wired Ethernet is the right choice, but wired networks require planning and adaptation for LAN architectures with switches, cable trees and patch panels. Laying physical cables is expensive and installations in the factory have limited scalability. To overcome this, and to prepare factories for another leap in productivity, the next step is a transition to wireless connectivity with 5G Radio Access Network Campus networks and sessions qualities like Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC). This talk will discuss how Adaptive SOCs help to speed-up this transition with TSN Translation functions for 5G.

29/06/2022 – 10:30 AM CEST

Antenna integration in Smart Home and Industrial Devices (Walter Puhl, Avnet Silica)

Proper integration of antennas into IoT designs for Smart Home and Industry is key. Hence we are explaining some basics, showing possible implementations and  "the do's and don't's ". Also different kind of antennas will be explained as well.

29/06/2022 – 11:00 AM CEST

eUICC benefits combined with superb BICS Global Roaming Connectivity (Vincent Godel - BICS, Romain Tesniere - Avnet Silica)

eUICC is the key for simplified implementation of industrial SIM solutions bringing flexibility as well as remote management and control of the SIM. Reducing cost for service, enabling smooth processes in Production, stocking and field installation.  

As an independent of the connectivity provider, we offer a way for our customer to choose with which carrier they want to work with. Without having to chance physically the SIM card into device when it comes to change the carrier.

This is future proof solution combining with world class connectivity and roaming provider such as BICS provides a complete industrial & reliable solution for all cellular based devices.

29/06/2022 – 11:30 AM CEST

Create a complex battery-operated cellular IoT product that run for years (Martin Lesund, Nordic Semiconductor)

In this webinar you will get to know the nRF9160 System-in-Package, and why it is a good choice for Smart City and Industrial 5G applications.

The nRF9160 SiP is Nordic’s low power LTE-M/NB-IoT/GNSS cellular IoT solution. Its ARM Cortex M33 application processor enables machine learning on the edge, allowing the nRF9160 to send only the essential data to the cloud. This saves power because application processing often consumes less energy than sending data via LTE.

You’ll learn:

• How the nRF9160 SiP and Edge Computing enables Smart City and Industrial applications
• How to develop applications with the nRF9160 SiP
• How the nRF9160 SiP is utilized in real-life use cases

Day 2

06/07/2021 – 09:30 AM CEST

BLE & ZIGBEE together for Smart City and Industrial Applications (Paolo Trere, Microchip)

In a connected world, wireless technologies adoption is increasing in an unprecedented way. Performances, reliability, compliance to the standards and security are the strongest concerns.

Microchip’s response is given in this presentation with its newest product that combines BLE 5.2 and Zigbee 3.0 in the same device.

06/07/2022 – 10:00 AM CEST

BlueNRG-LPS - BLE SoC tailored for low end & Direction Finding applications (Dominique Follezour, Laurent Louazon, STMicroelectronics)

The BlueNRG-LPS is an ultra-low power programmable Bluetooth® Low Energy wireless SoC solution. It embeds STMicroelectronics’s state-of-the-art 2.4 GHz radio IPs, optimized for ultra-low-power consumption and excellent radio performance, for unparalleled battery lifetime. 

The BlueNRG-LPS has been designed to address low to mid end applications, but as well Real Time Location thanks to the Direction Finding feature from BLE 5.1.

In this presentation we will demonstrate how BLE 5.1 and associated Direction Finding feature is answering to RTLS application needs and how BlueNRG-LPS device can be used in such ecosystem.

06/07/2022 – 10:30 AM CEST

Innovative WiFi solutions for Smart Home applications using the new Matter standard (Guylain Pouly, NXP)

This webinar gives an overview of the technical advancements of the WiFi6 over previous generations and how it addresses the challenges faced by smart home applications. Then it illustrates how the NXP Matter Reference Platforms help to easily productize a smart home application, with a focus on the latest NXP WiFi/Bluetooth combo SoC. 

06/07/2022 – 11:00 AM CEST

Solving key design challenges in edge node wireless connectivity applications using Bluetooth Low Energy solutions (Brandon Shannon, onsemi)

Due to the rapid spread 5G networks, we are able to interact with our environment from everywhere. Whether your application focuses on asset monitoring, smart homes, or connected lighting, they all rely on the ability to measure something within the environment, analyze data, then send notifications on to other devices within the ecosystem.

Ideally these devices operate throughout their lifecycle without ever having to change the battery having a positive impact on minimizing electronic waste while simultaneously simplifying maintenance efforts.

Join Shola Slough and Brandon Shannon as they describe how Bluetooth Low Energy solutions from onsemi are solving these problems.

You will learn about how to balance sensor monitoring with battery conservation using the Smart Sense power mode, proximity detection capabilities using Angle of (AoA) and Angle of Departure (AoD), and get an introduction to the Power Consumption and Battery Estimator available at the onsemi Community Forum.

Several evaluation kits to jumpstart sensor development and energy harvesting solutions will also be introduced. 

06/07/2022 – 11:30 AM CEST

Necessities for Real Time location services and Indoor positioning in factory environments (H&D Wireless)

Take your Smart Factory to the next level - The industrial world is facing rapidly changing challenges. Our resources are limited. Digitalization, traceability, AI and automation are the game changers to meet these challenges on the way to Industry 4.0.

In this Webinar session we will cover many of the technologies used for indoor positioning necessary for providing RTLS services.
We will also cover what services can be based on these technologies to provide relevant and real time data and not just a position.

How can RTLS solutions provide substantial business gain (RoI) in the manufacturing industry. A couple of live reference installations will be presented based on the company’s RTLS system GEPS®.

GEPS® is an original H&D Wireless Sweden IoT cloud platform, providing real time location system and services (RTLS).  

GEPS® for Industry offers cloud services with analytics, artificial intelligence and integration to leading business support systems as well as applications for smart devices.

The GEPS® platform allows companies to digitize and visualize business processes in real-time.

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