Autonomous Smart Items for the Industrial IoT

nanotron Technologies, the leader in easy-to-use solutions for location-awareness announced its new swarm API version 3.0 at Geo IoT World 2016 in Brussels. The new firmware runs on all swarm bee modules and focusses on further reducing power consumption required to deliver location-awareness.

“The combination of our low power module with swarm API v3 and e-peas’ game-changing energy harvesting chip lets energy autonomy become a reality.” says Marcel Borwitzky, Product Manager at nanotron Technologies and ads “For the first time we are demonstrating distance measurement (ranging) running from a small low cost solar cell with 2-3 second updates here at Geo IoT”. Monitoring distances in energy autonomous mode broadens the scope of location-awareness for the industrial IoT significantly. Safety applications like proximity detection and virtual safety zones will be running without permanent power supply or batteries.

Thanks to the new swarm API swarm bee modules provide a new level of flexibility for power management. The built-in acceleration sensor, timers or programmable GPIOs can be used to change the module’s power consumption and location update rates directly. The swarm development environment with its set of swarm PC Tools and DK+ evaluation and test boards supports application development on a host micro controller or a Windows PC.

The new swarm API version 3.0 is available for all customers now.

nanotron Technologies is continuing the effort to further simplify the deployment of precise location technology at the lowest possible cost and with the lowest possible energy consumption.