Telit announced that its ME310G1-WW module has successfully completed lab tests at TIM's Brazilian operations using LTE NB2. The tests are a major milestone toward TIM's commercial launch of NB2, which is ideal for smart grids, fitness/medical wearables, smart cities and other IoT applications that require long battery life, reliable connectivity and downlink speeds of up to 120 kbps.
In the tests, the Telit ME310G1-WW achieved throughput of 115 kbps, just shy of LTE NB2's maximum of 120 kbps. These speeds:
- Help maximize battery life by enabling larger data packages and thus more power-efficient communications.
- Support rapid transactions for point-of-sale applications, including self-serve kiosks, to maximize customer satisfaction.
- Enable over-the-air firmware (FOTA) updates, eliminating the time and expense of manually updating each device in the field.
Compliant with 3GPP Release 14, the Telit ME310G1-WW features Power Saving Mode (PSM) and extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) to maximize battery life, and coverage enhancement features to ensure reliable indoor connectivity. At just 15x18 mm, the ME310G1-WW is ideal for ultra-compact applications such as smart utility metering, industrial sensors, and wearable medical devices.
Based on the Qualcomm 9205 LTE IoT modem from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., the ME310G1-WW has pin-to-pin compatibility with other members of Telit's xE310 family, enabling integrators to design a single PCB layout for any combination of 2G and 4G technologies. The ME310G1-WW supports GNSS for precise location, global LTE-M and NB-IoT bands and fallback to legacy 2G networks, making it ideal for IoT applications that need connectivity in Brazil and throughout the rest of the world.
The successful tests of the Telit ME310G1-WW pave way for Brazilian businesses, utility companies, agriculture and financial services, the industries TIM has been investing in to provide connectivity operations in the country.
The ME310G1-WW supports Telit OneEdge, Telit's award-winning, module-embedded software system with pre-packaged, secure, easy-to-use deployment and management tools. OneEdge dramatically simplifies design, deployment, and management of IoT products and solutions. The module also supports Telit's AppZone, an embedded application development environment. This allows software developers to leverage the processing resources of the Telit modules to run their application, avoiding the addition of an external MCU and ultimately reducing the total cost of ownership of the solution.
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