Upcoming webinar: Batteryless Cellular IoT with Conexio

We’re excited to be hosting a new webinar coming up on June 18th at Noon ET / 9 am PT with Rajeev Piyare of Conexio Technologies. They are a new Golioth Design Partner and the creators of the Stratus Pro development board, based on the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9151.

Problem space

The problem is the same as it ever was: batteries run out.

And even though cellular components are lower power draw than ever…well they’re not zero! So it’s all about optimization:

  • Reducing the amount we draw when we are not transmitting
  • Choosing low overhead, highly efficient ways of transmitting
  • Selecting the right combination of hardware elements to enable non-battery operation

It will probably come as no surprise that Conexio boards and the Golioth cloud figure strongly in the above solution. There is also a strong supporting cast of other vendors in the mix, including Nordic Semiconductor, 1nce SIMs, a RAK wireless case, and Datacake visualization.

What you’ll learn

Rajeev has taken the Golioth Reference Design Template, which is a Zephyr project that we use as a starter project on our open source Reference Designs, and made it work even more efficiently on Conexio hardware. That combination of hardware, firmware, and cloud makes for a very low quiescent current draw and efficient connectivity to reduce the overall usage. We’ll cover the following in the webinar:

  • Different cellular low power modes and how to use them to make extra sleepy devices
  • Utilizing Connection ID with the Golioth Firmware SDK
  • Configuring solar and supercapacitors with the onboard power handling
  • Adding device location with minimal power draw

How to sign up

This webinar is happening June 18th at Noon ET / 9 am PT, but will be available on-demand in case you cannot make the event. We will have a Q&A session at the end of the demo. Sign up below and you will receive a welcome email, as well as a calendar invite for the event.

Hope to see you there!
Chris Gammell
Chris Gammell
Chris is the Head of Developer Relations and Hardware at Golioth. Focusing on hardware and developer relations at that software company means that he is trying to be in the shoes of a hardware or firmware developer using Golioth every day. He does that by building hardware and reference designs that Golioth customers can use to bootstrap their own designs.

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