Wi-fi communications specialist Morse Micro has showcased what it claims is the primary stay demonstration of Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity with a near-two-mile vary — confirmed with a two-way video name in San Francisco’s Ocean Seaside.
“Our profitable demo of Wi-Fi HaLow video name throughout three kilometers [around two miles] in a tough, real-world city atmosphere is a significant milestone for Wi-Fi connectivity, showcasing the wi-fi protocol’s unbelievable attain,” claims Michael De Nil, Morse Micro’s co-founder and chief govt officer.
“Wi-Fi HaLow is a transformative expertise that shatters the boundaries of in the present day’s wi-fi connectivity,” De Nil continues. “With its unparalleled vary, distinctive low energy consumption and superior throughput, Wi-Fi HaLow stands because the front-runner within the IoT [Internet of Things] panorama. That is the longer term wi-fi connectivity, and it’s right here in the present day powered by Wi-Fi CERTIFIED HaLow expertise.”
Designed to take the success of Wi-Fi, a now-ubiquitous normal for all the pieces from smartphones to robotics, and prolong it to long-range low-power tasks, Wi-Fi HaLow is constructed atop the IEEE 802.11ah normal — and comes with the promise of ten occasions the vary, 100 occasions the protection space, and a thousand occasions the quantity of normal Wi-Fi, whereas drawing much less energy. The key: working within the sub-gigahertz (sub-GHz) spectrum with narrower frequency bands than conventional 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi.
The demo, which noticed Morse Micro perform a stay two-way video name over a Wi-Fi HaLow hyperlink in San Francisco’s Ocean Seaside neighborhood, was powered by the corporate’s MM6108 system-on-chip — providing the radio, PHY, and MAC in a single unit and with the choice of together with a 32-bit software processor constructed across the free and open supply RISC-V instruction set structure.
The demo was pushed by a Morse Mico MM6108 system-on-chip, sampling now and with the choice of an embedded RISC-V core. (📷: Morse Micro)
“We’re attaining 3km distance right here with Wi-Fi,” Morse Micro’s Will Abraham reported through the demonstration. “That’s exceptional in a real-world, noisy atmosphere. Because of Wi-Fi HaLow and our 8MHz bandwidth, we will help sufficient knowledge charge to do a high-quality video name even at this superb distance.”
The complete demonstration video is embedded above; extra info on the MM6108, which is sampling now, is offered on the Morse Micro web site.