"IoT is very prospect areas. Qualcomm engaged in manpower and material resources to this field" --. Qualcomm Japan being marketing and business development for the CDMA technology must never shunza on December 17, 2015 in SEMICON Japan 2015 clear international conference and exhibition center (Tokyo) IT BBS (U.S. embassy sponsored), introduced the United States qualcomm will enter the Internet of things (IoT).
According to must be permanent, qualcomm is now IoT domain advance four steps. The first is to develop "LTE eMTC (enhanced Machine -type Communications)" for IoT communication mode and promote the practical application. The second is the unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) with substrate "Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight". The third is based on the cognitive computing machine learning. The fourth is to support the developers.
Among them, the LTE eMTC is attaches great importance to the IoT need "power saving", "low price", "network coverage high" way of communication, LTE attaches great importance to the fast speed and large capacity. Now, 3 GPP (3 rd Generation Partnership Project) is to promote standardization work, "the goal is to 5 wh battery, without replacement, can use 5 ~ 10 years" (permanent). Qualcomm is expected, including support for the construction of the base station and so on in 2017 to achieve the practical eMTC. After eMTC is to use a mobile phone network IoT communication mode "NB - IoT (NarrowBand - IoT)". Battery life goal is to more than 10 years.
Needle to wait eMTC and NB - IoT practical user, qualcomm will be released in the first half of 2016 and support "LTE Cat 1" modem chip (qualcomm English published data). Cat 1 will not downward communication speed control in the top 10 mbit/SEC, upward communication speed control in the top 5 mbit/SEC, and to save electricity mode to achieve more than 10 years of battery life. Must never said "are going to used for wisdom to meters, asset tracking and wearable devices, and other products".
To provide the core component of unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) a piece of base board
In the field of unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), Qualcomm in September 2015, released the uav will be in addition to the motor and battery core components are integrated on a substrate "Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight". Snapdragon Flight are equipped with a smart phone from 1.5 ~ 2 generations ago (smartphone) remove the modem in the SoC for Snapdragon 801, 2 gb of memory, a GPS receiver, aerial camera with 4 k, self-image use camera and the Flight controllers, etc.
According to must never, for some chinese-made commercial uavs equipped with 7 pieces of substrate, substrate, the total area of 189 cm2, at about 100000 yen. If using Snapdragon Flight, the substrate can be reduced to 1 piece (with a total area of 23.2 cm2), prices can also drop to around 30000 yen.
Snapdragon 801 equipped with 4 working frequency more than 2 GHZ 32-bit processor core and a graphical operating frequency is 400 MHZ, the later can easily add a lot of "applied" (permanent). For example, if the application of Ann with qualcomm developed software of "Navigator Flight Controller", then you can according to the position to confirm with the camera image variation that mobile distance, so as to determine the current location of the drones. If it is equipped with stereo camera model, also can be measured with the distance of like objects.
Focus on supporting the developers in the field of IoT
Based on cognitive computing machine learning in smartphones with security "Snapdragon Smart Protect", initially used to predict the external attack to take countermeasures. "For IoT will take time" (permanent).
In terms of support developers, qualcomm will issue two board products for IoT. One is to support the developers of the card. Equipped with removed from smartphone with "MSM8916" SoC "MSM8016" of modem, 13 m megapixel camera, 1 gb of memory, MicroSD card slot, HDMI, speech output, a variety of other common interface. OS support Android, Ubuntu, Windows 10 IoT kernel. Is another product can be directly embedded in the card, namely: the "System on the Module. Has been used in many products such as surveillance cameras and projectors.
As these boards, qualcomm has been set up support the developer community. Must never said "qualcomm has been in this closed world (mobile phone) activity, so it's not good at to give information to outside. But in the field of IoT, in order to be able to draw on the wisdom of the people, the future will focus on supporting the developer".
