Welcome to the October issue!
We’ve officially entered the spooky season – there’s a chill in the air, ghosts and goblins abound, and electronica is right around the corner.
This biennial celebration of all things gee whiz, the “world's leading trade fair for electronics”, attracts upwards of 80,000 people, and only consumer events like CES and South x Southwest draws larger crowds. But for our industry, there’s only one choice. Take the grandeur of the Super Bowl, add some Munich Weiße Wurst and Weissbier, and you’ve got electronica.
We hope to catch up with friends and colleagues, old and new, in the hallowed halls of Messe München (Munich Trade Fair Center)!
Meanwhile, our October issue deals with the IoT and Smart Cities, and what a time for it! In 2025, the globe sported an estimated 21.1 billion IoT-ready devices, with the market projected to reach $5.5 trillion by 2034!
That sort of market penetration, coupled with AI, could fundamentally transform society – hopefully for the better. It goes without saying that networking every device, appliance, and human on the planet conjures equal amounts of optimism and existential dread. Will we embrace the optimism and utopian ideals of, say, Star Trek, or descend towards the cynical, dystopian landscape of Blade Runner? At this stage, both are possible, with ubiquitous technology as the lynchpin.
But none of us deal in policy – thank god – so let’s talk some tech!
Recent products include a Plug-and-Play 90W PoE Solution (which “Streamlines Industrial IoT Deployments”) from Microchip. The company’s PD-9601GCI midspan delivers up to 90W of power and 10/100/1000 Mbps data rates over a single Ethernet cable.
“In a market where many existing networks don’t fully support PoE’s convenient single-cable deployment models, our industrial-grade PD-9601GCI midspan makes it easier for our customers to power their smart equipment in factories and industrial settings,” said Charlie Forni, corporate vice president of Microchip’s networking and connectivity business unit.
We’ve also covered Quectel's FGH200M module – built around Morse Micro's second-generation MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow system-on-chip (SoC) – which recently passed FCC/IC/CE/RCM certification.
Delbert Sun, Vice General Manager, Quectel Wireless Solutions noted that “Wi-Fi HaLow is becoming a critical technology for connecting IoT devices over longer distances without sacrificing power efficiency.”
Finally, Nordic Semiconductor recently announced a faster path to satellite and cellular IoT, with LooUQ's MTC2-N9151 (building on Nordic's own Skylo-certified nRF9151) earning Skylo Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) certification, which enables “a shorter path to market for every company that builds on the certified foundation.”
As per usual this month, we also have a robust collection of contributed technical features and a slew of related news items and PSDcasts.
Enjoy the October issue!
Best Regards,
Jason Lomberg
North American Editor, PSD
