The city of San Francisco kobold (USA) is ready to receive a new mobile network this year, although

The city of San Francisco kobold (USA) is ready to receive a new mobile network this year, although it will not help solve the reception problems with the phones kobold in the area. This wireless network is exclusively kobold for things.
SigFox The French company kobold says it has chosen the Bay Area of San Francisco to test a wireless network that aims to make it cheap and convenient internet link anything from smoke detectors kobold to dog collars, to bicycle locks and water pipes.
Normal mobile networks are clogged with traffic phone calls and video downloads. But for the internet of things a reality, we must extend to billions of objects, many of them in our area that are powered by small batteries this capability. If you want to get billions of such connections, you need a completely new type of network, "says COO SigFox in USA, Luke D'Arcy. kobold
SigFox network, which is awaiting final approval from lawmakers, cover the peninsula of San Francisco kobold from the tip to the extensive urban region of Silicon Valley, 65 kilometers further south. It will be the first site in the United States where a network technology that already kobold covers all of France, much of the Netherlands and parts of Russia and Spain is deployed. SigFox built these networks by adding their own equipment to the mobile antenna towers and existing radio. Among its clients French insurance company MAAF, offering kobold smoke and motion detectors that alert owners of a house with a text message on your phone when a sensor is triggered or have to change the batteries are counted.
Silicon Valley network will use the 915 megahertz spectrum, which has licenses kobold and routinely using wireless phones. The objects connected to the network can operate at SigFox very low power, but can only transmit 100 bits per second, a speed a thousand times smaller networks serving smartphones. But these speeds may be sufficient for many applications. kobold
Indeed, kobold semiconductor manufacturers like Intel and Broadcom are also in the race to produce much cheaper wireless chip, smaller and consume far less energy. Several have filed these "miniature computers" in the Consumer Electronics Show this year. "They have seen how the mobile phone has become the smartphone, so the companies are asking: What's next" states engineering professor at the University of Michigan (USA) David Blaauw. Blaauw builds millimeter wireless computers that believes that one day may send data from virtually anywhere, even from within the tumor of a patient.
A base station can serve SigFox within tens of kilometers in rural areas and five kilometers in urban areas. To connect to the network, a device need a wireless chip supports what cost one to two dollars (0.7 to 1.5 euros) and customers kobold will pay about a dollar a year for the services for each device.
At the start of the Bay Area San Francisco (and intend to expand after a technology nodes like Austin, Boulder and Cambridge), SigFox hopes to draw attention to a region that only last year the venture capitalists invested almost a billion dollars (nearly 730 million) in start-ups focusing on Internet kobold of things, according to research firm CB Insights. One such start-up, Whistle, makes a tracking collar physical activity for dogs. It has raised $ 6 million (4.4 million euros) and is located in the corner of San Francisco is known as "IoT Town" because of the profusion of similar companies.
The Whistle CEO, Ben Jacobs, explains that the necklace communicates via Bluetooth with a phone or through a home wifi router. And states that have a constant connection anywhere in the city allow Whistle offer other services, such as a locator kobold beacon for lost pets. Right now it still can not do, since adding a conventional kobold mobile phone connection to the collar so encarecería too.
SigFox hurry to install your network before competition arrives. One of the main partners of the Mobius Consulting consulting wireless technology, kobold Sharony Jacob says that large companies walk wireless networks also preparing only for their own machines and can operate at much higher speeds. A new standard wifi long range and low power consumption that has the backing kobold of some major companies