Empowering Smart-Home Applications with Advanced Connectivity

Oct. 15, 2024
Smart homes are finally a reality, and they demand faster communications, increased network capacity, and solution scalability.

Smart homes offer functionality for homeowners to monitor and control a wide range of useful applications while improving energy efficiency and security. Qorvo enables faster communications, increased network capacity, and solution scalability with its latest smart home and IoT solutions. Especially useful is the company’s ConcurrentConnect technology, which provides simultaneous operation of single and multi-protocol smart devices over a single home network. 

The company's QPG6100 is a multi-standard Smart Home Communications Controller for ultra-low power wireless communication. Targeting connected lighting applications, switches, and other smart-home end nodes, it enables Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth Low Energy to operate simultaneously in a single-chip design. The QPG7015M is presented as the first transceiver with real-time concurrency, enabling seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Zigbee/Thread network management simultaneously. Optimized for Central Hub use cases, it has a novel antenna diversity and isolation scheme that can double the effective range.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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