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Spring has Sprung and Spring Fever has hit here at NimbeLink!
We have lots of exciting things happening in the near future. Over the next 6 weeks, we will be attending 4 solid events and we would love to see you there! Our first stop will be at Modex on April 9 – 12. Taking place in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Modex is Read More
NimbeLink’s Asset Tracking Solution Creating A Lot of Buzz…
Have you heard the buzz? NimbeLink, the world’s leading provider of cellular IoT technology, solutions and services, announced last week that The Bee Corp (www.thebeecorp.com) has selected NimbeLink’s cellular Asset Tracking Solution. Based out of Indiana, The Bee Corp is an AgTech company that uses the NimbeLink Asset Tracking Solutions to help beekeepers across the Read More
Entrepreneurship is Alive in Minnesota!
Entrepreneurship is alive in Minnesota! Exciting things were happening in St. Paul last week at the 8th annual MN Entrepreneur Kick-Off. NimbeLink CEO and Co-Founder Scott Schwalbe took the stage with a presentation on being an entrepreneur in the IoT field. In addition to Scott, there were many different entrepreneurs that spoke on their backgrounds Read More
Are YOU ready to move to LTE?
Are YOU ready to move to LTE? Unfortunately, you might not have a choice. After June 30, 2018, Verizon will no longer allow new CDMA activations, and, although things could change between now and then, on December 31, 2019, the company plans to retire its CDMA network (2G 1xRTT & 3G EVDO) for good. Sound Read More
Are YOU going to CES 2018?
Awesome! NimbeLink will be there, too, so be sure to stop by the world’s leading provider of cellular technology. We’ll be in booth #2415 in Tech East, Westgate. We will have our new Asset Tracker on display, as well as our popular family of Skywire modems. Want to set up a meeting with us? Click Read More
LTE Cat 1 vs. Cat M1: Choose the Right IoT Modem for the Job
Applications on the Internet of Things (IoT) tend to be very different from those that the LTE network was originally built for. Your smartphone’s voice and data used large amounts of bandwidth; IoT applications use far less. Cat 1 and Cat M1 modems allow a lot more IoT traffic to fit in the same LTE Read More
NimbeLink is Designing a Modem for Cellular Drone Connectivity
NimbeLink, in partnership with Verizon’s ALO team and Sierra Wireless, is bringing to market another industry first: the UAV Skywire® modem, a fully end-device approved LTE modem specifically designed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Based on NimbeLink’s Cat 4 Skywire modem and using a customized version of the Sierra Wireless HL7588 module, this modem is Read More
LTE Cat M1 Cellular vs. NB1 (NB-IoT) for IoT Applications
As a seller of LTE modems, most recently the LTE Cat M1 Skywire modem, we get a lot of questions about the eventually-to-be-released NB1. Our answer is that NB1 is probably going to be something, but it’s hard to say exactly what or exactly when. It’s gotten a lot of press as a low-cost option Read More
M1, Sigfox, and LoRa
The Internet of Things (IoT) will never be a planned system. It is growing organically and being shaped by millions of participants, applications, and technologies. While no one can predict just what it will look like as it grows, everyone agrees that it will be really big and that connectivity will be its lifeblood. That Read More
LTE Cat1 Speed Comparison – From the Workshop
When designers are evaluating cellular connectivity, bandwidth is always a discussion point because it is more constrained than traditional Ethernet and Wifi speeds. Typically the cellular technology dictates the bandwidth, but the realized bit rates are oftentimes much lower than the theoretical maximums due to uncontrollable factors like network congestion, poor RF environments, etc. However, Read More