Five years after the WiFi Alliance announced plans for a WiFi variant, 802.11ah (aka HaLow) tailored to the needs of IoT the first products are expected to hit the market. Michael De Nil, founder and CEO of Australian company Morse Micro, which has developed HaLow chips, told IoTAustralia an announcement of the first certified devices […]
Investors pump $24m into ‘Wi-Fi for IoT’ startup Morse Micro
Sydney based startup Morse Micro which is developing chipsets for the ‘low-power’ Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11ah (aka HaLow) has secured Series A funding of $23.8m from a range of investors. HaLow has been designed for IoT applications. Access points consume much less power than other variants, can provide throughputs in multiple megabits per second and […]
Wi-Fi Alliance unveils HaLow – Wi-Fi for IoT
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced plans to develop HaLow, a new version of the Wi-Fi standard optimised for IoT applications. HaLow will be based on the IEEE 802.11ah standard, will operate in the 900MHz band, giving better in-building penetration than current Wi-Fi operating in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and over twice the range of […]
