Analog Devices Inc. Internet of Things

Sensors. Converters. Processors and transceivers. These gather and transport the data that fuel the promise and potential of the Internet of Things. That’s where the IoT begins. And that’s where the need for intelligence, accuracy and reliability is crucial.

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Components that sense, measure, interpret, connect, and analyze are essential to the Internet of Things. These components gather and transport the data that fuel the IoT. Consequently, these technology areas are where the need for intelligence, accuracy, and reliability is crucial.

Technology Areas

Technology Areas include:

• Smart Mesh® wireless sensor networks
• Sense
• Measure
• Interpret
• Connect
• Power Management of IoT

SmartMesh® Wireless Sensor Networking
SmartMesh® wireless sensor networking products include chips and pre-certified PCB modules complete with mesh networking software, enabling sensors to communicate in tough Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) environments.

SmartMesh IP Solutions
SmartMesh IP Solutions are highly scalable and well-suited for a wide range of applications. The solutions deliver high reliability and low-power consumption even in harsh, dynamically changing RF environments.

SmartMesh WirelessHART
SmartMesh WirelessHART offers the lowest power consumption in its class and is the most widely used WirelessHART (IEC62591) standard compliant product available.

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Sensing is the birthplace of data in the IoT. Analog Devices' high performance-sensing portfolio combines precision, power efficiency, and robustness to ensure the highest level of integrity right from the start.

Analog Devices' robust signal conditioning technologies play a critical role in turning the most sensitive signals into useful data and information, thereby solving the most challenging measurement problems.

• Integrated AFEs
• Converters
• Amplifiers
• References
• Switches/Multiplexers
• Power management

Analog Devices' radio products ensure reliability, power efficiency, and flexibility across a number of wireless protocols and range requirements. The products enable robust networks in applications where reliability and timeliness of information are critical.

• Wireless sensor networks
• Long-range radio transceivers

Power Management in IoT

Because many IoT applications require wireless, remote, or mobile solutions, power management is often a primary challenge in system design. Battery life can have significant implications on cost of ownership, and can sometimes be a barrier to viability. Analog Devices takes a system-level approach to power management. What does this mean?

• Energy harvesting technology to source power from the environment
• Ultra-low power products that often achieve best in class benchmark scores
• System-level power management functions built in at the component level
• Unmatched design expertise around low power systems

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Product Highlight: ADP5091 Energy-Harvesting PMU
• ULP boost with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and charge management
• Supports PV harvester or TEG harvester
• Fast cold-start with SIDO regulated output

Focus Application Areas

Focus Application Areas include:

• Smart Health
• Smart Factories
• Smart Buildings & Smart City
• Smart Agriculture
• Smart Infrastructure

Analog Devices healthcare technologies are shaping the future of wireless vital signs monitoring (VSM) for both clinical and consumer uses. By leveraging optical and motion sensing, impedance, biopotential, and signal conditioning technologies, as well as advanced biometric algorithms, Analog Devices is pushing the boundaries of what can be measured and learned from the human body.

Analog Devices technologies enable precision sensing, monitoring, control, analytics, and efficient communications in factory and process automation applications. Analog Devices' solutions help designers build industry 4.0-ready systems that meet the end users’ need for more responsive, flexible, safer, and leaner manufacturing.

Analog Devices helps customers build smart building and city solutions delivering secure and intelligent sensing, localized decision making, and power efficiency. Analog Devices' advanced imaging and sensing platforms combine hardware, software, and connectivity, enabling designers to realize the full benefits of real-time monitoring in applications such as building security, asset tracking, parking space occupancy detection, object and gesture recognition, and many more.

Analog Devices empowers the high-tech farms with the most precise and robust inertial measurement and geolocation technologies available. The Analog Devices advanced sensor fusion designs are the eyes and ears of today's automated farming vehicles and equipment, enabling real-time autonomous decision making, greater resource efficiencies, and simplified operations.

Highly integrated sensing and connectivity solutions enable designers to monitor their critical assets at the edge – whether in industrial environments, remote field locations, or in transit. From structural health and conditions monitoring to location and movement tracking, Analog Devices high-performance, low-power solutions deliver the most accurate, reliable information at the lowest cost-of-maintenance.