New Qualcomm chipset offers significant performance improvements for low-power long-life IoT applications

Qualcomm Technologies recently announced its 212 LTE IoT Modem, a single-mode NB2 (NB-IoT) chipset to drive the growth of cellular IoT. Power efficiency is a top concern for IoT devices that have to last for years in the field.

Requiring less than one micro-amp (1uA) of sleep current, the Qualcomm 212 LTE IoT Modem’s power-efficient chipset architecture allows for extremely low average power consumption.

Qualcomm Technologies is also launching an SDK for use with the Qualcomm 212 LTE IoT Modem, which is designed to support developers in running custom software on the integrated applications processor, with an expectation to offer pre-integrated support for cloud platforms such as the Microsoft Azure IoT SDK.