With a race for charging spaces underway alongside major roads and in cities, there is a need for deployment speed but also to keep the cost of every charging pile to a minimum. Wireless connections represent a small additional cost in terms of construction and maintenance of charging points and come with cellular data usage fees. Their versatility and ease of deployment across the globe makes them attractive to enable rapid deployments, global products, and to support interaction between EVs, users and charging points.
Quectel’s BG950 and BG951 LTE Cat M1 modules, which also offer Cat NB1 and will soon add Cat NB2 connectivity are fully-compliant with the 3GPP E-UTRA Release 13/14 specification and provide global carrier band combinations. The modules boast comprehensive hardware-based security features, with integrated security elements (ISE). Offering an ultra-compact SMT form factor of 19.9 mm × 23.6 mm × 2.2 mm and a high integration level, the module enables integrators and developers to design applications easily using the module’s low-power consumption and compact structure. The modules’ advanced LGA package allows for fully automated manufacturing required for large-scale applications.
Quectel’s BG95xA-GL contains a GNSS and cellular-based location engine that supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou and QZSS. Quectel’s EG91 is a series of LTE Cat 1 IoT modules in an LGA package measuring 29.0mm × 25.0mm × 2.3mm, which meets the 3GPP Release 11 standard.
The EG91 provides cost-effective LTE connectivity, delivering maximum downlink rates of 10Mbps and uplink rates of 5Mbps under LTE, is designed using space-efficient surface mounted technology, and features an embedded power management unit for ultra-low deep-sleep current consumption. The module is therefore ideal for size-constrained, low-power IoT applications which are not reliant on high-speed connectivity but do require the longevity and reliability of LTE networks.
MEDs Technologies is the Authorised Distributor of EPC in South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India. The above contains extracts from Quectel.
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Established in 1996, MEDs Technologies serves Asia and the world from Singapore. We help customers to address their power supply related issues and wireless connectivity challenges across a diverse range of applications, such as the Electric-Vehicle (EV) and Satellite Communication.
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