RF Performance in IoT End Devices - Is Good Enough Really Good Enough?

About this Tech Talk

For IoT product developers, there are always tradeoffs to make between features, performance and cost. We often hear that RF performance just needs to be "good enough". But what does that really mean? RF performance will directly relate to the user experience and poor performance will affect areas like range, reliability, latency and even battery life. Some of these issues could result in a user blaming the end product, for example, limited range and poor battery life. Others like latency and reliability could be blamed on the end product, ecosystem or even the internet connection. However, all of these will hamper adoption, which is a losing proposition for everyone involved. This session will lookat how a chipset's specifications and features including link budget, blocking, rejection and antenna diversity can drastically affect the RF performance of IoT end devices. At the end of this session, you should be able to understand these areas better to guide you on what RF performance is really good enough for your IoT products.