Qorvo Launches First Smart Home Device Controller to Enable Simultaneous Wireless Communications

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Qorvo, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced the first smart home communications controller designed to support multiple ultra-low-power wireless protocols simultaneously. Qorvo's new QPG6100 communications controller for IoT endpoint devices features the company's ConcurrentConnectTM technology. This innovation accelerates communications, increases home network capacity and scalability, and allows manufacturers to create future-proof connected devices such as lighting and smart home sensors. The technology helps eliminate barriers to the development of smart homes by enabling multiple smart devices to run simultaneously, regardless of the major wireless standard they use.

IDC predicts that home automation devices and services will continue to gain popularity, with global sales of smart home devices expected to reach 1.4 billion units by 2024, a five-year compound annual growth rate of 14%.

As the Internet of Things expands and more consumer electronics adopt smart home technology, the challenge facing system engineers and IoT device manufacturers is to ensure that their sensors can communicate quickly and operate effectively even as new devices are added. In addition to the familiar Wi-Fi, smart lighting, thermostats, security sensors and appliances also use other low-power, low-data rate wireless standards, including Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread and Zigbee. With ConcurrentConnect technology, smart home devices can communicate over the home network even if the sensors use different standards or languages.

Using ConcurrentConnect technology, Qorvo's QPG6100 integrates simultaneous multi-standard support in a single RF system-on-chip (SoC). The QPG6100 supports all home network protocols while allowing devices to continue to receive communication signals uninterrupted during the listening phase. For example, Qorvo's patented technology allows consumers to quickly dim light bulbs through their smartphones without delay.

When manufacturers combine the QPG6100 with Qorvo's powerful software development kit, they can create IoT devices that can manage data traffic from multiple standards or protocols simultaneously without latency. Both the QPG6100 and Qorvo's QPG7015M IoT transceiver for wireless routers and gateways, released last year, support ConcurrentConnect technology. These two SoCs eliminate the need for manufacturers to choose in advance which technology (ZigBee, Thread or Bluetooth low energy) to integrate into their devices. They can also reduce the number of parts, thereby reducing costs, simplifying development and support, and providing consumers with a smaller, more beautiful form factor.

Cees Links, general manager of Qorvo's Wireless Connectivity business unit, said: "ConcurrentConnect technology represents an important step forward in our journey toward dynamic multiprotocol support. Using one gateway or hub and multiple ConcurrentConnect-enabled IoT devices creates a simplified smart home without missing a signal. By simultaneously supporting all major wireless protocols, designers and homeowners can be sure of seamless connectivity when adding new devices. This increased flexibility will inspire even more innovative applications in the smart home."

QPG6100 Smart Home Controller samples and software development kits are available now.

Jacktang

Using different standards or languages, smart home devices can communicate through the home network, which is really practical if it is easy to implement.