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  Battery constraints amidst rising power demands Designers for the Internet of Things devices are facing a challenge meeting the conflicting requirements spurred by the customer demand and emerging wireless technologies. Customers are demanding longer battery life whereas emerging networks like Bluetooth 5 and Wi-Fi connectivity are constraining the power limits of the battery-powered  IoT devices . Wi-Fi and Bluetooth protocols offer standard protocols to aid in reducing power consumption however more efficiency will be achieved if the architecture is streamlined. An architecture that combines radio subsystems capable of offloading network processing tasks and embodies a low-power microcontroller goes a long way in improving battery life. Challenges posed by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Bluetooth enables devices to interact with smartphones and other devices. Many applications require Wi-Fi to access WLAN to access the internet directly or interact with other peer devices. Continuous...

  Postscape estimates that by the end of this year, 2020, approximately 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet. A huge percentage of these devices are short-range wireless systems that use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to connect to the internet. This is evidence enough that IoT is taking the world by storm. Engineers are constantly trying ways of incorporating IoT into various aspects of our lives from production to agriculture. As such, Development kits for IoT come in handy in the sense they make prototyping faster and easier. Sensor development kit for IoT, therefore, comes in handy when developing IoT systems. BLE based sensor development KIT for IoT The  RSL10 Sensor Development Kit  by ON Semiconductor is one such kind. It offers engineers a comprehensive platform for developing IoT applications that embody cutting-edge smart sensor technology. Most notably it uses Bluetooth Low Energy radio. Using this platform can be used to develop industrial wearables, smar...