Enhanced NB-IoT Technology for wide frequency bands and different operators

Overview

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has developed an NB-IoT technology supporting wide range of frequency bands with advanced radio frequency transceiver and Release 14 compatible baseband.

  • Enhanced NB-IoT Technology for wide frequency bands and different operators
Research completion
2020
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing - Technology co-development
Problem addressed

To address the need of NB-IoT device to cover a wide range of frequency bands with a reduced chip area, lower power consumption and enhanced  performance, ASTRI has developed an NB-IoT technology that adopts an advanced polar transmitter architecture with on-chip power amplifier and advanced baseband algorithms for low power consumption, small chip area, multiple frequency bands and enhanced sensitivity.

Innovation
  • Wide frequency range cover all NB-IoT bands defined in 3GPP Release 14 specification;
  • High-performance polar transmitter offers small chip area; 
  • Advanced baseband algorithms are fully compatible with 3GPP Release 14 specification;
  • Enhanced sensitivity with 1.5dB better than standard requirement.
Key impact
  • Cover wide frequency ranges;
  • High sensitivity with advanced baseband algorithm;
  • Small chip area and low cost;
  • Adopted by multiple chip vendors and world-leading IP vendor.
Award
  • The Hong Kong Awards for Industries in 2018
Application
  • Chip

Patent

  • US Patent No. 10,677,664 and CN Patent No.ZL201980000874.8
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

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