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Quick facts

Annual data generation from smart city devices by 2023

180
in petabytes

Global surveillance camera shipments by 2023

500
in million

Number of installed base of connected smart street lights by 2025

100+
in million
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Market drivers

As urbanization continues unabated, cities are recognizing the economic and environmental benefits smart technologies offer to improve resource and infrastructure management.

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Applications

Smart cities optimize waste management, utility metering, traffic regulation, parking, street lights, road pricing, payment systems, and environmental monitoring.

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Why choose u-blox?

Our full portfolio of positioning and wireless communication solutions are designed to meet the needs of tomorrow's smart cities.

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product overview

Cellular chips and modules

We offer high quality, scalable, and secure cellular modules for the automotive, industrial, and consumer markets with demanding size, cost, and quality requirements. Supported cellular technologies provide global geographic coverage and include NB IoT, LTE-M, LTE Cat 1, LTE Cat 4, 3G, and 2G modules.

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Positioning chips and modules

Our positioning modules, SiPs, chips, and antennas set the benchmark in performance, with quick delivery of accurate position data. Our wide portfolio includes standard precision, high precision, precise timing, and dead reckoning solutions.

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Short range radio modules

Our short range components and software help you achieve a short time-to-revenue with efficient use of your own engineering team. Robustness, security, and flexibility are key, with powerful development tools and a global ecosystem of certification and technical support.

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LTE Cat 1

LTE Cat 1 is a medium speed LTE standard designed for more feature-rich IoT applications that require higher data speeds.

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UDR - Untethered Dead Reckoning

UDR (Untethered Dead Reckoning) refers to GNSS data fused with inertial sensor data. It is an easy-to-use and competitive solution that enables high positioning performance in places where GNSS signals are poor or not available.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short range wireless technology that operates in the unlicensed Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) 2.4 GHz radio frequency band.

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Wi-Fi

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) is a short range wireless technology that enables data exchange or internet connectivity over the unlicensed 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands.

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V2X

Autonomous driving, active traffic safety, advanced warning systems, collective perception, and advanced driving coordination – these are buzzwords that come from today's carmakers. But what will actually make this all happen? And how reliable is the technology?
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High precision positioning

Achieving cm-level accuracy by combining RTK technology and deep expertise in GNSS.

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