Altair Demonstrates IoT-based Low-cost Water Quality Monitoring and Contamination Detection

Altair Demonstrates IoT-based Low-cost Water Quality Monitoring and Contamination Detection

Sustainability Demo Shows How Power Saving Mode-Equipped LTE-Based Sensor Offers Perpetual Wireless Fresh Water Monitoring at Fraction of Cost of Traditional Systems

BARCELONA, Spain, February 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Altair Semiconductor (altair-semi.com [http://www.altair-semi.com ]), a leading
provider of LTE chipsets, today announced its FourGee-1160 CAT-1 LTE chipset is providing
communication and up to ten years of battery life for Ericsson's low-cost water quality
monitoring demo at Mobile World Congress.

    The demonstration (taking place in Hall 2, at Ericsson's Booth #2N60) is based on the
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper project [https://chattahoochee.org/about-us ] in the United
States, an initiative dedicated to protecting and preserving the Chattahoochee River
Basin. Ericsson and Altair are showing how the Internet of Things can provide solutions
that make the world more sustainable.

    "With so much attention focused on the next gadget, Ericsson and Altair want to shine
the spotlight on one of the foundations of human existence, water. IoT has tremendous
potential in helping to preserve water quality and warn against contamination," said Eran
Eshed, Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Altair. "IoT
for sustainability is truly important, and we are proud to be playing a role in bringing
it to the world through our PSM-enabled chipset."

    Altair's CAT-1 FourGee-1160 chipset extends the battery life of idle devices, when
compared to other LTE modules. An LTE-only option offers low current to improve device
battery drain, crucial with an application like river monitoring. This characteristic,
plus Altair's ability to price its chipsets lower than the competition, helps bring IoT
applications to reality.

     About Altair  

    Altair Semiconductor, recently acquired by Sony Group, is a leading provider of
single-mode LTE chipsets. Altair's portfolio covers the complete spectrum of cellular 4G
market needs, from supercharged video-centric applications all the way to ultra-low power,
low cost IoT and M2M. Altair has shipped millions of LTE chipsets to date, commercially
deployed on the world's most advanced LTE networks. For more information, please visit
http://www.altair-semi.com. Follow Altair on Twitter: @AltairSemi

       
         
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