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Vendor Lock-In in SOM Selection
Why Ezurio built EZ BSP on open source foundations and what that means for your product roadmap
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Choosing the Right SOM: Why MediaTek Genio Stands Out
Find out where the MediaTek's Genio-based SOMs, Tungsten 510 and Tungsten700, differentiate.
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The Unique Needs of IoT in Healthcare - A Chat with Infineon
Wi-Fi devices have unique challenges in healthcare environments, and Ezurio's modules are designed against those particular constraints. In this video, Infineon's Jerry Liu and Ezurio's Andy Ross...
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From Edge AI Demo to Deployed System: What Actually Matters
Most Edge AI demos succeed. Most Edge AI product struggle to reach production. The difference isn’t the model, but if the entire system was designed, validated, and supported for real-world deployment.
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Bluetooth Channel Sounding: Unlocking Next-Generation Precision Ranging
Discover how Bluetooth Channel Sounding moves beyond simple ranging, combining distance and direction for developer‑ready localization — from 1‑ to 4‑antenna arrays.
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RS261 and RS262 Battery Life
Estimate battery life based on different application criteria
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Understanding EU Commission Implementation of Decision (EU) 2025/138 - New Harmonized Standards and Restrictions
In this post, Ezurio breaks down the EU's new amendment to RED Implementation Decision (EU) 2022-2191, which adds harmonized standards and restrictions to EN 18031-1:2024, EN 18031-2:2024, and EN 18031-3:2024.
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AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance Improves Digital Factories
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming predictive maintenance in manufacturing. Using advanced analytics, IoT sensors, and real-time data, facilities are enhancing operational efficiency and reducing downtime.
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The Value Behind “Made in the USA”
Our new USA-based manufacturing in Irvine, CA is a pledge for not only top of the line quality, but additional benefits to our customers.
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Digital Twin Technology Transforms Factories
As the waves of Industry 4.0 continue to shape modern manufacturing, digital twin technology is the next step that blends the real-world with virtual modeling.
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Finding Zen in Your Embedded Development: How Dojo Five & Ezurio Speed You To Market
Best-in-class embedded DevOps from Dojo Five meets hardware tailored to OEMs' unique demands. Learn how our combined offerings allow OEMs to rapidly iterate and focus on their core excellence.
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Retrofitting Legacy Equipment for the Smart Factory
Even machinery that was not designed with the IoT in mind has data waiting to be tapped. Legacy motors, assembly tools and more can be reborn as smart devices that tell you exactly when they need serviced. This is predictive maintenance.
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Understanding MSL Level Specifications
Electronics parts can be severely damaged by humidity. Here’s how MSL levels categorize those vulnerabilities for better electronics handling and manufacturing.
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The Four Pillars of Effective IoT Device Management
A Game Plan Today for Avoiding Device Management Problems Tomorrow
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Q4 Certification News and Updates
United States – FCC Provides Additional Guidance Regarding Part 15 Antennas Be advised, after August 25, 2022, ALL FCC Part 15 applications will be required to provide specific documentation...
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Q2 Certification News and Updates
EU – UKCA Mark Mandatory January 1st, 2023 As we outlined in a previous newsletter, the UK had announced that “goods which previously required CE marking will not need to use UKCA marking...
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4 Benefits of Made in America Electronics Manufacturing with Boundary Devices
Electronics manufacturing is a key part of Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices) value proposition. We have always manufactured our products in America. Historically, we worked with 2 key...
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2021 COVID-19 Update
Dear Customers, Partners and Suppliers, On behalf of everyone at Ezurio, I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and I wish you the best in 2021. I...
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3 Reasons NOT to use a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry PI has changed the trajectory of embedded electronics. It has enabled thousands of new applications by providing a low cost embedded platform that is extremely well-supported by...
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Regulatory Approvals for Radio Technologies
As the global economy continues to grow and evolve, your products must keep pace to remain competitive. This not only applies to current technologies and the ability to provide global distribution...
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COVID-19 Response
Dear Customers, Partners and Suppliers, On behalf of everyone at Ezurio, I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and I wish you the best in navigating through the personal challenges that...
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7 Key Antenna Design Considerations
Using a trace antenna in your RF product design has several advantages. Good performance, low cost, and small size for frequencies >900 MHz, are a few examples of why trace antennas are popular...
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Are you bluetooth smart?
Are you Bluetooth Smart? Did you know Bluetooth Low Energy (Smart) is not just a low energy version of Bluetooth Classic? It is a different protocol with distinct features and requirements for both...
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Mechanized Window Blinds Case Study
A leading blinds and window covering company turned to Ezurio for assistance with their line of mechanized window blinds. Their initial custom designed antenna was not performing well, with poor...
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RF Design Considerations
RF hardware design is complex and oftentimes a challenge for embedded designers. For instance, parasitic effects that are not typically a concern in low frequency applications can have a major impact...
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NIST Releases New IoT Security Model
In a short time, the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown from a vision of the future to a realized sector of the tech industry. Thousands of established organizations have or are working to develop...
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Laird Industrial Wireless Technology Seen As Increasing Workplace Safety
"Advances in wireless technology bring hardwired emergency-stop systems to a new level of safety to speed up response time, free operator constraints and expand applications," reads the subtitle of...
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LSR Featured in Remote Site & Equipment Magazine
The recent edition of Remote Site & Equipment Magazine includes a feature article by LSR titled, "Not So Remote Any More: Incorporating Wireless Connectivity into Remote Site Equipment for...
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What is HTML5?
In the last few years, HTML5 has been floating around the web, being brought up in meetings everywhere and used as a catchall for “next-gen” web technologies. I’d like to offer a brief...
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U-Boot USB Mass Storage gadget
Thanks to the efforts of many in the U-Boot community, the upcoming v2014.07 release of U-Boot for our boards will include a new feature: the USB Mass Storage Gadget , or ums . Since this feature...
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Wireless Charging – Will it ever get here?
There has been a lot of talk about wireless charging, but maybe not so many real implementation stories. We predict that’s all going to change in the near future. Demand for wireless charging is...
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Bigger is Better for our EMC Customers!
What’s new in the world of LSR? Our new test chamber, of course! You may have heard the news of its recent debut, but we invite you to learn more about exactly how this new chamber optimizes our...
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U-Boot conventions for i.MX6 (Nitrogen6X and SabreLite)
A little convention make things easy to use, but only if you know the convention.In this blog post, we'll explain three key environment variable conventions used on the Nitrogen6X (and Sabre Lite...
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Disabling sleep mode on Android
Android's user-focused, touchscreen-driven interface lends itself well to fixed-point applications such as kiosks and control panels. However, since it was originally designed for mobile...
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How to write an Android camera app
Now that we've covered the internals , we can talk a little about how the surface application should look. As a reference we'll use the AOSP's own default Camera app; you can find the source here...
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Magnetic stripe driver for Linux GPIO
For those of you working with Neuron insertion-style, single-track card readers, there is a driver available here on the 2.6.35 branch of our kernel repository. The driver performs stripe decoding...
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LTIB and Qt on i.MX51
Many thanks to the team at imxdev.org . Their notes on cross-compilation of Qt helped us greatly in walking through the process of getting Qt up and running on our Nitrogen i.MX51 board under...
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Portrait mode X-Windows on i.MX51
Sometimes this software gig is like wizarding school : you just need the right words and magic happens.I want to thank Richard Johnston for handing me this one: xrandr With the libXrandr ...
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Customizing U-Boot on i.MX
Many of our customers have needs at the boot loader level that differ slightly from our standard releases.Some choose to track these changes in their own version control systems and periodically pull...
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Boot scripts for Nitrogen (i.MX51)
In earlier blog posts, e-mails, and the fledgling Nitrogen User's Manual we've described the setup of the U-Boot variables bootcmd and bootargs for particular use cases. Because changing these...
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U-Boot display support on i.MX51
At long last, the boundary20100817 branch of our U-Boot tree has support for text and graphics output on up to two displays. Operating system support Eventually, you'll be able to configure the...
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Using Buildroot on Nitrogen
And now for something completely different . In prior posts, we've covered some of the basic steps involved in using Desktop-oriented distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and the Android...
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Android WLAN – the rest of the story
R.I.P. Paul Harvey .It seems I was a bit naive when calling the WLAN updates completes in my earlier blog post. While the previous post did show the process of getting and installing the driver, and...
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Going serial (eeprom)
The i.MX51 has a very flexible bootstrap scheme, driven by an internal ROM and fuses. It can boot directly from USB, serial (RS-232), serial EEPROM, NAND flash and SD cards.Early versions of the...
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Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 1: touch support
If you walked through the steps from the previous post, you'll now have a semi-working Froyo release. You should see the Android desktop, but if you're running on a 7" Chi Mei panel, you'll have some...
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Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 2: sound and media
In my previous post, I walked through the process of configuring touch support, so the system is now usable. You should be able to load up the settings pages to change the screen brightness and...
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GPIO drivers for i.MX51 – Part 1: input
There's a lot you can do with just an input pin or two, but getting access to one from userspace can be difficult.To try and make that access simple, we put together some drivers a while ago for...
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Debian in more depth: setting up X-Windows and Fluxbox
This post will detail the steps needed to get a working X-Windows installation on the Debian build that we put together in my last post. In other words, I'll fill in some of the gaps between "run the...
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Debian quick start for Nitrogen boards
So you want to run Debian on a Nitrogen board.Thanks to the efforts of the top-notch Debian ARM team, this is really painless. The instructions I'll list below use the 'netboot' armel image along...
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LTIB quick start
In the post describing the Freescale GStreamer plugins , I mentioned that the source packages from Freescale such as the L2.6.31_10.04.00_ER_SOURCE tarball are centered around a tool called LTIB,...
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Building GStreamer plugins under Ubuntu
In my previous post, I described the components that comprise the Freescale GStreamer plugins for i.MX processors. In this post, I'll walk through the steps needed to actually build each of...
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Color Keying with Freescale G-Streamer video4linux plugin
The Freescale i.MX51 has support for color-keying of the video overlay or YUV layer, exposed through the custom frame-buffer ioctl MXCFB_SET_CLR_KEY .Unfortunately, this feature appears to be...
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Centurion Wireless Technologies Assists With Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts
St. Louis, MO. USA (September 20, 2005) Centurion Wireless Technologies, a unit of Laird Technologies, and a leading designer and manufacturer of antennas and batteries for wireless communications,...