Environment

With the effects of global warning on our weather, ecosystems, health and agriculture, we can no longer afford to ignore environmental issues. Also, with the global drive to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by the year 2050, the world needs technical solutions to the challenges of renewable energy and intelligent energy management.

NXP's state-of-the-art low-power wireless connectivity solutions provide cost-effective platforms for a huge range of applications that help to protect our environment and natural resources.

Key applications

• Smart Energy
• Monitoring natural resources: gas, water
• Agricultural: crop monitoring, watering
• Mining: environment monitoring

Wireless solution

Our JN51xx wireless microcontrollers, combined with our wireless network protocol stacks, form the wireless connectivity backbone of the solution.

The JN51xx wireless microcontrollers are feature-rich devices that, in addition to an IEEE802.15.4 compliant 2.4GHz radio and 32-bit CPU, contain a wealth of on-chip peripherals to support your application needs. These include 21 GPIOs, ADC, DAC, PWM, timers, UART and SPI. If you need additional peripherals then our industry standard I²C port combined with any of the devices from our I²C interface and connectivity portfolio, provides an optimal way for you to expand or enhance I/O capabilities to your individual requirements.

Our wireless network protocol stacks offer unrivalled levels of performance and functionality:

• JenNet facilitates easy-to-use, highly robust, low-cost networking 
• JenNet-IP is an enhanced 6LoWPAN network solution that provides IP-based networking to serve the 'Internet of Things'
• ZigBee provides multi-vendor product interoperability

Each stack is developed in-house and is highly optimised to the JN51xx platform. Simple C-based API's are provided to streamline software development.