Author: tbejos

This week I focused on looking into different microcontrollers to see which one would best fit our application. For Wi-Fi it appears the the ESP32 line of microcontrollers by Espressif would work well since it has the ability to both transmit and receive Wi-Fi signals built into it. One concern would be if it lets us get enough data from the signal or if it only gives us the decoded packets as we need raw signal information in order to properly do beamforming. For LTE signals it seems that the NF9160 microcontroller by Nordic Semiconductors would work well as since it has LTE-M and also allows us to use GPS information which may be convenient data even if it doesn’t help us overall with the location of devices or beamforming. Once we solidify our requirements and decide on which protocol we will end up using I will do further research on how to setup and start developing for the microcontroller corresponding to that technology.