Silicon Labs intros new range of Wi-SUN SoCs for smart meters, lights, cities

Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. It said its new EFR32xG12 platform is suited to new IoT opportunities, and will help to “accelerate” smart city application development.  The open ‘wireless smart utility network’ (Wi-SUN)…