A LoRa receiver for processing digital chirp spread-spectrum modulated signals with an advanced module for the determination of the timing error and/or of the frequency error arranged to estimate a position of a frequency discontinuity in each symbol, extract one or more frequency-continuous fragments out of each symbol, dechirp the coherent fragments, determine a timing error, and/or a frequency error, and/or a modulation value, and/or a SNR.

Described herein is a system that overcomes challenges pertaining to density and range of urban LP-WANs despite the limited capabilities of base station and client hardware. The invention proposes a novel technique that aims to disentangle and decode large numbers of interfering transmissions at a simple, single-antenna LP-WAN base station by exploiting the hardware imperfections of low-cost LP-WAN clients to its advantage Second, the present invention exploits the correlation of sensed data collected by LP-WAN nodes to collaboratively reach a far-away base station, even if individual clients are beyond its range.

Described herein is a system that overcomes challenges pertaining to density and range of urban LP-WANs despite the limited capabilities of base station and client hardware. The invention proposes a novel technique that aims to disentangle and decode large numbers of interfering transmissions at a simple, single-antenna LP-WAN base station by exploiting the hardware imperfections of low-cost LP-WAN clients to its advantage. Second, the present invention exploits the correlation of sensed data collected by LP-WAN nodes to collaboratively reach a far-away base station, even if individual clients are beyond its range.

Flexible waveform synthesis is disclosed for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) networks. In order to accommodate variable transmission resources, a transmitter may construct an M×N grid to model a resource element (RE) map of transmission resources available to the transmitter within a shared communication channel, where M corresponds to a number of symbols for a scheduled physical signal and N corresponds to a number of tones of a transmission bandwidth for the transmitter. The transmitter may then map the M×N grid to the RE map and puncture one or more REs associated with the subbands unavailable for transmission in the transmission resources. The transmitter may then transmit a transmission according to the unpunctured REs of the RE map.

Advanced modulation and demodulation schemes for LoRa or equivalent chirp spread spectrum transmissions, with differential modulation and symbol repetition improve the sensitivity in combination with soft demodulation methods.

A LoRa receiver for processing digital chirp spread-spectrum modulated signals with an advanced module for the determination of the timing error and/or of the frequency error arranged to estimate a position of a frequency discontinuity in each symbol, extract one or more frequency-continuous fragments out of each symbol, dechirp the coherent fragments, determine a timing error, and/or a frequency error, and/or a modulation value, and/or a SNR.

An exit sign that includes an access control point and a system that includes such an exit sign are disclosed. The exit sign includes: a power circuit, a battery that is charged by the power circuit, a light that is powered by at least one of the power circuit and the battery, a sign that is at least partially illuminated by the light, a controller, a wireless radio coupled to the controller, and a relay coupled to the controller and to the actuation device, where the controller controls the relay to actuate the actuation device.

Flexible waveform synthesis is disclosed for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) networks. In order to accommodate variable transmission resources, a transmitter may construct an MN grid to model a resource element (RE) map of transmission resources available to the transmitter within a shared communication channel, where M corresponds to a number of symbols for a scheduled physical signal and N corresponds to a number of tones of a transmission bandwidth for the transmitter. The transmitter may then map the MN grid to the RE map and puncture one or more REs associated with the subbands unavailable for transmission in the transmission resources. The transmitter may then transmit a transmission according to the unpunctured REs of the RE map.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for wideband and fast chirp generation for radar systems are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a phase digital-to-analog converter to convert a digital input that specifies at least one of a phase modulation or a frequency modulation into an analog output, and to generate a phase modulated output centered on an intermediate frequency. The example apparatus also includes a frequency multiplier to frequency multiply the phase modulated output centered on the intermediate frequency by a multiplication factor to generate a chirp signal.

An array of one or more integrated circuits includes at least one local input port to receive a chirp signal from a local generator; one or more primary input ports to each receive a respective chirp signal from a remote source; a primary switch arrangement operable to switch between the chirp signals from the at least one local input port and the one or more primary input ports to produce a composite signal having a chirp sequence with at least one chirp that begins during a settling period of a previous chirp; and one or more primary output ports to supply a local oscillator signal to a transmitter and a receiver based on the composite signal. The roles of master circuit and follower circuit can change during operation of the array.