u-blox: Positioning, Cellular, & Short Range

Offering chipsets, modules, and data services, u-blox delivers industry-leading positioning and wireless communication technologies suitable for the Industrial, Automotive, and Consumer markets. With solutions spanning Positioning, Cellular, and Short Range – u-blox’s product portfolio is:

Compact
Durable
Cost-effective
Secure
Globally certified
Optimal for long-term interoperability

With future-proof, form factor scalability and comprehensive technical support from product selection to deployment, u-blox aims to help engineers get to market quickly and easily.

u-blox Positioning

The u-blox GNSS positioning modules, SiPs (System in Package), chips, and smart antenna modules deliver meter-level down to centimeter-level accuracy. Optimized for size, weight, and power, the u-blox positioning portfolio includes:

Standard positioning (SPG)
High precision (HPG)
Timing & Frequency
Dead reckoning (DR)

Those who have designed with the u-blox M8 or M9 modules can conveniently and confidently transition to the pin-to-pin compatible, next-generation M10 module.

u-blox IoT Location-as-a-Service (LaaS)

The u-blox IoT LaaS ensures reliable, fast position information and delivers accurate assistance and error correction data for IoT devices, even in constrained, hard to reach places. Includes u-blox’s AssistNow™ , CellLocate®, PointPerfect™, and CloudLocate™.

Featured u-blox Positioning Products

*u-blox prohibits the use of GNSS modules in military drones

u-blox Cellular

u-blox has 10 years of experience manufacturing high quality, scalable, and secure cellular communication chips and modules. Offering global geographic coverage, u-blox’s cellular solutions cover the GSM/GPRS, UMTS/HSPA, NB-IoT, LTE-M, LTE Cat 1, and high Cat LTE standards.

u-blox’s cellular products offer external and internal GNSS integration to offer cellular and positioning capabilities all in one comprehensive solution.

Featured u-blox Cellular Products

u-blox Short Range

u-blox addresses the needs of the short range radio market with globally compliant Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 6 chips and modules. Additionally, u-blox’s short range portfolio offers stand-alone and host-based architectures and modules with internal and external antenna options to support diverse applications.

u-blox’s short range modules connect to their u-connectXpress and u-connectLocate software programs and many are integrated onto evaluation kits for easy evaluation and rapid prototyping. u-blox’s latest BMD-series, NINA-series, ANNA-series, and NORA-series integrate Nordic Semiconductor’s reliable Bluetooth-based chipsets.

Featured u-blox Short Range Products

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Symmetry's technical staff is specially trained by our suppliers to provide a comprehensive level of technical support. Our in-house Applications Engineers provide free design services to help customers early in the design cycle, providing solutions to save them time, money and frustration. Contact Symmetry for more information.

Navigating u-blox’s Top 3 Product Categories

Positioning • Cellular • Short Range

u-blox Positioning

u-blox IoT Location-as-a-Service (LaaS)

u-blox Cellular

u-blox Short Range

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