German electronics company Infineon has announced a Bluetooth module that is said to push the low-power and range boundaries for wireless connectivity in IoT and consumer electronics.

The CYW20822-P4TAI040 module offers seamless integration, enhanced performance with Bluetooth Low Energy long-range support, and reliability for a wide range of applications. It supports the entire spectrum of Bluetooth LE long-range use cases including industrial IoT, smart home, asset tracking, beacons and sensors, and medical devices.

According to a recent report by ABI Research, future use cases will demand additional improvements across almost all metrics. These include industrial IoT applications such as sensing, robotics, beacons, smart home and asset tracking. In response, the module delivers connectivity and performance, letting users create innovative products in the IoT and consumer electronics space.

With experience in delivering certified Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE modules, Infineon performs regulatory testing and certification process with the Bluetooth SIG. Its pre-certified modules are optimised for cost, size, power and range.

“Infineon is thrilled to expand its Bluetooth portfolio with the introduction of the CYW20822-P4TAI040 Bluetooth module to help designers get to market faster,” said Anurag Chauhan, director of marketing for the Bluetooth product line at Infineon Technologies. “As a leader in the IoT area in delivering innovative new Bluetooth LE, this new module is a testament to our customer commitment. This new module delivers low power, long range and excellent RF performance to meet our customers evolving needs.”

The module uses Bluetooth 5.0 technology to support 1M, 2M and coded phy along with advertisement and data extension. This ensures seamless and stable wireless connectivity for Bluetooth LE and long-range connections.

Infineon’s power management techniques in the module enable optimised energy consumption, prolonging battery life in portable devices. As part of its decarbonisation and digitalisation efforts, the module has an active power consumption of 1.3mA at -95dBm receive and 3mA at 0dBm transmit, along with a sleep current consumption of 2μA with 32kbyte RAM retention.

The module is pre-programmed via the EZ-Serial firmware to eliminate user programming. This helps accelerate the time-to-deployment for Bluetooth-enabled IoT.

With its form factor of 10.5 by 20.2 by 2.3mm, the module offers ease-of-integration into various IoT devices, wearables and other space-constrained applications.

The Bluetooth LE module is currently sampling. More information is available at www.infineon.com/CYW20822-P4TAI040.

Infineon Technologies has around 58,600 employees worldwide and generated revenue of about €16.3bn in 2023.