The 19th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition is at hand. The exhibition, which is referred to as the “Oscar for Lighting Industry”, is expected to get more than 200000 visitors from 27 countries. 2,588 exhibitors will gather to show the most comprehensive lighting appliances, light sources and accessories, which covers the whole LED industrial chain of products and technologies. The characteristic of the exhibition this year may probably be a little different from the previous. In 2013, the exhibition saw the three trends of the development in the LED lighting industry as below: smart lighting, engineering project and LED technology integration. This year, the exhibition will promote the development of innovations in the above-mentioned hotspots, and strengthen the understanding to the hotspots in the industry. The organizer will also be hold 120 summit forums or communication activities, to discuss the latest lighting technology and new thoughts of design, and to expand cooperation opportunities. As a leading developer of wireless connection solution, RF-star will also attend this exhibition, in the name of Texas Instruments, and display the latest smart light control solutions, important wireless modules and end-use products. As the biggest wireless connection solution design developers of TI in China, RF-star has developed a series of innovative lighting control solutions on the basis of TI chip technology. They are also consistent with the current developing trend and hotspot of the exhibition this year. At present, RF-star has already established firm cooperation with many well-known domestic lighting manufacturers, who will also take part in the exhibition and release their latest and coolest smart lighting products under our co-work. As it is known, LED lighting has a great market demand, as the substitute to traditional incandescent lighting. Meantime there is no doubt that the LED lighting industry has entered in the era of intense competition. However, the Bluetooth Smart lighting solution developed by RF-star will provide more value growths to this industry. It helps LED lighting enterprises to keep up with the quick development of Internet of Things, and to realize the development and promotion of the enterprise. It is just a jump, with limited investment, and you will be in the field of Smart Home. We are glad to invite you to attend the 19th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. And you are welcome to visit Booth E02 in Hall 13.2, where you will see the latest smart lighting development and an opportunity to start our collaboration in depth.

Smart locks and smart sensors have become more and more trendy. Developers can spend a huge amount of time creating and connecting these popular Internet of Things (IoT) products to the cloud via gateways using wireless technologies such as Bluetooth® low energy(LE). Choosing an easy-to-use cloud service that offers powerful functions, steadiness and multiple cloud-security features can also be a challenge, so RF-star and TI worked with Alibaba to provide support for the Ali Cloud Link IoT platform on RF-star Bluetooth low energy CC2640R2F wireless module. RF-star provides a sample application for the CC2640R2F module software development kit (SDK) to support Ali Cloud Link. Through this sample application, you can receive the specific Alibaba profile, which contains a range of security features, over-the-air (OTA) support and good performance for compatibility with iOS and Android platforms. For example, you can use the secure hash algorithm (SHA) 256 security feature and the CC2640R2F wireless module’s true random number generator (TRNG) to generate keys for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, which is included in the CC2640R2F device’s hardware encryption engine. This ensures that every communication session gets a different key to improve the security performance for data transmission. With a few simple application programming interfaces (APIs), you can build up a secure Bluetooth low energy product. The Alibaba OTA protocol is fully supported in this sample application. Compatibility with different Android mobile phones has been optimized, especially for China-brand Android phones. Figure 1 shows the architecture of a sample application with theTI CC2640R2F SDK. Figure 1: SDK software architecture for the CC2640R2F wireless module The 2.4GHz  CC2640R2F wireless module supports Bluetooth 4.2 and Bluetooth 5 ultra-low-power applications for IoT applications. The device has extremely low active radio frequency (RF), MCU power and low-power-consumption modes, thus enabling longer battery life. It includes a 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M3 core as well as many peripheral functions in which there is a unique ultra-low-power sensor controller. The sensor controller is suited for connecting external sensors, and automatically collecting analog and digital data when the rest of the system is in sleep mode. You do not have to worry about issues like protocol interaction and driver development. The CC2640R2F SDK includes: Application code that is 100% portable across the SimpleLink MCU platform from Bluetooth low energy to Sub-1 GHz and more. RFSTAR drivers that provide a standard and unified API interface for all peripheral interfaces of the ti SimpleLink MCU platform, enabling you to write code independent of the targeted device. The integrated TI real-time operating system (TI-RTOS). Other RTOSs like Free RTOS’s adapter interface, which is API-compatible to the Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX). A hardware encry...