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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Omar Zakaria, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Houman Forood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
An embedded Internet of Things (IoT) hub for integration with modular antennae and associated systems and methods. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus includes: an embedded IoT hub comprising a wide area network (WAN) interface to couple the embedded IoT hub to an IoT service over a network and a local wireless communication interface to communicatively couple the IoT hub to one or more IoT devices; an IoT hub slot interface coupled to the embedded IoT hub and comprising a first plurality of pins or pads to interface with corresponding pins or pads within an IoT hub slot of an appliance when the embedded IoT hub is inserted into the IoT hub slot; and a modular antenna interface coupled to the embedded IoT hub and comprising a second plurality of pins or pads to interface with corresponding pins or pads on the interface component of the modular antenna.