Monarch is designed and optimized to support the vast new range of low data use, ultra low-power, cost-sensitive, narrowband IoT applications such as smart energy meters, industrial IoT sensors, asset trackers, smart city controllers, and consumer wearables. Monarch is the newest member of Sequans’ StreamliteLTE family of products for the Internet of Things.

Monarch achieves an exceptionally high level of integration whereby baseband, RF, RAM, and power management are integrated in a single, tiny 6.5 x 8 mm FC-CSP package. Monarch supports both of the narrowband categories defined in the Release 13 standard: Cat M1, 1.4 MHz bandwidth; and Cat M2, 200 kHz bandwidth.1

Beyond the requirements of the standard, Monarch includes unique and powerful feature enhancements. These include: 1) a programmable RF filtering technology that enables the simple design of a single worldwide SKU that supports nearly any LTE band and enables global roaming; and 2) Sequans’ exclusive low power technology, Dynamic Power Management (DPM), that dynamically adapts chip-level power profiles in real time based on traffic patterns and use cases, making possible 10-15 years2 of battery life in real-world IoT applications.

Monarch has already been accepted in the market by industry leaders including Verizon and Gemalto3 as the starting point for key LTE for IoT initiatives: Verizon has partnered with Sequans to accelerate LTE Cat M development, and Gemalto has extended its strategic partnership with Sequans to develop new Monarch-based Cat M module solutions for IoT applications.

Features:

－ Narrowband LTE UE categories M1 and M2

－ Compliant with 3GPP Release 13 (LTE Advanced Pro) for machine type communications (MTC)

－ Single chip 6.5 x 8 mm FC-CSP package

－ Integrated baseband, RF transceiver, memory, and power management

－ Supports extended DRX and PSM network features for long sleep duration use cases

－ Includes Sequans’ proprietary Dynamic Power Management (DPM) technology for 10-15 years2 battery life

－ Programmable RF filtering for global band support in a single-SKU design

－ Optimized for half-duplex FDD (HD-FDD) operation; also supports full-duplex FDD and TDD

－ Supports wide variety of embedded and host operating systems

－ Low power serial interfaces