Internet of Things

Single board computers (SBCs) from Chinese industrial IoT and embedded board manufacturer, Geniatech, are now available from Easby Electronics. The XPI-xxxx series consists of the XPI-3128, XPI-3566 and XPI3568/3568J SBCs. The XPI-3128 is based on the Rockchip RK3128 quad-core Cortex-A7 1.2GHz SoC with integrated Mali-400MP2 GPU. Its arithmetic and graphics processing capabilities provide video output and a high resolution (1080p ...

Why not use IoT-enabled sensors, using the LoRaWAN standard, for ‘ultra-early’ wildfire detection, asks Carsten Brinkschulte, co-founder and CEO of Dryad Networks? Wildfires contribute approximately 20% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the combined emissions of automobiles, airplanes, trains, and ships. Even more concerning, these wildfires trigger a chain reaction in our climate, intensifying global warming by increasing the ...

Nexperia has created a dc-dc converter chip designed to extend the life of 3V primary coin cells in bursty IoT applications, such as those with pulsed radio transmitters. “The IC’s designed to extend the life of a typical non-rechargeable lithium coin cell battery while also increasing peak output current by up to 25x compared to what a typical coin cell ...

MediaTek has signed a franchise agreement with Rutronik to distribute IoT chipsets to device makers in Europe and Israel MediaTek’s Genio multi-core processors are designed for robotics, industrial automation, and IoT applications. The series targets consumer, enterprise and industrial smart applications at the premium, mid-range and entry levels, explained Rutronik. Processors can be used in the design of IoT projects including ...

Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution partnership deal with Atmosic Technologies. The latter’s low power and energy harvesting wireless Blueooth SoCs and evaluation kits are used by tier one consumer brands, said the company. “With Atmosic products now in stock at Mouser, IoT product developers around the world have immediate access to their extremely low-power wireless portfolio,” said Andy Kerr, ...

Maria Chizzali is chief operating officer of Italian home automation device provider Sfera Labs. She tells Caroline Hayes how her engineering degree and juggling skills helped her to co-found the company, raise a family and adapt to see the business through the covid pandemic. An early interest in the laws of nature, science and machinery meant that one of young ...

Belgian lab Imec is claiming record ranging precision and power consumption for a novel 6 – 9GHz IEEE 802.15.4z UWB (ultra-wide-band) impulse-radio transceiver: 1.4mm ranging, and 8.7mW Tx plus 21mW Rx consumption in continuous mode. “It paves the way for a variety of automotive applications,” according to Imec. “One use-case includes the creation of radar-on-chip systems for in-cabin child presence ...

Nexperia has created an energy harvesting IC for photovoltaic cells up to around 1mW, that automatically matches the cell to the battery – aiming to extract at least 80% of energy that the cell can produce for any given illumination. Harvesting range is 35µW to 2mW. Inside the IC, called NEH2000BY, power conversion is thorough a voltage-doubling capacitive dc-dc converter, ...

There are design challenges for antennas, PCB connectors and components, advise Ifan Yousaf and David Currie, of TE. The environment of smart devices presents design challenges. Electronic devices are increasingly being connected to the world through one or more wireless technologies and are commonly referred to as smart devices. By 2025, it is estimated that more than 75 billion devices ...

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications New Radio plus is a new wireless communication protocol that promises to address many limitations of existing methods, filling the gap for reliable, low latency, long range communication, writes Mark Patrick of Mouser Electronics. The advent of the IoT and IIoT (industrial IoT) has brought technology into homes, cars and factories. Most of it depends heavily ...