Internet of Things

The Z-Wave Alliance has announced the Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification, increasing the low-power protocol’s range and scalability. The standards organisation for developing the wireless smart home protocol, says it increases the wireless range fourfold, with 10x node scalability for larger network support and 10-year coin cell battery life. It also maintains Z-Wave backward compatibility. Basically, Z-Wave connectivity is ...

Software tools in the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm version 8.50.6 have been updated by IAR Systems to include coverage for the low power Renesas RE microcontroller family. The microcontroller family is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ core. It targets low power consumption IoT devices, such as wearables and also sensing applications for homes, buildings, factories and agriculture where recharging or ...

Can something be made to run on the power of its buttons being pushed? Northwestern University thinks so. Working with Delft University of Technology, its researchers built something that looks, feels and works like an 8bit Nintendo Game Boy. “It’s the first battery-free interactive device that harvests energy from user actions,” claimed Northwestern engineer Josiah Hester. “When you press a ...

Silicon Labs has earned IoT security certifications from both PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance. The company’s ‘Secure Vault’ is a suite of security features including: secure boot based on hardware root of trust, secure debug, physical tamper, secure identity for attestation, and physically unclonable function (PUF) key management. It will feature in Wireless Gecko Series 2 products – and ...

Arduino has announced the official release of Arduino IoT Cloud, an “Internet of Things Application Platform” enabling you to easily develop and manage IoT apps. The system first emerged back in February. Previously, Arduino boards would require programming via a sketch, but the Arduino IoT Cloud now provides an alternative route. It will, says Arduino, quickly and automatically generate a sketch ...

Taiwan-based Aaeon has introduced an edge IoT gateway built around an 800MHz Arm Cortex-A8 processor. Called SRG-3352, “this innovative processor reduces the energy requirements of the system, saving electricity costs and allowing the system to be deployed with solar power or battery operated. With very little heat output, the system can operate in a wide range of temperatures from 0°C ...

There’s an update to the site – Eurotech has shared a whitepaper about high-performance edge computing, and data logging and networking capacity in edge and embedded environments. Its products can enable AI and deep learning applications in constraint spaces (such as vehicles), highlights the company. Read the Eurotech whitepaper to HPEC Data Logging » The Whitepaper – HPEC Data Logging ...

STMicroelectronics is aiming at those developing IoT nodes with a hardware kit that includes FreeRTOS and is ready to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Called B-L4S5I-IOT01A STM32 Discovery kit, it is built around an STM32L4+ microcontroller and has sensors, a secure element (STSAFE-A110), NFC, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2. It needs the free-to-download X-Cube-AWS v2.0 STM32Cube Expansion Pack, which is a ...

If you are interested in the IoT or low-power comms or Smart Energy, check out a new whitepaper on the site:  Innovation in IoT device power supply

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