Internet of Things

Toshiba is aiming at over-temperature detection in mobile devices and home appliances with a family of ICs, intended to work with positive coefficient thermistors. Power consumption is under 12μA with 10μA of that going through the thermistor as sensing current. Lower current (<2μA) versions are planned. Inside is a current source to feed the PTC and a reference voltage with ...

Linx Technologies is aiming at sub-6GHz 5G New Radio, LTE, LTE-M and NB-IoT with a range of flexible stick-on antennas. Measuring 120 x 20mm, “ANT-5GW-FPC antennas provide a ground plane-independent dipole,” according to the company, which is now part of TE Connectivity. “The flexibility and adhesive backing make the series easier to mount in RF-transparent – for example plastic – ...

ScioSense has created a gas sensor that outputs CO2, volatile organic compound and air quality indices. Inside the 3 x 3 x 0.9mm LGA package are four separate metal oxide gas sensors, each with its own hot-plate, plus a processor whose algorithms decode the four sensor outputs into: ‘equivalent CO2‘ (400 – 65,000ppm), total volatile organic compounds (0 – 65ppm), AQI-U ...

Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for pre-development of sensor technology products ...

The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to contribute research papers for consideration. ...

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, is participating in the EU-funded CiROCCO initiative, part of the wider Horizon Europe Programme. The CiROCCO research project aims to establish a low-cost and sustainable network of electronic sensing nodes in under-sampled desert areas and ecosystems in Egypt, Serbia and Spain. Sensing nodes It will collect data, through mobile monitoring devices, from both low-cost, ...

Attention has focused on cyber attacks on IT systems but the ‘things’ that make up the IoT are increasingly vulnerable, warns Pim Tuyls from Philips Research. Public attention has focused on cyber attacks on IT systems but another, potentially greater, risk has quietly grown. The IoT underpins smart homes, smart factories, and even large utility and transport networks. The threat ...

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, has reached an investment agreement with Thuraya Telecommunications, the mobile satellite services arm of Yahsat, the UAE’s satellite systems provider. The investment – in the form of a convertible loan – is valued at $17.5 million and it marks Thuraya’s first investment in a LEO satellite constellation. As part of the agreement, both parties ...

GigaDevice is aiming at processors with a 1.2V core voltage with a family of 1.2V SPI NOR flash ICs. Called the GD25UF series, they run from 1.14V-1.26V and “provide for a simpler power system architecture, and for direct interfacing between the I/O pins of the SoC or processor and the GD25UF device”, according to the company. The 64Mbit GD25UF64E is ...

Semtech has extended its LoRa portfolio with a transceiver for use in IoT end points that provides lower power consumption, global connectivity and long range. The LoRa Connect LR1121 is pin compatible with the current LoRa Edge devices, allowing module makers such as Murata to have a single hardware design for a wide range of applications, with global connectivity. Likewise, integrated passive ...