Internet of Things

A partnership between Solid State Supplies and TT Electronics offers a framework to accelerate IoT deployments via TT Electronics‘ Speed to Connect system. Speed to Connect is a framework, covering proof of concept to scalable products. It has been created to enable customers to collaborate to deploy IoT devices faster. It is described as an end-to-end framework of hardware, connectivity, infrastructure ...

Adaptive system on modules (SOMs) make up the Kria family, developed by Xilinx for AI applications at the edge. The range consists of production-ready embedded boards and developer kit. The small form factor embedded boards are available with a software stack for adaptive computing. The first product released is the Kria K26 SOM, which has been designed specifically for vision ...

The DALI Alliance has specified wireless-to-DALI gateways to link existing DALI wired products with Bluetooth mesh or Zigbee wireless ecosystems. “Wireless to DALI gateways provide the flexibility to incorporate DALI luminaires and other DALI devices into the control network, so it becomes straightforward to add lighting capabilities alongside the other features of the wireless ecosystem,” according to the Alliance. “Existing ...

XP Power has announced a range of low profile half-brick fan-less ac-dc power supplies which require no external circuitry for operation or EMC compliance. Cooling in the series, dubbed ASB75, can deliver up to 75W and are baseplate cooled – across a baseplate range of -40 to +85°C. Conversion to convection or forced-air cooling, with de-rating above 50°C, is through an optional ...

Farnell is aiming at IoT device development with a range of single board computers (SBCs), shields, modules and sensors from DFRobot – including LattePanda processor boards. The company will stock more than 140 DFRobot products, including: Gravity Series: Solderless modular plug-and-play electronics toolkit with expansion modules compatible with Ardunio and micro:bit. Modules include the Ardunio moisture sensor, Ardunio pH water quality ...

Power Integrations has upped the output power if its LinkSwitch-TN2 ac-dc converter family with a device that can output 575mA – previously the top end was 360mA. “These new LinkSwitch-TN2 ICs are pin-to-pin compatible with previous generations, making it simple for customers to upgrade to higher-power designs,” according to the company. “A buck converter can be created using a minimal ...

Novocomms has launched a multi-channel mobile comms antenna for IoT use. Called FPCB LTE 4G it can transmit and receive across 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and satellite frequencies: 698 – 960MHz  peak gain 0.37dBi,  >25% efficiency 1.5 – 1.65GHz  peak gain 1.21dBi,  >46% efficiency 1.71 – 2.69GHz  peak gain 3.64dBi,  >38% efficiency The antenna is a flexible (150μm thick) 100 x 16mm with ...

Advantech, a specialist in industrial IoT, has launched Advantech Connect, with AIoT Vision as its theme. An online partner conference, the forum will centre around five main topics: Industrial IoT, Embedded IoT, IoT Cloud Platform – WISE-PaaS, Smart City Solutions and Services, and Cloud IoT. It is being held from 24 February to 6 May. In total, more than 20 ...

There's a new whitepaper available for download detailing energy harvesting for remote switches using Zigbee, for example for use in Smart Homes and Buildings.

NXP has announced i.MX 9, a processor series for intelligent multi-sensor applications, and i.MX 8ULP-CS (cloud secured), a family of Microsoft Azure Sphere-certified processors. According to the company: “Scalable i.MX 9 families bring together higher performance applications cores, an independent MCU-like real-time domain, state-of-the art security and dedicated multi-sensory data processing engines for graphics, image, display, audio and voice. i.MX 9 ...