Internet of Things

Arm is unloading its IoT unit onto its parent Softbank, taking the operation off the Arm balance sheet. Arm’s two IoT businesses, IoT Platform and Treasure Data will be transferred by the end of September. Moving away from its core business of designing processor IP was a controversial move for Arm because it looked as if they were competing with ...

IoT specialist Tuya is the latest company to join the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors, to help steer the low-power wireless comms standard. The aim of the alliance is to simplify product development for manufacturers and increase device compatibility for consumers. Tuya helps consumer electronics brands add IoT control and connectivity to electronic devices for smart control and monitoring. “It’s important at ...

Nordic Semiconductor, the wireless comms specialist, has expanded its nRF52 series with the nRF52805 Bluetooth 5.2 SoC. Supplied in a wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP), it measures 2.48 x 2.46mm and is optimised for two-layer PCBs enabling designs that are small and low cost, says Nordic. The nRF52805 includes a 64-MHz 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 processor with 192KB Flash and ...

Portwell, the Fremont, California-based industrial PC specialist, has announced its LYNX-6000 Series of palm-sized, industrial IoT gateways. The fanless and rugged embedded computer systems are based on the Intel Celeron N3350 CPU and certified for Microsoft Azure IoT. According to the company, the new LYNX-6000 Series provides a rich portfolio of ultra-small form factor IoT appliances that offer a variety ...

MEMS sensor company, InvenSense has signed a global distribution deal with Arrow Electronics. This extends the EMEA agreement, signed in 2019. Now, MEMS-based products from the TDK Group company will be available from the distributor in the Americas, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. The product portfolio includes accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones and pressure MEMS sensors, and ultra-sonic 3D sensing ...

The ST STEVAL-IDB008V1M Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 (BLE) evaluation platform accelerates application development with modules featuring BlueNRG-2, the Company’s second-generation BLE System-on-Chip (SoC). BlueNRG-2 supports the Bluetooth 5.0 certification, which allows enhanced security with LE Secure Connections, power-efficient privacy with Link Layer Privacy 1.2, and up to 2.6-times higher throughput with LE Data Length Extension. The SoC contains an Arm Cortex-M0 core ...

Distributor, Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with UK SIM software provider, Truphone to allow manufacturers to integrate cellular IoT connectivity services into any connected cellular device. Truphone’s SIM technology will allow users to connect IoT devices to network providers from the moment they switch on the device, without a complicated activation process, via the touch of a button. Digi-Key will provide ...

Omron Electronic Components Europe has appointed Easby Electronics to stock and support its range of sensors and electromechanical components in the UK for the IoT. The distribution agreement includes MEMS based sensors for environmental monitoring,  building automation and industrial automation applications. The distributor also offers Telit IoT modules and Raystar displays. Many of the sensor technologies available are based on ...

The Bluetooth SIG has announced a partnership with DiiA, an alliance of companies from the lighting and sensor industries. The aim is to speed the adoption of IoT-enabled commercial lighting. The collaboration, it states, will enable the deployment of certified DALI-2 devices and intelligent D4i luminaires, with qualified Bluetooth mesh intelligent lighting-control networks, bringing together two IoT approaches for commercial ...

COM-HPC is a computer-on-module standard for high-performance embedded computing, following on from COM Express 3.0. PICMG COM-HPC technical subcommittee chairman Christian Eder, also marketing manager at Congatec, and MD of embedded computing firm Recab UK Martin Frederiksen have put together a Q&A to explain further. What are the main differences between COM-HPC and COM Express? Eder: Computer-on-modules based on the ...