Internet of Things

Intel demonstrates Simbe Robotics’ Tally, robots for autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution for retail.

The vast amount of data created by a smart city data risks being of limited use unless it is supported by context, according to European standards body ETSI, which is attempting to formalise contextual information. ETSI said: Data without context are meaningless. The context seems obvious to humans: the temperature sensor is attached to an air-conditioner in the house, the ...

The latest design and manufacturing techniques mean that not only does a PCB mechanically support multiple electronic components as substrates, but it also electronically connects them through conductive paths to achieve specific functions as designed, writes C. T. Kao of Cadence Design Systems. It is inevitable that the interaction among electrical, mechanical, and thermal behaviours, due to the integration of conductive and ...

ARMv8-M processor cores including the Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 cores, are now supported by Lauterbach with its TRACE32 debug tools. These are small footprint cores with similar performance to the existing Cortex-M3/M4 processors. ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 are the first embedded processors based on the ARMv8-M architecture, bringing ARM TrustZone to the most constrained IoT nodes. Cortex-M33 features configuration options including a co-processor interface, DSP ...

There was a demonstration of the first real-time, multi-target location tracking using the LoRaWAN low-power, wide-area network protocol at CES 2017 this week. A group of firms from the LoRA Alliance, promoting the wide-areas IoT wireless standard, including STMicroelectronics, myDevices and Senet, carried out the demonstration. It included LoRaWAN-supported radio technology and automotive-navigation chips from ST, custom application dashboards from myDevices, and public ...

Carried out on behalf of the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Lutz Pathfinder project was started 18 months ago to build and trial three automated pods within Milton Keynes, and assess their feasibility from both a technological and societal point of view. Designed and manufactured by Coventry-based firm RDM, the electric-powered two-seater pods are equipped with sensor and ...

Today at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, NXP has announced an IoT processor family. The i.MX 8M family of applications processors, which feature full 4K UltraHD resolution and HDR (Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG) video quality, is aimed at audio and video system requirements for smart homes and mobiles. The processors have up to four 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M4 ...

Qorvo has combined RF transceivers for communication protocols; ZigBee 3.0, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in a single chip.   The ARM Cortex-M4-based GP695 SoC supports the IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee 3.0, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless protocols for connecting sensor networks. A feature is the combination of a Bluetooth-based smartphone interface with Thread or ZigBee 3.0 for smart home applications. An ...

The technology for autonomous cars needs to progress before they become a practical reality, so let’s start with the countless sensors along with other technologies as V2X communications that autonomous vehicles will rely on to navigate safely, writes Davide Santo. Plenty of countries have now provided testing grounds for autonomous cars, from entire custom-built towns like the Mcity test facility ...

Electronics Weekly talks to Daniel Cooley, general manager of the IoT products business at Silicon Labs. I know you have IP for low power processors and sensor networks; what do you see as the big potential applications for these IoT technologies? Daniel Cooley: The range of Internet of Things end-node applications is virtually unlimited, extending across the consumer, industrial, energy, ...