Internet of Things

Molex has released a white paper for electronics design engineers and product developers addressing growing consumer demand for smart home automation technologies. It examines home technology trends as the IoT continues to drive the evolution from simply connected to truly smart and proactive — and outlines how electronics designers and manufacturers can successfully position themselves to maximise future opportunities and ...

Omron Electronic Components Europe has introduced a new version of its USB multi-function environmental sensor that that can monitor seven parameters. The 2JCIE-BU01 offers multiple sensors in one unit that has built-in memory and connectivity through beacon communication. It  measures 14.9 x 29.1 x 7.0mm and can monitor temperature, humidity, light, UV, barometric pressure, noise, seismic and air quality (VOC ...

Volvo will use the Xavier AI computing system in its next-generation of autonomous vehicles.

Microchip and Google Cloud have come up with an IoT rapid development board enabling designers to prototype connected devices within minutes.  The board has  an AVR MCU, a CryptoAuthentication secure element IC and a  Wi-Fi network controller. Once connected, Google Cloud loT Core makes it easy to collect, process and analyse data to inform decisions at scale. The AVR-loT WG ...

Sigfox, the medium-range wireless system for low data rate IoT communications, now covers 4.2 million square kilometres, following the addition of Austria, Liechtenstein, Romania, Norway and Kenya to its list of countries with a Sigfox presence, bringing the total to 50 countries. “The network now covers over 949 million people worldwide, with 423 Sigfox-certified devices,” said the organisation. Chile, Ecuador, ...

Benchmarking consortium EEMBC has created a tool to measure the combined energy consumption of an IoT edge node’s sensor interface, processor, and Bluetooth LE radio interface. Part of the IoTMark benchmarking suite, it is called IoTMark-BLE benchmark. IoTMark-BLE models a node consisting of an I²C sensor and a BLE – radio through sleep, advertise, and connected-mode operation. At its centre ...

Renesas has  announced an alliance with Alibaba’s IoT developers to accelerate the growth of China’s IoT market. The collaboration includes embedding AliOS Things IoT operating system (OS) in the Renesas RX65N/RX651 microcontroller (MCU) lineup, expanding online sales channels, and Renesas joining Alibaba’s IoT ecosystem. Following the recent launch of the 16-bit RL78 MCU Family supporting AliOS Things’ basic version, Renesas ...

Cypress adds support for 'AliOS Things' embedded IoT operating system to some of its microcontrollers

IoT is what gets Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle up in the morning.

Infineon has got together with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon to form the Security Research Group to identify and address requirements for robust, reliable security solutions that IoT users can trust. The Security Research Group focus will range from innovations in smart cards, identity documents and computer security, to methods for securing connected devices used in ...