Internet of Things

A number of ‘smart homes’ with digitally savvy older people demonstrating tech in their own homes are being created as part of a DCMS (Department for Culture Media and Sport) scheme to boost the nation’s digital skills. The homes, to be created in rural West Essex by a partnership led by Uttlesford Council for Voluntary Service, will see home owners ...

Students in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin can learn production technologies for Industry 4.0, or the smart factory, with hands-on experience via an automated factory demonstration unit, donated by Maxim Integrated Products. The football factory demo was popular at exhibitions around Europe, where it was used to showcase the principles of intelligent, automated production ...

Infineon is claiming a first, with an industrial-grade embedded SIM (eSIM) in a 2.5 x 2.7mm wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP). It is aimed at machine-to-machine comms and IoT applications, for example vending machines, remote sensors and asset trackers. “Providing robust quality on a miniature footprint that works even under harshest conditions remains a challenge for silicon providers,” said the firm. Called ...

Sponsored Content: Advantech has grown rapidly to become a global market leader in the fields of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms.

Sony SPresense is a multi-function development kit with a lot of processing power, GPS receivers and a camera interface, amongst other peripherals. The CXD5602 SoC on the 50 x 20.6mm main board contains six 156MHz ARM Cortex-M4F cores, and its periperals include an 8bit parallel camera interface, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver, and a sensor-fusion block to simplify movement or context ...

Premier Farnell has signed  a global distribution agreement with  Zymbit, the developer of hardware security modules which ensure physical and digital security of IoT devices. This new franchise provides customers with access to Zymbit’s  ZYMKEY 4i security module which delivers professional grade security to the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. The ZYMKEY 4i offers a unique plug-in security solution ...

U-blox has announced a multi-band NB-IoT module that supports a preliminary set of 3GPP Release 14 features (LTE Cat NB2). Low power consumption means 10+ years operation on a single primary cell, according to the firm. Called Sara-N3, it is available in two variants: one for China and another that can operate across multiple bands on any NB-IoT network globally. Features ...

At Electronica 2018, we caught up with Gordon Lunn of Bridgetek, as part of our promotional coverage for the event.

At Electronica 2018, we caught up with Samir Hennaoui, of Murata, as part of our promotional coverage for the event.

RF module firm Insight SiP has announced what it believes to be the first fully Bluetooth 5.0 Long Range compliant RF module in a miniature package at Electronica. It measures 8 x 8 x 1mm. Read our full Electronica 2018 coverage » Called ISP1807-LR, it is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 chip and includes a Bluetooth 5 stack with: long range, ...