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To most of us, the mention of an e-paper display will remind us of devices like Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. But it’s not just e-readers that use this display technology. There are applications across many sectors such as in retail, marketing and travel. According to research company Technavio, the global e-paper display market is predicted to experience a huge compound annual growth rate of 41% over the period 2016 to 2020.

In less than a decade LTE has transformed mobile communications from a voice‑centric dial‑up service into the high‑speed mobile broadband experience which we now take for granted. To migrate the internet from our homes to the streets and ultimately into our hands, vast infrastructure overhauls were necessary with unprecedented levels of investment to achieve the low‑latency, real‑time and high bandwidth service we now so heavily rely up...

If you’re working on the deployment of virtual CPE solutions, you’ll want to check out the recently-published whitepaper Wind River and Intel Join Forces on Reference Design for Virtual Business Customer Premises Equipment. The paper describes the reference platform developed by Wind River in collaboration with members of the Intel Network Builders and Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystems.

An industrial system can consist of hundreds of sensors, motors and controllers. When the physical infrastructure connecting them together is an Ethernet network, it takes special handling to make sure that sensor data and control commands reach their destinations in the network within a hard time limit, often within 1 or 2µs.

A Redux poll of 1,000 UK consumers shows that one of the most sought-after features by young people is waterproofing. The poll showed that 64% of 18–24 year olds claim waterproofing would be useful. In fact, demand for waterproofed devices rose consistently and linearly the younger the respondent. Redux CEO John Kavanagh explains.

Several wireless technologies have emerged to enable the huge array of IoT applications that are set to explode. And while there are many differences between them, they can roughly be separated into two discrete groups: proprietary solutions operating in an unlicensed spectrum and those operating in a licensed spectrum. Here we take a quick look at these and examine some of the key reasons why it is worth waiting for licensed spectrum standards.

Voice interfaces are often called conversational interfaces for good reason - they allow users to talk to an embedded device instead of using touch screens and buttons to execute a command. Conversations take place between two or more people who may be next to each other but are often a couple or more metres apart.

The world is set to become much smarter over the coming five years. By 2020, some 50 billion electronic devices will be connected to the internet, according to networking specialist Cisco. They will support an estimated $14tr market for distributed intelligence that set to improve not just manufacturing and service efficiency but the quality of life itself. Digi-key explain the impact of the IoT on a variety of industry sectors.

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Whilst less than 2% of the world’s electricity is currently generated through solar photovoltaic technology, a recent report estimated that this figure could increase to as much as 13% by the year 2030. Phil Foster, Managing Director of Love Energy Savings has shared his thoughts on the future of solar power and what this may mean for small businesses.