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| A wireless battery management system (BMS) can improve reliability and design flexibility while reducing system cost due to the elimination of cables and connectors. However, wireless BMS comes with challenges such as meeting ASIL D functional safety compliance. |
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| The robotics market has seen a significant growth in business over the past decade, and their presence has become more common. Frank Malik, Principal Engineer Solution Marketing, Toshiba Electronics Europe, discusses the technology that is driving them forward. |
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| With amazing self-landing rocket boosters, deep-space asteroid hopping probes and the reignition of Moon missions over half a century on - the space race might be over, but the race to exploit the final frontier is just heating up. Here, Jonathan Parry, Senior Vice President and European Managing Director at PEI-Genesis, discusses the special considerations that go into space-worthy cables and connectors. |
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| Remote patient monitoring is revolutionising healthcare. The IoT, with its wearable sensors, connectivity, and big data, is yielding more effective health monitoring and disease prevention. This new, data-driven approach to healthcare can also streamline costs by reducing in-person medical appointments and hospital admissions. Here, Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics, looks at some of the latest and most innovative wearable sensor technologies at the heart of this transformation. |
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| More than half of European retailers (58.7%) either already offer, or are working on deploying contactless self-scanning options such as Scan and Go to consumers shopping in-store (37.9% and 20.8% respectively). This is according to new research from Scandit, the enterprise technology platform for mobile computer vision and Augmented Reality (AR). The majority (68.1%) of retailers believe the availability of Scan and Go shopping is giving customers the confidence to return to physical stores post COVID-19 lockdowns. |
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| When Rambus was founded 30 years ago, RAM cost $98 per megabyte, and the latest Intel processor, the 80486, had 1.2 million transistors and was fabricated on a 1µm process. In comparison, in September 2020, RAM cost $0.0028 per megabyte, and the latest Nvidia A100 AI processor has 54 billion transistors and is fabricated on a 7nm process. Gary Bronner, Senior Vice President of Rambus Labs, explains more. |
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| Analog Devices’ Marco La Ciacera, Regional Sales Manager, and Brendan O’Dowd, General Manager, discuss industrial automation, Industry 4.0, and how to prepare for the factory of the future. |
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| ABB’s latest easy-to-implement electric vehicle (EV) charging solution is in stock at distributor RS Components. |
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| IBASE Technology has announced its ISR301 ruggedised industrial PC compact computing system. Built for both industrial and commercial applications including factory automation, machine vision, edge computing, POS and digital signage, the ISR301 is powered by a quad-core NXP Cortex A53 i.MX 8M processor in 1.3GHz frequency. |
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| Molex has introduced an accelerometer-based Road Noise Cancelling (RNC) sensor, the first product in a new family of automotive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) sensors. These sensors will play a role in combatting unwanted road, wind and HVAC car noise while reducing low-frequency sounds that increase driver fatigue. |
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