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Solving America’s medication adherence epidemic
A Purdue-affiliated startup is developing a low-cost, high-tech solution to address the nationwide health crisis of Americans failing to take their medicine as prescribed. The Internet of Things system reminds patients to take medications and quickly alerts caregivers or providers when intervention is needed.
Core module for wireless charging of the future
Before electric cars can become a means of transport for everyone, a charging infrastructure needs to be introduced that can serve the mass market. The engineering company, Finepower is developing a charging system that can charge the batteries in all vehicle types wirelessly, regardless of their manufacturer, as it is done inductively. The special circuitry provides a high level of efficiency - with no need to painstakingly position the system w...
MagiCAD helps with drawing MEP elements for airplane hangar
MagiCad has been used to design an airplane hangar at Keflavik Airport, by Ferill, an Icelandic consulting company in engineering design and construction. The new hangar is 27m high, and the ground floor stretches across 10,500 square metres.
Saving smartphones from the plague of broken screens
Everyone who owns a smartphone has experienced that moment of terror when it slips from your hand and is thrown by the unforgiving force of gravity onto the pavement, sometimes with a merry little bounce and other times with a deafening smack. Then you pick up your smartphone, dust off what you think for a hopeful moment is dirt but is actually little chips of the screen breaking away because sure enough, the ground had its way with the phone.
Turning imaging datasets into physical objects
The world is awash in digital images, from photographs to x-rays to computer models to 3D scans. The advent of 3D printing has made it possible to take imaging data and print it into physical representations, but the process of doing so has been prohibitively time-intensive and costly.
A more accurate way to estimate climate change
It doesn’t matter if it’s a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis – the process where they use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food. During this changeover, the plants emit an energy 'glow' that is not visible to the human eye, but can be detected by satellites in space. Now, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have taken that one step further.
Smart gateway selected for Michelin-SoftBank IoT tyre control system
It has been announced by ADLINK Technology that its intelligent industrial gateway has been selected for the Nihon Michelin-Softbank IoT tyre control system. This will be the first launch of an IoT tyre monitoring system in Japan by a tyre maker.
GMR isolation boosts Profibus
Best practices for new designs of Profibus DP nodes, bus node isolation, Profibus compliance, and bus signal polarity are discussed by Tom Kugelstadt, Renesas Electronics
Making driverless cars change lanes like human drivers do
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyse on the fly; or they’re so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.
An order intake milestone at the SOFIC in Tampa
Spectra Group has announced that in the 12 months since SOFIC last year, nearly 1000 SlingShot systems have been ordered from specialist end-users across 4 continents. This takes the total number of systems shipped to over the 3000 mark, further endorsing Spectra’s dominant position in the Tactical SATCOM market place.Spectra’s SlingShot is a low SWaP system that enables in-service U/VHF tactical radios to utilise Inmarsat’s com...