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Keeping on track with RFID
Mary Butler, Product Manager at HellermannTyton, discusses RFID technology and why it is the smart choice for electricians.Radio-Frequency Identification or RFID systems are widely used across a range of industries and have been in use for a number of decades. Used in all kinds of applications, from microchips for pets to goal-line technology, global RFID sales are consistently on the up, with a projected global market value of $17.6bn by 2018.
Scientists create a detailed 3D map of Earth's interior
Using advanced modeling and simulation, seismic data generated by earthquakes, and one of the world's fastest supercomputers, a team led by Jeroen Tromp of Princeton University is creating a detailed 3D picture of Earth's interior. Currently, the team is focused on imaging the entire globe from the surface to the core-mantle boundary, a depth of 1,800 miles.
Researchers create artificial materials atom-by-atom
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties. By moving individual atoms under their microscope, the scientists were able to create atomic lattices with a predetermined electrical response. The possibility to precisely arrange the atoms on a sample bring 'designer quantum materials' one step closer to reality. By arranging atoms in a lattice, it becomes possible to engineer...
Efficiency improvements to be made for porters
A lot of the time porters are the oil in the machine of many NHS hospitals, moving goods, equipment and patients around hospitals and proving a critical component in running clinical services smoothly.With the NHS expected to find £22bn in efficiency savings by 2021, every part of the hospital machinery needs to be well oiled. Hugh Freer, Sales Director of electric tug specialist MasterMover, looks at how improving porter efficiency can aff...
On the road to smart: lighting intelligence for everyone
Lighting is a huge consumer of global energy, contributing to around 20% of all the electricity consumed globally. Approximately 80% of that lighting is attributed to professional applications such as building, office, industry or street lighting, and about 20% to private residential lighting.
Rental fleet boosted with inspection technology
The equipment rental pool from Ashtead Technology has expanded following a significant investment in the latest Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) technology to deliver faster, more accurate asset integrity inspections.A leader in marine technology, non-destructive testing and subsea services, Ashtead will now supply the Eddyfi Lyft, an inspection tool for identifying Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI), a major asset integrity issue for the oil and gas, and...
Integrated system for services and infotainment
By combining the truck cab’s audio and entertainment unit with the navigation and fleet management systems, Volvo Trucks is aiming to create an enhanced and safer driver experience, easier navigation and more efficient fleet management.
A simple way to gain control of magnetism
While the ability to easily control the magnetic properties of small electronic systems is highly desirable for future small electronics and data storage, an effective solution has proven to be extremely elusive.But now, a group of researchers from universities in Chile and Brazil are reporting in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing, a simple way to gain control of magnetism that starts by controlling the shape of the systems.
Light can remotely control curvature of plastics
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get 2D plastic sheets to curve into 3D structures, such as spheres, tubes or bowls.The advance builds on earlier work by the same research team, which focused on self-folding 3D structures. The key advance here is that rather than having the plastic fold along sharp lines-into polygonal shapes such as cubes or pyramids-the plastics bend and curve.
When cold helium atoms behave like a black hole
A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behaviour of black holes out in space is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories."It'scalled an entanglement area law," says Adrian Del Maestro, a physicist at the University of Vermont who co-led the research. That this law appears at both the vast scale of outer space and at the tiny scale of atoms, "is weird," Del Maestro says, "and it points to ...