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What will 2020 bring for the satellite industry?
IoT will be the most prevailing trend in the satcom industry in 2020, predicts the satellite communications waveform and test tool specialist, GateHouse Telecom. Significant advancements within satellite enabled data relay, environmental monitoring, and flight safety will also influence satcom in the year to come.
Edinburgh is the UK’s most congested city
Location technology specialist, TomTom (TOM2), has released the results of its TomTom Traffic Index, a report detailing the traffic situation in 416 cities, in 57 countries around the world, in 2019. Edinburgh took the UK top spot as most congested city for the third consecutive year, with drivers expecting to spend an average of 41% extra travel time stuck in traffic.
£2m boost to initiate satellite launch
Shetland Space Centre’s (SSC) plan to build and operate the UK’s only satellite launch site has been given a major boost by a £2,050,000 investment from Leonne International, the international private equity firm.
Japan’s first fully integrated defence event
DSEI Japan 2019, held in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo between 18th and 20th November, marked both the first fully-integrated large-scale defence and security exhibition in Japan, and the first DSEI event to be held outside of London.DSEI Japan was launched after the Japanese defence budget was increased to record highs of $46bn as part of the renovation of their military forces. This inaugural exhibition came about following the revision of the Three Pr...
Single board computers in stock at Mouser
Gaming, smart home gateways, rovers and drones, interactive installations, and 3D scanning are all potential applications for UDOO’s X86 II single board computers which are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The single board computers are available in two models — ADVANCED PLUS and ULTRA — both of which are based on 64-bit quad-core Intel processors.
Smart Factory with IoT: smart plastics app for FANUC FIELD system
FANUC’s open industrial IoT platform, called ‘FIELD system’, evaluates data from machines and systems centrally. The system can connect production machines of all manufacturers by means of a local network topology, enabling comprehensive data analysis of the entire process line. In this infrastructure, apps from FANUC and from third-party suppliers are used. Now igus has developed a smart plastics app for the new system.
Oil, paper, clouds and, eek... Brexit
Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page.
FPGAs bring power edge AI applications
Lattice Semiconductor has announced an FPGA developed on its new Lattice Nexus FPGA platform, CrossLink-NX. This new FPGA provides the low power, small form factor, reliability, and performance that developers need to create innovative embedded vision and AI solutions for communications, compute, industrial, automotive, and consumer systems.
Duo collaborate to enhance battery cell development
The German company CUSTOMCELLS, a provider of special lithium-ion battery cells, is to install Keysight Technologies battery cell formation linein its manufacturing facility in Tübingen. The collaboration also includes the development and validation of new algorithms, software, instrumentation, and formation/measurement methods.
Modular energy chain made of steel and plastic
igus has developed its first plastic-steel hybrid energy chain for telescopic applications, such as cherry pickers, telehandlers and boom lifts. Compared to conventional steel energy chains which are sometimes used in these applications, the new YE.42 e-chain is half the weight. It also provides up to 10m unsupported travel, which is 50% more than for plastic energy chains.