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Report finds that companies are embracing IoT
According to Simon Segars, CEO, ARM, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Internet of Things (IoT) Business Index 2017 is the most credible research produced so far charting global industry progress in the IoT.
Energy harvesting wireless solutions on show at ISH 2017
The guiding theme of ISH 2017 (14th-18thMarch, Frankfurt am Main) is 'energy efficiency and comfort in buildings.' At booth B69 in hall 10.3, the EnOcean Alliance, along with 14 of its members, is to present energy harvesting wireless solutions for building automation and the smart home.
Design reduces resting power consumption by 50%
At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technologies Laboratories (MTL) presented a power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 500 picoamps to 1 milliamp, a span that encompasses a 2,000,000-fold increase.
Embedded safety and security in the spotlight
With the aim of helping organisations build safer, more reliable and more secure embedded systems, Barr Group has conducted its third annual Embedded Systems Safety & Security Survey. Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush caught up with CEO, Andrew Girson, at the embedded world exhibition (where Barr Group announced the survey’s findings), to find out more.
Newcombe to head Tektronix global sales and marketing
Tami Newcombe has been named as Commercial President at Tektronix where she will be responsible for leading global sales and marketing. A former Cisco executive with 25 years of technology industry experience, Newcombe has a strong track record of working with customers ranging from small and medium businesses to enterprises and in developing new approaches to capture critical market transitions, capitalise on the power of channel partners and sh...
Five innovations that could change our lives in 2017
The annual 'IBM 5 in 5' has been unveiled by IBM – a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years.In 1609, Galileo invented the telescope and saw our cosmos in an entirely new way. He proved the theory that Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun, which until then was impossible to observe.
TrackNet joins LoRa Alliance to support global roaming development
LoRaWANInternet of Things (IoT) solutions provider for consumer and industry,TrackNet,has announced that it has joined the LoRa Alliance as a contributor member to support the continued development of global roaming and market acceptance of the LoRaWAN specification as the defacto Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) standard for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The latest resource for optical chips
The Semiconductor Industry Association has estimated that at current rates of increase, computers’ energy requirements will exceed the world’s total power output by 2040.Using light rather than electricity to move data would dramatically reduce computer chips’ energy consumption, and the past 20 years have seen remarkable progress in the development of silicon photonics, or optical devices that are made from silicon so they can ...
Siemens S7 Data integrated in IoT Cloud solutions
The dataFEED uaGate SI gateway from Softing Industrial now also supports the MQTT protocol in addition to OPC-UA, enabling easy and reliable integration of Siemens S7 data into cloud solutions.Thanks to the MQTT protocol's publisher functionality in the new 1.30 firmware version of its dataFEED uaGate SI, Softing is closing the gap between automation and IT.
Collaboration formed to improve driving experience
A new collaboration between IBM and BMW Group has been announced through which the companies will work together to explore the role of Watson cognitive computing in personalising the driving experience and creating more intuitive driver support systems for cars of the future.