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Wireless technology could revolutionise airport systems
A partnership between NASA and Hitachi is testing a system known as Aircraft Access to System Wide Information Management (SWIM), to wirelessly send aviation information. The test was recently conducted on an FAA Bombardier Global 5000 test aircraft taxiing 60 to 70 miles per hour on the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway.
A globalised business model leads to diversification
Gabriel Guglielmi, Head of Marketing at Smith Connectors, talks to Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush about how the company has restructured over the last few years and the key markets now served by its connector solutions.
Unmanned cloud-seeding aircraft takes flight
For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada. Flown at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site designation, the Drone America Savant aircraft reached an altitude of 400ft and flew for approximately 18 minutes on April 29th, 2016.
Driving the advance of security and surveillance
The security and surveillance market is growing at a rapid rate. Internet Protocol (IP) cameras are key to the future development of the sector, and new standards are enabling replacement of legacy analogue cameras. Innovation and development depends on the image sensors within the cameras. Brian Benamati, Security Market Segment Manager, Industrial & Security Division, ON Semiconductor explains.
Technology enables clean and safe chemical production
A technology called HydRegen is being developed by Professor Kylie Vincent and her team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford that promises to make the production of fine chemicals 'cheaper, faster, safer and cleaner'.The project was recently awarded an Innovate UK/EPSRC grant worth £2.9 million and was the overall winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Emerging Technology competition in 2013.
Only 18% of Brits have even heard of a ‘smart city’
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has released a new research report, Smart Cities – Time to involve the people, which reveals that only 18% of the British public has heard of a ‘smart city’. The report also reveals low interest in the technologies typically associated with smart cities. For example, only 8% saw a value in being able to order driverless or electric transport from their smart phone.
Lower prototyping costs for high-speed rad-tolerant FPGAs
Designed to enable prototyping of space systems, Microsemi has announced the availability of its RTG4 PROTO FPGAs. The RTG4 PROTO FPGAs enable lower cost prototyping and design validation activities for the latest radiation-tolerant high-speed FPGAs and are also claimed to be the only reprogrammable prototyping solution of their kind providing the same timing and power characteristics as space flight units.
Industry 4.0 conference launched to help UK manufacturers use IoT
A conference on the future of manufacturing is to be held at the International Festival for Business 2016 (IFB2016) in Liverpool. The High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute (HSSMI) and partners are organising the Industry 4.0: The Next Industrial Revolution conference on 28th June 2016 at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool.
The need for smarter energy and water strategies
As the changing climate disrupts familiar weather patterns, many countries face a dual threat: swamping along the coasts, but also unexpected shrinking freshwater supplies in many regions."Water has never been evenly distributed around the world, but droughts and an alarming decrease in groundwater create potentially catastrophic conditions," says Ashok Gadgil, Deputy for Science and Technology for the Energy Technologies Area at LBNL and profess...
Smart, safe and sustainable mobility
The region of Karlsruhe is a renowned location of research and industry in the area of mobility. The alliance ‘Profilregion Mobilitätssysteme Karlsruhe’ (Karlsruhe priority region for mobility systems) now pools the competences of the research partners in the region for the development of efficient, smart and integrated mobility solutions.