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Following the Chancellor’s Budget announcement of support for electric vehicles,specialist management consultancy Baringa Partners issued the following response.Natalie Bird, Senior Consultant, said: “The Chancellor’s announcement of funding for research into batteries for electric vehicles is a positive first step, but it doesn’t go far enough. The transport sector trails the energy and industrial sectors on decarbonisati...

Alex Eames, the creator of RasPIO products, explains about his products and how he came to use the RS PCB CAD software to create them all.

The increasingly electronic nature of modern cars means that there are more automatic safety systems than ever before.These systems require accurate input about the car’s movement to determine when the car is moving (or will move) in a potentially unsafe way, in order to trigger the appropriate response, be it deploying the airbags or applying the handbrake.

Novelda announced the XeThru Developer Platform for sensing applications based on its second-generation X4 UWB impulse radar SoC. With this technology, OEMs and system developers can easily implement sophisticated sensors that can detect small movements, determine presence and room occupancy, and monitor respiration and other human vital signs with unprecedented accuracy and discrimination.

A growing pre-occupation with leading healthier life styles means that many of us are becoming much more sensitive to the environment around us, and in particular air quality. There’s even a website dedicated to providing information about air pollution in London city and an inevitable smartphone app to keep you up to date with the facts on how quickly you’re being poisoned.

VRis quickly gaining steam in the gaming industry. But an MIT startup is now aiming the technology at a different demographic, putting it to use as a health care tool for the elderly.At last night’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize pitch competition, Rendever earned the $25,000 grand prize for creating a VR platform that gives residents in assisted-living facilities the chance to explore the world virtually.

Becoming increasingly connected and autonomous is the car – something that will only grow more in 2017, therefore the importance of software will play a bigger role than ever. Guest blog by Ross Dickson.

The goal of every effective consumer medical product is to be that perfect balance of attractiveness, simplicity, and practicality. Even modernising something as basic as a pillbox requires seamless integration and minimal distraction to effectively and consistently improve medication adherence.TinyLogics, a company out of Cambridge in the UK, thinks they’ve hit that sweet spot with a tiny new version of their smart pillbox that launched on...

Lime Microsystems and Canonical have today announced the upcoming launch of the second round of crowdfunding for LimeSDR the flexible, next-generation, open source Software Defined Radio. The new campaign called LimeNET is intended for use primarily as a mobile and IoT base station. LimeNET base stations hold the potential to completely transform the way telco networks run by shifting the emphasis and value away from proprietary hardware to open ...

On 6thFebruary 2017, over 100 stakeholders met in Versailles on the public kick off day of the new European project, AUTOPILOT. The audience of the public event represented a variety of mobility actors, including public authorities, industry, service providers, users and research institutes.