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STMicroelectronics Unveils Solution for Modular Smart Meters –Delivering Increased Flexibility, Accuracy and Cost Savings
As installations of smart meters in homes and businesses accelerate globally, STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and a leader in semiconductors for energy management, has unveiled a new set of metering chips that offer the industry’s most accurate and cost-effective solution for next-generation smart meters.
Sealed linear transducer for rugged industrial applications
Penny + Giles has launched a contactless sealed linear transducer that provides reliable, fit-and-forget position sensing for rugged industrial applications. The robust SLT190 is aimed primarily at the off-highway (construction, agriculture) and utility vehicle markets and is suitable for the harsh conditions of steering position applications, lift mechanisms, and hydro-pneumatic active suspension systems. This transducer has a short body to stro...
Servo research points the way to improved dynamics
Research at the University of Manchester has demonstrated servo systems with vastly improved dynamics with the most challenging of loads. The key to the increased performance is a torque transducer from Sensor Technology employing Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) techniques to deliver high-bandwidth, non-contact solution.
Torque measurement
High performance torque measurement is helping to improve the energy efficiency of domestic washing machines, enabling consumers to make greener purchase decisions. The Eco Rating stickers that provide potential buyers with a clear assessment of white goods' environmental performance now play a major role in retail sales. Manufactures want to achieve the best classification possible, so are redesigning their machines to reduce power consumption.
INTELLIGENT EXTRUDER PLANS ITS OWN GROWTH
A bench top extruder developed at Bradford University is able to collect data about its own operation and to determine a wide range of characteristics of the material with which it is working.
3-phase power quality analysers offer high accuracy
Carlo Gavazzi has introduced a range of three-phase power quality analysers offering the highest class of accuracy, available as either standalone instruments - model WM5 96 - with a backlit liquid crystal display, or the PQT H transducer version. These new utility-grade analysers are powered by ARM RISC processors, which significantly speeds up signal processing and data communication compared with existing instruments.
New pressure sensor
ETLG Inertial Aerosystems announce a new Integrated Pressure Sensor providing a high level millivolt output with excellent stability. The sensor is directed towards Original Equipment Manufacturers and other designers who require a compact, high performance pressure sensor element as part of their design.
Linear Technology & Energy Micro Demonstrate the Future of Smart Energy Harvesting
Linear Technology and Energy Micro have combined their expertise in energy harvesting power supplies and ultralow power 32-bit microcontrollers to produce a ground-breaking demonstration at Electronica 2010, showcasing the opportunities for smart energy harvesting applications.
PSMA Announces Industry Presentation Session on Energy Harvesting (EH) For Zero Power Systems
The Power Sources Manufacturers Association's (PSMA) Energy Harvesting Committee is sponsoring an Industry Presentation session at APEC 2012 entitled Energy Harvesting End-to-End: Technologies and Techniques for Building Zero Power Systems.” The session will take place on Tuesday morning, February 7, 2011 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and will feature seven experts from the commercial, research institute an...
TI delivers fully integrated ultrasonic signal conditioner for automotive parking distance applications
Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a fully integrated, programmable solution for driving ultrasonic transducers in automotive park distance, blind-spot detection or similar object detection applications. With its highly configurable burst generator, low-noise amplifier and 12-bit successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the PGA450-Q1 provides for processing the echo signals and calculating the distan...