There was a demonstration of the first real-time, multi-target location tracking using the LoRaWAN low-power, wide-area network protocol at CES 2017 this week. A group of firms from the LoRA Alliance, promoting the wide-areas IoT wireless standard, including STMicroelectronics, myDevices and Senet, carried out the demonstration. It included LoRaWAN-supported radio technology and automotive-navigation chips from ST, custom application dashboards from myDevices, and public ...
Carried out on behalf of the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Lutz Pathfinder project was started 18 months ago to build and trial three automated pods within Milton Keynes, and assess their feasibility from both a technological and societal point of view. Designed and manufactured by Coventry-based firm RDM, the electric-powered two-seater pods are equipped with sensor and ...
Today at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, NXP has announced an IoT processor family. The i.MX 8M family of applications processors, which feature full 4K UltraHD resolution and HDR (Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG) video quality, is aimed at audio and video system requirements for smart homes and mobiles. The processors have up to four 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M4 ...
Qorvo has combined RF transceivers for communication protocols; ZigBee 3.0, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in a single chip. The ARM Cortex-M4-based GP695 SoC supports the IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee 3.0, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless protocols for connecting sensor networks. A feature is the combination of a Bluetooth-based smartphone interface with Thread or ZigBee 3.0 for smart home applications. An ...
The technology for autonomous cars needs to progress before they become a practical reality, so let’s start with the countless sensors along with other technologies as V2X communications that autonomous vehicles will rely on to navigate safely, writes Davide Santo. Plenty of countries have now provided testing grounds for autonomous cars, from entire custom-built towns like the Mcity test facility ...
Electronics Weekly talks to Daniel Cooley, general manager of the IoT products business at Silicon Labs. I know you have IP for low power processors and sensor networks; what do you see as the big potential applications for these IoT technologies? Daniel Cooley: The range of Internet of Things end-node applications is virtually unlimited, extending across the consumer, industrial, energy, ...
ARM licensee Silicon Labs is confident that the change of ownership at the Cambridge-based processor firm earlier this year will not be a problem. In fact, ARM’s role in embedded low power microcontroller applications could become even stronger. Daniel Cooley, general manager of the IoT business at Silicon Labs expects the change of ownership at ARM to have a positive effect on ARM’s position ...
5G mobile technologies and the impact they are expected to have on the connected world of billions of IoT devices will be a big theme at CES 2017, which takes place in Las Vegas next month. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA, which organises the exhibition, writes: “From the Internet of Things, to virtual reality to self-driving cars and beyond, connectivity is ...
Is it possible, a smart watch that is powered by body heat? Wearable healthcare and fitness monitors are expected to be important IoT applications. But manufacturers are just scratching the surface of what wearables can do, and often compromise one consumer demand for another. So one interesting announcement at CES 2017 exhibition next month will come from Ambiq Micro, which specialises ...
Intel will step up its offensive to become a force in all areas of the consumer electronics market at the CES 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas next month. In an attempt to offset its continuing dominate of the computing market – both consumer and enterprise – the processor firm will present its views on applications ranging from virtual reality in ...
