Electronics related to the Internet of Things (IoT), and all its associated sensors, comms, security, and embedded systems.
Microchip has launched a hardware crypto-enabled 32bit microcontroller which can add security to IoT devices, offering encryption and authentication. To reduce man-in-the-middle, denial-of-service and back-door attacks, the chip allows for pre-boot authentication of the system firmware in order to ensure that the firmware is untouched and uncorrupted, thereby preventing security attacks such as vulnerabilities. It can also be used to ...
Only 18% of the UK public has heard of a ‘smart city’, according to research carried out by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The research also revealed 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. The ...
Qualcomm is now making deep learning software development, for face recognition and text translation, possible on devices based on its Snapdragon 820 processors. The software development kit uses a neural processing methodology which is optimized to use the processor’s heterogeneous compute capabilities to support neural network processing functions. Qualcomm said it will now be possible to run neural network models ...
Another semiconductor company is using crowd-funding to find the investment needed to bring a product to production and into the commercial market. Lime Microsystems has started a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The company is hoping to raise $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and mass production of the LimeSDR. ...
Cypress Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Broadcom’s wireless product business aimed at internet of things markets in an all-cash transaction valued at $550m. This means Cypress will acquire Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines and intellectual property, along with its WICED brand and developer ecosystem. The IoT business employs approximately 430 people and generated $189m in revenues during the last twelve ...
Mouser Electronics has added the product line of IEI Technology, part of the Intel Internet of Things solutions alliance. The IEI Technology embedded computer boards available from Mouser Electronics include the WAFER-BT single-board computer in the PICO-ITX form factor and supports an on-board Celeron system-on-chip (SoC) with DDR3L; VGA, LVDS, and iDP connectors. The HYPER-BT PICO-ITX single-board computer supports an ...
US President Barack Obama was given a demonstration of German IoT technology for smart factories when he visited the the Hannover Messe exhibition with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel were given a taste of Industrie 4.0 by Harting on its stand at the exhibition. They saw the Rinspeed “Etos” car, in which incorporates the a MICA ...
Predictably, the IoT was not neglected at this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, summed up the industry’s dilemma with IoT: “We haven’t yet got into whatever the IoT is going to generate,” he told the conference. Udo-Martin Gomez, CTO of Bosch Sensortec, said that Bosch has set up a business unit specifically ...
Avery Dennison, provider of RFID technology to the retail clothing sector, has teamed with IoT data systems firm Evrythng to connect 10 billion clothing and footwear products for major brands to cloud-based product ID and tracking services. The IoT deployment will use Evrythng’s Janela platform to provide digital identity and data management capabilities to consumer products at the point of ...
In what looks like a breakthrough in wearable technology Fraunhofer ISC in Germany has developed a transparent sensor material which can be printed onto textiles. The material will be presented on IDTechEX Europe at booth F16 in the Estrel Berlin on 27 and 28 April 2016. The new sensor technology will be incorporated into a prototype shirt. This so-called MONI ...
