Internet of Things

We caught up with Advantech at Hardware Pioneers 2024 as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Darren Chapman – Sales Director UK of Advantech – discusses emerging markets such as EV charging and AI-integrated robotics. In the spotlight at the show, also, were embedded products such as its Industrial Box-PCs for End-to-end Edge AI Solutions and a variety ...

EdgeCortix, the five year-old Tokyo fabless startup specialising in AI-at-the-edge,  has launched its SAKURA-II Edge AI accelerator. Paired with EdgeCortix’s Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) architecture, SAKURA-II is engineered to tackle Generative AI tasks. Designed for flexibility and power efficiency, SAKURA-II manages  tasks including Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision Models (LVMs), and multi-modal transformer-based applications at the edge. “SAKURA-II’s impressive ...

Over the last decades, Mean Well has become one of the most recognisable global providers of power supply modules and converters. However, its product range also includes a broad selection of other solutions, such as KNX equipment for building automation systems. The assortment described below includes modules compatible with the KNX system, i.e. a standard applied in home and industrial ...

Microchip has announced its most secure 32bit microcontrollers – a series of 120MHz Cortex-M33 MCUs for connected things. “Emerging requirements make security mandatory for the majority of IoT connected devices,” said Micrchip v-p Rod Drake, claiming: “The PIC32CK makes it cost effective to provide hardware-based security to mid-range microcontroller applications.” That said, security does not come with every PIC32CK MCU ...

Silicon Labs is aiming at battery-free harvested energy applications with xG22E, a family of wireless microcontrollers covering Bluetooth Low Energy, 802.15.4 or proprietary 2.4 GHz links. “As Silicon Labs’ most energy-efficient SoCs to date, all three will enable IoT device makers to build wireless devices for battery-optimised and battery-free devices that can harvest energy from external sources in their environments ...

Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning (ML) applications. Machine learning is implemented at the edge of the network, explained Mouser’s Mark Patrick in order to make decisions very quickly at the [network] edge. [Edge Impulse’s] products ...

NXP has finally revealed the wireless versions of its MCX microcontrollers, first announced in mid-2022. “Featuring the industry’s first MCU with Bluetooth Channel Sounding, NXP’s MCX W series enables edge devices with secure multi-protocol wireless for Matter, Thread, Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy,” according to the company, which explained: “Bluetooth Channel Sounding standard improves the accuracy and security of distance ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Alpha Micro and The Antenna Company have signed an agreement to distribute cellular and short range connectivity produces in the UK and Ireland. Described as a strategic partnership and distribution agreement, the two companies will collaborate to reduce time to market for products in development, said wireless connectivity specialist, Alpha Micro. The Antenna Company is headquartered in the Netherlands and ...

Skylo Technologies, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, has secured $37 million in funding from investors co-led by Intel Capital and Innovation Endeavors. Other investors included BMW i Ventures, Next47, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and the UK’s Seraphim Space. As part of the investment, the Intel Capital Managing Director, David Johnson, joins the Skylo board. “As lead investors, we recognise the ...