Internet of Things

Semiconductors drive three trends to maximise productivity and reduce energy consumption in factories and cities, says Amichai Ron of Texas Instruments. Higher levels of automation and control through more efficient systems maximise productivity and small innovations at the component level can result in meaningful cost, energy and time savings at the system level. There are three consistent trends, across industrial ...

While the global semiconductor industry is in turmoil these days, one Japanese company is rapidly increasing its presence in the industry, under strong leadership. That company is ABLIC Inc., an analog semiconductor specialist. Its uniqueness stems from the fact that in its early beginnings before it was named ‘ABLIC’, the company’s specialized craftsmanship was born in the semiconductor department of ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced a 250MHz Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller with the company’s own security hardware and software trusted execution environment (TEE) on top of Arm’s TrustZone. The part is the STM32H573 (or 563, ST has said both, watch this space), and the internal security system has been dubbed ‘STM32Trust TEE security manager’ (right). “STM32H5 is the first MCU series to come ...

The Swiss Polar Institute has selected Astrocast, a satellite IoT (SatIoT) service provider, to develop a satellite-based communication system for remote snow, glacier, and permafrost monitoring stations in Central Asia. The goal is to acquire a continuous time series of environmental parameters over a long time period, particularly at remote high-latitude and high-altitude field sites. The project was initiated by ...

ST is sampling modules combining NB-IoT data communications with GNSS geo-location capability. The programmable, certified LTE Cat NB2 NB-IoT industrial modules cover worldwide cellular frequency bands and integrate advanced security features. Offered in accordance with the latest 3GPP Release 15, the ST87M01 provides extended multi-regional LTE coverage. The integrated native GNSS receiver with multi-constellation access ensures enhanced and accurate localization ...

A collaboration between Würth Elektronik, FEGA & Schmitt and IAV demonstrates how industrial manufacturing equipment can be upgraded and digitised. The bias of progress dictates that the latest technology is believed to be superior. Sometimes, however, it is better to use tried and tested, current, or even legacy technologies, but there are challenges with older equipment, including efficiency, inconsistent quality, ...

EchoStar, the U.S. satcom and Internet services provider, has turned to Astro Digital for the construction of a global S-band mobile satellite service (MSS) network addressing IoT. Astro Digital is a designer, manufacturer and operator of small satellite systems, and under the agreement it will manufacture the satellites for the EchoStar LEO constellation. Planned to begin operation in 2024, the ...

Designed to protect stored data and with power protection to ensure operation during sudden power outages, the Powerguard SSDs (solid state devices) by Taiwanese manufacturer, Cervoz are available from Display Technology. In the event of a sudden loss of power, Powerguard uses energy stored in additional tantalum capacitors to continue to save files form the controller to the flash storage ...

Infineon has announced IM69D128S, a mems microphone for wearables, phones and IoT devices, emphasising its 520μA consumption and 69dB(A) signal to noise ratio. By switching clock frequency to trade bandwidth and SNR, the microphone can also be operated in a 420μA power saving mode and a 180μA in low power mode. There is also a 25μA (50μA max) stand-by with ...

Winner ByteSnap Design – WAND remote data collector   Internal corrosion and erosion are a major cause of pipeline failure for late-life offshore platforms. Operators need cost-effective, low-power methods to accurately monitor internal wall loss across assets. Meeting challenging ATEX requirements, ByteSnap Design and Inductosense developed WAND RDC (remote data collector) technology to monitor areas of localised corrosion. The judges ...