Internet of Things

Heriot Watt University is highlighting research by its Energy Academy into smart sensors that predict homeowners’ movements and living patterns. The idea is that this will help to reduce fuel bills. The research is being led by Dr Edward Owens and involves using multiple sensors to predict when a home or building is occupied. An algorithm is then used to ...

ARM has announced software and a free OS to enable IoT products.

TSMC has put together a package of processes aimed at the ultra-low power requirements of IoT and wearables.

Internet of things (IoT) technology will inevitably be hacked at some point in the future and suppliers of components, systems and software must develop technologies for regaining control of hacked systems.

Silicon Labs has produced development kits to accelerate the design of environmental and biometric sensing applications for a wide range of IoT products.

Telecoms operators need to wise up to the business opportunity the internet of things (IoT) offers for data services, says market analyst Ovum. The latest forecast from the telecoms analyst projects that the cellular M2M market will bring in a total of $252bn for the 2015–19 period, but operators need to invest in their existing capabilities to take advantage of ...

Wi-Fi looks as if it can become the most widely used wireless networking standard. Its adoption in markets outside of its original computer networking application is reminiscent of Ethernet, the now ubiquitous networking standard.

Stadium Group  has acquired a manufacturer which specialises in M2M wireless devices for use over cellular networks. The Cheshire-based company, United Wireless operates in the automotive and telematics sectors. It employs 40 people. Stadium said it has a strategy to add complementary products, design capability and global supply chain management. Stadium already provdies PCB assembly and box build, power supplies, battery chargers and back‐up supplies, intelligent interface and display systems. M2M is ...

CC3200 LaunchPad is an internet-of-things (IoT) development kit for Texas Instruments’ CC3200 one-chip Wi-Fi microcontroller+baseband. The chip has two ARM cores: One within a Wi-Fi network processor for running a 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi stack (see below), which leaves the second, an 80MHz Cortex-M4, available for application processing. To this, the kit adds temperature sensors, a 3-axis accelerometer, LEDs and push-buttons, and ...

The age of the development kit is very much upon us. Market research conducted with more than 1,500 designers of electronic prototypes found that, on average, development kits were used in 45% of all designs in the 12 months up to March 2014. Low cost boards allow engineers to test their design ideas with different components. Development tools and single ...