Toshiba has established a European high-voltage laboratory in Duesseldorf for automotive and industrial markets. “In line with the company’s shift in focus towards more power-related products, Toshiba invested this year in infrastructure and equipment such as high voltage power sources, loads and measuring equipment,” said Toshiba, The lab will will support European customers, particularly for silicon carbide and gallium nitride technologies used ...
U-blox has announced two LTE Cat 1 module series offering multi-regional data coverage. “The modules offer device makers facing imminent 2G and 3G network sunsets a migration path to 4G technology for data streaming applications,” according to the Swiss company. “Additionally they offer MQTT Anywhere and MQTT Flex connectivity via u-blox’s Thingstream platform out of the box, enabling seamless roaming.” ...
Semtech and Lacuna Space aim to extend the coverage of LoRaWAN by adding IoT-to-Satellite connectivity. “We have trials and demonstrations underway in many countries and regions that were previously thought to be inaccessible to IoT,” says Lacuna Space CEI Rob Spurrett, “with this collaboration, we expect to begin commercial services within the first half of 2022.” The collaboration is built on Long Range ...
Joe Sawicki , executive vice president, IC EDA at Siemens, challenged the mutterings that Moore’s law has run its course, and said the semiconductor industry was blighted with pessimism. At this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) he set about looking at the figures in a new light. “There have been morose expectations and miserable prognostics, for like 20 years,” he reasoned, ...
hiSky, a developer and provider of satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) networking, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round. It was led by ST Engineering’s Corporate Venture Capital unit and SDF (Strategic Development Fund), which is the investment arm of United Arab Emirates-based Tawazun Holding. Current hiSky shareholders also took part. The Israeli startup – which also has ...
Camera modules based on onsemi’s sensor technology have been created by Arrow Electronics for fast prototyping and developing vision systems. There are three versions, all designed for vision capabilities in embedded applications. OEMs can used them to integrate camera functionality into products they are developing, advises the distributor. It partnered with Shiratech Solutions to create the camera mezzanine cards which ...
U-blox has announced two modules designed to enable AWS (Amazon web services) cloud services for device and fleet management. “For many businesses, connecting devices to the cloud remains challenging,” according to the company, claiming: “Existing solutions involve installing and maintaining dedicated software to manage connectivity on the devices. In addition, many legacy devices are too resource-constrained to accommodate the additional ...
Analog Devices has introduced a evaluation kit for people-counting using one of its DSPs. In a case and designed to be attached to a ceiling looking straight down, the kit includes a camera and everything needed to get the counted data to the cloud. Its main ingredients are a particular DSP from its Blackfin range, the ADSPBF707BBCZ4-EGE, and a people counting ...
Digi-Key Electronics and Truphone, a connectivity and SIM software specialist, are hosting a webinar to showcase eSIM technology and how it can help IoT devices connect more quickly and efficiently. The free virtual webinar, entitled ‘Why is Cellular connectivity so important to IoT?‘, will be held on Wednesday 8 December at 5pm GMT (11 am CST). Areas covered in the ...
Digi-Key Electronics is partnering with Seeed Studio and Machinechat for what it describes as the industry’s first private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box solutions for affordable and secure IoT. It’s aimed at IoT developers and engineers, and it combines Seeed’s Studio SenseCAP gateways and sensors with the Machinechat JEDI Pro Seeed Studio Edition software. The aim is to quickly deploy commercial IoT LoRa projects in ...
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