Internet of Things

Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. While Hiber says it will ...

Vodafone’s NB-IoT technology is being used to detect landslides along the Dorset coast and supply data to local farmers on cows, soil, and tractors. Sensors connected to Vodafone’s NB-IoT will allow academics, businesses, and local authorities to adopt smarter approaches to monitoring environmental and public safety issues. The technology is being used initially in two pioneering trials – coastal cliff monitoring and ...

Renesas is using Arm’s Cortex-M23 core in a microcontrollers intended for IoT end-points. Called the RA2E2 Group and part of the RA Family, they are nine small MCUs that consume little: being available in the 1.87 x 1.84mm 16pin WLCSP (wafer-level chip-scale package) and operating at 81μA/MHz, dropping to 200nA in software stand-by with fast wake. Operation temperature can be as wide ...

Microchip is introducing touchscreen controllers certified to IEC/UL 60730 Class B, that will work on displays over 10in across. Called MXT448UD-HA and MXT640UD-HA (32 x 20 touch array) , they are also compliant with IEC61000-4-6 Class A for conducted noise immunity up to 10Vrms (level three for industrial use). “This enables products with a touch screen interface to function in very ...

Responding to visitor number increases due to the Pandemic, the Cairngorms National Park Authority it to installed a network of IoT sensors to monitor foot fall, route usage and vehicle parking. The network will also be available to local businesses to deploy data gathering sensors, providing them with the opportunity to gain key data and insights on how they can improve their ...

Believed to be the first electromigration/voltage drop (EM/IR) tool for both analogue and digital methodologies, mPower has been released by Siemens Digital Industries. The tool marks Siemens’ entry into the IC power analysis market, capable of power integrity analysis for analogue, digital and mixed-signal IC designs. It is also scalable and uses industry standard inputs and interfaces. Power integrity analysis ...

The recently released Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards are available from stock at Farnell. They are designed to accelerate development time and time-to-market. They are also competitively priced for deployment in production systems, adds Farnell. The new-to-market Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico provide differentiated development platforms for the Raspberry Pi-designed RP2040 microcontroller, ...

Inmarsat is highlighting research that suggests a rapid increase in adoption of industrial IoT in 2021 across global supply chains. According to its report, “Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19”, this applies in agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics sectors. The company is involved in this area through its satellite-based Elera L-band network. Adoption ...

Sensor-to-satellite communications could be the key to providing affordable, universal access for the IoT, says Alastair Williamson of Wyld Networks. In 1990, John Romkey connected a toaster to the internet for the first time and a year later, students at the University of Cambridge used a web camera to report on coffee. But it was not until 1999 that the ...

Anglia Components has broken ranks with other distributors targeting the UK’s start-ups and entrepreneurs and has launched a dedicated division, Anglia Unicorn, to put academic start-ups in touch with financial seeders and both in touch with skilled engineers who can make the vision a reality. Named after the mythical creature which eludes capture, a Unicorn company is a start-up that ...