With London Technology Week taking place this week, Jim Bowes, CEO and co-founder of digital consultancy Manifesto, suggests ways London can encourage future growth in its internet of things (IoT) technology sector. The capital has been successful at attracting digital technology and software start-ups, but Bowes says more can be done to support research in …
Testing the RF circuit for IoT success
Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), mobile computing, and cloud computing can currently be found in many headlines in magazines. The common theme throughout is the development of RF communications systems, writes Wolfgang Bartels of Rigol Technologies. Behind all these applications you will find the technologies like LTE, 3GPP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, …
RoHS updates
Be aware there was (and may still be) a missing sentence in the consolidated version of EU ROHS in the EU website.
The Big Play
As Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One points out there’s no point starting a business where there’s loads of competition. You can’t make money. Taxi-hailing apps are a business which has attracted a large number of competitors, yet Uber has raised $15 billion in backing. Don’t Uber’s backers realise that any cab company can run …
Irish town networks LED street lights with Silver Spring mesh technology
The LED street light system in County Mayo also ties into smart utility meters as part of a broader IoT energy play.
Amazon EBS now supports cross-account copying of encrypted snapshots
Starting today, you can copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between accounts, a capability previously supported only for unencrypted snapshots. Now you can easily copy encrypted snapshots between your development, test and production environments or between different department and project accounts. It also makes it easier for you to follow AWS security best practices which include copying encrypted snapshots to separately managed accounts, in the same or other regions, to provide an extra level of account isolation.
Docker Datacenter on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
This Quick Start automates the deployment of Docker Datacenter (DDC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Docker Datacenter is an end-to-end platform for agile application development and container management. It offers organizations a CaaS (containers as a service) solution for deploying their apps, both on premises and in the cloud.
New wastewater plant opens in Brazil in time for Rio Olympics
A new wastewater treatment plant in Rio de Janeiro has opened in time for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in the city in August.
Bosch claims smallest 9-axis motion sensor
Bosch Sensortec has launched a 9-axis motion sensor in a 2.5 x 3.0 x 0.95 mm3 package, claiming it to be the world’s smallest. BMX160 includes accelerometer, gyroscope and geomagnetic sensors, and typically consumes 1.6mA. “It is ideally suited for applications such as smartphones, smart watches, fitness trackers, smart glasses, smart jewelry – rings and …
Imec develops highly efficient bifacial n-PERT solar cell
Imec has developed a highly efficient bifacial n-PERT (BiPERT) solar cell featuring a bifaciality value close to 100%. With a rear cell efficiency close to the efficiency measured from the front of the cell, imec’s new achievement underscores the ability to strongly enhance the energy yield of photovoltaic (PV) modules made with this type of …