The US Department of Energy has issued a biennial research update on the impact of LED-based lighting in general illumination applications and said SSL technology will be responsible for a 75% reduction in 2035.

The IoT combined with platforms such as IBM’s Watson will enable manufacturers to transform lighting from a capex item to an opex item for their customers while enabling new applications, according to Mike Bradshaw.

The Chinese networking company is the latest “Friends of Hue” buddy.

AWS CloudTrail now records launch and termination events for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. If you already have AWS CloudTrail logging enabled, no further action is necessary. These events will begin to appear in your existing trails in each region over the next few days, so that you can perform security analysis, change tracking, and compliance auditing of your Spot instance usage.

AWS CloudHSM provides dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud, helping you meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security. CloudHSM is designed to enable you to maintain complete control over the use of encryption keys stored on CloudHSM appliances.

You can now monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance and usage of Amazon Elastic Transcoder using Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. Amazon Elastic Transcoder now automatically publishes nine operational metrics into Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your transcoding workflow and the ability to invoke an action if the metric you are tracking crosses a certain threshold for a defined period of time. You can monitor metrics such as jobs completed, jobs that errored out, output minutes generated, standby time, and errors and throttles on various API calls. 

 Allo’s Sparky, a Raspberry Pi clone, is finally up and running. What was needed, was for me to understand Sparky’s display interface only works with native HDMI monitors, and won’t work with a DVI monitor through an adaptor (thanks Andre and Jaikumar). This involved taking taking the little computer home as EW Towers has only …

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Trust was the subject addressed by the Keynote speaker, Matthew Evans, executive director of TechUK. His talk was titled ‘Trust principles for an IoT world’.

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Embedded systems supplier Eurotech has introduced a range of IoT development kits for industrial applications.

Read full article: IoT development kits come with ARM or Atom

Ricoh’s latest battery management IC is designed for lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery packs of three up to five cells in series. The R5601 analogue front end IC is a measurement device designed to work with a microcontroller with all threshold settings saved in the software of the MCU. Communications is via a 2-wire I2C interface. …

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