An environmentally friendly process could transform this pollutant into “green” biofuel, bio-fertilizer and safe water for use in agricultural irrigation.

Drones can be used to detect human vital signs from a distance, according to the University of South Australia. The technique uses a standard camera and an image processing algorithm created by PhD students, Ali Al-Naji, pictured below, and Asanka Perera, and remotely measures heart and breathing rates on several people simultaneously, even if they …

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The world’s largest lithium ion battery is being installed in Australia at the Hornsdale Wind Farm under an agreement between US firm Tesla, French renewable energy company Neoen (which owns the farm), and the South Australian Government. “At 100MW and 129MWh, the Hornsdale Power Reserve will become not only the largest renewable generator in the state …

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Rohm has anounced a high definition audio system reference design based around its BM94803AEKU media decoder processor, aimed at Hi-fi audio equipment, Bluetooth speakers, separate audio components and USB audio DACs. Included in the SoC is a 108MHz ARM946ES and a dedicated DSP for CD media decoding and a co-packaged 16Mbit SDRAM – reducing mounting …

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Intel plans to add authentication and data protection security capabilities to its FPGA-based development boards for IoT designs. Intel’s DE10-Nano development board is now supported by an SDK from SecureRF with tech support for authenticating remote devices with a Cyclone V FPGA. As an alternative to ECC authentication techniques security algorithms offered by SecureRF, such …

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Toshiba signs an $18bn deal to sell its NAND chip division to a consortium led by private equity group Bain Capital that includes SK Hynix, Apple and Dell.

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A hydrogen fuel cell has been unveiled in Orkney, part of the Surf ‘n’ Turf hydrogen community energy project, led by charity Community Energy Scotland, working with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney Islands Council, Eday Renewable Energy, and ITM Power. Surf ’n’ Turf is a pilot project, looking to circumvent local grid constraints …

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ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive …

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76% of Britons are ‘fearful’ of the smart homes concept, despite the likely cost savings, with unapproved data collection cited as the greatest worry, according to price comparison website MoneySuperMarket, which has surveyed 2,000 people. Other concerns include the technology being hacked by criminals (51%), being made unusable by a virus (43%) and recording you …

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XJTAG has updated its XJDeveloper test and programming IDE with test automation features. The XJDeveloper development and debug environment is used to set up and run JTAG tests, detecting faults on high-density boards without requiring test fixtures or functional testing. This release of the IDE, v3.6, incorporates a new documentation feature in XJEase files so …

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