OriginClear believes that more industrial water users are treating their dirty water on-site, creating growth opportunities for local water service companies.
Stormwater management in Lenexa, Kan., gets boost from Opti technologies
The project will leverage Opti’s Internet of Things (IoT) technology to enhance watershed management while mitigating flooding and improving water quality.
Fountain Valley, Calif., beats water reduction goal with Sensus Technology
Fountain Valley deployed Sensus technology one year ago to help the state save billions of gallons of water.
Updated spray aerator for Carpentersville, Ill. water supply includes Easi-Span building
The new system replaced one that was constructed in the 1960s.
China to build $600m IC Science Park
Taking a leaf from its neighbour Taiwan’s book, China is to set up a Science Park. Taiwan had a famous success with the Hsinchu Science Park near Taipei then added two more in the middle and south of the island. China will build a park specifically for ICs near Beijing called the Zhongguancun Science Park. …
SMIC buys LFoundry
SMIC, has bought a 70% stake in Italy’s small foundry LFoundry for €49 million. LFoundry has total capacity of 40k 8″ wpm. Its 2015 revenue was €215 million. LFoundry mostly makes automotive, security, and industrial ICs including CIS, smart power, touch display driver IC’s and embedded memory. “This allows us to enter the automotive market,” …
Bluetooth beacon turns IoT node into a weather station
For IoT sensor nodes read open-source beacons; to finance a product launch go to a crowd-funding website. Finnish firm Ruuvi Innovations is the latest in a rush of developers to use crowd-finding to get their IoT beacon to market in time for mass take-up. Called, RuuviTag it is a stand-alone Bluetooth 5 ready sensor beacon …
A Raspberry Pi voice control challenge
Hackster.io is running a challenge to add voice control to an internet of things (IoT) project, with support from Raspberry Pi and Amazon Alexa.
Neural Network from CEVA
CEVA has introduced its CDNN2 (CEVA Deep Neural Network), its second generation neural network software framework for machine learning. CDNN2 enables localised, deep learning-based video analytics on camera devices in real time. This significantly reduces data bandwidth and storage compared to running such analytics in the cloud, while lowering latency and increasing privacy. Coupled with …
Ed Warns Vlad
Ed Snowden really is a bit of a boy – after pissing off the US government by revealing the extent of its surveillance he now risks pissing off the Russkies by criticising a new Bill. The Bill, passed by the Duma but not yet signed by Vlad, provides that: Telecoms companies must keep copies of …