LoRa, which is bidding to be an IoT wide-area wireless network technology, is being adopted across Europe, but not yet in the UK. Gothenburg in Sweden is the latest city to see a deployment of LoRa wireless network technology as part of a smart city project. This follows announcements of LoRA deployments in France and …
LED tape brings sparkle to neo-classical Oxford Radcliffe Camera
Penn Elcom supplies 250m of Osram LED tape to retrofit the Radcliffe Camera building that serves as a reading room on the Oxford University campus in England.
LightingEurope calls for light quality and human wellbeing legislation to promote human-centric lighting
It’s time for legislators to consider aspects of LED lighting other than energy efficiency, the industry association says in a position paper that reaffirms its push towards human-centric lighting.
Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
AWS is pleased to announce immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai joins Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo as the sixth AWS Region in Asia and as the thirteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide.
VIDEO: Desalination news round up
Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…
BioAir expands, completes projects at wastewater treatment plants in California
Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…
DIY Raspberry Pi defence against your neighbour’s drone
Take a look at this report from US website Make, describing how to make a wireless drone-disbler using a Raspberry Pi.
Power transistor market growing at 4% CAGR
After dropping 7% in 2015 to $12.3 billion, power transistor sales are expected to stabilize and begin a modest recovery in 2016, growing by a little over 1% to $12.4 billion, says IC Insights. Power transistors—the $12 billion growth engine in the $21 billion discrete semiconductor market—have faced a choppy uphill climb since surging in …
Power Trip
One of the increasing number of things which puzzle me is what IBM is doing in semiconductors. When it sold its semiconductor business to GloFo last year, IBM said that it “expects its unparalleled semiconductor and materials research to continue to advance its capabilities in systems for years to come.” And so it has. A …
Updated: Designing led/optic assemblies gets easier
Maybe everyone else has known this for ages, but at last there is enough information on led and collimator data sheets to work out how far one should be form the other to get the specified beam. Gaggione LLC17N This was bought to my attention by optics maker Gaggione – which I had know had …