The Government of Canada invested $3.7 million to complete the Pacheedaht water treatment and distribution system.

A “lackluster” economic environment in France has been labelled as part of the reason for a dip in revenues from SUEZ’s European water division…

Illinois American Water partnered with the University of Illinois’ Regional Economic Applications Laboratory to analyze the Company’s impact on the economy in the state of Illinois. 

UltraSoC has extended the capabilities of its on-chip monitoring and analytics semiconductor intellectual property (IP), to include debug, monitoring and analysis features for the ARM AMBA-5 Coherent Hub Interface (CHI). The CHI Monitor is the newest in UltraSoC’s family of protocol-aware monitors for interconnect and extends that from bus monitors to debugging and fine-tuning the …

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Touch sensors that have an object recognition capability will mean that touchscreen in shops or museums will be activated to display information when specific objects or products are placed on the screen. A technology collaboration between Tyne & Wear-based touch sensor firm Zytronic and Tangible Display from France will demonstrate an object recognition capability on multi-touch …

Read full article: Touchscreens can recognise objects, says Zytronic

Martin Bielesch, European president of Arrow Electronics talks to Electronics Weekly, about taking a global view of the UK referendum vote, how he sees potential in crowd-funded projects and the inevitable ever-presence of IoT for the broadline component distributor’s business. Are you concerned the Brexit vote in the UK is having negative effect on the European market? …

Read full article: Brexit and Indiegogo, Arrow Europe president talks to EW

Intel has announced Atom processors for IoT ‘edge’ processing – pre-processing data to reduce its bulk before it is sent on to the internet. “IoT is expected to be a market with 50 billion devices creating 44 zettabytes [44 giga terabytes] of data annually by 2020, require much more processing power at the edge in …

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As extensively predicted, the smartwatch industry is failing fast. Apple Watch Q3 shipments were down by almost 72%, y-o-y with total smartwatch shipments declining by 51.6% year-on-year, says IDC. The Apple Watch remained the market leader but it shipped just over one million units in Q3. In Q3 2015, Apple shipped 3.9 million. Of the …

Read full article: Smartwatch Sales Fall Off A Cliff

Beta Layout is offering a single-source prototyping and small-series manufacturing service for 3D mechatronic interconnect devices (MIDs). It will be demonstrated at the Electronica exhibition in Munich next month. With this prototyping service the company produces circuit carriers of the three-dimensional circuit boards using 3D printing. The advantage of the this technique, says Beta Layout, is that …

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Renesas Electronics, Express Logic and IAR Systems are to collaborate on the development of a secure IoT platform based around ARM’s v8-M architecture. It will involve Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and IAR’s Embedded Workbench software development environment, both of which support ARM’s TrustZone security hardware within ARMv8-M. “These technologies will be a foundation for the …

Read full article: Renesas troika promotes IoT security with ARMv8-M