Electronics Weekly is very pleased to highlight the initial sponsors for the Elektra Awards 2016. Celebrating product innovation and business success in the industry – and now in their 14th Year – the Elektra Awards are recognised as the best promotional platform to celebrate the achievements of individuals and companies across the electronics industry. And a big …

Elektra Awards 2016 gather momentum

In the latest LED business developments, Royal Philips has reported 3% sales growth led by the strength of LED lighting, while Current, Powered by GE has added more partners in its connected lighting push and Mitsubishi Chemical has won a red-phosphor IP battle.

AWS CloudFormation has updated support for four services. You can now use the following features with CloudFormation:

AWS IoT is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.  

Xylem has launched the Flygt BIS 1 biogas support system specially adapted for the wall-mounting of submersible mixers in biogas digeters…

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for April 25, 2016. 

Toray Industries Japan acquired 100 % of the shares from Woongjin Chemicals (CSM) and consolidated the company into Toray group. Toray Membrane Europe is the sales organization for all Toray membrane products in water treatment and process applications.

Two camera add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 now offer 8megapixel resolution. An integrated image sensor also enables the computer board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 modules which measure 25mm x 35mm x9mm are available from element14. The v2 cameras have …

Raspberry Pi gets 8Mpixel camera module

VersaSense’s MicroPnP IoT platform, based on Linear Tech’s SmartMesh IP embedded networking, delivers low-cost, zero-configuration wireless sensing and actuation. MicroPnP is an IoT hardware and software platform that reduces the total cost of ownership for sensing and control systems. Its creators say it delivers: Plug-and-play identification of sensors and actuators at 10 million times lower …

MicroPnP IoT platform uses LTC SmartMesh networking IP

Edinburgh-based photonics start-up company Optoscribe has secured £1.2m in venture capital investment to fund its manufacturing plans. Optoscribe was founded in 2010 as a spin out business from Heriot Watt University, and has developed 3D photonic components for use inside communications systems in the datacoms, telecoms and mobile phone markets. The company plans to produce …

Scottish photonics start-up Optoscribe gets £1.2m funding