Coming to their end, the original trials in Ghantoot were designed to help push desalination technology and drive down energy consumption. What’s next for the companies and the site? 

Danish pump giant Grundfos has reported an increase in profit from 2016 but says the market overall stayed “flat”…

 

Warden Biomedia will supply its Biopipe 600 product to a Turkish company building a new MBBR plant at Amman’s airport…

 

A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly newscast for March 13, 2017.

Today, ‘technology experts, social scientists and government officials’ are meeting to discuss the future of work at the Southbank Centre in London. ‘As advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) threaten to disrupt labour markets globally, the summit led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will call on businesses and governments globally to urgently …

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To provide hardware with authentication and to secure small data transactions between the device and the cloud Maxim Integrated has developed an embedded security reference design. Using elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) public-key cryptography, the MAXREFDES155 reference design is intended for the development of devices for authenticating and managing a sensing node with control …

Read full article: EW: Arduino shield gives sensor node data protection

Embedded World 2017, starting in Nuremberg will Weightless-P network hardware in action. An alternative to LPWAN technologies in unlicensed spectrum, Ubiik is launching a Weightless-P Kit at the show, the Weightless Ignition Pack. The pack includes the hardware required to deploy, demonstrate, evaluate and develop Weightless-P IoT networks, says the company. Addressing the Internet of …

Read full article: Weightless-P network hardware launches at Embedded World

Germany plans to spend €100 billion on a public-private project to deliver a gigabit Internet service across the country.

Read full article: Germany plans €100bn gigabit Internet service rollout

Renesas Electronics has introduced a rotational flow demonstration kit for its RL78/I1D microcontroller that is designed to detect and measure the flow of water or gas in metering applications. The flow measurement system is designed to run for 35 years powered by a 2600mAh battery, says the supplier. The rotational flow demonstration kit detects the …

Read full article: EW: Water flow measurement kit runs for 35 years

One in five companies has begun rolling out internet of things (IoT) services and products, and half of those surveyed say IoT will be an important part of their business strategy, writes Bee Hayes-Thakore, director of marketing programmes for IoT at ARM. This is according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit IoT Business Index, published in February …

Read full article: EW: IoT gets real, says ARM director