Xylem’s Flygt Concertor is a smart, interconnected wastewater pumping system that senses the operating conditions of its environment, adapts its performance in real time and provides feedback to pumping station operators. 

 

In April, NXP intends to sample a family of programmable, multi-standard SoCs for multi-access technologies including 5G.

Read full article: NXP to sample Layerscape in April for multi-access technologies

Farnell is aiming at industrial users with two ‘cape’ add-on boards for BeagleBone Black: one for wireless comms and another that adds a display. On top of this, is it also now stocking BeagleBone Black Wireless, which has followed Raspberry Pi 3 by adding native Wi-Fi support to a credit card-sized single-board computer. The Wireless …

Read full article: BeagleBone Black gets wireless and display for industrial users

Engineers from TDK-Lambda UK support a team of students from The Ilfracombe Academy in the international STEM competition, F1 in Schools.

Read full article: TDK-Lambda mentors winning students in STEM racing competition

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland discover large uniform reversible changes in electrical resistance. The discovery could open a route to ionotronic memories.

Read full article: Anyone for ionotronic memory?

AndersDX increases all-round display readability with what it calls ‘moth-eye’ film.

Read full article: ‘Moth-eye’ film boosts display contrast

A semiconductor junction with the newly-discovered material borophene might offer a route to determining if it is electronically useful.

Read full article: Borophene: a heterjunction appeared out of nowhere

There was once a brewer’s son who became a Naval lieutenant before founding a company which became a mighty industrial empire. He believed strongly in branding and established his company’s brand name as the world No.1 brand He was so impressed by Maxim’s restaurant in a Paris that he installed replicas in the basement of …

Read full article: Fable: The Guy Who Followed His Gut

Infineon is offering a DC-DC regulator aimed at high density Point of Load applications

Read full article: Infineon DC-DC regulator aimed at Point of Load applications

With new technology, imagination usually takes over from sober assessment when it comes to forecasting deployment time-tables. We saw crazily over-optimistic estimates from Google and Tesla about 2017/2018 introduction of driverless cars. Now responsible techies are saying it’ll be more like 2040 before the general public will be able to own a driverless car which …

Read full article: 5G Bollox