A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for the week of February 13, 2017.

 

Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority receives top honor.

Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT setups. The smart home software can be used with different hardware ranging from a PC to Raspberry Pi. It can be used to control, automate and …

Read full article: Ubuntu smart home platform for Raspberry Pi

Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.

Read full article: Profile: Restructured Imagination focuses on PowerVR, MIPS and wireless IP

Coventor, the supplier of virtual fabrication technology for ICs and MEMS, works with a team from Imec to compare the effects of variability on different semiconductor fab processes.

Read full article: Coventor and Imec link on virtual fabrication

Gaggione has created a range of colour-mixing 45mm collimators. Using a patented technology, according to the firm, it is achieves the narrowest available beams combined with state of the art colour mixing capabilities. “Designed to match most demanding RGBW or human-centric light applications, it also provides a significant breakthrough with single or multi-chip white LEDS,” …

Read full article: Colour-mixing collimators with narrow beams

Check out a couple of new whitepapers on the site relating to IoT and networking. They’re from Intel and cover fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit.

Read full article: IoT: Case studies on fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit

This week marks the 170th birthday of Thomas Edison inventor and all-round scientific superstar. But where would we be without the humble electrical wire?

Read full article: Only Connect: On the history of electrical wire

Scottish restaurant has electronic order system Edinburgh is first in Britain This was the headline, 56 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. The story continues: An electronic ordering and control system for restaurant use, believed to be the first in Britain has been put into use in Edinburgh …

Read full article: First UK Restaurant To Have Electronic Ordering

Lens maker Fraen has again applied its nested collimator intellectual property, this time to a 50mm diameter optics that will fit in MR16 applications – the earlier 75mm types are aimed at PAR20s. +/-6° beams, or narrower, can be expected from CoBs with a light emitting surface unser 6.5mm across. Applications are expected in architecture, …

Read full article: Nested colimators make narrow beams from CoBs