The contract provides system design, installation, and custom services.

Pipeline rehabilitation projects total $21.7 Million in contracts.

The State Water Resources Control Board ended mandatory emergency conservation in May 2016, it asked water agencies to instead demonstrate whether they have sufficient supplies for the next three years, assuming the drought continues. 

The company intends to replace eight miles of water mains, as well as service lines, valves, fire hydrants and meters.

Many an interesting Bluetooth device for Gadget Master to see at the ‘Discover Blue’ event in London, which was highlighting some examples of Bluetooth innovation.

Discover Blue showcases latest intelligent Bluetooth devices

You can now use the Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU) 12c to create schemas for Fusion Middleware components on Amazon RDS for Oracle. This feature is available with new Amazon RDS Oracle 12c and 11g database versions “11.2.0.4.v8”, “12.1.0.1.v5” and “12.1.0.2.v4”. These versions include the April 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU). The “11.2.0.4.v8” and “12.1.0.2.v4” versions include the recommended database patches for Oracle GoldenGate. We also added the ability to grant privileges on SYS objects with the “grant option” to the versions.

I heard a few bits and pieces about detecting gravitational waves. And the engineering is phenomenal. Gravity waves are measured by movement of suspended test masses, which are 40kg blocks of sapphire polished (to 250pm (=0.25nm)) to have mirror ends so they can be sensed by laser (I have no idea how laser sensing works when …

LIGO is amazing

Avnet Memec – Silica has introduced a starter kit for industrial IoT designs with cloud services and applications from the IBM Bluemix. Called MicroZed, the IoT design platform runs Wind River Pulsar Linux operating system on Xilinx Zynq-7000 programmable silicon. The kit integrates the IBM Watson IoT Platform agent on top of a custom-configured, certified …

IoT design kit offers free IBM Bluemix cloud trial

French microelectronics research organisation Leti is hosting a one-day conference discussing security of IoT devices and applications. Called “System Reliability & Security in a Connected World” the conference will take place in Lyon on June 23. According to Alain Merle, Leti’s strategic marketing manager for security, new technologies are needed to provide privacy and security …

Intel discusses IoT security at Leti conference

As high-speed electronics replaces micromachines and chemicals, the electronic nose (e-nose) could get cheaper. Aimed at health monitoring through breath analysis, the e-nose has been designed at the University of Texas Dallas and performs ‘rotational spectroscopy’ at over 200GHz using a 65nm CMOS chips. “There have been many efforts to build an electronic nose,” said …

E-nose sniffs opportunity for health monitoring