AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces public network support (preview) for LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. With this update, customers can now easily connect their IoT devices to the cloud using publicly available LoRaWAN networks provided by Everynet, a global LoRaWAN network operator offering carrier grade networks. Using AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, customers can simply register their devices to the cloud and opt for public network support in the AWS IoT console. Within minutes, they will be able to receive data from registered LoRaWAN devices in their AWS account.
Security or Sinophobia?
On April 4, the Australian government decided to ban TikTok from all federal-owned devices like smartphones and tablets. Australia is the last country in the Five Eyes alliance with the US, UK, New Zealand and Canada to implement such a ban. Only five countries worldwide have put a blanket ban on TikTok, located almost exclusively in …
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Electronic exports will top £100m this year
BRITISH electronic exports are likely to exceed the £100 million level this year – A new record, despite the present adverse trend in overseas trade generally. Exports of electronics and allied products during the first six months of the year totalled more than £48 million, with the seasonal increase in exports during autumn, the final …
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Semtech adds to PerSe proximity sensors
Semtech has expanded its PerSe product portfolio with the release of a sensing human proximity sensor for smartphones. The PerSe Connect SX9376 enables designers to optimize RF performance, enhance connectivity and support elevated compliance with global specific absorption rate (SAR) standards for 5G-enabled consumer devices. PerSe sensors enable automatic adjustment of system level RF emissions allows …
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Blue Canyon to provide microsatellites for JPL’s INCUS Mission
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has awarded a contract to Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to design and manufacture three satellites for the Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission. The microsats will help provide insight into thunderstorms’ impacts on weather and climate models The company – a provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, and …
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US Chips Act gets 200+ Statements of Interest
Since releasing the first CHIPS for America funding opportunity in February 2023, the Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office has received more than 200 Statements of Interest (SOIs) from potential applicants. The projects described in these statements cover 35 states and span the entire semiconductor ecosystem. More than half of the statements indicate interest in …
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Arm could be on the hook for $8.5bn of Softbank debt
If Arm does not file for its public offer by the end of September it could become liable for $8.5 billion of Softbank debt for which it was made a guarantor. “A springing guarantee, naming Arm as the guarantor, becomes effective on the triggering of material breach or misrepresentation, an IPO not occurring within 18 …
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ICULTA: Far ultra-violet LEDs from Sillanna
Silanna UV will be showing its recently-introduced UVC LEDs at the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications (ICULTA) in Berlin next week. Its ‘short period superlattice’ (SPSL) die structure has repeating layers of AlN and GaN, and is designed to overcome the limitations of earlier structures. “Old-fashioned AlGaN-based far UVC LEDs in general …
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Inductive wireless bio-sensor for glucose or lactose
Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo have created an inductively-coupled passive sensor that can detect tear glucose and blood lactate levels with high sensitivity. The sensor is a resistor loaded with either the enzyme glucose oxidase or lactate oxidase (GOD or LOD in diagram right). This is made part of a passive LCR resonant tank …
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3D point cloud sensor uses lidar and mems scanning
Pepperl+Fuchs has combined laser pulse ranging and piezoelectric 2D scanning to create 3D point clouds. Adopting mems scanner technology from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (Fraunhofer ISIT), the proof-of-concept, dubbed R3000, sweeps a 40° x 30° cone at ranges “from a few centimetres to several hundred meters with millimetre accuracy,” according to P+F. “Ambient …
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