Trimble’s Telog® 41 Series of wireless, battery-powered sensors for water monitoring applications are Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that use innovative, low-power, Long-Range (LoRa® technology) wireless communications to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and groundwater systems including water pressures, flows, levels and rainfall volumes.
U.S. to pay $2B to marines exposed to toxic drinking water in N. Carolina
Exposure occured while marines were assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
New Jersey American Water investing $5.8M in service areas
Aging water lines will be replaced with ductile iron pipes.
Hanes brands awarded above-average scores for water management
Company earns A- and B ratings, scoring ahead of CDP program averages in peer comparison.
It’s Never As Easy As You Think
Maybe the West Coast algorithm companies are beginning to realise that they’re not Masters of the Technoverse. Hard on the heels of Apple and Google giving up on plans to manufacture driverless cars, Google now says it has given up its plans to make Internet-delivering drones. It’s somehow innate in software guys to believe that …
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Foundry grew 11% in 2016 to $50bn, says IC Insights
The pure-play foundry market grew 11% in 2016 to top $50 billion, says IC Insights, and will grow at a CAGR of 7.3%
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TI aims at STEM education with Hub
The TI-Innovator Hub is a palm-sized box with a microcontroller, red and RGB LEDs, a light sensor and sounders inside, plus IO lines to connect with the world outside.
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Time for a cup of Raspberry tea?
It’s good to see the uses people find for a Raspberry Pi, and here’s an example: an automated tea-dunker designed to deliver a perfect cuppa.
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‘Cuk-buck 2’ dc-dc converter – more fine art from Slobodan’s pen
Slobodan Cuk, inventor of the innovative Cuk dc-dc topology has been at it again and come up with another innovative dc-dc, dubbed the ‘Cuk-buck 2’. He sees the partly-resonant design as a competitor to hard-switched high ratio topologies – such as for 48V to 1V conversion, where on-time is so short that GaN switching transistors …
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The Market Which Vanished
In 1970, the world’s first digital watch, the Pulsar, was launched. It cost $1500 and was made by the Hamilton Watch Company. In 1973 Roger Moore’s James Bond sported one in Live and Let Die. The LED display had to be turned on for each reading of the time and the batteries typically lasted four …
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