With an analog sensor that detects moisture levels, you’ll set up a plant monitor with a light and sound alarm system to tell you when your plant needs watering.

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Toshiba has made available an “Easy Prototyping” service that allows reuse of the design assets required to develop large scale custom SoC with FPGA prototyping. Adoption dramatically shortens the development time from FPGA prototyping to custom SoC development, says Toshiba. Easy Prototyping is available on Toshiba’s ASIC and FFSA platforms. In conventional FPGA prototyping, SoC …

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The Dutch giant adds an OEM tack to its visible light communication strategy, targeting retail chains and shopping malls in another IoT application. It announces a French provider as the first customer in the expansion of its indoor positioning business. It also adds a Singapore mall as a direct Philips user.

Mobile wireless stalwart Verizon acquires smart-city-focused Sensity Systems, which has leveraged the widespread retrofit of street lights to LED sources to enable a variety of municipal IoT services.

The company has been selected to deliver a multi-year water treatment facility plan and expansion project for the JWC Water Treatment Plant.

Nexom, a wastewater treatment technologies leader for lagoons and filtration, now operates from offices in Winnipeg MB, Grafton WI, and Hayden ID.

The city of Sacramento has called the actions of the so-called “water vigilante” “trespassing, at the very least.”

French ultraviolet treatment (UV) company BIO-UV has said the sale of its US subsidiary will help to increase its turnover by €28 million in five years…

Improved rain and flood modelling, a significant increase in new temporary flood defences and greater protection to infrastructure were all outlined in the government’s National Flood Resilience Review this week…

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