Engineering company Statiflo International has been bought by its managing director for an undisclosed sum…
Wastewater discharge to be banned from passenger ships into Baltic Sea
By 2021 passenger ships will be prohibited from discharging wastewater into the Baltic Sea special area and will have to offload sewage at port reception facilities…
Water bills for Flint residents discounted
The discounts are based on how much customers have paid since April 2014.
Xylem Analytics partners with Lab Synergy to expand offerings in North America
With the addition of the Lab Synergy team, Xylem Analytics is now expanding the solutions available through its direct sales force in North America.
$4.5M Sewer, stormwater inspection project in Atlanta to be led by Woolpert
The firm will perform a yearly assessment for the Metro Atlanta county under one annual contract, renewable for up to four years.
Atomic memory bids to store US Library of Congress in a speck of dust
A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library of Congress in a cube just 100 micrometres across – little more than a speck of dust. Researchers have been trying for years to develop data storage using single atoms as bits – the 1s …
Atomic memory bids to store US Library of Congress in a speck of dust
Socionext jv stabilises moving video platforms
Socionext, the SoC jv of Fujitsu and Panasonic, has joined with FotoNation to deliver Electronic Image Stabilisation (EIS) that delivers video stability for ‘on-the-move’ video devices, including drones, action cameras, and wearables. This EIS solution delivers an energy-efficient, GPU-free chipset that can process HD and 4K-ready video at up to 60 frames-per-second, enabling video that …
President Obama embraces IoT and Industrie 4.0
US President Barack Obama was given a demonstration of German IoT technology for smart factories when he visited the the Hannover Messe exhibition with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel were given a taste of Industrie 4.0 by Harting on its stand at the exhibition. They saw the Rinspeed “Etos” car, in …
Raspberry Pi camera modules offer home security with 8-megapixel resolution
One for Gadget Masters to note – the Raspberry Pi camera modules have been upgraded, for 8-megapixel resolution imaging (they were 5-megapixel). There’s also a Sony IMX219PQ CMOS image sensor in a fixed-focus module, which enables the board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. Otherwise, the new version cameras have the same video capability …
Raspberry Pi camera modules offer home security with 8-megapixel resolution
FPGAs get Hitless I/O for in-system hardware upgrade
Lattice semiconductor has added to its MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. The new FPGAs offer expanded I/O and logic support for control PLD applications, while increased on-chip memory improves picture clarity for low cost video bridging in large monitor applications, says Lattice. Features include: …