SAWS Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) reached its highest storage milestone ever this week, surpassing 100,000 acre-feet (about 33 billion gallons) of water available for future use.
FilterBoxx Water & Environmental announce large operations & maintenance contract
Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.
Intel Mobile Saga Takes A New Twist
Speculation swirls around the Wall Street Journal rumour that the exec in charge of Intel’s modem business, Aicha Evans, is to leave after under a year in the job. Having achieved a 1% share of the apps processor market in 2015, despite subsidising the mobile business to the tune of $4 billion a year, it …
O-S-D market to grow 5% this year, says IC Insights
After a soft 2015 for the optoelectronics, sensors, actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) market, 2016 is expected to be a year of stabilisation prior to a return to normal growth rates, reports IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2016 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes sees combined O-S-D sales growing 5% in 2016 …
E-Ink to re-focus away from e-books
E-Ink is to de-emphasise its ambitions in the e-book market to focus on labelling, wearables, exterior displays, and auxiliary handset screens. E-ink had revenues of $414 million last year for a loss of $58 million attributable to the closing of its Korean subsidiary Hydis. It had licensing income of $100 million mostly from licensing its …
Acal BFi sells Tronics MEMS sensors in Europe
Acal BFi, has signed a distribution agreement with Tronics Microsystems and will sell the French supplier’s MEMS inertial sensors to the European markets. The Gypro series of inertial sensors has a bias stability (Allan variance) of 0.8°/hour. Power consumption can be as low as 25mA. Pascal Langlois, chief executive officer of Tronics, writes: “This collaboration …
Ofcom allocates spectrum for IoT
Ofcom is to allocate 10MHz of VHF spectrum in the 55-68MHz, 70.5-71.5MHz and 80.5-81.5MHz bands for the IoT. Currently, licence exempt devices including M2M can access spectrum in the 870-876MHz and 915-921MHz bands. Ofcom says that the low data rates of IoT applications don’t require more spectrum. Business radio licences will continue to be available …
Raspberry Pi gets shields for IoT
Pi 2 Design has developed a number of media-based I/O shields for the Raspberry Pi 2. The 502SSD shield is a solid state drive which has a 802.11 Wi-Fi interface built-in. The subject for a successful Kickstarter funding campaign in December. The 502IoT is a professional I/O shield which provides access to sensors using the …
Why Psion Made Pocket Computers.
Psion is one of those start-ups which was profitable from Day 1. “In the first year – 1980- turnover was £120,000 and I made £12,000 profit after paying my salary,” recalls founding CEO David Potter, “and I could see I was going to make a great deal more the following year.” Potter had been going …
Rohde & Schwarz joins 5G mobile project in China
Rohde & Schwarz has joined a 5G mobile development collaboration in China. The test firm will work with the China Mobile Research Institute on the evolution from 4G to 5G mobile network technologies within the China Mobile 5G Innovation Center project. As well as developing 4G+/5G test capabilities Rohde & Schwarz said it will promote …