A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for the week of February 13, 2017.

 

Singapore engineering firm Hyflux will design and build three small scale desalination plants along the Red Sea coast in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…

 

Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority receives top honor.

Coventor, the supplier of virtual fabrication technology for ICs and MEMS, works with a team from Imec to compare the effects of variability on different semiconductor fab processes.

Read full article: Coventor and Imec link on virtual fabrication

Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.

Read full article: Profile: Restructured Imagination focuses on PowerVR, MIPS and wireless IP

Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT setups. The smart home software can be used with different hardware ranging from a PC to Raspberry Pi. It can be used to control, automate and …

Read full article: Ubuntu smart home platform for Raspberry Pi

This week marks the 170th birthday of Thomas Edison inventor and all-round scientific superstar. But where would we be without the humble electrical wire?

Read full article: Only Connect: On the history of electrical wire

Check out a couple of new whitepapers on the site relating to IoT and networking. They’re from Intel and cover fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit.

Read full article: IoT: Case studies on fog computing and the Intel IoT Kit

Gaggione has created a range of colour-mixing 45mm collimators. Using a patented technology, according to the firm, it is achieves the narrowest available beams combined with state of the art colour mixing capabilities. “Designed to match most demanding RGBW or human-centric light applications, it also provides a significant breakthrough with single or multi-chip white LEDS,” …

Read full article: Colour-mixing collimators with narrow beams

Lens maker Fraen has again applied its nested collimator intellectual property, this time to a 50mm diameter optics that will fit in MR16 applications – the earlier 75mm types are aimed at PAR20s. +/-6° beams, or narrower, can be expected from CoBs with a light emitting surface unser 6.5mm across. Applications are expected in architecture, …

Read full article: Nested colimators make narrow beams from CoBs