Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote nodes on Sigfox networks, which are low data rate and ultra-narrowband, are expected to run for over 10 years on …
Wastewater being used to cool Apple data centers in Oregon
The new treatment facility is expected to save close to 5 million gallons a year by using recycled water instead of running the tap.
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, June 13, 2016
A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for June 13, 2016.
Spartan Environmental Installs Ozone Water Treatment System for client in Southern US
Spartan Environmental Technologies has supplied its first turn key containerized SPARTOX ozone water treatment system to a Fortune 300 client for groundwater remediation.
Intel’s Mobile Puzzle
In 2010 Intel paid $1.4 billion for Infineon’s wireless unit which was then supplying the modem for the iPhone. Intel promptly lost the Apple contract and has been making a big effort to win it back – reports say it has 1,000 engineers working on the project, Now, according to Bloomberg, the iPhone 7 sold …
Sundance adds Xilinx Ultrascale FPGA to EMC-2 boards
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Of Chesham has integrated Xilinx’s smallest Kintex UltraScale FPGA with its EMC2-family of embedded boards for the “OneBank” PC/104-compatible format. Sundance’s EMC2-family is a range of industrial-grade and deployment-ready PC/104 boards that feature either a Xilinx Zynq SoC or Xilinx Artix/Kintex FPGAs. The EMC2-KU35 is the latest member and has two banks …
Fujitsu wireless module uses Nordic BLE SoC
Fujitsu has announced a Bluetooth 4.2 module measuring 15.7 x 9.8 x 1.7 mm with integrated antenna based upon Nordic Semiconductor’s Bluetooth Smart SoC. The nRF52832 QFN-package wireless module has been designed around a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F CPU with 512kB + 64kB RAM. The embedded 2.4GHz transceiver supports Bluetooth Smart, ANT and proprietary 2.4 GHz …
Developing a lower cost MEMS test system
NI PXI and LabVIEW delivers an 11x reduction in the cost of a MEMS test system
8W isolated DC-DC is smaller than a square inch
An 8W isolated DC-DC converter has been designed in to a 16-pin DIP package measuring only 0.94 x 0.54 x 0.31-inch. The MDW08 family from US-based supplier Minmax offers 9-18 / 18-36 / 36-75Vdc input ranges with single and dual output models ranging 3.3 – 15Vdc delivering 8W of output power an encapsulated package. All …
Wideband clock meets 100G Ethernet jitter spec
A range of low jitter clock oscillators from IQD cover a frequency range from 1MHz up to 1.5GHz and can be used for high speed serial interfaces such as Ethernet and PCI Express. The devices, IQXO-940, IQXO-942 and IQXO-944, have a specified phase jitter performance down to between 0.9ps and 0.05ps rms max depending upon the …