As high-speed electronics replaces micromachines and chemicals, the electronic nose (e-nose) could get cheaper. Aimed at health monitoring through breath analysis, the e-nose has been designed at the University of Texas Dallas and performs ‘rotational spectroscopy’ at over 200GHz using a 65nm CMOS chips. “There have been many efforts to build an electronic nose,” said …
Intel discusses IoT security at Leti conference
French microelectronics research organisation Leti is hosting a one-day conference discussing security of IoT devices and applications. Called “System Reliability & Security in a Connected World” the conference will take place in Lyon on June 23. According to Alain Merle, Leti’s strategic marketing manager for security, new technologies are needed to provide privacy and security …
IoT design kit offers free IBM Bluemix cloud trial
Avnet Memec – Silica has introduced a starter kit for industrial IoT designs with cloud services and applications from the IBM Bluemix. Called MicroZed, the IoT design platform runs Wind River Pulsar Linux operating system on Xilinx Zynq-7000 programmable silicon. The kit integrates the IBM Watson IoT Platform agent on top of a custom-configured, certified …
LoRaWAN brings IoT to Rome
Rome-based telecoms operator Unidata has adopted the LoRaWAN technology platform to deploy a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) in Italy. This follows news that Orange is deploying LoRa wide area wireless networks for smart cities in France. Unidata will also promote the IoT wireless technology with a demonstration lab in Rome LoRa technology supplied …
Bluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed
The next version of Bluetooth has been announced. As well as increasing the range and speed of transmissions, the next release – dubbed simply Bluetooth 5 – will also increase its broadcast messaging capabilities, for beacon operation and location services. The Bluetooth SIG promises Bluetooth 5 will quadruple its range to up to around 400m …
Bluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed
GPUs bring scalable processing to machine vision
The industry should machine vision technology more user-friendly because this cutting-edge field has dramatic and positive potential for embedded applications, writes Stephen Turnbull. At its core, machine vision is simply leveraging the information available in an image to make a decision about what to do next with the object in the image. A simple pass/fail …
Metasurface converts sunlight to heat for electron emission
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter have created a metasurface that strongly absorbs light across the solar spectrum but minimises emission of thermal radiation. It uses uses amorphous carbon as an inter-layer between thin gold films with the upper film patterned with a 2D periodic array using focused ion beam etching. Gold is a first step, …
The Mirage
The chip industry has been known to get ahead of itself and, back in 2007, a TSMC exec told a forum on 450mm wafer development that “the industry should begin seeing momentum perhaps by the end of this year.” The exec argued that: “When production capacity of the latest wafer size accounts for more than …
New Amazon EC2 Spot Console Now Supports Spot Fleet and Spot Blocks
Today, we are introducing a redesigned EC2 Spot Requests console , which now supports Spot fleet and Spot blocks , features which simplify and streamline how you use Amazon EC2 Spot instances. Previously, Spot fleet and blocks were available via the AWS CLI and SDK tools only.
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions.