A car with an online GPS knows the fastest route from A to B, the connected factory controls itself, the smart home helps save heating costs, thanks to communication with the home-owner’s smartphone. Everything is becoming an active part of the internet. Even now, billions of things around the world are beginning to exchange and Read more about From sensors that feel to the all-embracing IoT cloud[…]
ams AG (SIX: AMS), a leading provider of high performance sensor solutions and analog ICs, today launched the world’s first series of cost-effective multispectral sensor-on-chip solutions, opening the way for a new generation of spectral analyzers for consumer and industrial applications. Offered in a small 4.5 x 4.4mm land grid array package, the ultra-low power Read more about World’s first digital multispectral sensor-on-chip[…]
Market data; market and technology appraisal; case studies: the complete picture for printed, flexible and organic electronics. This report provides the most comprehensive view of the topic, giving detailed ten year forecasts by device type. The market is analyzed by territory, printed vs non printed, rigid vs flexible, inorganic vs organic, cost of materials vs Read more about Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2017-2027[…]
Together with his research team, Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics at Lund University in Sweden, has developed a technology for smarter transistors which could be used in electronics that operate on low energy, such as sensors for the Internet of Things. Using the new transistors on a large scale could save enormous amounts of energy. Read more about Low energy sensors for the Internet of Things[…]
A research group including members from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science have developed a real-time fiber-optic distributed sensing system for strain and temperature. The system requires light injection from only one end of the fiber and can achieve a sampling rate of 100 kHz, an improvement Read more about Ultra-high-speed optical fiber sensor enables detection of structural damage in real time[…]
With this week’s news hitting the streets that Amazon’s Alexa plans to introduce a seven-inch touchscreen display, Silicon Valleybased startup SmartBeings, Inc. is glad to see the market now moving toward a position they targeted last year, effectively substantiating the fact that SmartBeings is “truly onto something big.” Earlier this month, SmartBeings introduced WooHoo, the Read more about A New ”Smart Home Hub” take control of every smart device in a user’s home[…]
In the Netherlands there are many waterways, small inland harbors and canals that are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with high-density shipping traffic. For municipalities, provinces and other potential canal authorities such us Ministry of Infraestructure, it is essential to provide a system able to control the Read more about Innovative laser solution for traffic management[…]
Last week IDTechEx gave the opening presentation at the 2016 Korea Summit for Smart Wearable Devices, excellently hosted by KDIA and KSA in Seoul, Korea. Wearable sensors once again dominated discussion throughout the day, with latest examples of options in MEMS, textiles and more presented at length in the conference. Additional discussions throughout the day Read more about Sensors driving next-generation wearable devices[…]