What are the two biggest vertical markets for IoT? The answer may surprise you: transportation and utilities – and they make up more than half of all demand for IoT. Assets like these demand satellite connectivity and innovative technologies because…
u-blox partners with Topcon to create GNSS offerings
u-blox has announced a strategic partnership with Topcon Positioning Systems, a company in precision measurement and workflow solutions. This collaboration aims to create one of the world’s largest high-precision GNSS positioning service offerings for the mass market, providing customers worldwide…
5G Techritory returns for final edition
The annual 5G Techritory forum will take place on 30-31 October, marking the final edition in its current format. Now in its seventh year, the forum will gather leading figures from telecommunications across policy, industry, academia, and business. The event…
element14 introduces Design Challenge
element14, part of the Avnet Community, has introduced the “Start a Movement” Design Challenge, offering 20 engineers the chance to develop a project featuring a moving component. Participants will receive the Analog Devices TMC5272-EVAL kit, along with the QSH4218 NEMA…
MathWorks releases hardware support
MathWorks has announced the release of a hardware support package for the Qualcomm Hexagon Neural Processing Unit (NPU), integrated within the Snapdragon processor range. This new support package facilitates the automated generation of code from MATLAB and Simulink models, specifically…
The quest for true AI consciousness
From the Turing test to consciousness 2.0, Daz Williams, Chief AI Officer at InFlux Technologies shares his viewpoint on understanding AI In the ongoing journey to create and understand artificial intelligence (AI), a key challenge has been determining if and…
EnOcean launches latest transceiver devices
EnOcean is setting new standards in wireless technology with the introduction of its latest radio transceiver family. The new TCM 600 and TCM 615 devices offer significantly increased memory capacity and much greater computational power, while also reducing energy consumption.…
Understanding smart fridges and their place in the smart home ecosystem
Thanks to the introduction of Matter 1.2 (with the latest version being 1.3, released in May 2024) smart fridges, along with other home appliances like dishwashers and ovens became supported Matter device types. Matter is a unifying protocol that enables…
Weighing up ambient IoT and RAIN RFID: experts share their thoughts
Sometimes, the emergence of new technology is assumed to take the place of the pre-existing technology because it offers new benefits and features that trump the previous. This is not necessarily the case in ambient IoT, an emerging technology that…
Insight SiP introduces new Bluetooth-enabled module
Insight SiP, a specialist in ultra-compact RF modules, has introduced the ISP2454-MX, a Bluetooth-enabled module housed in a remarkably small 8 x 8 x 1mm package, the smallest available in the market. With an extended temperature range of up to…
