Data centre infrastructure: the importance of effective power supply

It goes without saying that a constant power supply is absolutely vital for a data centre. The fire that burned down the OVH data centres in Strasbourg, France in March this year, proved to be a big wake-up call for facility managers around the globe.  The financial impact…

2022 smart home trends from Gira

Gira, global supplier of intelligent system solutions for the connected home and building, unveils the latest automated systems and technologies to enhance your home in 2022. “The last two years have seen us all spend more time at home and…

Is road technology getting smarter or scarier?

Detective Chief Superintendent, Andy Cox, led a seminar at MOVE 2021 entitled ‘Serious collision investigation: preventing future road deaths.’ It was topical and sparked intrigue for its relevance to national debate surrounding road safety. In the seminar, Cox urged the…

The smart home security camera market and its global prospects

The smart home security camera can be defined as a high-tech solution that ensures the much-required safety of one’s property and household with 24/7 surveillance. With the increasing adoption of smart home, the emerging and established countries across the globe…

5 Task Forces to drive G.hn innovation and deployments

HomeGrid Forum has announced a new organisational structure that includes five Task Forces designed to support specific use cases and accelerate the deployments of network topologies. The Task Forces are customised for Home Networking, GiGAWire/Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU)/Single Family Unit…

Ethical hacking: cybersecurity in the automotive industry

Technology and embedded systems are becoming more advanced and more common in businesses, meaning there is always the risk of hacking and security breaches. It’s important to remember, not all hackers are criminals. Ethical hacking has become increasingly popular as…

The giant impact of TinyML

The gathering trend towards streamlined machine learning at the edge is spurring the wider IoT market, and driving digital transformation across industries at massive scale. While complex AI algorithms running on power-hungry Cloud servers are hyped as the solution for…

Fraunhofer mioty protocol integrated into wireless bidirectional platform

The standardised Fraunhofer mioty protocol stack for low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and IoT applications is implemented and tested in the wireless bidirectional sub-GHZ SoC Series 2 platform EFR32FG23 (FG23) from Silicon Labs. The single die, multi-core solution presents…

How to securely connect IoT devices to cloud applications and manage them throughout their lifetimes

Sensors, actuators and other IoT devices communicate with applications running on computer servers over IoT networks. These servers may be on-premises or in the cloud and there are a growing number of attacks on them where the IoT devices themselves…

Top 5 smart home features

Following on from our introductory article, “Alexa… Do I own a smart home?”, we have compiled a list of our top five features to look out for in smart homes. Some of them are already blowing up across the world…