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Digi-Key has highlighted how it turned to Bluetooth, and a LoRa network, to ensure safe distancing procedures for all employees in its product distribution center (PDC). Each employee is issued with an Option badge, which interact wirelessly with other such badges and also a cloud platform that can maintain contact tracing information. This improves the accuracy and efficiency of necessary ...

Edinburgh-based pyroelectric sensor maker Pyreos has appointed two distributors to increase its commercial presence in Asia. “These partnerships are set to increase our market share in South Korea and China,” said Pyreos v-p sales Keith Pruden. “More than this, these alliances will provide greater ability for our customers in Asia to simplify their supply chains and source full systems design ...

Digi-Key is introducing a power focus campaign with MEAN WELL to provide a range of configurable power supply solutions to their customers. MEAN WELL offers modular power supplies aimed at low-volume and custom-power requirements in medical and industrial markets. “Digi-Key is proud to support these power supply solutions as MEAN WELL works to provide innovative solutions for medical and industrial ...

Farnell is aiming at IoT device development with a range of single board computers (SBCs), shields, modules and sensors from DFRobot – including LattePanda processor boards. The company will stock more than 140 DFRobot products, including: Gravity Series: Solderless modular plug-and-play electronics toolkit with expansion modules compatible with Ardunio and micro:bit. Modules include the Ardunio moisture sensor, Ardunio pH water quality ...

Cornell Dubilier has released a range of long-life film capacitors optimised for ac harmonic filtering on the input and output of inverters. Called the ALH series and with a 1,500 hour rating (see below) “this new series is designed with construction to meet the challenges of harsh environments,” according to distributor New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking the parts. “The series ...

Compact and cost-effective solutions for professionals. LS and DRB power supplies by TDK-Lambda LS series – modular, switched-mode power supplies Universal DIN rail-mounted DBR series power supplies In industrial and other professional applications, the power source plays a key role. Its unreliability is one of the most frequent causes of equipment failure. A power supply will always be exposed to ...

Digi-Key has launched Part Tracing for printing information to appear directly on cut tape products. It will also enable engineers to better organise their components and make it easier to visually verify them, says the company. The following information is available to be printed on 8 mm-wide paper carrier tape products: sales order, invoice, line item (detail ID), date code, ...

element14 has announced its latest Project14 design contest entitled ‘Digital Fever’. The challenge celebrates the freedom of all things digital, from digital logic, and programming for complex decision making, to FPGA, which can be configured to do just about anything. Members of the online community will have the opportunity to design any type of digital project with free choice of ...

Source measurement units from Rohde & Schwarz for semiconductor and wireless communications testing in the NGU series are now available from Farnell. They are designed for semiconductor and wireless communications testing for battery power devices (mobile phones, tablets and IoT devices). Farnell now offers the R&S NGU201 and R&S NGU401 for testing wireless communications and semiconductor testing, respectively. The NGU201 has two quadrants which can ...

Test products and services provider, Electro Rent, has created an online portal for customers to manage contracts and view their asset base. MyER Portal is designed to ensure a team has access to equipment and information to meet a project’s requirements. Managers, test engineers and purchasing staff can use the online tool to access information about rental and purchase contracts, asset details ...