Internet of Things

In the The Lighting Up Aberdeen project, North has worked with Aberdeen City Council to build an urban LoRa wireless IoT network to manage over 37,000 lighting units across the city, all from a central management system. “The lighting system also includes custom dimming profiles to manage the level of energy required at any given time, automated fault reporting for ...

In the IoT, a cyberattack exposes an entire network, but unikernels and AI can play a part in making systems secure, says Ian Ferguson of Lynx Software Technologies. When a connected system has been compromised, estimates of the cost of the cyberattack vary. This is partly due to embarrassment on the part of the business that may also be in ...

MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) has been around for a long time, but 5G has spawned a range of MIMO-related acronyms, says Sara Ghaemi of Avnet Abacus. Stepping back into the world of long-term evolution (LTE), MIMO usually refers to single user MIMO (SU-MIMO). This is where each user/device waits in turn to use base station resources. The multiple antenna ...

Altimeters are an essential component in an aeronautical safety-of-life system, but they can be at risk as the RF spectrum shifts to 5G, warns Peter Matthews of Knowles Precision Devices. Pilots rely on radio altimeters to provide accurate measurements of an aircraft’s distance above the Earth’s surface, especially during the approach and landing phases of a flight. Data received from ...

Infineon will be revealing two internet-connected sensor evaluation kits at the Electronica exhibition in Munich, one for 60GHz radar and one for CO2 sensing. The company has made the sensor board part of these kits compatible with AdaFruit’s ‘Wing’ format which plugs into processor boards with AdaFruit’s ‘Feather’ pin layout. Infineon has adopted the Wing format for a planned series ...

Advantech has introduced a family of industrial wireless edge gateways built around various Arm processors, for protocol conversion and edge-to-cloud communication. Jointly called ECU-1100, “these gateways feature wireless and Ethernet communication, multiple protocol support and WebAccess integration, and have specifically been designed for distributed solar power generation, electricity and energy management applications”, according to the company. There are seven models: ...

Last chance to register for our next webinar: Securing the IoT supply chain, which is taking place tomorrow, in association with Crypto Quantique. The date and time is: Tuesday 25th October, 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST Featuring: Crypto Quantique, Intel, Codasip Register for the webinar » The Internet of Things (IoT) sector recognises the importance of cybersecurity to our well-being, ...

Described as the “UK’s Premier IoT Show, from Sensor to Cloud”, Hardware Pioneers Max is on 25 October 2022 at the London Business Design Centre. Topics covered in the show include embedded vision, IoT security, Edge AI, FPGA technology, power management and sensing technology, and it also features an exhibition (you can see the full preview list of exhibitors).. Speakers ...

There are technical challenges to implementing multiple radios in the IoT, explain Chris Barratt and Dr Nick Wood of Insight SiP. The IoT, or Internet of Things, is something of a catch-all term, but it is all about providing connectivity between electronic devices and the internet. In a large proportion of cases that involves wireless connectivity, because frequently the connectivity ...

Everactive has a development kit for its battery-less IoT system in the pipeline. “The company’s self-powered hardware and managed network is purpose-built to acquire and deliver the dense physical-world data,” it said. The development kit includes two of Everactive’s  batteryless IoT devices (left), each with a sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure and tri-axial acceleration. Power comes from a low-light ...