Internet of Things

Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for pre-development of sensor technology products ...

The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to contribute research papers for consideration. ...

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, is participating in the EU-funded CiROCCO initiative, part of the wider Horizon Europe Programme. The CiROCCO research project aims to establish a low-cost and sustainable network of electronic sensing nodes in under-sampled desert areas and ecosystems in Egypt, Serbia and Spain. Sensing nodes It will collect data, through mobile monitoring devices, from both low-cost, ...

Attention has focused on cyber attacks on IT systems but the ‘things’ that make up the IoT are increasingly vulnerable, warns Pim Tuyls from Philips Research. Public attention has focused on cyber attacks on IT systems but another, potentially greater, risk has quietly grown. The IoT underpins smart homes, smart factories, and even large utility and transport networks. The threat ...

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, has reached an investment agreement with Thuraya Telecommunications, the mobile satellite services arm of Yahsat, the UAE’s satellite systems provider. The investment – in the form of a convertible loan – is valued at $17.5 million and it marks Thuraya’s first investment in a LEO satellite constellation. As part of the agreement, both parties ...

GigaDevice is aiming at processors with a 1.2V core voltage with a family of 1.2V SPI NOR flash ICs. Called the GD25UF series, they run from 1.14V-1.26V and “provide for a simpler power system architecture, and for direct interfacing between the I/O pins of the SoC or processor and the GD25UF device”, according to the company. The 64Mbit GD25UF64E is ...

Semtech has extended its LoRa portfolio with a transceiver for use in IoT end points that provides lower power consumption, global connectivity and long range. The LoRa Connect LR1121 is pin compatible with the current LoRa Edge devices, allowing module makers such as Murata to have a single hardware design for a wide range of applications, with global connectivity. Likewise, integrated passive ...

With Matter communication in mind, Murata has combined Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN radios in a single module – LBES5PL2EL, which it described in detail at Embedded World in Nuremberg today. “There are still only a few Matter-compliant solutions on the market, yet the potential for it to deliver convenience and comfort to the places in which we ...

At Embedded World today, Microchip announced six secure authentication devices that meet Common Criteria Joint Interpretation Library (JIL) secure key storage, and support algorithms that comply with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). They are intended to be companion devices, compatible with any microprocessor or microcontroller. “This portfolio lowers the barrier to entry and enables developers of products for new ...

Silicon Labs has announced wireless microcontrollers built around Arm’s security-enabled Cortex M33 processor. “Designed for the smallest IoT devices, the xG27 family ranges in size from 2mm-squared to 5 mm-squared. These offer designers energy efficiency, performance, trusted security and  wireless connectivity,” according to the company. Such as “connected medical devices, wearables, asset monitoring tags and simple consumer electronics like toothbrushes ...