Internet of Things

A Danish company has created an internet connected hearing aid. The designer, Oticon says it will allow the hearing aid to communicate directly with connected devices such as door bells, smoke detectors and baby alarms. Called Opn, the hearing aid is compatible with the web-based service IFTTT (If This Then That) for communicating with other IoT devices. Søren Nielsen, president ...

With London Technology Week taking place this week, Jim Bowes, CEO and co-founder of digital consultancy Manifesto, suggests ways London can encourage future growth in its internet of things (IoT) technology sector. The capital has been successful at attracting digital technology and software start-ups, but Bowes says more can be done to support research in SMEs. He also believes recruitment ...

Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), mobile computing, and cloud computing can currently be found in many headlines in magazines. The common theme throughout is the development of RF communications systems, writes Wolfgang Bartels of Rigol Technologies. Behind all these applications you will find the technologies like LTE, 3GPP, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, RFID, NFC, and DECT.  Regardless ...

Qualcomm is supporting the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with its chipsets and Snapdragon mobile processors. Until now Qualcomm’s hardware support for Galileo was in selected chipsets nonly. The Qualcomm IZat location services platform will connect with up to six satellite constellations which means more than 80 different satellites can be used when calculating global position for navigation ...

More than a quarter of UK adults polled in the UK Robotics Week survey believe that the biggest benefit of driverless cars will be fewer road accidents. While 20% of adults polled in research believe driverless cars would make road rage less of a problem. The research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network, is being released ahead of ...

A quarter of people polled in research has been commissioned by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network believe that ball-collecting robots at tennis games will exist within the next 10 years. This one one of the quirky findings in the market research which is being released ahead of UK Robotics Week (25 June – 1 July 2016). The use of robots in ...

Rome-based telecoms operator Unidata has adopted the LoRaWAN technology platform to deploy a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) in Italy. This follows news that Orange is deploying LoRa wide area wireless networks for smart cities in France. Unidata will also promote the IoT wireless technology with a demonstration lab in Rome LoRa technology supplied by Semtech. Unidata’s LPWAN, based ...

French microelectronics research organisation Leti is hosting a one-day conference discussing security of IoT devices and applications. Called “System Reliability & Security in a Connected World” the conference will take place in Lyon on June 23. According to Alain Merle, Leti’s strategic marketing manager for security, new technologies are needed to provide privacy and security in order to ensure a ...

An end-to-end IoT ecosystem designed with re-usable infrastructure and open industry standards has been demonstrated at the recent internet of things (IoT) Thames Valley meetup in the UK. Advantech B+B SmartWorx, Connect2 Systems and DevicePilot were the three companies behind the demonstration of remote monitoring and management of industrial ultra-low power IoT sensor devices. It used constrained wireless networks and ...

Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote nodes on Sigfox networks, which are low data rate and ultra-narrowband, are expected to run for over 10 years on two AA cells. Applications are ...