Legislation & Skills

UK national standards body BSI has published a standard covering automated vehicle trial data collection and management for incident investigation. It is the fourth publication from the CAV Standards Programme backed by CCAV, the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and delivered with the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and Zenzic. The document is PAS 1882:2021 ...

Silicon Labs has earned IoT security certifications from both PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance. The company’s ‘Secure Vault’ is a suite of security features including: secure boot based on hardware root of trust, secure debug, physical tamper, secure identity for attestation, and physically unclonable function (PUF) key management. It will feature in Wireless Gecko Series 2 products – and ...

A reader-friendly guide to the recently-announced open-source hardware specification DIN Spec 3105 has been published, written on behalf of the Journal of Open Hardware by Jérémy Bonvoisin of the University of Bath, one of the many contributors to the specification in which German standards organisation Deutsches Institut für Normung solidly defines what ‘open-source hardware’ is, and what isn’t. The guide introduces the open-source hardware ...

German national standards body DIN (Deutsche Institut für Normung) has defined exactly what ‘open-source hardware’ is, and what it isn’t. This should mean an end to ‘open-washing’ – marketing partially or completely closed-source hardware as ‘open-source’. The definition is laid down in document ‘DIN Spec 3105 Open source hardware’, which has been written in English. Its creation builds on ‘Open ...

The British Standards Institution has published its the first taxonomy for specifying the operational design domain of automated driving systems. ‘PAS 1883 Operational design domain (ODD) taxonomy for automated driving systems (ADS)’ is a specification intended to help enable safe automated driving by defining a common language for describing the operating conditions, such type of roads, traffic and weather, an automated vehicle ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allocated its 6GHz spectrum to un-licensed use, opening 5.925 – 7.125GHz for uses such as Wi-Fi in the US. Unlicenced users will share it with licensed utility, public safety and wireless back-haul microwave services, and to protect these there are rules including only allowing low-power indoor operations over the full 1.2GHz. Less restricted (‘standard ...

Nanolumens has announced the launch of a content series designed to demystify digital signage. The series will target beginners through electrical engineering experts, explaining specific topics within the digital display industry. Subjects covered by the series will include future technology, systems design, and returns on investment across key segments. It will feature recurring contributions from Nanolumens representatives including vice president ...

A robotic design competition for the UK’s school children, based on an on-line game, has been launched by the government’s UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network) and educational publishers Twinkl. The School Robot Competition invites children aged between 8 and 14 (upper KS2-KS3) to design a robot that can move across Mars and complete various tasks and challenges on the ...

Airbus has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Autodesk in an educational initiative which taps into the excitement of space exploration. The Airbus Foundation, ESA and Autodesk have launched an educational online competition called Moon Camp, aimed at fostering interest amongst school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).  The “Moon camp” competition will ask school ...

Former CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services UK, Jacqui Ferguson has taken a role at EngineeringUK as a trustee.  EngineeringUK has plans to broaden its industry and business support activities across a wider range of technology sectors. Ferguson’s appointment will bring new expertise to the organisation. Prior to Hewlett Packard she worked for Electronic Data Systems and KPMG. EngineeringUK chairman ...