Category: Industrial

Industrial

  • CEVA’s Next-Gen Vision Processor

    CEVA has introduced a new vision platform, which they’re calling the CEVA-XM4. We’ve looked at their prior platform, the MM3101, before; you could consider this…

  • Freescale Acquired by NXP

    Did not see that coming. American chipmaker Freescale will be acquired by Dutch rival NXP in a cash and stock deal worth about $11.8 billion.…

  • Atmel Gives SIGFOX a Transmitter

    You may recall that, some months ago, we wrote about SIGFOX. As a quick review, SIGFOX is installing a completely new cellular system optimized for…

  • Raspberry Pi: The next generation

    The phenomenon that is Raspberry Pi has moved up a gear. On Monday (2nd February) the next generation of the credit card computer was announced.…

  • Zigbee 3.0 Released

    Zigbee rolled out their latest revision late last year: 3.0. I sat with Zigbee Alliance CEO Tobin Richardson right as he had arrived back in…

  • Towards Smaller Solar Inverters

    Inverters are getting smaller. We’re talking here about the inverters used in solar cells to convert the DC that they generate into AC for the…

  • All the News on IMUs

    Inertial measurement units (IMUs), once cool and shiny in their new MEMS editions, are now familiar old friends. We’ve become accustomed to motion sensors in…

  • IoT Business Objects

    We do this thing here where we try to take occasional stock of the structure of the Internet of Things (IoT) to try to make…

  • M2M in Orbit

    This is for those of us that maybe haven’t been paying attention. The most important concept that turns Things into an Internet of Things is…

  • ProbMe Simplifies Thing WiFi Connection

    Sometime back, we took a look at Econais’s WiFi modules. We mentioned their ProbMe capability, which simplifies connecting these devices to the WiFi network. This…