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Adding Vision to Supervision: Enhancing Workplace Efficiency

Adding Vision to Supervision: Enhancing Workplace Efficiency

Placing cameras in a workplace can be tricky because it requires balancing workplace efficiency with employee security and privacy. Learn how to leverage sensing technology properly to maximize production.


Sensor Technology Tackles Air Quality Challenges in the Industrial Realm

Sensor Technology Tackles Air Quality Challenges in the Industrial Realm

As we better understand the dangers of poor indoor air quality, engineers are looking to sensor technologies for detection and monitoring.


Mixed-safety Systems Using Multicore SoCs With Hypervisors and Multicore Frameworks

Mixed-safety Systems Using Multicore SoCs With Hypervisors and Multicore Frameworks

Learn about how heterogeneous multicore systems-on-chip (SoCs), hypervisors, and multicore frameworks can be useful in mixed-safety systems.


Developing Robust Motion Detectors Does Not Have to Be a Moving Target

Developing Robust Motion Detectors Does Not Have to Be a Moving Target

This article discusses some concepts for ensuring motion detector designs will be robust to external disturbances by presenting an infrared detector assembly that can significantly reduce the parts count and improve product performance and reliability. 


Intelligent Circuit Protection and Sensing Design for Smart Home Locks and Access Controls

Intelligent Circuit Protection and Sensing Design for Smart Home Locks and Access Controls

This article provides an overview of access control topology in smart homes and industrial buildings by covering the various protection and sensing solutions engineers can use in their designs.


How an Internal Faraday Shield and Small Ci-O Improve Optocoupler Galvanic Isolation

How an Internal Faraday Shield and Small Ci-O Improve Optocoupler Galvanic Isolation

This article discusses how the use of three key design methods utilized in optocouplers improves galvanic isolation performance and presents an accompanying high voltage surge test as proof. 


PLC DCS Analog Input Module Design Breaks Barriers in Channel-to-Channel Isolation and High Density

PLC DCS Analog Input Module Design Breaks Barriers in Channel-to-Channel Isolation and High Density

This article will briefly discuss isolation in the process control analog input module and the traditional approaches to achieving this. It then outlines an alternative high density, easy to design channel-to-channel isolation analog input module architecture.