IoT - Electrical Engineering & Electronics Industry Articles

The IoT’s Low-Power Revolution

Interconnectivity in itself takes power, particularly for high-performance IoT devices that dedicate significant power usage to establishing connections and transmitting data. The IoT’s touted automatic firmware updates for...

June 20, 2018 by Renesas Electronics

Accelerating Embedded Vision Integration with Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack

SoCs with programmable logic are an essential element of real-time embedded vision systems. Designers can capitalize on the power and efficiency of Xilinx's Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC devices to...

May 18, 2018 by Xilinx

Lock Down the IoT Infrastructure

A critical factor in both Meltdown and Spectre lies in how the desire for speed can result in security issues.

March 13, 2018 by Rudy Ramos, Mouser

Cloud Power: Improving Efficiencies While Expanding Capabilities

Did you know that 70% of a data center's expense is in the form of power consumption? Did you also know that the world's demand for energy is estimated to increase by 35-40% by 2030?...

January 16, 2018 by ON Semiconductor

Industry 4.0: Industrial IoT and Full System Integration

Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution, also referred to as Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Smart Manufacturing. This most-recent industrial revolution builds...

January 11, 2018 by ON Semiconductor

Intelligence at the Edge Part 3: Edge Node Communication

Connected industrial machines can sense a wide array of information used to make key decisions within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). A sensor within an edge node can be spatially far...

January 09, 2018 by Ian Beavers, Analog Devices

Designing for the IoT: Microcontroller-Free Smart-Passive-Sensors (SPS)

Designing for the IoT comes with a unique set of challenges that require unique hardware solutions to overcome. Learn how smart passive sensors (SPSs)—sensors that function without a battery...

December 05, 2017 by ON Semiconductor

Industrial Automation: An Introduction to ON Semiconductor’s IoT Development Kit

As a design electrical engineer, proficiency with electrical engineering fundamentals requires you to know how to design and build the once-simple (“dumb”) products. But now, given...

November 07, 2017 by ON Semiconductor

Don’t Get Left Behind with Your Voice-Enabled Home Saying “I’m Sorry, I Didn’t Get That”

There is a trend beginning for a whole new network of smart devices to listen and respond to requests for all rooms of your smart home so you don't have to hear "I'm sorry, I didn't get that"...

October 10, 2017 by Morgan Lollar, Texas Instruments

Intelligence at the Edge Part 2: Reduced Time to Insight

In this multipart industrial IoT series, we will break down and explore the fundamental aspects of the edge node interpretation within the larger IoT framework: sensing, measuring,...

September 26, 2017 by Ian Beavers, Analog Devices

How to Train Your Door Lock

This article takes a look at how current- or next-generation technologies can provide the potential for innovative applications and the problems and solutions that may arise....

September 22, 2017 by Stefan Schauer, Texas Instruments

Intelligence at the Edge Part 1: The Edge Node

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses the broad transformation underway that will make pervasive sensing across connected machines not just a competitive advantage, but an...

September 12, 2017 by Ian Beavers, Analog Devices

Get Up to Speed on Bluetooth 5

This article takes a look at the improvements and capabilities of Bluetooth 5.

August 23, 2017 by Ferdie Brillantes, TAIYO YUDEN

E-paper Displays: Improving the User Experience of Low-Power Devices

Critical to the success of any product is its user experience. From household appliances through to websites, the ones that succeed are both functional and easy–or even enjoyable–to use....

July 18, 2017 by Scott Soong, Pervasive Displays

Creating a Smart Home with Blynk

This article describes how a prototype for a basic smart home system can be designed using the Silego GreenPAK and the Blynk app.

June 01, 2017 by Antonio Martinez, Silego

Flexible ECG Front-End IC Serves Ultra Low-Power IoT Edge Node Signal Processing Designs

As system designers search for power efficient signal conditioning components, they may find that there are very few ICs available under 100 μ‎A supply current and even fewer that include a...

April 18, 2017 by David Plourde, Analog Devices

The Ethical Minefield for Autonomous Vehicles

As autonomous vehicle technology progresses, public acceptance lags behind.

April 04, 2017 by Rudy Ramos, Mouser

Implementing LTE Cat 1 Communications for IoT and M2M Applications

Learn about LTE Cat 1's specifications and how you can use it in designs.

January 24, 2017 by Moti Tabulo, u-blox

Hardware-Based Trust Provides Key to IoT Security

Security is more important than ever for IoT designs.

November 09, 2016 by Mark Patrick, Mouser

Choosing a Wireless Protocol for Home Automation

Which wireless protocol should you use when designing a home automation device?

October 17, 2016 by Mark Patrick, Mouser