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What Is Digital Twinning? Bringing Industrial IoT Sensors and VR Together

What Is Digital Twinning? Bringing Industrial IoT Sensors and VR Together

Gartner predicts that 50% of large industrial companies will use digital twins by 2021. What are they and what do they do?


News Dec 12, 2017 by Chantelle Dubois
Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 1

Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 1

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses the key parameters and features a designer needs to be aware of and how they relate to inclination and stabilization applications, thus helping the designer choose the most suitable accelerometer.


High Voltage Design: A New Three-Phase Half Bridge Gate Driver from Diodes Inc.

High Voltage Design: A New Three-Phase Half Bridge Gate Driver from Diodes Inc.

Diodes Incorporated has announced a new three-phase half bridge gate driver with multiple protection features and the ability to drive N-Channel MOSFETs and IGBTs.


News Dec 06, 2017 by Nick Davis
Designing for the IoT: Microcontroller-Free Smart-Passive-Sensors​ ​(SPS)​

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 and without a microcontroller—are an example of IoT-specific design.


Industry Articles Dec 05, 2017 by onsemi
The IoT for Insurance Companies and How They Use Data

The IoT for Insurance Companies and How They Use Data

A new report details how insurance companies are positioned for change.


How to Interface an Ultrasonic Sensor with an LCD Using a Microcontroller Dev Kit

How to Interface an Ultrasonic Sensor with an LCD Using a Microcontroller Dev Kit

Let's interface an ultrasonic sensor and a lighting system! In this project, we'll design a sensor subsystem and then use it in a parking sensor application.


Projects Nov 02, 2017 by Nick Davis
Can This Skin Sensor Give Robotics and Prosthetics a Delicate Touch?

Can This Skin Sensor Give Robotics and Prosthetics a Delicate Touch?

Researchers at the University of Washington have designed a 'skin' sensor to give robots and prosthetics more sensitivity for precision tasks.


News Oct 28, 2017 by Tim Youngblood
Wide-Area Wireless Platform Enables a New Wave of IoT systems

Wide-Area Wireless Platform Enables a New Wave of IoT systems

The next step of wide-area wireless connection is to bring the power of wireless to machine type communications (MTC). This will drive a revolution in services that will span sectors as diverse as manufacturing, city management, transportation, and energy.


Intelligence at the Edge Part 1: The Edge Node

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 essential fundamental service. The industrial IoT starts with the edge node, which is the sensing and measurement entry point of interest.


New Flexible Biofuel Cell Designed for Wearables Extracts Energy from Sweat

New Flexible Biofuel Cell Designed for Wearables Extracts Energy from Sweat

A team of engineers from University of California San Diego have created a biofuel cell that produces ten times the power of its predecessors


News Sep 05, 2017 by Zabrel Holsman
Lapis Semiconductor Introduces New Soil Sensor that Links with IoT Infrastructure

Lapis Semiconductor Introduces New Soil Sensor that Links with IoT Infrastructure

Here is how two key facets of the IoT world come together to create a holistic solution.


News Aug 18, 2017 by Majeed Ahmad
Isolation in Digital Power Supply—Why and How

Isolation in Digital Power Supply—Why and How

Digital power supplies are widely employed in high-end servers, storage, telecom brick modules, and more. For these applications, isolation is often required. This article discusses the digital isolation techniques with Analog Devices’ iCoupler products in digital power supply design.


What is Bluetooth 5? Learn about the Bit Paths Behind the New BLE Standard

What is Bluetooth 5? Learn about the Bit Paths Behind the New BLE Standard

The latest Bluetooth Specification provides features that allow increased speed and increased transmission distance. This article provides information about the various bit data paths used in the latest specifications.


“The Earable”: A 3D-Printed, Bluetooth-Enabled Wearable Temperature Sensor

“The Earable”: A 3D-Printed, Bluetooth-Enabled Wearable Temperature Sensor

Researchers from the University of California Berkeley have created a wearable device worn on the ear that can monitor core body temperature in real time.


News Jul 29, 2017 by Zabrel Holsman
MIT Introduces New Power-Efficient Converter for Reducing Power Consumption in IoT Devices

MIT Introduces New Power-Efficient Converter for Reducing Power Consumption in IoT Devices

Increasing the power efficiency in IoT and other low power, battery-operated devices requires a number of strategies that reduce energy consumption during both the active and sleep modes.


News Jul 19, 2017 by Amos Kingatua
Apple to Enter the Automotive Game as Siri Begins to Lag in Personal Assistant AI

Apple to Enter the Automotive Game as Siri Begins to Lag in Personal Assistant AI

Is Apple going to go up against Waymo and Tesla in the autonomous car industry?


News Jul 13, 2017 by Robin Mitchell
Isolation and Gain: A New Isolation Amplifier from Texas Instruments Suited for Current Sensing

Isolation and Gain: A New Isolation Amplifier from Texas Instruments Suited for Current Sensing

Amplifiers such as the AMC1301-Q1 are a convenient solution for isolated current and voltage measurements.


News Jul 07, 2017 by Robert Keim
The Importance of the ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Standard: New Sensors from ams

The Importance of the ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Standard: New Sensors from ams

The AS5270 position sensors are the new addition to the ams magnetic position sensors portfolio. The sensors meet ISO 26262 functional safety standards.


News Jul 07, 2017 by Karissa Manske
Saturating and Spoofing LiDAR Attacks Cast Doubt on the Safety of Driverless Cars

Saturating and Spoofing LiDAR Attacks Cast Doubt on the Safety of Driverless Cars

Researchers have carefully studied techniques that could be used to interfere with driverless systems. The conclusion: Don’t fall asleep at the wheel.


News Jul 01, 2017 by Cesco Saavedra
InvenSense Introduces Update to SensorStudio IoT Design Platform

InvenSense Introduces Update to SensorStudio IoT Design Platform

InvenSense recently announced an update to SensorStudio, their sensor prototyping and development platform for the IoT.


News Jun 28, 2017 by Karissa Manske