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Silicon Photo Multipliers Take the Mechanical Bulk Out of Automotive LiDAR

Silicon Photo Multipliers Take the Mechanical Bulk Out of Automotive LiDAR

Automotive LiDAR faces the challenge of combining long-distance ranging with low-reflectivity targets in harsh environments. SiPMs may be the answer.


News Jul 13, 2020 by Maya Jeyendran
Optical Sensors are the Key to Health-Monitoring Wearables—And Size is Critical

Optical Sensors are the Key to Health-Monitoring Wearables—And Size is Critical

Optical sensors have made it big in the medical device industry. And with wearables taking on increasing roles for health monitoring, size is paramount.


News Jul 11, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Silicon Chip Improves LiDAR Systems Without the Use of Electronics

Silicon Chip Improves LiDAR Systems Without the Use of Electronics

A silicon chip with no moving parts enables compact, efficient lidar implementations.


News Jul 10, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Continuous Medical Monitoring Is Now a Reality With Sophisticated Smartwatch Circuitry

Continuous Medical Monitoring Is Now a Reality With Sophisticated Smartwatch Circuitry

Smartwatches are increasingly used as medical devices. What's going on at the circuit level for these bio-metric wearables?


News Jul 09, 2020 by Nicholas St. John
Engineers Deal With Drift in Many Ways. What About a “Zero Drift” Hall-Effect Current Sensor?

Engineers Deal With Drift in Many Ways. What About a “Zero Drift” Hall-Effect Current Sensor?

You may be familiar with current-sense amplifiers to mitigate drift. Now, Texas Instruments offers what they call the "industry’s first zero-drift Hall-effect current sensors."


News Jul 08, 2020 by Jake Hertz
A New Method to Generate Data for Training Autonomous Vehicles

A New Method to Generate Data for Training Autonomous Vehicles

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new technique for generating more data, which could be used to train autonomous vehicles tracking systems more efficiently.


News Jun 29, 2020 by Luke James
Continuous-Wave Radar Systems May Replace Cuffed Blood Pressure Armbands

Continuous-Wave Radar Systems May Replace Cuffed Blood Pressure Armbands

Uncomfortable cuffed armbands for blood pressure monitoring may be a technology of the past with continuous-wave radar systems.


News Jun 29, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
NASA Creates Open-Source Device to Prevent You from Touching Your Face

NASA Creates Open-Source Device to Prevent You from Touching Your Face

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of engineers at NASA JPL has created PULSE, a pendant that will warn if you’re about to touch your face.


News Jun 29, 2020 by Jake Hertz
New RFID Tags Configured as Sensors Can Detect Carbon Monoxide Levels—and the Sweetness of Wine

New RFID Tags Configured as Sensors Can Detect Carbon Monoxide Levels—and the Sweetness of Wine

Using electrolyte glucose-oxidase as a battery source, MIT researchers have configured RFID tags as sensors, which improves the signal-to-noise ratio and reduces multipath issues.


News Jun 19, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
RAIN Alliance Extends Its Reach for Universal UHF RFID Adoption

RAIN Alliance Extends Its Reach for Universal UHF RFID Adoption

Like Bluetooth SIG and the Wi-Fi Alliance, the RAIN Alliance is pushing for global adoption of ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID technology.


News Jun 14, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau
Driver Monitoring Systems May Prevent Thousands of Distracted Driving Accidents

Driver Monitoring Systems May Prevent Thousands of Distracted Driving Accidents

Distracted and drowsy driving is one of the leading causes of traffic-related deaths in the U.S. Here's an inside look at the technology that can put a stop to it.


News Jun 12, 2020 by Nicholas St. John
Powered by “Soft Transmission Lines,” a New E-Textile May Give Rise to Smart Hospital Bedsheets

Powered by “Soft Transmission Lines,” a New E-Textile May Give Rise to Smart Hospital Bedsheets

Swiss researchers have employing liquid metal conductors and electrical reflectometry to create one giant sensor.


News Jun 11, 2020 by Vanessa Samuel
Archaeologists Employ LiDAR to Uncover the Secrets of Long-Lost Empires

Archaeologists Employ LiDAR to Uncover the Secrets of Long-Lost Empires

LiDAR technology in archeology has developed distinctly from LiDAR in ADAS. The most recent find? An ancient Mayan ceremonial site.


News Jun 09, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Chinese LiDAR Sensor Manufacturer Hesai Unveils Blind Spot Detection Technology for Self-Driving Cars

Chinese LiDAR Sensor Manufacturer Hesai Unveils Blind Spot Detection Technology for Self-Driving Cars

Chinese Hesai unveils its innovative blind spot detection technology for self-driving cars. The company claims that its technology could “challenge’ industry leaders in the US and Europe.


News Jun 07, 2020 by Luke James
New Fabrication Process Results in Record Performance for LiDAR Receivers

New Fabrication Process Results in Record Performance for LiDAR Receivers

The process, which achieves long-wavelength sensitivity, ultra-low noise, and design flexibility was designed by a team of engineers from the University of Virginia.


News Jun 05, 2020 by Luke James
MEMs Six Degrees of Freedom Sensors are Built to Cover More ADAS Safety Bases

MEMs Six Degrees of Freedom Sensors are Built to Cover More ADAS Safety Bases

Partial or conditional autonomous vehicles leave critical blind spots. MEMs 6DoF inertial sensors plus GNSS, camera, RADAR, and LiDAR data may be a better bet.


News Jun 03, 2020 by Robin Mitchell
ADI Makes Big Swing for Industry 4.0 with First Software-Configurable Industrial I/Os

ADI Makes Big Swing for Industry 4.0 with First Software-Configurable Industrial I/Os

Two new I/O solutions bring remote programmability to building control and industrial automation.


News May 29, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Summer Months Usher In More Heatstrokes. A New pH-Measuring Sweat Sensor Detects Early Signs

Summer Months Usher In More Heatstrokes. A New pH-Measuring Sweat Sensor Detects Early Signs

Heat-related illnesses cause more deaths than any other weather incident. Now, researchers are designing biomonitors—some that measure pH in sweat—to detect early indicators of heatstroke.


News May 27, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
LiDAR-Captured Road Data Now Publicly Available in Open-Source Machine Learning Dataset

LiDAR-Captured Road Data Now Publicly Available in Open-Source Machine Learning Dataset

Scale AI says COVID-19 has shown the value of autonomous vehicles for no-contact delivery. They're making real-world road data available to train machine learning models to this end.


News May 26, 2020 by Gary Elinoff
Study Focused on Photonics Circuitry Shows Promising Advances for the Use of LiDAR in Autonomous Vehicles

Study Focused on Photonics Circuitry Shows Promising Advances for the Use of LiDAR in Autonomous Vehicles

Researchers at the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reportedly found a new way to implement a parallel FMCW LiDAR engine by using integrated nonlinear photonic circuitry.


News May 26, 2020 by Luke James