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Universal wireless charger meets multiple standards
Universal wireless charger meets multiple standards
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A wireless charging system that can transmit power at multiple frequencies and charge up electronic equipment regardless of which standard…
5G air interfaces need channel measurements
5G air interfaces need channel measurements
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Sheri DeTomasi lloks at why 5G air interfaces will need channel measurements to meet the upcoming technical challenges.
InvenSense goes piezoelectric with fingerprint sensor
InvenSense goes piezoelectric with fingerprint sensor
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InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a provider of inertial MEMS sensor platforms, has released a prototype of an ultrasound-based fingerprint…
Over-the-Air communication tester enables GNSS receiver robustness assessments
Over-the-Air communication tester enables GNSS receiver robustness assessments
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The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has demonstrated an Over-The-Air (OTA) wave field synthesis system for test and certification of GNSS (Global Navigation…

Recycling LEDs: How to tackle a growing challenge?
Recycling LEDs: How to tackle a growing challenge?
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Although LEDs are used in a wide range of cosnumer products like televisions, lamps or luminaires as well as the automotive lighting market until now there are no suitable recycling…
French startup ambitions to become the Uber of bike rental
French startup ambitions to become the Uber of bike rental
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The co-founders behind French startup PhiLOCK had been maturing the idea of a connected lock for a couple of years before they decided to register their company in November last…
Hybrid magnetic sensor promises 200 times more sensitivity
Hybrid magnetic sensor promises 200 times more sensitivity
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new hybrid magnetic sensor that is more than 200 times more sensitive than most commercially available sensors.
GaN on silicon LED technology modular smart lighting solutions for IoT
GaN on silicon LED technology modular smart lighting solutions for IoT
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Plessey is demonstrating modular smart lighting system at LuxLive 2015 which uses the company's GaN on silicon MAGIC LED technology.
Swisscom to run IoT hackathon around LoRA
Swisscom to run IoT hackathon around LoRA
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Swiss telecom provider Swisscom is organizing its first Internet of Things (IoT) hackathon in Zürich on November 6-8 at the Impact Hub Zürich.
Smallest LED lighting sensor features IoT Artificial Eye technology
Smallest LED lighting sensor features IoT Artificial Eye technology
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Smart lighting developer Gooee claims to have created the world’s smallest sensor for LED lighting and the Internet of Things (IoT) that now includes the latest Artificial Eye technology following…
Improved wearable phototherapy device enables home treatement of psoriasis
Improved wearable phototherapy device enables home treatement of psoriasis
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Philips has launched the second generation of the company's innovative wearable medical device that uses UV-free blue LED light to control symptoms of mild to moderate cases of plaque psoriasis.
Microscopy and spectroscopy help unravel battery material mystery
Microscopy and spectroscopy help unravel battery material mystery
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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) claims to have solved the structure of lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides which are a potentially game-changing battery material.
Electronic control system partitioning in the autonomous vehicle
Electronic control system partitioning in the autonomous vehicle
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The advent of advanced assisted drive functions and autonomous vehicles will require a transformation in the architecture of automobile control systems. Today’s car has typically more than 50 electronic control…
IoT startup revises 802.15.4 nets
IoT startup revises 802.15.4 nets
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Helium Inc. announced an end-to-end offering to put businesses on the Internet of Things using a novel approach to 802.15.4 networks.
Smartphone camera filter improves low-light photography
Smartphone camera filter improves low-light photography
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Engineers at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT) have developed a camera filter for smartphones that allows for much brighter and sharper photos in low-light conditions.
Quantum dots increasingly important in displays, says analyst
Quantum dots increasingly important in displays, says analyst
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Quantum dot technology has been in development since the early 80s but it is only recently that they made an appearance in consumer products such as TVs and tablet computers.
London black cabs begin journey towards battery power
London black cabs begin journey towards battery power
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Transport for London (TfL) has declared that London's world reknowned black taxi cabs will no longer use diesel and must be capable of running on an electric battery from January…
Nanoscale photonics switch could enable 10-100 Terabit/s data transfer
Nanoscale photonics switch could enable 10-100 Terabit/s data transfer
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An international team of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Australian National University in Canberra have created an ultrafast all-optical switch on silicon nanostructures that may become a…
Reducing data centre energy consumption on three levels
Reducing data centre energy consumption on three levels
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Pan-European researchers from the ParaDIME project have developed a number of methodologies which they claim will enable savings in data centre energy consumption ranging from 30% to 60% and CO2…
LED lighting solution spotlights areas without mains electricity
LED lighting solution spotlights areas without mains electricity
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Panasonic Corporation has developed a small-scale power storage system that provides LED lighting for areas without mains electricity.
Ultra-thin perovskite nanocrystals enable tunable, energy-efficient LEDs
Ultra-thin perovskite nanocrystals enable tunable, energy-efficient LEDs
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LMU researchers led by Alexander Urban and Carlos Cardenas-Daw at the Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics of Professor Jochen Feldmann, have synthesized perovskite nanocrystals in the form of ultrathin nanoplatelets…
WLCSP integrates three metal layers
WLCSP integrates three metal layers
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European's largest provider of Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test Services (OSATS), Nanium S.A. announced that it has successfully qualified a Wafer-Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) solution with two redistribution layers…
High-Rate Task Scheduling within Autosar
High-Rate Task Scheduling within Autosar
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The electrical and electronic (E&E) functions inside a modern vehicle have grown both in number and complexity; this new level of complexity has led automotive vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers…
Smartphone sensor offers low-cost monitoring air pollution killer
Smartphone sensor offers low-cost monitoring air pollution killer
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Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have developed a low-cost, reliable method of using a smartphone detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2) which is potentially a deadly form of air pollution.
Philips tests thermoplastically deformable circuits to house LEDs
Philips tests thermoplastically deformable circuits to house LEDs
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At the October, 2015, meeting of the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS 2015), imec and CMST (imec’s associated lab at Ghent University) presented a novel technology for thermoplastically…
Qualcomm speeds data transfer in F1 racing cars
Qualcomm speeds data transfer in F1 racing cars
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Qualcomm and the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team have jointly developed a solution to speed the download of telemetry data from the racing cars. Based on WiFi technology in…
Wi-Fi a key enabler for carriers to fill in the holes
Wi-Fi a key enabler for carriers to fill in the holes
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Wi-Fi in the form of Carrier Grade is gaining traction rapidly as an inexpensive way for carriers to unify their hotspots and provide coverage in areas where cellular radio is…
HV circuit breaker technology: A horse of a different color
HV circuit breaker technology: A horse of a different color
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Paul Pickering examines the advances that have been taking in place in the area of HV circuit breaker technology.


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