Securely Control Sensors and IoT Nodes

Watch as a web server authenticates or rejects a water filter sensor node and wifi enabled controller.

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Renishaw scoops company of the year at NMI 20th anniversary Awards

At the NMI’s 20th anniversary Awards last night, Renishaw was celebrated as Company of the Year. The Gloucestershire-based company was hailed as a world leader in the development of precision-measurement systems for areas as diverse as jet engine manufacturing and brain surgery.

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How to take pain out of 8-bit MCU upgrading

So what are the four pains of migration from an 8-bit MCU and how can a programmable device approach help to limit the pain, writes Raul Hernandez Arthur Few 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) users actively want to go through the experience of migrating a design to a 32-bit processing platform. The drawbacks of migration are, by ...

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UK to trial 5G network planning tool in Bournemouth

Building the mobile network for 5G will be completely different from what has gone before says the UK government. The Department of Culture, Media & Sport has commissioned Ordnance Survey (OS) to develop a new mapping tool to plan the national rollout of 5G wireless networks. The 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey and the Met Office will ...

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LED lights attract fewer insects

New research by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed that domestic LED lights are much less attractive to nuisance insects such as biting midges than traditional filament lamps. The study, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and UK lighting manufacturer Integral LED, used customised illuminated insect traps at 18 field test sites ...

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Socionext and Teradici seek workplace security

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has teamed up with PCoIP specialist Teradici to make ICs for PCoIP endpoints for the cloud. Teradici’s PCoIP technology delivers secure virtual desktops, workstations, workspaces, and applications, according to Socionext’s Koichi Yamashita. The first goal of the partnership will be an expansion of Teradici’s PCoIP Zero Client family of ultra-secure ...

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China market: 500 million smartphones to be shipped in 2016, says Sigmaintell

As China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom have offered subsidies for purchasing smartphones to promote 4G subscriptions, 2016 smartphone shipments to the China market are expected to reach about 500 million units, growing 15% on year, according to Sigmaintell Consulting.

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