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Airbags have been around for years, saving lives in the unfortunate event of an accident. Initially only installed for the driver of the vehicle, it’s now common to have multiple airbags protecting all vehicle occupants. These airbags are triggered by information from multiple sensors. And in part because of the increase in the number of airbags, the number of sensors in...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the SCA3300-D01 three-axis accelerometer and inclinometer from Murata. The surface-mount MEMS sensor provides user-selectable measurement range and extensive self-diagnostics features. The Murata SCA3300-D01 three-axis accelerometer and inclinometer, available from Mouser Electronics, is a robust MEMS sensor that delivers groundbreaking bias stability, linearity, and...

Energy drink brand Red Bull recently teamed with AT&T to globally connect up to 1 million of the company’s beverage coolers though the telecommunication firm’s IoT (Internet of Things) solution. The rollout allows Red Bull to track and manage “the supply and demand of the coolers to make sure that the beverages are cold and ready for shoppers, and help...

Internet of Things devices present new challenges in testing. Some devices can be tested the same way as standard semiconductors are now tested, but others call for different approaches. Microcontrollers and other chips that go into safety-critical applications — medical devices, military/aerospace systems, and automotive electronics — need their own kind of testing to make sure they will fulfill their...

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with an object to provide a remarkably detailed 3-D map of its surface. Now, by mounting GelSight sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and...

SHIMLA: Part of the Centre's Smart City mission, Dharamshala is getting "India's first city-wide sensor-based underground waste bin network". Himachal Pradesh urban development minister Sudhir Sharma inaugurated the project from Dari Ground on Sunday. "It is a matter of pride for every smart citizen of Dharamshala that hill town is going to be the first city of the country to...

New long-range and low-power IoT (Internet of Things) technologies like Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN)  are enabling new use cases in application areas such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing and work safety. Alongside robustness and availability, Security is a key to successful adoption of these new applications. G+D Mobile Security, Murata, and STMicroelectronics have teamed up to...

EarlySense, the market leader in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions, announced today the latest version of its integrated patient monitoring and data analytics software platform. The update unifies EarlySense’s solutions for the continuum of care into one software suite, providing seamless interoperability between locations within a facility, or monitoring of patients in a variety of settings. This allows facilities to...

One of the most exciting aspects of working in technology is change, and security, in particular, requires an agile mind. People who are capable of rapidly acquiring knowledge and developing new skills – the proverbial ‘quick studies’ – fare best in this landscape. So, what’s the best way to learn and grow? Successful on-the-job learning is highly effective since you’re...

Just when you thought you had the ultimate password to foil hackers, along come new cyberthreats that make you WannaCry. Meet the new cyberthreats, in many cases driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Fortunately, the new countermeasures are starting to deploy AI as well. “What we have seen in the last while is that passwords have kind of broken down. Weak passwords...