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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...

Singapore and Australia have inked an agreement to cooperate closely on cybersecurity, including information sharing, training, and joint exercises to safeguard critical information infrastructure. The two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday during the second Singapore-Australia Leaders' Summit in the city-state, which was witnessed by prime ministers of both nations--Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong and Australia's Malcolm Turnbull. The...

KOLKATA: The government has barred 71 firms from rooftop solar projects for a year by removing them from the panel that makes them eligible to bid. These include Amra Raja Electronics Ltd, Cleantech Synergy, Hollandia Power Solutions, IL&FS Energy Development Co and Jindal Green Technologies. The government has written to the companies saying they had failed to update details of...

In the month of Ramzan, the iconic Minara Masjid is decked up in bright green lights and has thousands thronging it for prayers. It might seem like an uphill task for the mosque to manage its electricity expenses but the reality is quite the opposite. Over the past four months, the mosque located at Mohammad Ali Road has been saving...

NEW DELHI: Some of India's biggest solar equipment makers are facing financial collapse, priced out by Chinese competitors as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government prioritises cheap power over local manufacturing despite his 'Make in India' push. Though President Donald Trump is pulling the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change, India is sticking to its huge renewable...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the MSP430FR599x and MSP430FR596x microcontrollers, the latest MSP430 microcontrollers from Texas Instruments (TI). The ultra-low-power, ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) microcontroller portfolio targets a wide range of sensing and measurement applications. The TI MSP430FR599x/MSP430FR596x microcontrollers, available from...