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What can an individual or person sensor do?

November 26, 2019 By Randy Frank Leave a Comment

With Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE and Near Field Communication (NFC) capability, it turns out to be quite a lot. In a closed environment, where the number of people is limited and the identity of each is known, such as a cruise ship, a person with a unique digital identification number will have their stateroom door unlocked […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wearable sensing technologies, Wireless Tagged With: Princess Cruises

How can data loggers help ensure food and beverage safety?

November 1, 2019 By Randy Frank

Just about all areas of the food and beverage industry including commercial kitchens, transportation, storage or food service, require temperature and often humidity monitoring to ensure that the product has been kept within an acceptable range to avoid contamination and bacteria growth. The technology requirements are essentially the same for the sensor in each of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Temperature, Thermistor, Wireless Tagged With: T&D Corporation, TandD U.S.

What Dev Kits are Available for New Designs?

October 31, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2019, Marc Hervieu from STMicroelectronics explains different development kits that are available to help designers expedite their design efforts in several areas, including cellular, LoRa and cloud connectivity for the Internet of Things. Working with partners Verizon (ST SIM card) and Quectel (ST LTE modem), the ST Microelectronics / Verizon LTE-M IoT […]

Filed Under: Development Tools, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Tagged With: Amazon, MachineQ, Microsoft, Quectel, STMicroelectronics, Verizon

How can you achieve a low power sensor node?

August 6, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2019 in San Jose, CA, Chet Jewan, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Eta Compute, describes the demos in his booth. The sensor node consists of the Eta Compute ECM3531 application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a ROHM Semiconductor RF device and sensors – all running off of a small solar […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Sensor Fusion, Wireless Tagged With: Eta Compute

How do you know that the temperature was always controlled in a shipping container?

June 24, 2019 By Randy Frank

With state-of-the-art tracking telematics technology and a wide variety of sensors, a logistic service that provides ship, train and roadway/trucking and, in some cases, air transportation can literally track the container and monitor its contents from the shipping dock to the final destination. One company that provides data and services for the supply chain industry, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Temperature, Wireless Tagged With: MSC, PT TKSolusindo, PT Trans Kontainer Solusindo, Traxens

How does 3GPP Release 13 impact sensors?

May 15, 2019 By Randy Frank

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, provides seven telecommunications standard development organizations a stable environment to produce the reports and specifications that define 3GPP technologies. The organizations include Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) (Japan), Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Telecommunications Standards […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Market Research, Uncategorized, Wireless Tagged With: 3GPP

Is the energy in energy harvesting really free?

April 11, 2019 By Randy Frank

Of course. However, the conversion process to get useful electricity certainly is not. Also, several design considerations must be taken into account to ensure a system’s success. This includes thinking differently about power consumption. With all of the wireless communications applications expanding in consumer, commercial and industrial applications, the power must be achieved without connecting […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wireless Tagged With: Sensors Expo 2019

How will 5G technology impact sensors?

March 27, 2019 By Randy Frank

Fourth generation (4G) wireless cellular networks can theoretically download at speeds up to 100 Mbps, but a fifth generation (5G) network can achieve from 1-10 Gbps. While some fifth generation (5G) wireless cellular systems began operation in limited areas of the US and other parts of the world in 2018, 2019 should mark the real […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Tagged With: Ericsson, GSMA, Samsung, Shed, Verizon

What is the status of autonomous vehicles in industrial applications? Part 2

January 22, 2019 By Randy Frank

Part 1 of this blog addressed the different levels of autonomous driving as defined by SAE for road vehicles and introduced the topic of autonomous farming. This blog will provide additional information about autonomous farming applications as well as lift trucks. All of these areas are well-controlled environments that do not need the extensive mapping […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Image sensing, Mobile, RADAR/LiDAR Tagged With: Case IH, ClearPath Robotics, OTTO Motors

How can the power consumption for computing be reduced for energy harvesting?

December 24, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2018, Chet Jewan, vice-president of sales and business development from Eta Compute, explains how his company’s computing technology can benefit heart rate monitoring and energy harvesting applications. The first demo, with an Eta Compute chip running at 0.476V powered by solar energy, displays Jewan’s heart rate. A second demo has sensors being […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Sensor Fusion, Wireless Tagged With: Eta Compute

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