Introduction Smart home technology has been surging in popularity over the past decade. According to a recent poll, 46% of consumers believe that it is important that their current or next home has smart technology. Many smart home technologies are expensive to implement and require a third-party company to monitor and support the system. We […]
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STM32WB55 Microcontrollers Also Support Thread And Bluetooth 5.0 With Flash Memory Up To 1Mb STMicroelectronics STM32WB55 Wireless Microcontrollers now incorporate Zigbee® 3.0, based on Zigbee PRO protocol stack support, enabling STM32 developers to leverage the interoperability and power-saving features of Zigbee networking for projects such as home automation, smart-lighting, smart-building, and broader IoT connectivity. Zigbee 3.0 unifies the
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Researchers from the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing, have developed a new strain sensor as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project. The new sensor, called the LEWIS-S, is easy to use, wireless, and can be offered at about 5% of the cost of
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One of the good things about being a maker is the power it gives you to create your own stuff. Believing USB devices have not lived up to their designation of truly being universal and working irrespective of the kind of ports they are plugged into, Hackaday user, Neutrino, recently embarked on a mission to develop devices
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I. Introduction Today, the rising cost of energy and social trend of “going green” has put increasing pressure on commercial property owners to improve the efficiency of their investments. There is good reason for this, too. In the State of California, office buildings represent the single largest user of energy in the commercial sector (Efficiency
GuRu Wireless, a developer of mmWave wireless power solutions, announced the availability of its new evaluation and development kit. The new kit was developed to facilitate testing, evaluation, and proof-of-concept designs, all of which is based on the company’s proprietary, 24GHz, smart RF lensing technology. Further, the kit can power devices over-the-air from three feet and
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Wireless gateways are fast becoming an important part of everyone’s personal network equipment, either as a wireless access point to connect multiple devices to the internet or as a means to provide central firewall functionalities to personal devices. The growth in the demand for these gateways have led to the development of several more efficient and
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Atmega16 is a low cost 8 bit microcontroller and comes with more number of GPIO’s than its previous version of microcontrollers. It has all the commonly used communication protocols like UART, USART, SPI and I2C. It has wide applications in robotics, automobile and automation industries because of its wide community support and simplicity. Atmega16 doesn’t
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For a while now, we have witnessed the use of wireless charging, by placing a phone or other devices that support wireless charging on a charging pad. Energous is one of the companies that started promoting their near-field, mid-field, and far-field wireless charging solutions, with far-field meaning within a room. But so far, they only have released
TRANSFERFI LAUNCHES WIRELESS POWER NETWORK FOR LIGHTNING UP SENSORS UP TO 55 METERS AWAY Read More »
BLYST Nano is a tiny ARM Cortex Module with Bluetooth and 30 I/O, but next product BLYST840 is a finger-tip size, 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F module with Bluetooth 5 and 46 I/O; a powerful upgrade of a system on a module indeed. Built around the Nordic nRF52832 Bluetooth SOC and the powerful 64MHz ARM cortex- M4Fprocessor, the new
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