Sensors

Users of the Arduino ecosystem challenged to design and build solutions for Industry 4.0 applications.

Factory Kit, Tulip reports, is an intuitive self-service solution that includes tools engineers need to quickly design, build and deploy manufacturing apps without writing code.

Using TASS’ PreScan virtual sensor imagery with the Mentor DRS360 platform can automate the development of algorithms for sensor fusion and processing, according to the company. Also, a new partnership was established with Cepton for physics-based LiDAR modeling.

The IoT is a new world of connected equipment and data flows, which means that good ideas will come from unexpected sources.

AI has begun to come into its own, making tremendous strides over the past few years. But for all its successes, applications of AI-like machine learning, neural networks and deep learning have been slow to find a place in electronic...

So what is blockchain, why is it being so highly lauded and how can it be applied to engineering?

Design engineers developing consumer electronics were some of the first to arrive at the intersection of hardware, electronics, software and aesthetics. That intersection has since become jammed with engineers from various disciplines trying to navigate their way through an ever-changing...

Small ported pressure sensor from Honeywell offers minimal footprint on a printed circuit board and supports wide pressure range.

The SEK-Environmental Sensing from Sensirion allows engineers to evaluate sensors and develop sensor applications more quickly and easily.

The convergence of smart microphones, new digital signal processing technology, voice recognition and natural language processing has opened the door for voice interfaces.

The rise of energy harvesting is driven by advances that make the technology more practical and desirable for mobile and IoT applications.

Carnegie Mellon is developing novel methods to create next-generation manufacturing processes for sensors, antennas and energy harvesting devices.

The kit provides an end-to-end tool to enable a Sub-1 GHz sensor network with an internet of things (IoT) gateway and cloud connectivity.

Designing machines that can perform edge analytics provides more value to the IoT.

Reader survey responses provide an engineering technology outlook for 2018 and beyond.