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How to protect IIoT sensors from hacking

A variety of factors, from deployment to network architecture, make sensors a potential armor chink in IIoT network defense.

System allows robots to work side by side with humans

The new system gives robots a level of context awareness that allows them to predict how humans are going to move.

Video: Robot uses radio waves to grasp hidden objects

MIT’s new system uses RFID to give robot’s perception.

Acoustic detection kit unveiled for always-on smart home devices

The EVK1 is for smart home devices and features acoustic triggers such as window glass breaks, voice or other acoustic events.

Media consumption exploded in 2020 due to COVID

Streaming and gaming markets record significant gains.

Verizon deploys 5G network repeaters to expand coverage

The repeaters will expand coverage for Verizon’s home, business and smartphone connections.

Biden to host semiconductor supply chain meeting

Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, will attend the event.

Fundamentals of industrial displacement sensors

Technological advances are shaping sensor design in various industries, making it easier to monitor different physical quantities at optimal speed and guaranteed accuracy.

MEMS switches – Replacing diodes and FETs

A microelectromechanical (MEMS) switch consists of small adjustable elements with 3D structures generated using semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

Study: Smart glass could make large buildings energy efficient

Substituting inefficient glazing areas of buildings with energy-efficient smart glazing windows has the potential to decrease energy consumption from lighting and temperature control.

High-accuracy op amp targets energy-efficient power conversion

The device is well-suited for high-speed signal conditioning and accurate current measurement in power-conversion circuits and optical sensors.

Palomar Technologies to present at virtual Components for Military & Space Electronics Conference

The presentation will address process control, traceability and automation in manufacturing aerospace and defense assemblies.

Video: Rectenna harvests energy from 5G networks

A rectifying antenna has been 3D-printed to exploit 5G networks as wireless power grids.

New 3D vision sensor for robot arms

This new sensors promises to speed up many automated tasks, and a future where robots arms work more closely with humans.

Butterflies inspired this photo-active hydrogen sensor

The sensor mimics the bumpy, micro-structured texture found on butterfly wing surfaces, which will be key for any type of hydrogen energy source in the near future.

Study: Battery recycling has room to grow

Researchers from Aalto University analyzed the recycling process for batteries, a largely unstudied area of recycling.

Cree | Wolfspeed enables high performance RF power solutions with release of advanced X-band radar devices

Four new gallium nitride on silicon carbide monolithic microwave integrated circuit devices enable designers to improve RF system size, weight and power.