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HARTING MICA certified for “Microsoft Azure for IoT”

HARTING’s MICA industrial computer system has been certified as meeting the requirements of Microsoft’s “Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT” programme. Microsoft’s certification process places certain demands on end devices which work with Microsoft Azure services. As a result, MICA has gone through a series of tests provided by Microsoft in …

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Optical connections for battery management: Gigabit Ethernet POF by KDPOF meets requirements for galvanic isolation in vehicles

KDPOF, a leading supplier for automotive gigabit connectivity over POF (Plastic Optical Fibre) – now provide their plastic optical fibre connections for battery management systems (BMS) in vehicles. “Electric and hybrid power trains present different voltage domains with large level differences, such as the ECU domain with 12 Volts, the …

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RS Components extends RS Pro portfolio with IP50- and IP65-rated AC inverter drives and accessories

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers, is expanding its high-quality RS Pro series of products with a large range of simple-to-install and easy-to-use AC inverters. Complementing the wide range of AC inverters available from RS, the RSAC, RSMK, RSMA and RSDA series …

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Composite 38999 connectors from Aerco save weight without compromising performance

Aerco, the distributor and stockist of electrical and electronic components servicing hi-rel markets, is now stocking TE Connectivity (TE)’s DEUTSCH MIL-DTL-38999 series next generation ACT composite connectors which deliver up to 40 per cent weight savings over similar aluminum devices. TE’s DEUTSCH group created one of the original composites in …

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Socionext partners with Advantech to offer high-density, low-cost media cloud server solutions

Socionext Inc., a world leader in hardware HEVC encoding, and Advantech, creator of innovative video acceleration solutions, has announced a strategic partnership to provide live hardware transcoding solutions for the data centre supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). Socionext real time dense transcode solution, also known as the “Media …

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u‑blox enables the world’s first Narrowband IoT based smart street lighting system

With hundreds of existing projects deployed worldwide, InteliLIGHT’s smart street lighting remote management solution is a proven concept employing a range of communication protocols. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, InteliLIGHT chose to partner with u‑blox on the development of its FRE‑220‑NB range of NB‑IoT compatible luminaire controllers. The new …

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Record global demand for smartphones and wearables in first half 2017

Smartphones are again the powerhouse in the area of technical consumer goods. In addition to a new record in global demand for smartphones in the first half of 2017, the average selling price (ASP) also increased. These are GfK‘s findings for the global telecom market on the occasion of IFA …

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Mouser Electronics a sponsor of ST Developers Conference

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the global authourised distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is sponsoring the 2017 ST Developers Conference, September 6, 2017, in the Mission City Ballroom of the Santa Clara Convention Centre in Santa Clara, Calif. The ST Developers Conference brings together STMicroelectronics and its partners with …

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Smart TVs gaining ground

More and more consumers also want to access online video content on their television too, so they are opting to buy a Smart TV. In the first half of 2017, these purchases already made up half of all television set sales worldwide. The sales of Ultra HD/4K appliances and TVs …

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RTI CEO to speak at IoT Solutions World Congress 2017 in Barcelona

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity company, has announced that CEO Stan Schneider will deliver two presentations at IoT Solutions World Congress 2017 in Barcelona (3-5 October, Fira de Barcelona). RTI will also have a booth in the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) Pavilion. IoT Solutions World …

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