Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced significant ...
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Philips on Monday launched a software developer program for the Hue line of iOS-controlled "smart LED" light bulbs, allowing app makers to integrate the lighting solution into third-party products. With the new software development kit ...
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Monitoring and measurement through ingestible, implanted, and body-worn wireless sensors can improve healthcare, and if those sensors can support continuous data streaming, more real-time information will be available for analysis. ...
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When designing a ZigBee wireless sensor networking device is it often necessary to make a system partitioning choice. What makes the most sense – a ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) that combines a 2.4GHz wireless transceiver and a ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, has reported improved results for fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ending 28 December 2012). Revenue was $453.7m, up nearly 8% on last quarter’s $421.1m and 15% on ...
"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
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Digital Lumens receives $10 million in investments, ByteLight signs Solais Lighting as licensed lighting partner, SemiLEDs reports first quarter results, Acuity purchases Adura Technologies, and Rubicon closes a $25 million secured ...
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The Consumer Electronics Show just completed its Las Vegas run and SSL technology was showcased in products ranging from the latest TVs to retrofit lamps, and adaptive controls were prevalent as well. The annual Consumer Electronics Show ...
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New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
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More than 300 technology companies based in the Northeast region of the United States (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont) will unveil their latest cutting-edge ...
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Founded in 2005,San Francisco-based Adura has led the development of radio frequency(RF)mesh networking technology that allows individual light fixtures to communicate in a wireless mesh network with switches,sensors and system management ...
Software is the driving force behind the “Internet of everything” says Tyson Tuttle, president and CEO, Silicon Laboratories. The dramatic growth of the Internet over the last 30 years has surpassed the estimates of even ...
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Cambridge-based smart meter firm Sentec has announced a tiny home energy monitor that threads onto the pins of a mains plug. Called MicroMonitor, it is a reference design that transmits the consumption of individual appliances in ...
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January 8, 2013 - Acuity Brands, a player in energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has acquired the assets of Adura Technologies Inc., a developer of wireless controls and energy management solutions. Terms of the acquisition ...
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Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, announced it has acquired the assets of Adura Technologies, Inc. (“Adura”), a leading developer of wireless controls ...
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