Digital signal processors have a role to play in smart grid applications such as advanced power analytics,PLC and wireless communications,write Thanh Tran and Gustavo Martinez. The aim of the'smart grid'is to increase the efficiency of ...
Tags: wireless communication, Smart grid, power analytics, DSP, PLC
This industry beating result was achieved under the DARPA Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology(CMUVT)program and in collaboration with Army Research Laboratories(ARL). This latest development from the world's leading supplier of UV LEDs ...
Today we have a post from a guest blogger, Rosemarie L. Allaire, IALD, MIES. Read more about her here or visit her website at http://www.rald.us – Lightopia Lightfair 2012 Lightfair could be now called LED FAIR. I picked up a button ...
Tags: CREE LED, Lights, Lighting, Rosemarie L.Allaire
Three of Leviton's new product innovations—SectorFlex distributed digital lighting controls,OSFHP and OSFHD high bay occupancy sensors with integrated light sensors and Series 3000 Intelligent Meter—were chosen by the judges at ...
Alera Lighting rolls out a new radial shielding family designed for its center optic curvature suspended lighting system.Available for shipment within 10 business days as part of Alera Express,the new Curv lenses and shieldings feature a ...
Sensor Electronic Technology Inc.has received the Tibbetts Award from the US government for its technological innovation in UV LED technology and products.Sensor Electronic Technology,Inc.(SETi),a maker of ultraviolet(UV)LEDs and UV-LED ...
Tags: Sensor Electronic Technology Inc., SETi, Tibbetts Award
Listen up,punks:it's time for a criminological theory lesson.In 1982,social scientist James Q.Wilson proposed that urban disorder and vandalism had an effect on wider crime and anti-social behaviour rates in major inner cities.He stated ...
Tags: Fix up your exteriors, deter thieves, Outdoor wall lights
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)has begun engineering sampling of its GX62472,a Surface Mounted Technology(SMT)Mach Zehnder Modulator(MZM)quad ...
Tags: GigOptix, Linear quad driver, emiconductor, optical components, GX62472
Leica's X1 camera has a noble follow-up with a 100%classic DNA,reminiscent of the Leica M-cameras.Leica X2 is the new addition to the X-line of compact digital cameras capturing the moments in brilliant picture quality. Handmade at ...
Tags: digital cameras, picture quality, DNA
iC-LO is a triangulation sensor from German fabless chip company iC-Haus. For use in diffuse reflective photoelectric sensors, the IC includes a linear array of 129 photodiodes, signal conditioning circuitry, a 1.2A LED driver, and a ...
For commercial off-the-shelf antennas to used for medical body area networks they must be able to operate in an environment that they were not generally designed for,next to the human body instead of in free space,writes Simon Kingsley ...
Tags: commercial off-the-shelf antennas, Radio and wireless networks
Recently,Panasonic has lit up around 100,000'wishing star'LED lights on Tokyo's Sumida River to embrace the'Symphony of Light'event. The two-day event was held on the bank of the river,which runs through central Tokyo.The ...
Tags: Panasonic, LED, light, Sumida River
Fraunhofer IPMS—COMEDD is active in R&D of OLED microdisplays for several years.Key applications are interactive see-through head-mounted displays(HMD)e.g.for data eye-glasses,based on IPMS/COMEDD's patented''bidirectional''OLED ...
Tags: Eye-Glasses, Lighting, OLED microdisplays
Sales of CMOS image sensors will grow 8%this year to$6.3bn compared to$5.8bn in 2011,when the market climbed 29%from$4.5bn in 2010,says IC Insights. The 2011 increase pushed CMOS image sensor sales above the previous record of$4.6bn set ...
Tags: CMOS, image sensors, IC Insights
Imager supplier e2v has increased the resolution of its Sapphire family of global shutter CMOS imaging sensors with a 2Mpixel 1600 x 1200 pixel device. The EV76C570 device features an identical CLCC48 package with only a minor change in ...
Tags: CMOS, 2Mpixel, e2v, imaging sensors