Category: Internet of Things

CES 2021: Hydraloop water recycling, launches Hydraloop H600, Hydraloop Cascade

Posted by – January 21, 2021

During CES 2021, Hydraloop Systems launched two new products designed to “use water twice:” Hydraloop H600 and the Hydraloop Cascade. These products build upon the company’s award-winning Hydraloop H300 – which won four CES 2020 awards including Engadget’s “Best of the Best” – and allow businesses, such as hotels and restaurants, to take advantage of this sustainability technology.
Hydraloop collects the water from showers, baths and washing machines, and in a cascade set-up also the water from hand basins and air conditioning units. After treatment, the cleaned and disinfected water can be reused for toilet flushing, washing machine, garden, swimming pool and cleaning.
With its 260 gallons treatment capacity per day, the Hydraloop H600 is created for larger families and small businesses. The Hydraloop Cascade is modular and provides scalable solutions for larger operations like commercial real estate, hotels, sports clubs and more.

CES 2021: Tata Baby Alarm System by Filo srl of Italy

Posted by – January 16, 2021

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CES 2021: Alarm.com Touchless Video Doorbell, Flex IO cellular based security, Smart Home and more

Posted by – January 12, 2021

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CES 2021: STEALTHO Health Sensor and USB Hub/Wireless Charger Organizer

Posted by – January 12, 2021

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TCL Smart Home Tour at TCL Shenzhen Headquarter Showroom

Posted by – January 12, 2021

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Trova Go, Trova Go Plus, Trova Home, Smartphone controlled Lock Storage Case

Posted by – January 12, 2021

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Smart floors & Sensor Technology with Joanneum Research

Posted by – July 1, 2020

PyzoFlex is an affordable, printable (by e.g. screen printing) sensor technology that can be implemented on an industrial scale. It allows the large-scale and accurate measurement of temperature and pressure changes as well as vibration monitoring in objects and their environment. In addition, there is know-how for the data processing and communication of the sensor signals (sensor-specific electronics) as well as customer or application-specific interpretation of the sensor signals (software or intelligence), thus resulting in devices for different applications Wherever pressure / temperature changes, vibrations or shock waves occur, piezoelectric and pyroelectric generators can be used to convert mechanical deformation (changes in thickness) and temperature differences into electrical energy. Ferroelectric polymers belonging to the PVDF-Class (polyvinylidene fluoride) are used as a basic material due to the fact that they exhibit strong piezoelectric and pyroelectric activity after a poling procedure. These materials are also extremely stable, UV and weather resistant, flame-retardant and have a high chemical durability. Any mechanical deformation caused by contact, pressure or movement can also be used to generate electrical energy (piezoelectric energy harvesting). These sensors can easily be implemented or laminated in/onto different surfaces giving them an added value. The unique properties and robustness of this technology open up a host of entirely new possibilities and make it suitable for many different fields of application – as there are: IoT, smart living and smart city, automotive & smart mobility, smart wearables, cyber physical systems, strain gauges, and many more. Interviewed at the IDTechEx Show! Europe

UBI Solutions RFID IoT Tracking

Posted by – June 29, 2020

Paris based and fast growing UBI Solutions, is a pioneer of RFID UHF based solutions. With more than 500 installations in the Automotive, Hospitality, Laundry, Logistics, Retails, Process & Tool Management, Geolocation, Asset Management Industries, the “LaFrenchTech” labeled company is one of Europe leading organization within the Internet of Things market. UBI Solutions has deployed systems in over 20 countries to Tier One customers like Air France, PSA Group, Rosewood Hotels, Airbus Industries, Disneyland Paris, Faurecia and many others.

THINFILM Mobile Marketing NFC Open-Sense and Speed-Tap Technology for industrial and consumer

Posted by – June 17, 2020

Thinfilm’s vision is to make everyday items ‘just smart enough’, effectively extending the traditional boundaries of the IoT to create the Internet of Everything.Thinfilm products are NFC Solutions EAS for Fashion. NFC Solutions NFC Solutions optimized for consumer and industrial applications: Hardware and software designed with volume production in mind. Built on highly scalable printed electronics technology with Two technologies 1. OpenSense™ Technology: Powerful pre- and post- purchase engagement via mobile: (i) Optimized one-to-one mobile marketing for different parts of customer journey. (ii)Link offline behavior to online profiles. (ii)Bring the power of digital marketing to the physical world: Thinfilm’s digital marketing software helps brands increase in-store product engagement. (i)Branded app with integrated content management. (ii)Content personalization & social sharing. (iii)Data profiles suitable for lookalike audience matching. (iv)Store locator & online repurchase. SpeedTap™Technology: Smart tag knows when a product is factory-sealed or opened: (i) Robust security suitable for mass-market use. (ii) Protects against refill fraud and package reuse. (iii)Proprietary two-level authentication thwarts cloning. (iv)100x faster transaction time than encrypted tags. (v)The first NFC technology to be supported by the World Customs Organization. (text by flatslap5657 of Fiverr)

$299 NETATMO Home Electronics Smart Outdoor Security Cameras, Welcome Camera , Presence Detection and Home Appliance

Posted by – June 11, 2020

NETATMO  Product manage talking about NETATMO product for  Home base which includes, Smart Security cameras, Smart home weather station, Weather Map, Presence Detecting Cameras, Welcome Cameras, Smart Heat solution for homes like as Smart Thermostat individual boiler, Smart Rain  Gauge, Smart Smoke Alarm and much more.  $299 Smart presence Camera;  Receive an alert if someone enters your property. Protect your property! The Presence outdoor security camera immediately alerts you if an intruder or vehicle enters your property. Comes with these features: Protection day and night with Heavy flood-light at night time and infrared  night vision, By using HZO technology protect camera from rain, snow, moisture, dust and dirt, Smart installation, local video storage, FTP server for Backup and app facilitate you to watch everywhere.  And next one is The Smart Thermostat Simply save energy without giving  up your comfort. Connect through messenger. And In $179 Smart Home Weather Station master your climate measurement on your smartphone. Access your indoor and outdoor environment’s data on your smartphone, be alerted of any change in your environment and consult your data history. It detect Temperature, Humidity,  Air quality, Ventilation warning sound meter. https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/site/ (text by flatslap5657 of http://fiverr.com/s2/bb496d0ed0)

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MicroEJ at CES 2020 “The Android for IoT”, down-scaled virtualization for low- cost, low-powered IoT

Posted by – January 29, 2020

MicroEJ (http://www.microej.com) has experienced exponential growth over the past few years both in the number of Powered by MicroEJ devices running its revolutionary virtualization container, and in the number of leading industry partners and customers in the smart devices industry: NXP, Sony, Murata, Silicon Labs, or Zebra Technologies just to name a few. Full public customer list can be found at www.microej.com/customer/

Since 2016, MicroEJ recorded a +100% year-over-year growth in the number of Powered by MicroEJ devices and 2019 is no exception, with tens of Million Powered by MicroEJ smart devices already in the market today, including healthcare products, telecommunications, wearables, industrial devices, and, more generally speaking, all kinds of embedded systems.

The company expects the extraordinary growth to continue well beyond 2020 fueling its global expansion. With roots in both the US and in Europe, MicroEJ has also seen over a 30% increase year-over-year in the number of new global customers that have licensed MicroEJ technology to build their smart or IoT devices.

MicroEJ is the only on-device-platform available on the market today to build highly secure, connected and cost-effective smart and IoT devices

“What MicroEJ did is nothing less than extraordinary,” said Jeb Su, Principal Analyst at Atherton Research. “They’ve totally re-engineered the standard virtualization technology used by Android, and scaled it down by several order of magnitude to work on small IoT devices, thus opening this everyday device world to the tens of millions of developers that are currently developing apps for Android devices like smartphones, TVs, or smart speakers which explains its runaway success in the marketplace today.”

Fast Facts:
● 6 offices worldwide: US, France, Japan, South Korea, China, Romania
● Over $30 million invested in Research and Development, mostly self-funded
● MicroEJ VEE is the only secure on-device platform in the market today optimized to run on low- cost, low-powered smart and IoT devices, allowing millions of engineers to apply and re-use their smartphone knowledge to develop smart applications for any devices

“Both Android and MicroEJ architectures share the same virtualization core technology making it possible for device manufacturers to benefit from what created the success of the smartphone industry: software assets capitalization (write once, reuse on every device), and secure execution under control of a virtual container,” said Dr. Fred Rivard, CEO of MicroEJ. “It allows device manufacturers to experiment with incremental innovation to follow market changes, to improve security, while at the same time reducing complexity synonym of costs reduction.”

MicroEJ attending CES 2020 (Sands Expo, Hall A-D, booth 42767) as well as CES Unveiled, showcasing live consumers and IoT applications of market-winning products from renowned brands.

About MicroEJ
MicroEJ is a software vendor of cost-driven solutions for embedded and IoT devices. We are focused on providing device manufacturers with secure products in markets where software applications require high performance, compact size, energy efficiency, and cost-effective development.

Today more than 120+ companies in the world with currently over 37 million products sold, have already chosen MicroEJ to design electronic product applications in a large variety of industries, including smart home, wearables, healthcare, industrial automation, retail, telecommunications, smart city, building automation, transportation, etc.

Microchip at CES 2020 shows maXTouch capacitive touch curved glove wet air gestures, Knob-on-Display

Posted by – January 17, 2020

Microchip at CES 2020 shows some demos for automotive, health, intelligent home, human interface, power and connectivity and security including their Automotive Knob-on-Display and Ultrawide Touchscreen Center Console which features their innovative maXTouch technology-based Knob-on-Display (KoD) functionality, which allows OEMs to add features and functions to a vehicle’s ultrawide touchscreen while reducing driver distraction, Microchip’s Rotary Touch Encoder with maXTouch Technology-Powered Touchscreen Display-on-Knob (DoK) user interface for touchscreens brings classic mechanical knobs into the era of smart interactive devices, Microchip Curved Surfaces with maXTouch 2D touchscreen controllers that are molded into 3D shapes, their microcontrollers (MCUs) can be used for force sensing and haptic, audio or LED feedback shows how electronics can be molded into curved plastics for adding touch buttons, sliders, wheels and trackpads to automotive, consumer, industrial, factory and other applications, Zebra Barcode Scanner and Handheld Portable Computing Terminal with maXTouch Technology used to implement single-finger thick-glove support in the touch interfaces used in Zebra Technologies’ MC93 rugged gun-style inventory management barcode scanner and TC57 rugged handheld portable computing terminal. Featuring their new MXT2952TD chipset. The Cambridge Yoyo-M high-fidelity stereo Speakers with 3D Air Gesture Control feature Microchip’s 3D air gesture controls to wake up the touch control buttons on approach and control music playback with a simple wave of your hand.

Oclean X Smart Toothbrush Shenzhen HQ Tour

Posted by – January 5, 2020

Oclean X Pro, successfully crowdfunded at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oclean-x-pro-world-s-smartest-sonic-toothbrush#/ is a Smart Color Touch Screen Sonic Electric Toothbrush with Bluetooth App Control, the global first smart toothbrush with a color touch screen to choose the most suitable one from the 20 + brushing schemes using the Oclean App, automatic toothbrush for safe and sensitive teeth, loose teeth, artificial crowns and dentures because of the AI ​​lower-frequency tooth protection mode. It comes with a 2-in-1 base, it can stick it On the wall, use it as a holder, or just use it as a charging base.

Main Features:
●Innovative color touch screen For easy and intuitive settings
● Features Miss area reminder, built-in 6-axis gyroscope can identify and monitor 8 areas in the oral cavity, remind you of missing areas at the screen and APP
● Smart App control, 20 + brushing schemes To choose according to cleaning requirements and dental condition
● AI lower-frequency tooth protection mode, can be used safely on Sensitive teeth, loose teeth and dentures
● Strong cleaning ability, 32-level frequency Conversion speed regulation, adapt to most oral conditions
● Equipped with magnetic suspension brushless motor, low noise, 10 times the life of ordinary motors
● Copper-free brush head, German equipment and technology to provide more comfortable brushing experience and cleanliness
● Comes with a 2-in-1 base, can be used as a charger or holder
● Built-in 800mAh battery, 2 hours fast charge, can use a month after fully charged
●Product Quality Assurance
The product has passed various tests like CE, FCC, FDA and so on
●About The APP
Supported languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
Support for iOS 9.0 and above, Android 5.1 and above

Remaxlife IoT, Smart Home, pillows, lamps, luggage and much more

Posted by – October 21, 2019

Wise choice happy life, vehicle ptoduct, personal care, creative life, lighting.

Geniatech IoT TV Box, Zigbee Gateway with OpenWRT, LoRa Gateway, Zigbee Dongle, HDMI Capture


Geniatech shows their new IoT integrations for their TV Box market expertise, adding Smart Home functionality in the TV Box, introducing their Zigbee Gateway, Industrial IoT LoRa Gateway based on their Snapdragon 410 Dragonboard 96Boards Developer Board 4 Hub to do the edge computing, Zigbee Dongle adds IoT Smart Home to any Set-top-box such as the Geniatech ATX598Max and other that supports it in the software. Geniatech HDMI Capture

NXP i.MX 8X, CODESYS, EtherCAT, OPC UA, Android, RIMAC at the Toradex Booth

Posted by – July 9, 2019

Toradex’s NXP i.MX 8X based System on Module. The i.MX 8X SoCs comes with up to 4x Cortex-A35 and 1x Cortex-M4. The Cortex-A35 is an extreme power-effective 64bit Arm Core, the M4 is used to offload real-time tasks, check for errors to increase safety, and check for errors to further lower the power consumption.
The RAM and cache on the 8X can be protected with ECC (Error Correction Code) which make these SoMs ideal for critical applications such as Industrial Automation, Medical, Railways, etc.
Toradex shows the Colibri iMX8X running a GPU accelerated Qt application. The Apalis iMX8X with ECC will be available soon The Industrial 4.0 demo shows a Real-time Time Motion Control Application. A Toradex Apalis iMX6 powers the Midi-Eagle Computer from Diamond Systems featuring dual ethernet interfaces A CODESYS Soft PLC Stack is running on top of real-time Linux with a motion controller software. The motors are connected via EtherCAT. The system also utilizes an OPC-UA Server from Matrikon The demo was put together by the experienced Toradex Partner BE.Services.
RIMAC, famous for its insanely fast electric cars, demonstrates how the pin-compatibility of the Toradex SoM allows them to simply upgrade from an Apalis iMX6 to an Apalis iMX8QM.
Kynetics is providing Android support for Toradex modules. They show off Android on the i.MX 8 QuadMax but also on the i.MX 7 utilizing the integrated Cortex-M4 Core.
This allows it to run on the Cortex M4 Core an RTOS such as FreeRTOS and offload tasks.
Kynetics also provides an over-the-air (OTA) solution called Update Factory for IoT applications based on Eclipse hawkBit.

Toradex https://www.toradex.com/
Diamond Systems Midi-Eagle Computers http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/midieagle
Matrikon OPC UA https://www.matrikonopc.com/
BE.services https://www.be-services.net/
RIMAC and Toradex https://www.toradex.com/applications/automotive-infotainment/rimac
Kynetics https://www.kynetics.com/android-bsp/toradex

Microchip Technology Booth Tour at CES 2019

Posted by – June 12, 2019

Microchip showcases their demos for the automotive, consumer, medical, industrial markets and more. Microchip demonstrations include: Connectivity
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
Networked sensors are the future of improving the efficiency of HVAC systems in smart buildings. Learn how three different networking schemes, LoRaWAN, MiWi™ and Wi-Fi® can all be used to send sensor readings to the AWS cloud.

Low-Power Wi-Fi Sensors
Discover how Wi-Fi devices can be used in hard-to-get-to places in the home without running new power through the walls with the ultra-low power ATWINC1510, an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n network controller to add-on to existing microcontroller (MCU) solutions bringing Wi-Fi and network capabilities through SPI-to-Wi-Fi interface.

Secure picoPower LoRa Node
Learn how to implement Arm TrustZone technology and other crucial security features found in low-power LoRa end nodes powered by the SAM L11MCU in such as this light sensor. The SAM L11 features picoPower Technology, with less than 25 uA/MHz active current and less than 100 nA sleep current, as well as enhanced Peripheral Touch Control, making it perfect for wearable, wireless and security-focused applications.

Versatile picoPower Technology
Learn how one family of 32-bit microcontrollers can serve your needs in low-power, water-tolerant touch and high-trust applications. The SAM L1x family’s picoPower technology, enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller and robust security technologies are well suited for smart city, industrial automation, smart agriculture, medical and accessory authentication applications.

Connected Home Demos
Time is money – especially in development processes where time to market is a key factor in the decision process. Microchip’s turnkey touch solutions are readymade for your touch design. Buttons, sliders, wheels, proximity – all available with selectable interfaces (I2C, SPI, GPIO) from a single input, up to 64 buttons. Even appliance safety class B pre-certified solutions are available for designs where functional safety is a focus.

Voice-to-Text with Bluetooth Low Energy
Mobile phones are everywhere and sometimes you need to be able to see what is being said. Watch how the ATBTLC1000-ZR Bluetooth low energy System in Package (SiP) module, hosted by the SAM D21 MCU, can enable you to view the words you hear on an easy-to-use E-Ink display from Ineltek.

Easy Branding and Ease of Use
Drive profitable brand preference and ease of use for your end customers with the PIC32MZ DA graphics microcontrollers and MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer tools and libraries. Custom graphics, animation and deep-color pallets will have your embedded design reflecting your company’s professional brand image, driving preference and profit.

Security
Wi-Fi to Bluetooth Low-Energy Gateway
Learn how to securely connect Bluetooth devices like a door lock, ceiling fan or LED bulb to the cloud with the combination of the ATWINC3400 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module and the ATECC608A secure element. The ATWINC3400 is an IoT network controller offering Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy network capabilities within a single module. The ATECC608A secure element integrates Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) security protocol an ultra-secure method to provide key agreement for encryption/decryption, along with Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) sign-verify authentication, ideal for IoT applications.

Secure Authentication to Google Cloud IoT Core with a Secure Element
Learn how to protect the private key used for authentication in a flexible, secure element while easily implementing JSON Web Token-based authentication. This cost-effective solution uses the ATECC608A secure element to provide robust security, even to systems with small microcontrollers (MCUs) such as an Arm Cortex-M0+ based device.

Secure Authentication to AWS IoT Core with a Secure Element
Protect the private key used for the authentication of your AWS IoT connected device by using our flexible secure element (ATECC608A). Enabling robust, mutual authentication with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), this cost-effective solution can be used across a wide range of MPUs and MCUs, including small Arm Cortex-M0+ based MCUs.

Torizon industrial Linux software platform from Toradex


At Embedded World 2019, Toradex shows off its brand new Linux Platform called Torizon, for the first time. Torizon is an open source project based on the Yocto Project, it comes free with Toradex System on Modules (SoMs) including NXP i.MX 6, 7 and 8 SoCs. Torizon is ideal for developers who like to take advantage of the extensive Linux ecosystem, but don’t like to spend time on low-level Linux development. Torizon is built for the requirements of modern industrial embedded/IoT applications in mind. It uses Docker for software containerization, features an Automotive Grade Remote Update Client, supports real-time and has built-in security features. In the video, Samuel, CEO of Toradex, shows the integration with Visual Studio and highlights how it simplifies life for those moving from the Windows and Windows Embedded Compact ecosystem. In the second demo, you can see Debian running in Docker Containers. The last demo shows off the safe and secure over-the-air (OTA) updates and a possible backend to manage a fleet of devices. The update client is Uptane-compatible.

If you’d like to know more about Torizon, you can join Toradex’s Webinar:
https://www.toradex.com/webinars/introducing-torizon-easy-to-use-industrial-linux-platform

If you’d like to learn more about the AI Wall at the end, see my previous video here.

Microchip Microsemi PolarFire Low Power FPGA Series from 100K to 500K Logic Elements


Microchip PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry’s lowest power at mid-range densities with security and reliability. The product family spans from 100K logic elements (LEs) to 500K LEs, features 12.7G transceivers and offers up to 50% lower power than competing mid-range FPGAs. The devices are ideal for a wide range of applications within wireline access networks and cellular infrastructure, defense and commercial aviation markets, as well as industrial automation and IoT market

Foundries.io Zephyr microPlatform (ZmP) at Embedded World 2019


Foundries.io demonstrates OpenThread on Zephyr with Blockchain data publishing controlling Smart Lights and Candy Dispenser – Foundries.io showcases their Zephyr microPlatform (ZmP) using OpenThread and 802.15.4. Providing an OpenThread gateway which acts as a smart speaker enabling users to issue voice commands like “Hey Google, turn it on” to turn on a light, or “Hey Google, start it” to dispense candy. The connected lights will be running ZmP with OpenThread, and the candy dispenser will using 6lowpan over BLE.