Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the development of a nonvolatile microcontroller unit (MCU) which achieves both high performance and ultra-low power by utilizing spintronics-based VLSI ...

One of the biggest challenges for wireless sensor networks is that of power. Solar panels usually produce less power than you hoped, especially small ones, and designing super low power circuits is ...

In recent years, sensor networks intended for monitoring and controlling facilities or equipment, or observing environments or spaces, have been drawing a lot of attention. A sensor network will have ...

Online weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreuzer] needed both and built a Raspberry Pi Weather ...

The LPC8N04 MCU-based IoT sensor node with integrated NFC is a battery-powered single-chip reference design demonstrating the unique capabilities of the LPC8N04 MCU, including: OLED for date and time ...

A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with a switched-capacitor programmable gain switched preamplifier (SC PGSA), as a basic component of an integrated ultra-low ...

The development team at WonderWonder based in Kita, Japan have created a tiny self-contained sensor node created to aid the development of smart wearables, biomechanics, robotics, gestural interfaces ...

Unlike human beings, automated vehicles (AV) can indeed have eyes in the back of their heads and also the sides. They have a simultaneous 360 degree view of the world, but it’s not a perfect view. AVs ...