IoT

TI have announced today a new family of analogue front ends for power monitoring and control of smart e-meters. The new ADS131E08 family is available with 8, 6 or 4 channels and in 16- or 24-bit resolution. The devices offer high integration and performance, along with the industry’s lowest power consumption per channel and widest upgrade/downgrade path.

STMicroelectronics has announced that it will be demonstrate its latest solutions for smart homes at TECHNO-FRONTIER in Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, on July 11 – 13, 2012 in booth 6C-207. Making the most efficient use of electricity is becoming critical for everyone due to escalating electricity prices and the advance of global warming.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. announces a new high-density, wideband, scalable QAM modulator chipset: the MAX5880 digital upconverter and MAX5882 RF digital-to-analog converter. The MAX5880/MAX5882 delivers up to 32 times more broadband cable capacity per RF port compared to a conventional analog upconverter, and saves up to 93% in power dissipation per QAM channel. The QAM modulator chipset performance exceeds Cable Labs DOCSIS 3.0 RF specific...

Extending its always-on, connected lifestyle vision to next-generation networks, Marvell today announced an end-to-end, enhanced LTE-PON platform designed to facilitate fast and efficient end-user access to home and public cloud content.

Marvell today announced an end-to-end cloud services and infrastructure platform that accelerates the connected lifestyle for businesses and consumers. Marvell is the only company to offer networking, compute and storage solutions that support all three clouds – private, public, and home – as well as fiber and mobile Internet service infrastructure. With this all-encompassing approach, Marvell is connecting every aspect of the digital lifesty...

The RF65x9 series of Transmit/Receive Modules integrate a complete solution in a single Front-End Module for AMI/AMR and Smart Grid solutions. The FEMs integrate a PA, transmit filtering, input and output switches, a Tx or receive attenuation path, and an LNA with bypass mode.

What if every light bulb had an Internet IP address? Since NXP Semiconductors N.V. first raised the question at LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) nearly one year ago, interest in IPv6-enabled smart lighting has soared. The potential energy and cost savings – as well as the comfort, convenience and lifestyle benefits for the consumer – have mobilized a growing ecosystem of innovators in lighting, connectivity, energy management and home automation...

STMicroelectronics today introduced a high-performance, ultra-low-power wireless transceiver for Automatic Meter Infrastructure and other wireless sensor node applications, such as alarm and security systems, home and building automation, and industrial monitoring and control. ST's SPIRIT1 transceiver combines excellent receiver sensitivity with unbeatable current consumption, delivering 50% power reduction over existing solutions in the market.

Broadcom Corporation today introduced the BCM7435, the industry's first 40nm Dual Core Hybrid Gateway system-on-a-chip (SoC) with Web domain security. This new technology enables operators to securely deliver premium broadcast content converged with Web-based content and services to multiple screens in the connected home.

The networked home is one of the hot topics at this year's CeBIT. And just how easy it is to set up, organise and operate home control devices based on Z-Wave via the Web will be demonstrated by the Z-Wave alliance member Z-Wave.Me from 6 to 11 March at stand B29 in Hall 13. The prime focus at the stand will be the demonstration of the Z-Way controller software, which the user can operate from a local control unit (PC, laptop, iPad, etc.) or onli...