Paving the way for power management 18th April 2019

According to the company, Phoenix Contact is one of the first companies in Germany to have been certified by TÜV SÜD in accordance with the IEC 62443-4-1 and 2-4 series of standards for IT security. This confirms that the company develops secure by design products in compliance with the IEC 62443-4-1 process and designs secure automation solutions in compliance with the IEC 62443-2-4 process.

Global specialist in CAN gauge and display technologies, Veethree, has announced the release of their R Series of CAN Displays with an exclusive sneak preview during Bauma in Munich. The innovative series of devices are the first gauges of their kind, providing a fully round, edge-to-edge, touch screen display which modernises traditional analogue gauges. 

“World leaders must look towards drone technology as a solution, not a problem, when attempting to solve the decline of the world’s forests as governments are forced to act over climate change before it is too late.” This announcement, from Robert Garbett, Founder and Chief Executive of Drone Major Group, the global Drone and Counter Drone consultancy, comes on the 100th anniversary of the Forestry Commission which has spearheaded the expansion of Britain’s forests and woodland since its foundation in 1919. 

Participants in a contest organised by Hackster.io will need to reimagine something from their everyday lives that could benefit from intelligent IoT, and use SmartEdge Agile and the Brainium portal to create it. As Avnet’s project-based community for anyone who wants to learn about programming and building hardware, Hackster.io challenges its community to use the power of IoT every day.

A global distribution agreement between Mouser Electronics and Futaba covers a range of Futaba’s display modules, including vacuum fluorescent, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and liquid crystal displays. The AH Series modules offer a complete display solution in a slim design.

The Pepperl+Fuchs brand ecom presents the next generation of its ATEX Zone 1/21 and Div. 1 certified, intrinsically safe 4G/LTE-Android-smartphone Smart-Ex at Hannover Messe 2019 (April 1. to 5.) in hall 9, booth D76. The Smart-Ex 02 is a complete new development and fully tailored to the market´s requirements.

  Microchip are giving the Electronic Specifier readers the chance to win an AVR-IoT WG Development Board (AC164160) and make it easy to deploy IoT devices to Google Cloud IoT Core’s artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure.

Humans are unknowingly adhering to a universal pattern when they flick between apps on their smartphones, scientists have discovered. Experts from Cardiff University have shown that although we spend a varying amount of time glued to our screens, the way in which we specifically switch between our different apps is remarkably similar.