Industries

The second-largest national aerospace industry in the world is the UK’s. With a global market share of 17%, it employs hundreds of thousands of people and boasts around 3,000 companies. As a forward-thinking industry, the sector is always looking at ways to progress using new technology.

Provider of Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), Kontron, announced that it has signed a framework agreement with Bombardier Transportation. This agreement extends the previous preferred technology supplier Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) going beyond the initial rail control solutions scope into a joint design and development relationship. 

Researchers from MIT, Boston Children's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital have joined forces in an ambitious new project to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate the health of fetuses. Typically, fetal development is monitored with ultrasound imaging, which is cheap and portable and can gauge blood flow through the placenta, the organ in the uterus that delivers nutrients to the fetus.

Military and commercial aerospace manufacturers face the problem of electronic component obsolescence. In the past, military equipment used to be in production for several decades, so obsolescence management was rarely an issue when aircraft designs were agreed. However, it is now estimated that 60% of the integrated circuits currently on aerospace products will become obsolete in the next five years.

MIT researchers have developed an imaging technique that, for the first time, enables three-dimensional mapping of serotonin as it’s reabsorbed into neurons, across multiple regions of the living brain. This technique, the researchers say, gives an unprecedented view of serotonin dynamics, and could be a powerful tool for the research and development of antidepressants.

The ultimate goal of cancer diagnostics is to develop sensitive imaging techniques for reliable detection of tumor malignancy in the body. Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have come close to achieving this goal by developing an injectable imaging probe that can specifically detect solid tumors based on the activity of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system.

To pave the way for a future where data and records move seamlessly between different healthcare systems, different patient data management systems have been successfully tested at the OYS TestLab in Oulu, Finland. This included the seamless transition of information between the Oulu University Hospital’s Esko system, Tieto’s Lifecare database and CGI’s OMNI360 healthcare database.

Rice University computer scientists have created a system for mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors without communicating with the cloud, networks or other devices. The battery-saving scheme uses image recognition and "hashing," a method that reduces key details in a photo to short strings of numbers called hashes. To determine a location, the system hashes a photo from the user's camera and compares it against a pre-downloaded...

The LSM6DSM 6-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) has earned certification for use in next gen mobile devices running Google Daydream, a high-performance virtual-reality platform, and Tango, a platform that maps 3D space and enables it to be overlaid with virtual objects it has been announced by STMicroelectronics.

HMicro has licensed and deployed CEVA’s RivieraWaves Sense WiFi IP in its WiPoint Wireless Technology platform, the licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, Ceva, and HMicro, a wireless solutions firm developing integrated products for medical, industrial and the broad Internet of Things, have annouced.