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Helix device cloud receives IoT evolution IoT excellence award
It has been announced that Wind River has just received the IoT Evolution IoT Excellence Award for Wind River Helix Device Cloud. The 2016 IoT Excellence Award honours innovative products that support the availability of information being deduced, inferred and directly gathered from sensors, systems and anything else that is supporting better business and personal decisions. Guest blog by Keith Shea.
What to do when obsolete systems fail
The rate at which electronic components have evolved over the last 20 years has been staggering. However, a side effect of this unyielding pace is that older systems are now becoming obsolete. Not only that, spares or replacement products in many of these systems are hard to come by. So, what are your options if such a system fails? Here, Brian Park, Regional Sales Manager for Scotland, Sulzer, looks at the challenges for end users and how repair...
IT: The gatekeeper of your IoT deployment
When an IoT project is being carried out, in the early days most of the team is focused on figuring out what data they want to collect and overcoming the constant stream of technical challenges. Guest blog by Tom Gibbings.
Driving the IoT conversation forward
Every year the ideas and concepts of the IoT mature, and 2017 is certainly no different as it promises to be a big year for IoT. However, don’t be fooled as we are still in the IoT’s infancy. Guest blog by Dave Bennett.
Ready, set, go: the race to fill jobs in the tech industry
There are still a lot of jobs that are being lost through either replacing manual skills with automated technology, or financial cutbacks. However, there is one sector that still faces a recruitment struggle. Technology has become the industry that all recruitment firms are wishing to avoid because it is becoming increasingly difficult to find people with the right skillset to fill the roles that are emerging in the technology industry.
Is AI all its cracked up to be?
If planet Earth had been created one year ago, the human species would be just ten minutes old. Putting this into context, the industrial era would have kick-started a mere two seconds ago. In this article, Stephen Parker, CEO of Parker Software, examines whether artificial intelligence is all it’s cracked up to be.
Alignment checking sometimes turns into restarts
Recently, a Fixturlaser NXA Pro training class performed an alignment check of a winch driven by an 80HP, 1800RPM, DC electric motor with a gear style coupling. The initial results revealed a misaligned machine, with a vertical angularity over 13 times the tolerance of 0.7mils/1” (1.0mil=0.001”), vertical offset six times tolerance of 4.0 mils. The horizontal angularity was almost four times the tolerance; the horizontal offset w...
First FACE operating system segment certification achieved
Wind River has announced that its VxWorks 653 Platform has passed the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) conformance certification for the FACE Operating System Segment (OSS) Safety Base Profile. Guest blog by Chip Downing.
Super low power GNSS receiver for portable applications
Last month at Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona u-blox was there to demonstrate its new super low power GNSS receiver for portable applications, UBX‑M8230‑CT, as well as LTE Cat 1 technology and WiFi and Bluetooth gateway connectivity.
It’s a work hard play hard life for laptops
The trusted old laptop has many uses- the social users from watching films and chatting to friends, to the professional users creating presentations and essays. With the laptop in mind, the electronics industry moves quickly, adapting to the latest inventions and innovations constantly being developed around us.