UK made: Saietta turns to Sensor Technology for electric motor instrumentation

When it needed wireless torque sensors, Oxfordshire-based Saietta turned to Sensor Technology, based just down the road in Banbury. Saietta is a developing electric motor intellectual property for light-weight electric vehicle propulsion. Its ‘S-AC’ motor is a brushless axial-flux AC machine (right), designed for mass manufacture and optimised for vehicles such as scooters, motorbikes, quadbikes and ...

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3.5W current sense resistors in 2512 SMD package

Stackpole Electronics is aiming at consumer and industrial electronic devices with a surface-mount 3.5W current-sensing resistor. Called CSRT2512-UP, it comes in a 2512 case size – 6.3 x 3.2 x 0.7mm. “The AEC-Q200 compliant CSRT2512-UP has unique thin film material properties and processing to provide higher continuous power ratings and higher pulse power ratings than other thin ...

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NGK Insulators plans European plant switch to renewable energy

NGK Insulators, makers of EnerCera batteries, is to switch its European manufacturing facilities to renewable electricity by January 2022 as part of a plan to convert all of its non-Japanese bases to renewable energy by the end of fiscal 2025. NGK Ceramics Europe in Belgium will use completely green power, “procuring electricity generated through wind power ...

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300W medical PSU uses GaN for compactness

Hot on the heels of CUI, Trumpower has introduced a brick-style 300W ac-dc adapter built around GaN transistors. This time for medical users. TGM300 series power adapters are Class II for IEC 60601-1-11 home healthcare needs. “The GaN FET line achieves a power density greater than 9W/in3 and has a withstand voltage of 4,000Vac from ...

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Light Science Technologies floats to increase manufacturing capacity of its CEM division

Light Science Technologies Holdings is to float on the London Stock Exchange to increase the manufacturing capacity of its contract electronics manufacturing division, and strengthen its position in the agricultural lighting. Trading on AIM under ‘LST’, the group raised £5m in October. “We are delighted to be trading on the London Stock Exchange through our ...

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Inmarsat to provide satellite backbone for Hiber’s IoT services

Hiber, the Industrial IoT-as-a-Service company, has turned to Inmarsat to provide the satellite connectivity backbone for its own low-cost, low-power network for IoT offering. The recently announced agreement pairs Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network – a global satellite network for IoT – with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem. This is aimed at transport, logistics, agriculture and mining industries. ...

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ST and Sierra add connectivity to STM32 MCUs

ST and Sierra Wireless  have enabled the STM32 MCU user community to leverage flexible cellular IoT connectivity and edge-to-cloud technology from Sierra Wireless. The agreement helps developers tackle the diverse challenges involved with creating and deploying IoT solutions, including device design and development, enrollment with a cellular network, and connection to cloud services, enabling a quicker ...

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Fraunhofer to deploy €4.5m on academia-industry knowledge transfers

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are funding five trilateral projects for the transfer of knowledge from DFG-funded basic research to industry. The collaboration between universities, Fraunhofer institutes and companies is being supported with a total of around €4.5 million over three years. One of the projects is the “MEMS-based parametric ...

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Semtech upgrades LoRaWan developer portal

Semtech has upgraded the LoRa Developer Portal, which makes it easier for developers, to quickly build IoT devices connected with the LoRaWAN standard. The updated portal gives developers low-risk avenues for building with LoRa. With kits and tutorials, developers can create prototypes quickly and cost effectively to see how LoRaWAN can work for their IoT ...

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