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Flex introduces 200W and 300W power modules for railway rolling stock

Flex Power Modules has announced the PKJ7200 and PKJ7300 series of power modules for railway rolling stock equipment. The modules are designed to meet the demands of the EN 50155 standard for railway applications, including a wide input voltage range, surge protection, power interruption and backup, wide operational temperature range, and resistance to shock and ...

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ABB launches low-voltage switchgear with software support

Following trials at sites across Switzerland and China, ABB has launched Neogear, a low-voltage switchgear. The device deploys ABB’s laminated bus plate technology, which replaces traditional horizontal and vertical busbar systems. Neogear provides safety for operators by eliminating any exposure to live parts. It features a compact physical footprint along with efficient cooling and condition ...

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Rutronik and Bluetooth specialist Minew sign distribution agreement

Rutronik and Shenzhen Minew Technologies have entered a worldwide distribution agreement. Founded in 2007, Minew’s customers span 100 countries and include Google, Here, Huawei, and Alibaba. The agreement encompasses all of Minew’s products. Rutronik founded its wireless competence center in 2005. By adding Minew’s products to its range, Rutronik has expanded into several segments – ...

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Marvell ThunderX2 chosen for Microsoft’s open-source cloud design

Marvell has announced that Microsoft is now deploying internal, production-level servers for Microsoft Azure based on its ThunderX2 server processor portfolio. Marvell has collaborated with Microsoft and Ingrasys on the design and implementation of the ThunderX2 platform that is compliant with Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next cloud hardware design. The Project Olympus platform is open-sourced through ...

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Arrow Electronics offers expanded sensor portfolio from Invensense

Arrow Electronics has expanded its sensor portfolio through an EMEA distribution agreement with Invensense, a TDK company. The Invensense portfolio features MEMS motion sensors, MEMS microphones, and ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) range sensor solutions. Invensense offers MEMS analogue and digital microphones with its Smartsound platform for home automation and IoT applications. The company’s Smartsonic platform comprises ...

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Lapis ML7421 achieves data rate demodulation of 300kbps

Rohm group company Lapis Semiconductor has announced the availability of a multiband (sub-1GHz/2.4GHz) wireless communication LSI, ML7421, aimed at applications requiring low power consumption over distance, such as smart meters, alarms, smart agriculture and building security systems. The ML7421 supports both sub-1GHz (400MHz to 960MHz) and 2.4GHz. By supporting the 2.4GHz band available world-wide, a ...

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Raspberry Pi promotes computing to girls through GBIC programme

After launching its gender balance in computing (GBIC) programme this April and running trials within a small group of schools around England, Raspberry Pi has announced it’s opening general recruitment for the project. This means that all primary and secondary schools in England can take part in upcoming trials for the programme. Young women are ...

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ESA to assist Kent air ambulance service with RDT monitoring devices

Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex, which treats some 2,500 patients each year, is to equip all its aircraft with RDT Tempus devices in collaboration with ESA. The equipment enables paramedics to live stream patient medical information including electrocardiogram, body temperature, heart rhythm, pulse and respiration rate and blood pressure via satellite or mobile phone network ...

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Pickering Electronics 10W reed relay with 4x4mm pcb footprint

Pickering Electronics has extended its 4mm2TM product family with the Series 122 reed relay. Used in high speed test systems, occupying a PCB footprint of 4x4mm, Pickering claims the relay provides the highest packing density currently available. The relay measures 12.5mm in height and can operate from 3V or 5V. Its contacts are rated with ...

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Taoglas and U-Blox bring centimeter-level positioning to IoT

Taoglas has developed a centimeter-level GNSS positioning solution using the U-Blox ZED-F9P and an L1/L2/E5 GNSS receiver. The Edge Locate positioning module simplifies the development and deployments of IoT solutions that depend on high precision positioning information. Featuring the U-Blox ZED-F9P GNSS module with concurrent reception of GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and Beidou on multiple frequency ...

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