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August 18, 2020

IoT Technology Focus

Social Distancing Alarm Uses Bluetooth LE

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that ProGlove, has added COVID-19 social distancing functionality to its ProGlove Connect App. The new Proximity feature triggers an alert when workers cross a Covid-19 safety threshold and stay too close together for too long. The app can interact with ProGlove’s entire MARK family of products. The MARK wearables embed Nordic Semiconductor' nRF52840 Bluetooth LE SoC.

Current Sensor Market to Reach $3.5b by 2026

A recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights says that the global current sensor market is projected to observe momentous growth over the coming years. The report says the current sensor market industry shipments are projected to reach 3 billion units and $3.5 billion in market value by 2026.

Software for Low Power IoT Machine Learning

Eta Compute has announced its TENSAI Flow software, a software suite that complements its existing development resources and enables seamless design from concept to firmware, speeding the creation of machine learning applications in IoT and low power edge devices.

LoRa (Part 3) – A Look at MachineQ

Bob Japenga continues his article series on LoRa. In Part 3, he looks at Comcast’s LoRaWAN-based commercial network MachineQ. The article explores what it was, what it is now and how we can leverage what MachineQ has to offer to help us design new embedded IoT systems.

Open Source ACRN 2.0 Hypervisor Targets IoT

Project ACRN has released v2.0 of its open source IoT and automotive hypervisor with a new hybrid-mode architecture for simultaneous deployment of safety critical and resourcing sharing VMs. ACRN v2.0 also adds OpenStack and Kata support. The new release offers a more flexible hybrid-mode architecture and “new and improved scenario definitions, with a focus on industrial IoT and edge device use cases,” says the project.

Latest News

Tiny Module and Dev Kit Run RT Linux on STM32MP1

Exor Embedded has launched a NanoSOM nS02 module that runs real-time Linux on the new 800MHz version of ST Micro’s dual-core, Cortex-A7 based STM32MP157. It has up to with up to 1GB DDR3L DRAM and a 32GB eMMC. An “OpenHMI nS02” dev kit with 5-inch touchscreen is optional.