Now that several near misses have been reported near airports, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a streamlined and user-friendly web-based aircraft registration process for owners of small unmanned aircraft (UAS), that is, “drones”, weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 … [Read more...]
Battery Size Matters
Silicon Labs has recently published a white paper on 5 important guidelines for selecting the right size battery for wireless IoT sensors. Check it out here. … [Read more...]
How To Improve DC-DC Converter Performance
Intersil has just published a new white paper, How To Improve DC/DC Converter performance with Phase Shifting Time Delay, that describes how to synchronize multiple DC/DC buck regulators using a master/slave configuration using phase shift time delay. This technique prevents ON time overlapping and reduces ripple and and will improve system EMI and power efficiency. The … [Read more...]
Verizon Proposing to utilize LTE in Unlicensed Wi-Fi Spectrum
Verizon is pushing other leading carriers to move some of the huge volume of internet data from the cellular system to the unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum. The proposed system would consist of a combination of smaller cell towers and home wireless routers with proposed name "LTE-U”. However, Google, Microsoft, Comcast, and others, have been lobbying FCC to delay LTE-U’s adoption, … [Read more...]
World’s First Smart, Connected, Carry-On Luggage
Technology Company Bluesmart has created the world's first smart, connected, carry-on luggage. Use your smart phone to lock/unlock. Charge your mobile devices with the built-in USB battery, track your luggage with built-in GPS and 3G worldwide network and weigh the contents by holding the handle. This product was introduced earlier on Indiegogo and is now available in limited … [Read more...]
U.S. DOT Rethinking Position on Self-Driving Vehicles
Officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) are rethinking their position on self-driving vehicles with the intention of getting more of this emerging technology into the public’s hands. In 2013, they felt that self-driving vehicles should be limited to testing and not "authorized for use by members of the public for general driving purposes.” In a recent … [Read more...]
New Amplifiers Specifically Designed to Help Automotive Industry
Recently Vectawave Technology released two new amplifiers to address an automotive industry requirement to test RF immunity to L-band and S-band pulsed radar frequencies. VBA 1200/1400-100 is being tested in the frequency range 1.2 to 1.4GHz at 1000 watts, and VBA 2700/3100-500 is being tested at 2.7 to 3.1GHz at 500 watts, with field strengths up to 600v/m. “Both amplifiers … [Read more...]
EMC Project Management and COTS
By Tim Williams Introduction One feature of the electronics industry that has become apparent, over the years of advising companies on EMC aspects of their designs, is the difficulty that many project managers seem to have in anticipating the problems that EMC requirements will cause to their project. Although it’s a universal feature – and you could say that an EMC … [Read more...]
Graphene Used to Manipulate and Control Electromagnetic Radiation
Recently, the University of Exeter provided research demonstrating how graphene’s properties can be utilized to create artificial structures that can be used to control and manipulate electromagnetic radiation over a wide range of wavelengths. Scientists at the University of Exeter “combined nano-ribbons of graphene, in which electrons are able to oscillate backwards and … [Read more...]
New Methods Minimize Interference on TV Broadcasting and Mobile Connections
A research project recently conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. allows an optimal location to be identified for wind turbines, where interference on television broadcasting and mobile connections is minimized. “With tools now available for minimizing the potential negative impacts of wind power at the planning stage, power plant projects are likely to … [Read more...]
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