Poland-based supplier Modulowo has introduced an embedded development board for Intel’s small form factor IoT module, known as Edison. Modulowo Explore E It takes the form of a breakout board for Intel Edison Compute Module providing interfaces and connectors to additional modules, such as sensors, touch switches, motor controllers and LED drivers and GPS. It is likely to be used for IoT design prototyping but can also be used as an educational aid. Called...

Cisco’s corporate venture capital arm is making an investment in Kii, the Japanese cloud services provider used by internet of things (IoT) device developers. Cisco sees potential in Kii's cloud software approach to facilitating the development of both business/industrial and consumer-focused IoT applications. A new Kii cloud software, dubbed the Thing Interaction Framework, focuses on common IoT use cases around sensor-cloud-app interactions (like sensor...

Connected cars with wireless communications links, telematics and vehicle advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will require increasing levels of electronic test, write John Russell, Bill Mckinley and Matt Hodgetts Figure 1 gives an idea of how the percentage that the electronics content contributes to the total cost of a car has been steadily rising, and is expected to keep rising. The technological sophistication of modern automobiles means that they are...

Qualcomm and Intel have announced interoperability between their WiGig products. This will help pave the development of 802.11ad WiGig devices that connect at speeds of up to 4.6 Gbps. Bringing spectrum in the 60 GHz band to Wi-Fi 802.11ad will address rising dimageata demand in homes, enterprises and carrier networks. 802.11ad enables 4K display connectivity to tri-band (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 60 GHz) Wi-Fi networking and high-speed cellular offlo...

If you think CES is an obvious place to showcase Bluetooth innovation, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group agrees. The SIG has announced the winners for the 2016 Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards, which were held in Las Vegas, off the back of CES. The overall winner was the Fliegl Tracker, a Bluetooth beacon-based vehicle detection system. The idea is that it reduces food safety concerns by making the agricultural distribution cycle more transparent and the production...

This one caught Gadget Master’s eye – or should I say, ear? – as I remember hearing about aptX for the first time at a CSR audio demo a couple of years ago. Anyway, Qualcomm has officially unveiled aptX HD, an enhanced version of the codec that offers 24-bit music data, over low-power wireless links, compared with the 16-bit (“CD-quality”) of the original aptX. The original CSR VibeHub demo, back in 2014, was effectively a CES Preview, and the latest Qualcomm...

Check out this video, which Sony claims is the “world’s first 48K 360° video”. Its filmed with the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, which supports 4K imaging. It’s 360° but is it 4K or 48K? It was filmed at the Rise Ski & Snowboard Festival in Les Deux Alpes, France, with the 360 degree video shot on twelve Xperia Z5 Compact devices. Each device filming simultaneously in 4K. By Sony's count that makes it a 48K video! In a post on the official Sony blog, Anthony...