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The car of the future on Europe’s roads: 3Ccar project enhances reliability & robustness in highly automated vehicles

Quantum sensors market to grow 13% annually through 2024, boosted by R&D & IoT

Ultra-wide angle thermal MEMS sensor offers contactless temperature measurement up to 200ºC

Top 15 stories on EPDT in August 2019...

World’s largest FPGA, featuring 9 million system logic cells, from Xilinx

Porsche invests in Israeli vision start-up, TriEye to increase road visibility & safety

- Light-based positioning & navigation in industrial applications demonstrated by research project (20/08/2019)
  
  In a German Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) joint project, OSRAM, Götting, KEB Automation & Fraunhofer IEM have researched the possibilities of light-based positioning, particularly for use in industrial applications. By the end of the project, the team came to a promising conclusion: navigating by light is practical, flexible & reliable – promising great potential for Industry 4.0.
- Reference kit to simplify development of LoRa-based smart building solutions from Semtech (14/08/2019)
  
  Semtech has announced a collection of tools to accelerate development of smart building solutions based on LoRa (long range & low power) devices. Its self-contained Smart Building Reference Kit enables customers to quickly create, set-up & manage simple smart building networks without extensive knowledge of IoT technologies.
- VCS-1 embedded processor module for precision robotics & AI applications from Sundance (09/08/2019)
  
  Developed for the EU’s VineScout viticulture (winegrowing) project (Project ID: 737669), the VCS-1 embedded processor module utilises the industry-standard PC/104 "stackable PC" form factor and is optimised for precision robotics applications using computer vision, edge AI & deep learning.
- Greene Tweed highlights its innovative Arlon 3000 XT polymer for electronics applications (09/08/2019)
  
  Advanced thermoplastic material delivers unmatched high-temperature performance in electronics applications, with excellent thermal stability & chemical resistance, very low moisture absorption, remarkably low wear & high impact resistance.
- Strategic approach essential as police roll out facial recognition technology, says biometric authentication firm (09/08/2019)
  
  South Wales Police has confirmed its intention to deploy smartphone-based facial recognition technology – rolling out an app to 50 police officers for an initial 3-month trial. It will enable them to take a photo & immediately analyse it to determine: “Are you really the person we’re looking for?”
- The growth of smart gardens: smart tech for your garden (07/08/2019)
  
  With smartphones, cars and homes, it seems like everything is getting smarter. So why stop there? The garden, a once untouched battlefield for electronic technology, is also beginning to feel the influence of smart gadgets, as smart agri tech migrates to consumer applications.
- Top 12 stories on EPDT in July 2019... (03/08/2019)
  
  As August 2019 begins, we've reviewed the most popular stories – as determined by our readers – across EPDT’s website & newsletter during the last month...
- Northern Manufacturing & Electronics 2019: the North’s premier industrial tech show (01/08/2019)
  
  Northern Manufacturing & Electronics, northern partner to a successful sister event, Southern Manufacturing & Electronics, returns to EventCity, Manchester from October 2nd-3rd. As the North’s only electronics exhibition, the show is an important showcase for components, production hardware & manufacturing services.
- Innovative sensor technologies enable more complex, faster & higher accuracy robot inspection measurements (01/08/2019)
  
  Evolving sensor technologies are enabling robot measurement tasks in manufacturing, where there is growing need for high precision measurements over wide surface areas & expanding requirements for increased flexibility, says Chris Jones, UK MD at precision sensor manufacturer, Micro-Epsilon.

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