Designing Intelligence into the Electrical Foundation of Data Centers

Data centers have always been critical infrastructure, but their role has expanded dramatically in recent years. As artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and real-time digital services continue to scale, data centers are under pressure to operate with unprecedented levels of efficiency, reliability, and responsiveness. This shift is driving a quiet but fundamental transformation in how data center infrastructure is designed and managed. Read on to learn more.

Attacking the Cyberattackers

Smart factories, smart buildings, smart grids, smart cars, make things run better, more productively, more sustainably, more accurately, more safely, and unfortunately, more vulnerable to attack. The more things are automated and interconnected, the more attention has to be given to protecting these systems from outside interference. Read on to learn how to combat cyberattacks.

A FREE Two-Day Event Dedicated to Connected Mobility

Increased demand for vehicle connectivity has led to cutting-edge developments in the automotive industry. However, the world of connected vehicles also requires designers to navigate...

Stable Optical Wireless Power Transmission for the IoT

The world’s first automatic and adaptive, dual-mode light-emitting diode (LED)-based optical wireless power transmission system, that operates seamlessly under both dark and bright...

New Transmitter Could Make Wireless Devices More Energy-Efficient

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the...

The Impact of AI Across the Industrial Value Chain

It is no exaggeration to say that AI will be the next big leap across all of industry, reimagining the way people work, products are designed, and factories are operated. But AI doesn’t mean a fully autonomous future but rather a harmony, uniting people and technology in a way that plays to the strength of both to achieve a result greater than what either could achieve alone. Read on to learn more.

Implementing Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance is based on condition monitoring, anomaly detection, and classification algorithms, and integrates predictive models which can estimate the remaining machine runtime. Read on to learn more about it and how to implement it.

Product of the Month

See the product of the month: Phoenix Contact's NearFi, a contactless real-time transmission technology.

Novel Flexible Terahertz Camera Can Inspect Objects with Diverse Shapes

A team of researchers from Tokyo Tech, led by Associate Professor Yukio Kawano, has designed a flexible and free-standing THz sensor array that can be used to image blind ends of irregularly shaped objects. Read on to learn more about it.

A Smart Sensor Patch to Detect Health Symptoms

A research team from Japan has fabricated a flexible multimodal wearable sensor patch and developed edge computing software that is capable of detecting arrhythmia, coughs, and falls in volunteers. Read on to learn more about the sensor, which uses a smartphone as the edge computing device.

My Opinion: How to Move to Agriculture 4.0

All the pieces are in place for agriculture to become smarter — it’s time to move ahead. Here’s how to move to Agriculture 4.0.

How Much Do You Know About Power Over Ethernet?

Every day, it seems, there are more applications for Power over Ethernet (PoE). Take this quiz to test how much you know about it.

My Opinion: Here Comes Agriculture 4.0

My Opinion: Industry 4.0 is already here — Agriculture 4.0 will catch up. Bringing automation and AI to agriculture is a necessity.

Tiny But Mighty: Next-Gen Transistors Hold Great Promise

As electronics become smaller, it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue scaling down silicon-based transistors. Now, a research team led by the Institute of Industrial...

Products of Tomorrow

See the products of tomorrow, including a compact, low-power receiver for 5G-compatible smart devices that is about 30 times more resilient to a certain type of interference than some traditional wireless receivers; a flexible, conductive skin, which is easy to fabricate and can be melted down and formed into a wide range of complex shapes; and tiny batteries that vanish after use inspired by Mission: Impossible.