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• arcHUB – Agilent Innovation in Analytical Science runner up

  Sep 13, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Awards, Internet of Things, Low Power Electronics, Made in Australia, Product Development, Technology

  arcHUB Tonight I was at the CleanUp 2017 conference awards dinner. We recently learned that the the  arcHUB Smart Cities device was a finalist for the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science. This award was presented tonight.   The arcHUB Smart Cities device measures multiple data…

• arcHUB – Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017

  Sep 10, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Innovation, Internet of Things, Low Power Electronics, Made in Australia, Mobile Communications, News, Technology

  Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science We are pleased to announce that our client, The Active Reactor Company, are finalists in the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017 this coming Tuesday 12 September 2017.     This is…

• Solar Charging Improvements

  Sep 2, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Design, Green Electronics, Internet of Things, Low Power Electronics, Technology

  Powering Telemetry A big issue in the world of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated, is how to get power to remote devices. And this splits up into two separate but definitely related problems:   the…

• Electronex 2017

  Aug 26, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Manufacture, Made in Australia, PCB Design, Printed Circuit Boards PCB, Product Development, Technology

  Electronex Electronex is the Australian Electronics Manufacturing industry annual expo. This year it is at the Melbourne Park Function Centre from Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 September 2017. You can see all the details at Electronex.   SMCBA In parallel the…

• arcHUB – Smart Cities case study

  Aug 20, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Design, Electronics Manufacture, Electronics Products, Embedded Software, Innovation, Internet of Things, Low Power Electronics, Technology

  Smart Cities This follows on from our look at Smart Cities and the technology mix being considered for how you implement them. For this post we will look at the development of a Smart City Telemetry sensor suite and the…

• Smart Cities

  Aug 15, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Big Data, Electric Vehicles, Internet of Things, Low Power Electronics, Mobile Communications, Technology, Transport

  Smart Cities A Smart City is a blending of current and emerging technologies being employed to allow a city to better manage its assets and deliver value to its residents. It is an emerging concept and still very much in exploration. The…

• Project Management – pre-preparation

  Aug 12, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Business, Product Development, Project Pressure Points

  Project Management This post will look at an aspect of managing projects that is often overlooked. These are the steps you need to take prior to project commencement. The idea for this came from a presentation by Graeme Joy to the…

• Quantum Mechanics Visualised

  Aug 5, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Technology

  Quantum Mechanics By definition, Quantum Mechanics acts at such tiny dimensions below what we can visualise. And the Uncertainty Principle by Werner Heisenberg makes it clear that we can’t know where things are and how much energy they have at the same time.…

• Top Programming Languages 2017

  Jul 29, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Software Design, Technology

  Top Programming Languages Each of the past three years IEEE Spectrum have conducted a survey of the Top Programming Languages. This year they have done it again and the results are in. The overall winner is Python with C taking…

• Nanosheets Supercede Nanowires for Next Generation Transistors

  Jul 22, 2017

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  Ray Keefe

  in Technology

  Nanosheets Enable 5nm Transistor Technology It was less than a year ago that we covered Nanowires Enable FinFET Successor which looked at the use of Nanowires to create transistors and improve on FinFET technology which had become the primary transistor construction…