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How Wearables Will Facilitate Healthcare

On July 13, 2020 in All, IoT, Low Power, Medical, Sensors, Wireless by Stephen Evanczuk

The importance of timely healthcare data has gained special recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic, but better data will be needed well after the pandemic fades. Healthcare wearables offer an effective, long-term solution for delivering essential patient data required by healthcare workers.

Tagged With: connectivity, covid-19, disease, health, healthcare, infection, low power, measurement, oxygen, physicians, security, temperature, vital signs, wearables

Semiconductor Components for Medical Ventilators

On May 28, 2020 in All, Computing, Medical by Steven Dean

The increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations has created a strain on the world's inventory of ventilators. Learn how ON Semiconductor plays a critical role in the supply chain for medical devices, including the ventilators that are helping the breathing of patients with severe cases of COVID-19.

Tagged With: patients, breath, breathing, core, coronavirus, COVID, devices, ON Semiconductor, semiconductor, ventilator, ventilators

How AI Is Accelerating the Drug Development Cycle

On May 11, 2020 in All, Medical by Poornima Apte

Drug development can take years. AI can compress that time scale to months. Especially during these pressing times, we can look to technology for assistance in bringing life-saving drugs to life quickly. AI can study, understand, synthesizes, identifies side effects, and could be a vital resource.

Tagged With: vaccine, AI, Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, drug, drugs, medicine, researchers, scientists

Human Augmentation and Arduino Technologies

On March 15, 2019 in All, EIT 2018: Generation Robot, Medical, Open Source, Robotics by Bruce Byfield

Arduino microcontrollers are playing a major role in the development of prosthetics and devices for human augmentation. Once aimed at students and hobbyists, today Arduino technologies offer numerous advantages typical of open source software and hardware that significantly accelerate development and reduce costs.

Tagged With: Arduino, Arduino-based prosthetics, Atmel, e-Nable, Free software, Human augmentation, Microchip, Open source, Prosthetics

CES 2019: Defining a New Smarter Society For Us All

On January 11, 2019 in Automation, Automotive, IoT, Medical, Wireless by Mouser Staff

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brought together a mind-blowing myriad of different product innovations. With a projected 180,000 people and nearly 4,500 companies attending, there simply isn’t another tech-related event that competes with this in terms of either scale or diversity.

Tagged With: 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, AI, AI algorithm, AR, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, CES, Home automation, Human-machine interface

Where Nanotechnology, the IoT, and Industry 4.0 Meet

On January 3, 2019 in All, Industrial, IoT, Medical, Sensors, Wireless by Liam Critchley

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been developing and advancing for many years and has brought around the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, where many processes are now being automated. While it is not obvious, nanotechnology also has a role to play in this new industry.

Tagged With: Gateway, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Internet of Nano Things, Internet of Things, IoNT, IoT, Micro-Nano Interface, Nano Nodes, Nanomaterials, Nano-Router, Nanosensors, Nanotechnology, Sensors

Nanotechnology Helped Realize Flexible and Wearable Electronics

On December 10, 2018 in All, Energy Harvesting, Industrial, IoT, Medical, Sensors by Liam Critchley

Flexible and wearable electronics are rapidly growing industries. The devices’ development and growth can be attributed to the benefits and specific properties of the nanomaterials commonly used within these devices. Here, we look at why nanomaterials are used in these devices.

Tagged With: 2D materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Flexible electronics, Graphene, Health monitoring, Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Laptops, Medical, Nanotechnology, OLED, Phones, Polymers, Quantum Dots, Sensors, Solar cells, TMDCs, Touch screens, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Wearable electronics

Wireless Tech Helps Protect Healthcare Budgets

On September 17, 2018 in All, IoT, Low Power, Medical, RF, Wireless by Steven Keeping

An aging population is increasingly suffering from chronic diseases, and frequent hospitalization puts an additional load on stressed healthcare budgets. However, wireless technology is enabling good symptom management, keeping seniors safe at home and protecting budget concerns.

Tagged With: BLE, Blood pressure, Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth SIG, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Diabetes monitoring, Disease management, Healthcare, Heart rate monitoring, Internet of Things, IoT, Medical, Sensors, Thread, Vital signs, Wearables, Wi-Fi, Wireless technology, ZigBee

Nano, Nano: Shrinking Power Consumption Down in Analog Power Design

On September 5, 2018 in All, Automation, Automotive, Energy Harvesting, Industrial, IoT, Low Power, Medical, Power, RF, Robotics, Sensors, Wireless by Paul Golata

Using their analog expertise, ROHM Semiconductor has developed a new product line, the Nano Series, to achieve more compact parts that require less energy to operate.

Tagged With: Analog, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Buck converter, Constant-on time, Consumption, Control, COT, Current, Design, Devices, Energy, Engineer, IC, Integrated circuit, Internet of Things, IoT, Low quiescent, Nano, Output, Power, Pulse, Range, Ratios, ROHM Semiconductor, Small packaging, Smart Revolution, Step-down, Switching-on time, Synchronous, ULP, Ultra-low-power, Voltage

Augmenting Intelligence: Enabling Neural Networks

On August 15, 2018 in All, Computing, EIT 2018: Generation Robot, Empowering Innovation, Medical, Robotics, Sensors by Paul Golata

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a connected system of nodes that transmit nerve impulses, much like human neurons do. ANNs have made significant inroads, helping technologists develop new solutions in machine vision, human speech recognition, and medical diagnostics.

Tagged With: AI, ANN, Artificial intelligence, Artificial neural network, Cognitive mapping, Deep learning, Field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA, Human speech recognition, Integrative biorobotics, Intel, Machine learning, Machine vision, Neural coding, Neural decoding, Neural networks, Neuroinformatics, Reinforcement learning, Silicon neurons

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