Author: Ray Keefe

  • arcHUB – Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017

    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 for the arcHUB Smart Cities device that measures multiple data types…

  • Solar Charging Improvements

    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 power source the power consumption Obviously, if the power consumption…

  • Electronex 2017

    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 SMCBA (Surface Mount & Circuit Board Association) is running their…

  • arcHUB – Smart Cities case study

    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 ICT communications that go with it. This is also a…

  • Smart Cities

    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 2 core technology areas being investigated as the primary value…

  • Project Management – pre-preparation

    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 Casey Cardinia Business Group covering his expedition to the North…

  • Quantum Mechanics Visualised

    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. So how can we visualise any of this except as…

  • Top Programming Languages 2017

    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 out the Embedded Software category.   Here is the overall…

  • Nanosheets Supercede Nanowires for Next Generation Transistors

    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 technology for complex semiconductors. This was using 8nm Nanowires and…

  • Worlds Thinnest Hologram

    Holograms Holograms are the product of Holography. This sounds rather self referencing. You can think of this as recording light the way you record sound. So you can have monophonic sound or full surround sound. A 3D Hologram allows you to see the original object from different directions as you…