Smart Home

Espressif Systems has introduced an IEEE 802.15.4 + Bluetooth 5.2 (LE) RISC-V SoC, ESP32-H2 that enables ultra-low-power, energy-efficient operation in smart home applications. The device is operable in the 2.4 GHz band and comes with an integrated DC-DC converter. It has a single-core, 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller that can be clocked up to 96 MHz.

Power Integrations has announced the release of a new compact switching power supply IC, LinkSwitch-TNZ that reduces the component count in smart home and appliance applications. Housed in a compact SO-8C package, this highly efficient compact switcher is ideal to be used for the non-isolated buck and buck-boost power supplies up to 575 mA output current and provides up to…

As applications based around Wireless Sensor Networks, Home Automation, and IoT increased, the need for alternative communication protocol asides the regular Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GSM protocols was becoming obvious. Several technologies like Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) were developed as alternatives but one standout technology, developed to specifically serve home…

GetWired is a new wired home automation system announced by Dmoatic – a DIY Home Automation Enthusiast group from Poland. Although it is the age of wireless automation, the wired automation modules have the advantages of their own like communication stability, higher throughput, lower latency, Immune interfaces, etc. On top of all, it needs no batteries and no internet…

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have joined hands to form a group called ‘Connected Home over IP’. The project aims at developing and promoting the adoption of an open-source smart home standard to make it easier for manufacturers to create new devices that work together.

Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as Ikea, Legrand,…

Chirp, a pioneer of data-over-sound technology and Linkplay Technology, a leader in Wi-Fi audio solutions have today announced a technical partnership, delivering a turnkey solution for the frictionless, audio-based provisioning of smart-enabled consumer applications. Leveraging Chirp’s ultrasonic audio protocol, smart-enabled devices integrated with Linkplay’s comprehensive…

Semtech Corporation has announced the availability of the LoRa Corecell reference design developed for LoRaWAN protocol by targeting the indoor gateway applications for home, building and factory automation. The reference design includes two new integrated circuits (ICs), LoRa based Gateway baseband transceiver( SX1302) and the low power multi-band Sub-GHz RF Front End (…

Internet of Things (IOT) is the technology that would change the future of how things would work and that we have seen in our previous IoT based Projects. The main aim of IOT is to connect devices and make things easier for humans to control. Now, with an increase in production and the use of IOT devices, the experts have predicted that the globe will have around 75 Billion…

Humans and machines interact and communicate with one other in many possible ways, computers have monitor, keyboard and mouse, while smart phones have touch screen, gesture control etc and even AR and VR is on its way. But the most basic tool used by humans to communicate is vocal communication, we have the capability to listen and speak and if the machines could somehow do…

Have you ever thought about a speaker which can be controlled by your voice!!! Yes, Amazon Echo is the one of the most popular voice controlled Speaker, but in competition with it Google Home is also getting popular. Voice assistants becoming more popular as we are heading towards an era of AI based systems. You have heard about Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa…

RECOM introduced new encapsulated 5W power supply modules which operate up to an impressive +90°C. These modules accept input voltage lines of up to 305VAC and offer peak power capability up to 6W, making them ideal for Industry 4.0, IoT and smart household applications requiring features that go beyond the industry standard.