Infineon Technologies announced that it will highlight the company’s contributions to mitigating climate change and enabling digital transformation at CES 2023. Located at the Venetian Titian Ballrooms 2204 & 2205 and LVCC West Hall (Booth #3829), Infineon will present IoT security solutions, smart sensors and dependable semiconductor solutions that help shape a sustainable future. With…

In the previous tutorial, communication between two PCs was setup over Zigbee Protocol using Xbee modules and XCTU software. In this tutorial, two Xbee module based IoT devices will be designed and configured to communicate with each other over Zigbee protocol. One of these devices in the Zigbee network will be a Coordinator device and the other will be a Router device. The coordinator device will control LED interfaced at the Router device. 

In the previous tutorial, IoT communication between two devices over Zigbee protocol was demonstrated using two Xbee modules. The two modules were communicating with each other automatically without any human intervention. The two modules were also operating in transparent mode in the previous project.  In this project, an LED light controller is designed where one device controls the LED interfaced at other by communicating data in API mode. In this tutorial, two Xbee module based IoT devices will be designed and configured to communicate with each other over Zigbee protocol

The Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) has announced nearly $50,000 in grants for 15 innovative classroom STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematic) projects in grades 6-12. Due to COVID-19 and the shift to remote learning TAF expanded the scope of its grant review process to support distance learning and teaching using novel ways to use incorporate…

Avnet’s new Avnet Express Connect tool provides developers and non-programmers with the ability to deploy combinations of connected IoT solutions. This effort, by the global technology solutions provider, further expands its IoTConnect platform, which is specifically designed to accelerate time-to-market and reduce costs for IoT developments. “Avnet is addressing the most significant problems customers face…

In this project, a smart socket is designed which can be automatically switched using a relay. The socket is interfaced to a Particle Photon based IoT device which keeps track of energy consumption using ACS 712 Current sensor and help automatically disconnect socket connection with the Mains when the power consumption by a device exceeds a threshold value. The Photon also remains connected to a web server via Wi-Fi hotspot and keeps updating the energy consumption data to the server.  

Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are the future of human interaction with the real world. Augmented Reality is a technology that allows projecting live images, videos or media in the real-world environment along with the real objects visible through a camera or holographic wearable. The technology allows interacting with the real world environment while manipulating it through computer-generated graphical elements and virtual interfaces. It is a way of modifying the view of real world environment by a computer. In this project, Augmented Reality is used to monitor the sensor data supplied through an IOT board. The IOT board used in the project is Particle Photon.

New developments in System-on-Chip (SoC) devices — which provide optimal energy and connectivity characteristics and sensor integration — are expected to gain momentum in the market. Essentially, SoC is an integrated circuit that includes all components, such as a central processing unit, memory, and others, on a single microchip. Although these first-generation chips are already…

The vehicle tracking systems are designed for tracking the movement of a vehicle from a location at any time. Such system is equipped with a GPS receiver which maintains the GPS location of the device. The GPS location of the device traced by the GPS sensor is sent to a cloud server or cloud service with the help of a controller. This project is a simple implementation of such system on one of the most popular prototyping boards – Arduino UNO.  

Medical Electronics is also going to advance with the application of Internet of Things. Internet of Things is the fastest growing technology. IoT is about to find application everywhere and in everything. In this project, a simple patient health monitoring device is developed as an IoT application. This IoT device could read pulse rate and measure surrounding temperature. It continuously monitors the pulse rate and surrounding temperature and updates them to an IoT platform. The IoT platform used in this project is ThingSpeak. 

Internet of Things is the fastest growing technology. Like Information Technology revolutionized every field in the early years of twenty first century, the internet of things is about to forward the same legacy. IoT is about to find application everywhere and in everything. The concept of IoT is so scalable, versatile and ubiquitous. In this project, Internet of Things has been used to built a visitor counter which can be monitored online. Such visitor counter can be part of a home automation system or smart home system.  

Food safety and hygiene is a major concern in order to prevent the food wastage. The Quality of the food needs to be monitored and it must be prevented from rotting and decaying by the atmospheric factors like temperature, humidity and dark. Therefore, it is useful to deploy quality monitoring devices at food stores. These quality monitoring devices keep a watch on the environmental factor that cause or pace up decay of the food. Later, the environmental factors can be controlled like by refrigeration, vacuum storage etc.  

Solar energy is the future of energy industry. The countries all around the world are focusing towards renewable and clean sources of energy. The sunlight is the most abundant resource available everywhere and each day. By generating energy using sunlight, the electricity generation can be done without any pollution.  The solar plants now have been generating not only energy but also immense opportunities  of employment as well. The solar plants have been now employing more people than the coal industry. So, the use of such resources like the solar energy is useful  from every aspect ranging from environment to economy.

Home automation is the new trend in consumer electronics. Nowadays, people not only want a well furnished house but also want a smart home to live in. The basic concept of home automation is controlling the home appliances with a remote control. The modern day smart homes may have many additional features where the user could interact with the consumer appliances through augmented reality or have various smart features like telephony, contacts management, time keeping utilities, audio and video playback all integrated in smart devices especially designed to be part of the smart home. 

The early stage of the Internet of Things (IoT) has already started to change the way we live, do business and make decisions. As costs of controllers, processors, sensors and transmitters decrease, anything that can be given an electronic circuit and has reason to remotely communicate with other systems is a candidate to become “smart.”…