05.19.15
STMicroelectronics exhibited its latest solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) at TECHNO-FRONTIER 2015. Demonstrations at ST’s booth (No. 5E-301) focus on technologies that contribute to building a society where everything is connected through the Internet, such as Smart Cities, Smart Power and wearable devices.
A number of Smart City projects are now underway worldwide, aimed at reducing environmental loads through greater energy efficiency, improving operation and maintenance of buildings and public infrastructure, and enhancing various types of public services. At TECHNO-FRONTIER, ST and Paradox Engineering, a Swiss technology company, demonstrated a Smart City solution based on ST’s development boards for 32-bit MCUs and various sensors combined with Paradox Engineering’s wireless lighting-control boards and its communication platform for the efficient operation of wireless mesh networks.
For example, a wireless mesh network installed at ST’s booth at TECHNO-FRONTIER allows the detection by proximity-sensor nodes of a radio-controlled model car to adjust road lighting in response to the position of the vehicle
Regulations on standby power are being tightened across the world in order to reduce the waste power produced by AC adapters when electronic devices are not in operation. At TECHNO-FRONTIER, ST demonstrated its standby-power monitoring solution using a multi-mode power-controller IC suitable for AC-adapter chargers for smartphones and tablet PCs. This power-controller IC reduces standby power to almost zero.
Wearable devices have the potential to create “human nodes” that form part of the IoT. Addressing safe energy supply in wearable devices and sensor nodes that are increasingly becoming part of our everyday life, ST has developed an ultra-thin (220μm) battery that uses a solid-state thin lithium layer on a glass substrate made through a semiconductor manufacturing process. As a solid battery, it is free from risks of ignition or explosion.
A number of Smart City projects are now underway worldwide, aimed at reducing environmental loads through greater energy efficiency, improving operation and maintenance of buildings and public infrastructure, and enhancing various types of public services. At TECHNO-FRONTIER, ST and Paradox Engineering, a Swiss technology company, demonstrated a Smart City solution based on ST’s development boards for 32-bit MCUs and various sensors combined with Paradox Engineering’s wireless lighting-control boards and its communication platform for the efficient operation of wireless mesh networks.
For example, a wireless mesh network installed at ST’s booth at TECHNO-FRONTIER allows the detection by proximity-sensor nodes of a radio-controlled model car to adjust road lighting in response to the position of the vehicle
Regulations on standby power are being tightened across the world in order to reduce the waste power produced by AC adapters when electronic devices are not in operation. At TECHNO-FRONTIER, ST demonstrated its standby-power monitoring solution using a multi-mode power-controller IC suitable for AC-adapter chargers for smartphones and tablet PCs. This power-controller IC reduces standby power to almost zero.
Wearable devices have the potential to create “human nodes” that form part of the IoT. Addressing safe energy supply in wearable devices and sensor nodes that are increasingly becoming part of our everyday life, ST has developed an ultra-thin (220μm) battery that uses a solid-state thin lithium layer on a glass substrate made through a semiconductor manufacturing process. As a solid battery, it is free from risks of ignition or explosion.