Wireless charging for electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is coming to market soon, and WiTricity is leading the charge in technology development and standardization with its magnetic-resonance-based wireless…
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Big Goals Drive Euro Alliance for IoT Innovation
January 9, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on a trajectory to connect 45 billion things by 2020. So the European Commission created the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI)…
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ST Powering Big Trends at CES 2017
January 7, 2017
As the tech masses gathered in Las Vegas this week for the 50th annual CES conference, ST technology was powering some of the hottest trends. AI & Smart Assistants:…
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Low-Power Wide-Area Network Demo Among CES Highlights
January 5, 2017
Executives traveling in ST limos to and from the private STMicroelectronics demo suites at a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip are enjoying an upgrade in service while helping…
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Need a Gift? We’re Here to Help!
December 12, 2016
Tis the season for “peace on earth and goodwill to man.” And as we approach the end of 2016, we’re also entering the traditional season of gift giving around…
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Tailored Technology: Wearables in the IoT
December 7, 2016
Science fiction has long predicted a future of tiny wearable devices that do everything from monitor health and improve physical performance to stream video. That fiction is quickly becoming…
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Enabling the Evolution of the City into the Smart City
November 16, 2016
At ST, “smart” means doing things more efficiently and flexibly, safer, in a more sustainable manner, and with a better experience for the people at the center. Today, ST…
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ST is Making Everything Smarter — at Electronica and Beyond!
November 8, 2016
Come see ST for: Technologies for Smart Industry… …including many technology building blocks such as advanced power management, smart sensing and motor control, distributed intelligence, and secure wired and…
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ST is excited to be part of the IoT movement that is impacting existing industries and creating new ones. The Internet and its ecosystem of cloud computing offer many…
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STM32 Secure Firmware: Protecting your privacy in the connected digital world
November 4, 2016
STM32 microcontrollers are now available in more than 700 different devices in 10 different series, spanning the spectrum from ultra-low power to extremely high performance. Many of these use state-of-the-art security…
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Distributed Control – A Key Enabler for Smart Industry
November 2, 2016
In a previous post we introduced the basic concepts behind Smart Industry – making manufacturing more efficient, more intelligent and aware, and more connected. In order to enable these…
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How to set up a complete LoRa ™ node in just 10 minutes
October 28, 2016
We’ve been talking about LoRa™ a lot recently. In our post Wireless Low Power WANS: An Internet of “Things” Spread Across a City, we looked at how this technology is being used to…
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Having just announced the world’s highest performing ARM® Cortex®-M-core MCU, ST had a strong presence at ARM TechCon, a premier hardware engineering and software developer event, to show it…
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Stepper Motor Drivers – A Look at the PowerSTEP01
October 26, 2016
Did you know that ST offers a system-in-package stepper motor driver? The PowerSTEP01 integrates 8 N-channel 16 mΩ MOSFETs for stepper applications up to 85 V with a SPI…
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Valencell and ST Listen to Your Heart’s Content With Wearable Biometric Solutions that Change Lives
October 19, 2016
Tyler Cowen, professor of Economics at George Mason University, argues we are currently experiencing a “Great Stagnation”[1], a time in world history when innovation is no longer earth shattering…
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How cutting bedside cables makes for speedier recoveries When most people contemplate the “Internet of Things,” perhaps they envision a wearable device around their wrist counting steps or a…
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The ST Developers Conference 2016 took place in Santa Clara, California on October 4th with more than 600 attendees. In order to share the proceedings with those that were unable…
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IoT at the Heart of the ST Developers Conference
October 5, 2016
The doors of the first ST Developers Conference just closed, and the excitement is still palpable. Thanks to the more than 600 attendees, 25 partner booths, 35 workshops, and…
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STM32L475, a Heart Monitor, and Wireless Charging: Among the Many Innovations at ST DevCon
October 5, 2016
At the just-concluded ST Developers Conference in Santa Clara, California presenters and enthusiasts shared their passion for smart and powerful technologies. More than 600 attendees had a front row…
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LoRa, Three Boards to Master this One-Million-Node IoT Network
October 5, 2016
Whether it was the roads of Ancient Rome leading to the Milliarium Aureum or the worldwide trenches of the “information superhighway,” all groundbreaking networks have one thing in common:…
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Wireless Charging for Wearables Made Flexible, Efficient, and Easy
October 4, 2016
From cars to cellphones, batteries are on everyone’s mind. Ironically, this component that was once overlooked can now make or break a design and a reputation. To complicate things,…
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Genius from Oral-B: Connected Toothbrush Helps You Brush Like Your Dentist Recommends
October 3, 2016
The Genius toothbrush from Oral-B is all about helping you brush your teeth better. With embedded sensing, control, and connectivity technology, the intelligent toothbrush can tell if you’re brushing…
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To Be Smart about Smart Cities, Start Here !
September 29, 2016
ST held its Developers Conference on October 4 in Santa Clara, California. In anticipation of this event, we published a series of blog posts to preview some of the…
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Pedestrian Dead-Reckoning, ST’s Solutions Follow You When Nothing Else Can
September 23, 2016
ST held its Developers Conference on October 4 in Santa Clara, California. In anticipation of this event, we published a series of blog posts to preview some of the…
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Wireless Low Power WANS: An Internet of “Things” Spread Across a City
September 22, 2016
Amsterdam is known internationally as a charming city of canals, pastry shops, and Van Goghs. But thanks to its early adoption of a new networking standard, it may also…
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Show me Your Body Area Network and I Will Tell You What Kind of Sensor You Are
September 21, 2016
ST held its Developers Conference on October 4 in Santa Clara, California. In anticipation of this event, we published a series of blog posts to preview some of the…
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Audio is the New Eldorado and ST’s IoT and Bluetooth Solutions are Golden
September 16, 2016
ST held its Developers Conference on October 4 in Santa Clara, California. In anticipation of this event, we published a series of blog posts to preview some of the…
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As revolutionary Nintendo Wii prepares to celebrate its 10th birthday, what exciting advances will sensors and the IoT enable in the next 10 years?
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Good Looks, With Brains: ST Brings IoT Smarts to Italian Office Furniture
September 14, 2016
Italy is renowned as the home of some of the world’s classiest interior design, especially in contemporary furniture. Now, thanks to a marriage with high technology, one of Italy’s…
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Summer is almost over, but I must still be in beach mode: Thinking about the evolution of sensing and the IoT in mobile applications, smart watches, fitness bands, and…
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Are You Ready for Some (Smart) Football?
September 8, 2016
Americans are preparing to kick off the 2016 (American) football season tonight. And while they do, the sporting-goods manufacturer Wilson is looking to help bring fans closer to the…
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Wearable applications including activity and fitness trackers, smart gloves, glasses, watches and headphones all use sensors to monitor what’s going on. And when more than one sensing device is…
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Getting Ready for a Smart-Bike Upgrade
August 8, 2016
I bike. Not because it decreases traffic, reduces pollution, and eliminates parking problems, and is therefore easily the most efficient and sustainable means of urban transportation. Not because governments…
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For this year’s Summer Olympics, some of the athletes may want to thank technology for their chance to capture Olympic gold. And with new technology being integrated into consumer…
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It may seem paranoid to fret about criminals hacking your refrigerator or reprogramming your coffee machine, but as more devices join the Internet of Things (IoT), those concerns…
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ST’s BlueCoin – A complete Bluetooth Smart development system in a tiny package
July 26, 2016
Check out ST’s BlueCoin, a Bluetooth Smart development system that integrates low-power and high-performance 9-axis inertial and environmental sensors and a cluster of 4 digital MEMS microphones that are…
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When most people think of Industry they probably they imagine a big, noisy place where everything runs at the steady pace dictated by giant machines. Raw materials are transformed…
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Providing the building blocks for “Smart Things” for the IoT
July 6, 2016
The first wave of Internet technology connected people to people and people to organizations via web sites and applications like email. Shortly afterwards, the “Internet of Things” (IoT) phenomena…
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The concept of “Smart” is relative to the era in which it is used. When the first domestic vacuum cleaner was introduced over a hundred years ago it was…