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In Application Examples, Events, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
June 21, 2017
“Light of Thoughts” brightened millions of faces at Vivid Sydney 2017. The interactive exhibit, a collaboration between ST and Australia-based artists, featured 270 acrylic cubes, built as a giant…
In Events, Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
June 15, 2017
Whether by Smart Balance wheel containing several STM32 components, pedaling on a Mobike, which has STM32 embedded in its design, or by more conventional means, speakers, attendees, and ecosystem…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Security, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
June 7, 2017
Many users — and NFC-market leaders — have long awaited an announcement on NFC tag reading from Apple. With just under 20% market share according to Gartner’s 2016 analysis and an…
An exciting enabling technology is expanding the range of applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). Sigfox is an ultra-narrowband low power wide area network (LPWAN) capability well suited…
In Application Examples, Security, Smart Home & City, Smart Things
May 24, 2017
Necessity is the mother of invention. Jacqueline Ros and Andrea Perdomo are the mothers of Revolar. They founded the company and developed their wearable safety product from unfortunate experience: the…
In Our products, Internet of Things, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
May 2, 2017
The Sensors market, like the semiconductor market in general, has been a bit schizophrenic. In the first half of last year, the market was as quiet and still as…
In Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
April 26, 2017
Building a Cloud-connectable IoT device can be a bear. Choosing the hardware can be the easy part; integrating all of the pieces and writing (and debugging) all the device…
In Our products, Application Examples, From our labs, Internet of Things, Smart Things
April 25, 2017
Earlier this year, we introduced ST-AudioWeaver, an advanced and free audio development tool in partnership with DSP Concepts. The incredibly useful ST-AudioWeaver makes audio development even easier on STM32 products…
In Tutorials, Application Examples, From our labs, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
April 13, 2017
This tutorial will walk you through setting up a quick 6LoWPAN (pronounced “six-lo-pan”) network to send data from a node to a gateway connected to a Wi-Fi network. Hence,…
In Our products, From our labs, Internet of Things, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
April 12, 2017
ST offers Function Packs to jump-start a 6LoWPAN project, and today, we’ll focus our attention on two of them, the FP-NET–6LPWIFI1 and FP-SNS–6LPNODE1. They include source codes, and applications, to…
In Power, Events, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
April 3, 2017
We have all experienced it – our smartwatch battery runs out but our cell phone is fully charged. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to transfer some power between…
In Internet of Things, Events, Our products, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
March 29, 2017
Developers can use the STM32 ODE development and expansion boards and STM32Cube software to jumpstart your projects. Learn how easily you can build a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) network…
In Security, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
March 15, 2017
The STSAFE-A1SX is the first secure element from ST for IoT devices relying on the Sigfox™ protocol. As the Internet of Things is increasingly nicknamed the “Internet of Threats”,…
In Our products, Security, Smart Home & City, Smart Things
March 7, 2017
The ST54F and ST54H, the newest System in Package (SiP) components from ST, include its latest NFC controller, the ST21NFCD, and the ST54H integrates the ST33J2M0, a bigger, faster, and…
In Smart Things, Application Examples, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Home & City
February 23, 2017
How many MEMS have you used today? Have you used a Smartphone? GPS? Activity tracker? Gaming system? Car? Printer? Then the chances are that you have used many of…
In Our products, Internet of Things, Smart Home & City, Smart Things
February 22, 2017
The B-L072Z-LRWAN1 and I-NUCLEO-LRWAN1 are the newest LoRa development boards from ST. In the age of connected devices, sub-gigahertz networks are the latest El Dorado, and ST is pioneering…
The world’s first Time-of-Flight (ToF) proximity sensor, introduced by ST in 2013, offered unprecedented accuracy and reliability in measuring the distance between the sensor and a single object. This…
In Events, Internet of Things, Our products, Security, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
February 10, 2017
In case you hadn’t looked at the calendar recently, Mobile World Congress is coming! Billed as the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, the event takes place in beautiful…
In Application Examples, Our products, Security, Smart Things
February 2, 2017
Last month, at CES 2017, ST showcased a complete solution to integrate mobile payment in smartphones and wearable devices. Contactless payment is not new, but building such a system…
In Our products, Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Things
January 25, 2017
At CES 2017, ST announced that several smartphones were compatible with the WeRun feature found in the WeChat messaging app, thanks to two components : the 6-axis inertial module…
In Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
January 23, 2017
Can you name the 8- and 32-bit microcontroller families leading the “Smart Revolution”? With ST having delivered more than 1 million STM32 development kits and 100,000 STM8 development kits, chances…
In Internet of Things, Smart Home & City, Smart Things
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)…
In Events, AI, Internet of Things, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
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:…
In Our products, Application Examples, Events, Internet of Things, Security, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
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…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Driving, Smart Home & City, Smart Things
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…
In Internet of Things, Application Examples, Smart Things
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…
One of the darlings of the ST Developers Conference that took place last October was SensorTile, the world’s densest sensor board. At 13.5 mm x 13.5 mm, it includes…
NFC (Near Field Communication) technology is at the heart of an expanding spectrum of easy-to-use, contactless applications because it helps simplify the connection of devices. Available at low cost and…
In Smart Home & City, Smart Industry, Smart Things
November 24, 2016
By 2020 we’ll be able to send in one hour the total volume of data traffic sent in the whole of the year 2000. In 2016, the traffic during…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
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…
In Our products, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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,…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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…
In Application Examples, From our labs, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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…
In Application Examples, Events, From our labs, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things, Tutorials
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…
In Application Examples, From our labs, Internet of Things, Our products, Smart Things
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…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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…
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…
In Application Examples, Our products, Smart Things
August 24, 2016
The arrival of wearable technologies has changed the world of sports, and PIQ is one of the founding players of this revolution. The company designed the 13-axis multi-sport PIQ sensor that…
In Application Examples, Internet of Things, Smart Things
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…
