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…
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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…
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Silicon Photonics for the New Internet
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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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PIQ Thrives Under Pressure, ST’s LPS25HB Pressure Sensor at the Service of Athletes
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…
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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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Netatmo Changed How We Perceive Our Environment, STMicroelectronics’s Sensors and MCUs Enabled This Revolution
July 22, 2016
Netatmo is a French startup founded in 2011 that specializes in smart weather stations, thermostats, and cameras. The company was the winner of the CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards…
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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…