External press release
28 Jun 2022
Powercast & InPlay Team on Battery-free BLE Sensor Beacon
Powercast Corporation and InPlay have created a platform for designing battery-free, maintenance-free, long-range wireless IoT sensor systems that deploy easily for monitoring in the retail, medical, warehousing and industrial IoT markets.
External press release
28 Jun 2022
Wyzo Wins Two Awards as World's First Sidebot
Wyzo, the world's first sidebot, has scooped not one but two high-profile accolades for outstanding design aesthetic and functionality. The sidebar has the ability to work side by side with humans with the speed of an industrial robot.
External press release
28 Jun 2022
Novel Patching Material for Bone Defects
Ceramics and metals have been used for a while as structural materials to repair bones and joints. In the past, scientists engineered bioinert materials, which do not bond to bones directly; bioactive materials that can bond to bones; and bio-absorbable materials that are categorized in bioactive materials but they are absorbed by the body over time and are replaced by advancing bone tissue.
External press release
28 Jun 2022
100 MWh Energy Storage System to Help UK on Path Towards Net Zero
The technology group Wärtsilä will partner with low carbon energy company SSE to deliver a 50 MW / 100 MWh energy storage system in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The battery will be the first connected directly to the transmission network by SSE's new solar and battery division and will support access to clean, reliable energy by balancing the intermittency of renewables.
External press release
28 Jun 2022
AFSIA Solar Awards 2022 Winners
The 3rd edition of the AFSIA Solar Awards 2022, once again organized in collaboration with the Africa Energy Forum, has ended. The winners of the 13 categories were revealed and recognized during this occasion.
Update interview
27 Jun 2022
Mojo Vision
IDTechEx had the opportunity to try out Mojo Vision's prototype smart augmented reality contact lens at TechConnect 2022. The device is based around a tiny microLED display, with the demo giving insight into a possible future for AR.
27 Jun 2022
Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring
Blood pressure is one of the most important indicators of heart health, but it's tough to frequently and reliably measure outside of a clinical setting. For decades, cuff-based devices that constrict around the arm to give a reading have been the gold standard. But now, researchers have developed an electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours and deliver continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly all available options on the market today.
27 Jun 2022
A Focus on Chemistry, Not Electronics, for Future Solar Panels
A material that has been heralded as the key to producing more efficient next-generation solar panels could soon be ready for mass production, thanks to a new method developed by researchers.
27 Jun 2022
Wearables and AI Might Pick up Presymptomatic COVID-19
Wearable activity trackers that monitor changes in skin temperature and heart and breathing rates, combined with artificial intelligence, might be used to pick up COVID-19 infection days before symptoms start, suggests preliminary research.
27 Jun 2022
FEV and Prologium in Joint Solid State Battery Development
Both parties are leveraging their expertise to jointly develop energy storage systems based on ProLogium's unique solid-state batteries technology which are a suitable energy storage alternative with particularly high energy density for a wide range of applications, such as the transportation sector.
Update interview
27 Jun 2022
Plantfellow
Plantfellow is a Dutch software provider, with a proprietary artificial intelligence platform developed for farm monitoring. IDTechEx analyst Brendan Beh spoke with Plantfellow at the GreenTech 2022 event.
Update interview
27 Jun 2022
Elcoflex
Elcoflex is an established manufacturer of patterned flexible printed circuits, primarily by etching copper laminate — these are used primarily for LED lighting and RFID antennas. This update is based on a presentation at the PRINSE'22 conference and a subsequent visit to Elcoflex.
Full profile interview
24 Jun 2022
MITO Material Solutions
MITO Material Solutions is a start-up specializing in functionalizing graphene oxide. IDTechEx spoke with Haley Marie Keith (Founder and CEO).
Background
24 Jun 2022
DAF: Electric Trucks
Dutch OEM DAF, subsidiary of American truck OEM PACCAR Group, currently offer two electric heavy-duty trucks: DAF CF Electric, which they began testing in 2018, and the 19-tonne DAF LF Electric, which went into production in May 2021.
Background
24 Jun 2022
Volvo Trucks: Electric Trucks
Volvo are leading truck electrification in Europe, offering a full range of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks.
24 Jun 2022
Analyzing Meta's VR Optics Future
Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are edging toward becoming commonplace. However, social acceptability is still some way off and the user experience is not entirely comfortable. Essential to solving these problems are the lenses that magnify and focus headsets' displays.
Full profile interview
24 Jun 2022
Rocsys
Rocsys develop solutions to fully automate professional charging sites. With their solutions, EV infrastructure operators can increase their asset utilisation. This allows fleet operators to run business-critical operations with EVs and additionally prepare for the self-parking and self-driving era. Rocsys' solutions are based on proprietary patented soft-robotics and computer vision technologies. IDTechEx spoke to their CEO and Co-founder, Crijn Bouman at EVS35.
24 Jun 2022
Sniffing Out Your Identity with Breath Biometrics
Researchers have developed a new potential odorous option for the biometric security toolkit: your breath, an olfactory sensor capable of identifying individuals by analyzing the compounds in their breath.
Update
24 Jun 2022
Heliatek
Heliatek is a Germany company founded in 2006. It is developing thin flexible organic photovoltaic films for building integration. Its first commercial product, HeliaSol, was produced in 2021.
24 Jun 2022
Underground Battery Electric Vehicles for BHP Potash Project in Canada
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has secured an order of Battery Electric Vehicles from BHP for the Jansen Potash Project, located in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Jansen Stage 1 is being designed with a focus on sustainability and technology and the battery-electric loaders will be used in the most advanced potash-mine in the world.