How often do you use contactless smartcard technology? Whether you’re buying groceries, entering a building, riding public transport, crossing a border or doing any number of other tasks, contactless smartcard technology is likely to be part of the transaction.

By Sara Ellinger

Tags: Smart City

For a wide range of products, packaging has traditionally played a relatively simple role. That role is being significantly extended and enhanced with smart or intelligent packaging.

By Stefan De Troch

Tags: Smart City

Though the SARS, MERS, and Ebola outbreaks each resulted in loss of life, they were restricted to a relatively small number of countries. COVID-19 has proved far more challenging to contain.

By Stefan De Troch

Tags: Industrial

As with many new complex technologies, machine learning is following an adoption life cycle whereby ‘early adopters’ have utilized this technology for the last few years.

By Markus Levy

Tags: Technologies

You may recall how, a few years ago, there was significant interest regarding unmanned stores. Retailers were going to use technology to eliminate cashiers and create a more frictionless, seamless shopping experience.

By James Goodland

Tags: Smart City

NXP has validated the compatibility of its LPC551x/S1x microcontroller (MCU) family for Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) – making it the market’s first ACK-validation to take advantage of the Arm® Cortex®-M33 architecture.

By Andy Lin

Tags: Smart Home

As car makers continue to improve each piece of the electrified powertrain, the role of the traction inverter continues to be central for energy efficient and robust EV systems.

By Antoine Dubois and Erik Santiago

Tags: Automotive, Powertrain and Vehicle Dynamics

Edge processing has developed into a full-fledged technical revolution, and one of our goals as a company is to help the industry achieve high-performance and energy-efficient computing through scalable, embedded processing.

By Monica Davis

Tags: Smart Home

Quantum computing is a novel computing technology based on quantum-mechanical principles.

By Joppe Bos

Tags: Technologies, Safety, Security