Market Highlight – Blockchain opens up alternative energy market.
Blockchain technology could open a new market for households and other small-scale renewable energy producers by offering a cheap and secure way for households and other small-scale producers to certify their electricity production and…
Market Highlight – Inmarsat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Pop-up lab
Seven UAVs will participate in Inmarsat's UAV Pop-up Lab. FlyLogix, Silent Falcon, Robot Aviation, Alpha Unmanned Systems, RPAS Service, A-techSYN, and Intrepid Minds will use Inmarsat connectivity in missions with a range of…
PPD, HappyLife Tech to deliver CRO services to China
Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) and Happy Life Tech (HLT) of China have signed an exclusive agreement to develop a distinctive service offering for the China drug-development market delivering data science-driven clinical…
Greenlots became a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell
Zeco Systems, DBA Greenlots, located in Los Angeles CA, is controlling the charging of electric vehicles by having the charging at one charging station to affect the charging at another charging station using a mobile device.Greenlots…
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong are developing real-time economic dispatch in power system operations
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong are developing real-time economic dispatch in power system operations, especially in systems that include renewable power sources that may cause heavy deviations from a generation schedule due to…
The Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 energy projects
The U.S. Department of Energy is coordinating groups of Thermostatically Controlled Loads (TCLs) with unknown parameters to achieve system-level objects with price incentives.The U.S. Department of Energy announced on 2/7/2019 $35 million…
The Tampa Electric Company is deploying Itron’s smart street lighting solution
Itron, headquartered in Liberty Lake WA, is identifying an electrical phase connected to an electrical meter by comparing or correlating the changes in energy or power measured by the meter to the changes measured at a feeder.The Tampa…
Fujitsu is developing a power distribution management apparatus
Fujitsu, headquartered in Japan, is developing a power distribution management apparatus that extracts a pattern of the open and closed states of switches.
The Philadelphia Water Department partnered with Sensus for its advanced metering project
Sensus, located in Raleigh NC, is identifying in-range endpoints in a network by positioning a grid over a map of the network's endpoints. The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) partnered with Sensus for its advanced metering…
NorthStar Battery is determining a battery’s operating mode
NorthStar Battery is determining the operating mode of a battery by detecting a present voltage across its terminals.
Aero Payments is developing a cloud-based payment system
Aero Payments, located in Chicago IL, is developing a cloud-based payment system that requires the consumer's device and the merchant's device to be in proximity.
Cisco and Cybersecurity Ventures publish Cybersecurity Almanac
Cisco is automatically detecting network threats based on modeling sequential behavior in network traffic. Earlier this month, Cisco and Cybersecurity Ventures published their first annual edition of the Cybersecurity Almanac, a handbook…
J.P. Morgan announces JPM Coin, the first US bank-backed digital currency
On 2/14/2019, J.P. Morgan announced its JPM Coin, the first US bank-backed digital currency. Some speculate that large corporations that use J.P Morgan's treasury services, such as Honeywell and Facebook, will use it to replace funds in…
Sony is managing flight paths for UAVs with an autopilot system
Sony is managing flight paths for UAVs to assist in remote-controlled piloting.
IBM launched Code and Response to help groups using drones to assist in natural disaster recovery
IBM is implementing a restricted-operation region for unmanned vehicles. IBM has launched Code and Response, a four-year, $25 million commitment to help winners of the Call for Code competition, who are developing drones to assist in…
Honeywell is generating avionic displays including forecast overpressure event symbology
Honeywell is generating avionic displays including forecast overpressure event symbology, which can be used to assist in controlling drones.
Millions unknowingly helped Google create AI drone-targeting technology
Google is using sensor-based observations from multiple agents in an environment, such as drones, to estimate the position and/or orientation of an object. It has been uncovered that millions of workers in the so-called gig economy…
Denso is using drones to rescue disabled vehicles
Denso International America, located in Southfield MI, is using drones to assist in the rescue of disabled vehicles. The drones can facilitate communication between the disabled vehicles and other vehicles.
AeroVironment introduced the next generation of its Quantix VTOL hybrid drone
AeroVironment, located in Monrovia CA, is preventing UAVs from accidentally or inadvertently initiating or terminating flight by using a safety system. AeroVironment has introduced the next generation of its Quantix VTOL hybrid drone,…
Outside Magazine puts sleep tech to the test.
Joe Jackson from Outside Magazine put several sleep tech products to the test to see how each of them affected his sleep.
BOE Technology Group is tracking sleep via a light-intensity monitor.
BOE Technology Group is tracking sleep via a light-intensity monitor.
Microsoft is developing a new UI for visualizing sleep data.
Microsoft is developing a new user interface (UI) for visualizing sleep data over time.
DP Technologies is monitoring the efficacy of sleep aids.
DP Technologies, an affiliate of Fullpower Technologies, is monitoring the efficacy of sleep aids and adjusting a sleep aid based on a statistical analysis of a user's sleep. The company has previously licensed its patents for wearable…
Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing a monolithically integrated system of silicon solar cells.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales, located in Australia, are developing a monolithically integrated system of silicon solar cells.
Flisom is developing a thin-film photovoltaic device with wavy monolithic interconnects
Flisom is developing a thin-film photovoltaic device with wavy monolithic interconnects.
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