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Top Robots for Farmers for 2016
Agricultural is one of the fastest growing robotic sectors with robots, including aerial drones, are revolutionizing agriculture in the greenhouse, the nursery and especially in the open fields. -
An NFC link and an Energy Harvester in one chip.
Chip maker AMS has launched an NFC interface chip (NFiC) that offers “unique energy harvesting and data transfer capabilities” and can capture enough energy to power the device it is built into. The chip can provide comms and charge the battery in one go! -
Internet of Things: Are We There Yet? (The 2016 IoT Landscape)
Matt Turck has a insightful article on the current state of the IoT space. Be sure to check out the full The 9 Most Common Mistakes That Ionic Developers Make We have been making great use of the Ionic framework for developing hybrid applications. This article highlights some common mistakes, fundamental problems and best practice tips to follow when creating solid and scalable applications with Ionic. -
RePhone- World’s First Open Source and Modular Phone
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Second Livestock
… and to end on a bit of a light note !
Category Archives: Week Links
Week Links #003
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Latest IMaR Gateway newsletter
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Radio Kerry visits Dairymaster
Radio Kerry’s Frank Lewis took a walk around the Dairymaster factory in Causeway as part of his Saturday Supplement show recently. A podcast is up on the Radio Kerry site and well worth a listen for an great insight into the to the global operation. -
Quipt – Gesture-based control software for industrial robots
Quipt is a gesture-based control software that facilitates new, more intuitive ways to communicate with industrial robots. Using wearable markers and a motion capture system, Quipt gives industrial robots basic spatial behaviors for interacting closely with people. Wearable markers on the hand, around the neck, or elsewhere on the body let a robot see and respond to you in a shared space. This lets you and the robot safely follow, mirror, and avoid one another as you collaborate together. -
PlatformIO
PlatformIO IDE is the next generation integrated development environment for IoT, an open source Python based cross-platform IDE, code builder and library manager. -
eir launches IoT connectivity platform
eir IoT Connect provides small and large businesses with cellular mobile connectivity (including global roaming), an online self-care portal to manage their IoT assets and a choice of private or Internet based network solutions. Coupled with the reach of the eir mobile network, as well as its analytic tools, eir’s IoT Connect enables businesses to efficiently gain the intelligence needed to drive innovation and improve business decisions. -
Invengo release IoT Phone
Invengo’s XC-1003 is a compact, versatile, state of the art integrated RAIN (UHF) RFID cell phone reader. Its low profile integrated design and multiple connectivity options make it suitable for retail, healthcare and event management applications. -
IMaR – The band !
With a drummer, a bass player and a couple of guitarists on the team we have joked about forming an IMaR band but we might have to come up with a different name as Daniel our centre manager came across this Glasgow band !
Week Links #002
It’s been a while but here are some things which have piqued the interest of the IMaR team:
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blazer.buzz – IoT in the hive
With fears over declining bee populations worldwide, an Irish start-up Blazer Team believes IoT could provide a solution. Blazer are installing its sensors in a bee hives in order to remotely monitor the health of each bee and compile that data to give an in-depth analysis of the colony’s overall health. -
How to choose the best connectivity network for your IoT project
How sensors communicate with the internet is a key aspect when conceiving of a connected project, OpenSensors.io have a handy matrix and of common communication technologies and their pro’s and cons. -
Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Udacity
In an attempt to help make deep learning even more accessible Google in collaboration with Udacity have launched a new Deep Learning Course. -
HaLow World
The Wi-Fi Alliance have announced a new extension to the Wi-Fi standard, Wi-Fi HaLow (pronounced “halo”) is designed for low-power devices. It’ll travel farther and even do a better job of traveling through walls. Basically, it’s an all around better option for smart home and IoT devices, at least if these claims hold up.
And here are a couple of events happening over the next week in Kerry which we are looking forward to:
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Cantillon 2016 – Fintech: Disrupting the Financial Landscape”
The 2016 Cantillon conference takes place in IT Tralee on Thursday next, this year the conference is focusing on BitCoin, Cryptocurrency and the financial services sector. -
The Irish CĂłdaithe Competition
The Irish CĂłdaithe Competition is a coding/technology event in Killorglin Community College on Saturday week (27th February). The event is the brainchild of The Irish CĂłdaithe Competition is a competition set up by three 2nd year students from Killorglin Community College including Timothy McGrath with whom IMaR helped to develop an NFC powered mobile app to aid those with visual impairments.
Week Links #001
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How to choose the best connectivity network for your IoT project
How sensors communicate with the internet is a key aspect when conceiving of a connected project, OpenSensors.io have a handy matrix and of common communication technologies and their pro’s and cons. -
PowerBRICK Power Supply Modules
Very well engineered USB power to +/-3.3V +/-12V +/-9V +/-5V supplies. -
RFID gives the green light to cyclist in Denmark
The Danish city of Aarhus is currently running a trial where cyclists are given RFID tags that they attach to their wheels. As they approach a junction, the tag sends a signal to a nearby reader (pictured above), which in turn switches the light to green so they never have to stop ! -
Open Hybrid – a platform for interaction with everyday objects
An interesting project from MIT Open Hybrid combines physical objects with the benefits of a flexible augmented user interface using standard Web-Technologies and Arduino, creating a virtual interface to control tangible objects. Reality Editor which is built on Open Hybrib is well worth checking out as well -
Hacker build a self driving car in his garage
26 year old hacker George Hotz aims to take on Tesla and Google by building a self driving car in his garage in under a month !. Be sure to watch the video to see how he programmed the car learned how to drive using Lidar and AI. -
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams.
MIT Researchers have developed algorithms that outperformed 615 out of 906 human teams in competitions to discover patterns in data sets. -
r-touch RFID reader for iPhone
While looking at potential hand held RFID readers for a project we came across this slim, modern and durable clip on reader for the iPhone
Week Links #000
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Week Links
As you would expect working in research we are constantly coming across interesting new technologies, products, concepts and the like, so we thought it might be interesting to compile a short list of some of the things which caught the eye of the researchers at IMaR during the the week, enjoy #000 ! -
Facebook to open source AI hardware design
It sure is an exciting time for AI research, following on from Google Open Sourcing their TensorFlow AI software last month, this week Facebook have announced their intentions to open up their AI hardware. -
Haute-Circuits from Boldport
In the search for Christmas gifts ? Our electronic engineers came across these stylized PCB’s [pictured above] designed as part of luxury jewelry for Tiffany, Chopard, Cartier, Yurman, and Harry Winston, and featured in Marie Claire. Swoon ! -
Wio Link from Seeed Studios
Wio Link is an open-source Wi-Fi development board designed to simplify IoT development by virtualizing plug-n-play modules to Web of Things. You can back the project on Kickstarter and get a board for just €9 ! -
RemoteBoot – WiFi Remote Management Module for PCs
Another interesting KickStarter project, this module allows you to access files on your PC remotely without having the PC on. -
Standard Access takes Gold at the 2015 BoI Startup Awards
Congratulation to Standard Access who continued their winning streak at the Bank of Ireland start-up awards recently. IMaR worked with them to develop the initial hardware and software prototype for the product with support from Enterprise Ireland. -
Small Research can make a difference too.
And finally a poignant and personal reflection on the importance of research (no mater how small) from Pat Doody, Research Director at IMaR .