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Echelon Partners with ITOCHU and Mitsui on Street Lighting Control System Pilots in Japan
Echelon Corporation announced that building on the successful demonstration of intelligent street lighting control in the Japanese technology city of Tsukuba in 2011, several leading Japanese cities are now piloting street lighting management systems based on technology from Echelon. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Echelon Corp., General Electric (GE), GS Yuasa, ITOCHU Corp., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Panasonic Corp., Toshiba Corp.
Diodes Expands General-Purpose Low-Voltage CMOS Logic Family
Continuing the rapid expansion of its standard logic product line, Diodes Incorporated has announced the availability of more package options added to its four families of high-speed and advanced high-speed CMOS parts. Provided in a choice of SO14 and TSSOP14 … Continue reading
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Wind Sector VC Funding Down Slightly in 2012 Reports Mercom
Mercom Capital Group, llc, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity for the wind sector during 2012. The report identified $1.1 billion in corporate M&A activity and $8.8 billion in project M&A recorded during the past … Continue reading
GreenPeak launches GP410 ZigBee PRO Green Power Chip
GreenPeak Technologies announced its new GP410 chip offering the new ZigBee PRO Green Power feature for low cost energy harvesting and ultra-long battery life ZigBee applications for the Smart Home. The GP410 IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee PRO Green Power controller is … Continue reading
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IDC Energy Insights Predicts Smart Meter Shipments Will Surpass 130 Million Units by 2016; Emerging Markets Cited as Catalyst
IDC Energy Insights released the results of the Worldwide Quarterly Smart Meter Tracker. Global smart meter shipments in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12) grew 33.6% over the previous quarter, and were up nearly 51.3% year over year. By the … Continue reading
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Infinite Power Solutions Launches Self-Powered Wireless Environmental Sensor Eval Kit
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS) announced the availability of the IPS-EVAL-EH-02 Wireless Environmental Sensor Energy Harvesting Evaluation Kit. The new evaluation kit is a complete wireless sensor reference design that includes a microcontroller and radio module from Microchip Technology and … Continue reading
Nest Counters Honeywell Allegations of Patent Infringement
Nest Labs, Inc. countered in court what it believes are meritless allegations by Honeywell of patent infringement in relation to the innovative Nest® Learning Thermostat™. In an Answer and Counterclaims filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of … Continue reading
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Echelon and Holley Metering to Create Joint Venture to Develop and Sell Innovative Smart Grid Solutions in China
Echelon Corp. and Holley Metering Limited, a smart metering vendor in China, announced an agreement under which the two companies will form a new joint venture company in China, Zhejiang Echelon-Holley Technology Co., Ltd. (“Echelon-Holley”), to focus on the development … Continue reading
TI Introduces Fast 4 and 5A Two-Output MOSFET Drivers for Telecom and Server Power Supplies
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is expanding its MOSFET driver portfolio with three next-generation two-output gate drivers which the company says improves efficiency and reliability in high-density isolated power supplies. The UCC27210 and UCC27211 are described as the industry’s first 120V … Continue reading
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EU Project IMOLA Starts R&D on Large-Area, Intelligent OLED Lighting
Imec and its project partners announce the launch of IMOLA (Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications), a project under the EU’s 7th framework program for ICT (FP7). The project’s goal is to make large-area OLED-based lighting modules with … Continue reading