Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel recently participated in 4YFN’s MWC 2015 panel discussion about the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors and the evolution of smart cities. Additional 4YFN panelists included Cisco CTO John Baekelmans, MLOVE Founder and Curator Harald Neidhardt, Intel Human Computer Interaction Expert Mara Balestrini, D4SC Designer-Founder Priya Prakash and Digitel director Amitai Gindel.
Lensless Smart Sensors
Envisioning an intelligent future with Rambus lensless smart sensors (LSS)
Rambus, along with partners MLove and IXDS, hosted 4YFN’s “Eyes of the IoT” MWC 2015 workshop this afternoon in Barcelona, Spain. Participants discussed how smart vision, facilitated by technology such as Rambus’ lensless smart sensors (LSS), could potentially impact the future of smart cities, medical equipment, transportation and manufacturing.
Rambus to deploy lensless smart sensor PODs
Rambus kicked off Mobile World Congress 2015 by announcing its newly minted lensless smart sensor (LSS) POD (Partners in Open Development) program. “Individuals and companies designing sensors for the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) are often forced to code complex algorithms from the ground up,” Kendra De Berti, a director at Rambus, told us on the sidelines of MWC 2015 in Barcelona.
Lensless smart sensor technology is SWaP-C friendly
Writing for Military Embedded Systems, Amanda Harvey notes that stringent size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) requirements are influencing nearly every modern military platform. “Everything seems to be getting smaller in the U.S. military arsenal – whether it’s an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payload, or a handheld GPS device,” Harvey explained.
The LSS-wearables connection
Wearable technology was highlighted at CES 2015 last week in Las Vegas, with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announcing the Curie module, a tiny hardware product based on the company’s first purpose-built system-on-chip (SoC) for wearable devices.
Why insects can helps us build better ‘bots
Founded by John Espey, Organic Electrics designs and builds robots based on insects and other living organisms. Indeed, the small size, power efficiency and complex behaviors of insects make the creatures ideal models for next-gen robotics.