Tag: sustainability

Using Cellular Technology to Improve Water Management

August 13, 2014

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″ video_id=”DU2GZhCZ7D4″] California and many other regions continue to suffer from drought. What if you applied cellular technology—similar to that used in smartphones—in water management systems to improve water quantity, quality and cost. Qualcomm has teamed with CH2M Hill to make it possible.

Spansion goes battery-less with tiny ‘Internet of things’ chips

June 5, 2014

Spansion says it can eliminate the need to put a battery in the tiny sensors that will deliver the measurements from the Internet of things.” That should make it much more affordable to deploy billions of such sensors. The new solution uses chips that can harvest their own energy from