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AGVs or AMRs for Material Handling

On September 30, 2026 in Automation, Computing, Industrial, Industrial Automation, Low Power, Robotics, Sensors, Wireless by Hector Barresi

Compare AGVs and AMRs for mobile material handling, including navigation, safety, integration, infrastructure, and scalability in industrial automation.

Tagged With: agvs vs amrs comparison, automated guided vehicles (agvs), autonomous mobile robots (amrs), industrial automation solutions, mobile material handling, robotics for warehouses, smart manufacturing logistics, warehouse automation technologies

New Tech Tuesdays: Power Optimization in Multiprotocol Smart Home Designs

On July 21, 2026 in All, IoT, Low Power, New Tech Tuesdays, Wireless by Mouser Technical Content Staff

Power optimization in multiprotocol smart home designs using ultra-low-power wireless SoCs for Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and secure battery-powered smart locks.

Tagged With: aliro, embedded memory, hardware security, matter, multiprotocol smart home designs, smart locks, thread, ultra-low-power wireless soc, zigbee

New Tech Tuesdays: Unified Memory Architecture for Mixed Embedded Workloads

On June 23, 2026 in Industrial, Low Power, Memory, New Tech Tuesdays by Mouser Technical Content Staff

SPI page EEPROMs unify byte-level updates and page-based operations, enabling low-power, reliable storage for mixed embedded workloads and firmware in modern designs.

Tagged With: ecc memory, embedded memory architecture, firmware storage eeprom, low-power eeprom, mixed embedded workloads, non-volatile memory spi, quad spi memory, spi page eeprom

New Tech Tuesdays: Micropower MEMS Accelerometers Advance Smart Agriculture Monitoring

On June 2, 2026 in All, IoT, Low Power, New Tech Tuesdays, Sensors by Mouser Technical Content Staff

Micropower 3-axis MEMS accelerometers enable always-on livestock health monitoring, extending battery life in smart agriculture and IoT edge sensor designs.

Tagged With: adxl366, condition-based monitoring, edge sensing, iot farming, livestock monitoring, mems sensors, micropower accelerometers, smart agriculture

Designing Robust Capacitive Touch Interfaces for Industrial Use

On May 4, 2026 in Industrial, IoT, Low Power, Sensors by Microchip Technology

Touch interfaces are becoming more common in automotive and industrial applications, but safe and reliable operation depends on capacitive touch interfaces that withstand EMI, ESD, and moisture.

Tagged With: driven shield capacitive sensing, emi resistant touch interface, esd protected capacitive sensing, gloved touch control, industrial capacitive touch design, industrial hmi touch, microchip capacitive touch, pic32cm pl10 mcu

New Tech Tuesdays: Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Connectivity for the Matter Smart Home Era

On March 24, 2026 in All, Dev Tools, Low Power, New Tech Tuesdays, Wireless by Mouser Technical Content Staff

Ultra-low-power Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, and Zigbee enable extended IoT battery life and seamless Matter device interoperability for next-generation smart home and industrial designs.

Tagged With: bluetooth low energy, embedded wireless, iot sensors, low-power iot design, matter iot, multi-protocol soc, smart home wireless, thread connectivity, ultra-low-power wireless, zigbee mesh

Quantum Computing Paves a Smarter Path to Resource Optimization

On January 27, 2026 in All, Computing, Energy Harvesting, Industrial, IoT, Low Power by Liam Critchley

Explore how quantum computing can transform resource optimization across sectors, particularly with energy efficiency and sustainability. To get there, though, challenges lie ahead.

Tagged With: ai energy impact, battery optimization, data center sustainability, energy efficiency, low power computing, quantum algorithms, quantum computing, renewable energy, resource optimization, smart grid

New Tech Tuesdays: Edge AI Motion Sensing for Wearables

On January 20, 2026 in Industrial, Low Power, New Tech Tuesdays, Sensors by Mouser Technical Content Staff

Edge AI motion sensing enables wearables and industrial devices to process motion data locally for real-time, low-power, and privacy-focused applications.

Tagged With: ar/vr interfaces, bosch bhi385, edge ai motion sensing, embedded ai, gesture recognition, imu sensors, low-power processing, predictive maintenance, smart sensors, wearable technology

Why Wi-Fi 6 Is Still the IoT Connectivity Standard

On December 18, 2025 in Industrial, IoT, Low Power, Wireless by STMicroelectronics

Even as Wi Fi 7 enters the market, Wi Fi 6 remains the benchmark for IoT connectivity, offering a proven balance of power efficiency, reliability, and scalability that engineers can trust for dense, low power networks.

Tagged With: bluetooth low energy 5.4, ieee 802.11ax, iot connectivity, low-power iot design, mu-mimo, ofdma, stmicroelectronics st67w611, target wake time, thread protocol, wi-fi 6

Engineering the Invisible Smart Home with Ambient Computing

On December 12, 2025 in Automation, Energy Harvesting, IoT, Low Power, Sensors by Mouser Technical Content Staff

Ambient computing is reshaping smart homes, but it’s the engineering behind sensors, power efficiency, and edge intelligence that makes it work. Discover the technical backbone driving seamless, invisible technology in modern environments.

Tagged With: ambient computing, edge computing, energy harvesting, home automation, human-centered design, iot, low power electronics, matter protocol, sensor networks, smart home

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