Further reading:
Solving South African power problems with locally built intelligence
Editor's Choice Power Electronics / Power Management
Smart metering infrastructure in South Africa remains patchy. The rollout has been slow, coverage is inconsistent, and for the most part, granular per-unit measurement simply does not exist.
Read more...
From the editor's desk: The art of measuring the truth
Technews Publishing
Editor's Choice News
All electronic measurements are a lie. The trick is making the lie as small as possible.
Read more...
Engineering for failure: why resilient telemetry matters more than perfect connectivity
Editor's Choice Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
One of the biggest assumptions in modern tracking systems is that connectivity will always be available. From an engineering perspective, this creates an interesting problem.
Read more...
Lesley Havenga: Building partnerships for Africa’s electronics future
Editor's Choice News
As Würth Electronik expands its footprint across South Africa and the broader sub-Saharan region, Havenga’s blend of manufacturing expertise, supply chain knowledge, and people-centred leadership appears well suited to the task.
Read more...
Generating negative voltages from a positive supply
Altron Arrow
Editor's Choice Passive Components
It is common for IoT devices, industrial sensors, meters, and medical equipment to require both a positive and negative voltage, and this article explains the options available to produce a negative rail from a positive rail supply.
Read more...
PEAK’s first automotive Ethernet solution
Industrial Data Xchange (IDX)
Editor's Choice Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
The PAE-Media Converter is a robust and compact device designed to connect Automotive Ethernet (100BASE-T1 or 1000BASE-T1) with standard Ethernet (100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T) networks.
Read more...
EMC limits and levels
Altron Arrow
Editor's Choice Circuit & System Protection
As soon as electronics and electrical systems started interfering with each other, the world had to come to some consensus. Considering physics is universal and does not care about what country electrical/electronic products are used in, it should be the same everywhere, right? It is nearly there, but not quite.
Read more...
Sigfox SA powers smart connectivity
Editor's Choice Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
Sigfox South Africa is carving out a unique role, delivering low-power, wide-area network connectivity designed specifically for Internet of Things applications.
Read more...
Seeing through the noise
RF Design
Editor's Choice Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
How Adaptive Long Coherent Integration (ALCI) delivers superior measurement and positioning performance where conventional receivers fall short.
Read more...
Case Study: Turning data into insight
Hamamatsu Photonics UK
Editor's Choice Opto-Electronics
Hamamatsu Photonics’ InGaAs PIN photodiode detector has proven consistent, reliable, and robust for more than a decade, helping Axetris to deliver stable, repeatable measurements.
Read more...