Communication Technology for Monitoring Power Generation of Solar Panel

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan (AIST) announced that its collaboration research team has developed a communication technology which uses the direct current (DC) power line of a solar panel as a communication line. The newly developed communication technology is expected to be used for monitoring of power generation in each solar panel, easy detection of malfunctions and high-efficiency power generation, etc. Technologies of solar energy generation seem to be moving one step further intelligently to control and maintain the solar panel unit. For details of the news announcement, please click here.

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Wireless High-definition Quality Video Transmission Units

This system that consists of a receiver (left) and a transmitter wirelessly enables HD (30 frames/sec) quality video and stereo sounds transmission but with no compression and no delay time. The supplier, Giga Techno Vision's blog says the system is well secured because of its proprietary and patented technologies that differ its digital modulation method from wireless LAN. - Frequency Area 2.4GHz - Transmission power: 10 mW - Radio Channel Capacity 4ch Maximum - Diversity Method: Space-diversity 2 antennas - Size (Tx & Rx each): 110(W) x 80(Ｄ) x 30(Ｈ)mm - Weight (Tx & Rx each): approximately 300g - Transmission distance: 500 m outdoors (up to 3 km) There seem to be various applications, such as remote monitoring, CCTV, home video theater application, surveillance systems, etc. I hope in the near future the system become one single chip for receiver and transmitter each. When the chip becomes available, it will significantly broaden its applications to personal and ...

Two Is Better Than One!

TOMY has announced a new digital camera that has a built-in printer inside. It is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK (trademark) priner that is powered by ZINK Imaging Inc's printing technology. The new product has been born by the marrige of the two technologies of digital camera and printer. It allows you to capture, view, and immediately print their images without ink, anywhere. The new products will be available first in Japan late November, 2008. Source: ZINK Imaging & YouTube 11/6/08

Invisibel speaker componet

A very thin component (2.4mm x 4.7mm x 34.5mm) is a distribute mode actuator which is made of piezoelectric thin films formed on metal plate. This device enables a flat panel screen to vibrate to make sounds. The flat display panel may vary from a mobile communications device to a desktop display system such as a personal computer. According to a news release from the supplier , Authentic, Ltd. , the Authentic's DMA device is embedded in a mobile clinical assisting system of Philips FIMI. I personally wish and expect that a further improved version of this device will be used when an organic electroluminescence display is commercially available some time in the near future. Photo: Authentic's DMA Source: Authentic's web site 12/7/08

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