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Celebrating the electronics industry
Datateam Business Media has announced the launch of the Electronics Industry Awards in association with CIE Magazine, Electronics Magazine and What’s New In Electronics. The awards are designed to recognise the many successes in the electronics industry, celebrating outstanding companies, people and products
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he Electronics Industry Awards will take place at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham on 25th September 2018, and the winners will be decided
entirely by an industry vote, giving the experts a voice on who they think should win. There has been a lot of call for the launch of these
awards. Amy Wallington, editor, CIE Magazine, says: “So far there has been a really good response to the launch of the awards. We have a range of different categories to cater to different markets with the aim to include as many people as possible. We work in such a diverse industry and
having met first hand some of the amazing people and seen their innovative products, I am confident these awards will recognise the very best.” The awards are split into three sections: Business Awards,
Product Awards and People Awards. The Business Awards recognise those who go above and beyond within their sector and companies that should be recognised for what they bring to the market. These categories include: ‘Distributor of the Year’, ‘Electronics Manufacturer of the Year’, ‘Excellence in Innovation’, ‘Environmental Leadership’, ‘Best Customer Service’, ‘Academic Support’, and ‘Most Outstanding PR Agency’. The Product Awards celebrate the excellence of a range
of products from different markets within the electronics industry. This section recognises the best products within aerospace/military/defence, automotive, displays, enclosures, engineering development/design tools, interconnection, Internet of Things, power, test, measurement & inspection, and embedded solution. The People Awards recognise people who stand out within the industry. They include: ‘Engineer of the Future’, ‘Most Outstanding Electronics Engineer’ and ‘Industry Personality’. Nominations for the awards are now open. Anyone can enter into any of the relevant categories on the Electronics Industry Awards website. They may also nominate other companies and individuals for an award using the same simple online form.
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Entries and nominations must meet the necessary criteria to be allowed through to the voting stage. A secure online voting process will then select the finalists in each category, with the winners being the nominee that receives the most votes overall. There are a number of exclusive sponsorship opportunities available at the awards ceremony and gala dinner, with options to suit a range of budgets. Logos of sponsors will be used in all marketing material throughout the event’s promotional build up, giving exposure to Datateam’s considerable print and digital subscribers. The headline sponsorship has already been snapped up by Astute Electronics but there are many other opportunities still available. Publication manager, Amy Wilton, says: “The event will be attended by hundreds of industry professionals and market leaders We have been working hard on the awards preparation since the new year making sure the event is going to be the biggest and the best in the industry. We already have lots of interest in category sponsors and the race to secure them is going to happen fast!” To find out more about sponsorship opportunities please contact Amy Wilton on
awilton@cieonline.co.uk or Jack Pollard on
jpollard@cieonline.co.uk.
www.electronicsindustryawards.co.uk
Rigado to deploy Ubuntu Core on its commercial IoT gateways to ease implementation of secure edge computing applications
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igado has announced that it is deploying Canonical’s Ubuntu Core operating system on its Vesta IoT gateways in a move to ease implementation of secure edge computing and cloud connectivity applications in commercial environments such as restaurants, hotels and offices. Rigado’s family of commercial IoT gateways provides an off-the-shelf, scalable means to connect sensors and objects such as asset tags, smart lights and building controls to cloud applications and platforms, as well as to run control and monitoring applications locally. Vesta gateways provide: • short-range wireless connections via Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 radios to sensors, actuators and devices such as smartphones.
• built-in interfaces to popular cloud services, connecting to the internet via Ethernet or cellular telephone networks. • a powerful Arm Cortex-A7-based edge computing system to run local sensing, monitoring and control applications in a Linux operating environment. Unit pricing of the Vesta gateways, which starts as low as US$99, makes mass IoT deployments economically viable in the commercial sector. Rigado’s Vesta gateway
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eliminates the cost barriers that deter commercial IoT users from implementing systems based on more complex industrial IoT gateways that are designed to support more interfaces and a wider range of compute-intensive process and machine control applications.
Now Rigado has extended the advantage of its commercial IoT gateways with the announcement that they will ship with the proven, secure Ubuntu Core, replacing an earlier Yocto Project-based Linux distribution. The open-source Ubuntu Core software developed by Canonical provides migration, management and support services for application deployment. Ubuntu Core is a minimalist,
transactional version of Ubuntu designed for IoT and embedded devices running a new breed of highly secure, remotely upgradeable Linux app packages called snaps. Snaps, with their transactional update capabilities, are ideal for fast IoT deployments to enable multiple applications to run on a single gateway. The Vesta gateways themselves include
a secure boot function and encrypted file systems. This protects the integrity of the code and data on the gateways, and prevents unauthorised code from being loaded on them.
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Every instance of Ubuntu Core on a Vesta gateway is fully supported by the Canonical security and update service. Updates and software installations are managed through the Rigado DeviceOps web interface or through application programming interfaces, and are delivered through the Canonical IoT app store. This provides operators with ability to remotely control the software
loaded on an entire fleet of Vesta gateways installed anywhere in the world. Rigado will begin production volume shipments of Vesta gateways pre-loaded with Ubuntu Core software in summer of 2018. Sample units are available immediately.
www.rigado.com www.cieonline.co.uk
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