STMicroelectronics Presents its Smart-City and IoT Technologies at i-SEDEX 2015

Seoul / 14 Oct 2015

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is demonstrating its technologies to enable more energy-efficient and connected Smart Cities at the 17th International Semiconductor Exhibition (i-SEDEX 2015), KINTEX, October 14-16, 2015.

The Smart City concept aims to use sensing, connectedness, and data-processing technologies to increase energy efficiency and productivity throughout a municipality. More than simply using power more effectively, the concept also increases the management, utilization, and maintenance of buildings and public infrastructure.

At i-SEDEX, ST is showing an example of a Smart City environment that uses many sensor nodes connected to a wireless mesh network. These nodes perform smart lighting monitoring and control, smart garbage monitoring, smart vibration detection, and smart environment monitoring.

A wireless mesh sensor network installed at ST’s booth uses proximity-sensor nodes to detect a radio-controlled model car in order to adjust road lighting based on the position of the vehicle; acceleration-sensor nodes to detect building-vibration; environmental-sensor nodes installed around the booth to measure temperature, humidity, and pressure; and wirelessly-connected lighting-control boards to monitor power consumption of booth lights in real time. At the booth, all of the data from sensor nodes are displayed on a screen through the network. This demonstration is based on ST’s development boards for 32-bit MCUs, various sensors, and other devices such as RF and power combined with Paradox Engineering’s[1] communication platform for wireless full mesh networks.

Engineers can stop by the ST booth and experience the Company’s latest embedded development ecosystem using the Nucleo 32-bit microcontroller development boards and the X-Nucleo expansion boards, together with ST’s motion MEMS and environmental sensors, MEMS microphones, motor drivers, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Dynamic NFC tags. The ecosystem is designed to make Smart-City and IoT application development faster and easier.

Many electronic devices in production increase the diversity in power adapters and the demand for simple, user-friendly power-supply solutions. In wireless power supplies, ST is showing its advanced multi-platform digital power-controller IC that is compliant with the Qi and PMA (Power Matters Alliance) standards. Other solutions being shown at i-SEDEX include ST’s standby-power monitoring solution using a multi-mode power-controller IC suitable for AC-adapter chargers for smartphones and tablet PCs, and the new 1200V SiC (silicon carbide) Power MOSFETs.

A leading supplier of MEMS devices, ST is showing at i-SEDEX its latest sensor solutions. A 6-axis MEMS sensor-module evaluation board that integrates a 3-axis digital-output acceleration sensor and a 3-axis gyroscope boasts a compact form factor (2.5 × 3.0 × 0.8 mm) and a superior power efficiency, which is about 20% higher than in competing products. The ST booth is also hosting a voice-recognition demo based on a MEMS microphone and a BLE network processor.

At i-SEDEX 2015, ST is giving a glimpse of how the quickly approaching future of smart cities is being enabled by state-of-the-art technologies – and how it will impact our daily lives.

About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global semiconductor leader delivering intelligent and energy-efficient products and solutions that power the electronics at the heart of everyday life. ST’s products are found everywhere today, and together with our customers, we are enabling smarter driving and smarter factories, cities and homes, along with the next generation of mobile and Internet of Things devices. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.

In 2014, the Company’s net revenues were $7.40 billion, serving more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Further information can be found at www.st.com.

¹ Paradox Engineering, part of the Minebea Group, is a Swiss technology company offering wireless sensor networks for Smart Lighting and Smart Cities.