News : Industry

Researchers at Leti have come up with a way to connect a home’s electric heating system to France’s national grid, letting homeowners take advantage of off-peak utility rates without sacrificing comfort. This smart-grid solution comes in the form of a dedicated circuit board with its own microcontroller. The circuit board collects data like peak and […] >>

Goniometer antennas could soon have embedded monitoring capabilities to make sure that their performance continues to align with factory specifications even after the devices have been installed on a drone or other vehicle. The system, developed under a PhD research project at Leti, uses a network of photodiodes to probe the antennas’ immediate environment. The […] >>

Minalogic has merged with the Optique Rhône-Alpes cluster (ORA) in St. Etienne, the logical next step in a multi-year partnership that has resulted in numerous initiatives in support of the region’s photonics industry. Effective April 1, the two clusters now operate under the Minalogic banner. The consolidation of the two has led to the inauguration […] >>

The MINATEC campus got a new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) earlier this year. The FEI Tecnai Osiris microscope, offering resolution close to the angstrom, was acquired by Serma Technologies, a services company that has called the BHT home for the past several years. The equipment rounds out Serma Technologies’ own capabilities, of course. But the […] >>

A handful of nurses in the Vercors mountains just outside of Grenoble have started testing Avalun’s LabPad® in a two-year pilot program backed by the Rhône-Alpes Regional Board of Health. The program coincides with the commercial launch of the device—a connected, pocket-sized testing lab that can measure blood coagulation from a single drop of blood […] >>