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Your Home Assistant smart home needs more wireless remotes and buttons

Here are five reasons your smart home needs more wireless remotes. There’s no substitute for a "proper” wired-in wall switch.

This smart home breakthrough lets you control appliances without Wi-Fi (and its security risks)

Devices equipped with Emerson's SmartVoice don't require Wi-Fi or a hub; instead, they utilize on-device voice control.
The New York Times

Climate and Environment

Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed. By David Gelles Over two decades after negotiations ...
IEEE

Aggregate Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Relay Networks With Wireless Power Transfer: Joint Trajectory and Power Optimization

Abstract: In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled decode-and-forward (DF) relay network. In order to mitigate the on-board energy limitation of the UAV, the source to UAV ...
Commercial UAV News

Aura Network Systems’ BVLOS Voice Relay Performance and its Importance for Future NAS Integration

As the FAA moves toward finalizing Part 108, the industry is entering a decisive moment in the evolution of uncrewed aviation ...
IEEE

A 27 W Wireless Power Transceiver With Compact Single-Stage Regulated Class-E Architecture and Adaptive ZVS Control

Abstract: This work presents a reconfigurable single-stage regulated Class-E (SSRE) wireless power transceiver that delivers 27 W for wireless charging at 6.78 MHz. The power stage of the transmitter ...