Components & Connectors

TE Connectivity now offers EN50155 managed Ethernet switches that enable secure and reliable Gigabit-speed networks in harsh network environments on railway rolling stock.

The switches can be used even where vibration levels are extreme, says TE Connectivity.

They are equipped with hardware and firmware to provide optional Power over Ethernet (PoE), redundancy functions, easy management and advanced operation. The switches are intended for passenger information and entertainment systems, as well as surveillance systems.

The switches have built-in redundancy and can be managed remotely, saving maintenance costs. They are “highly resistant to hacking” adds the company.

According to TE’s Egbert Stellinga, “Their Gigabit performance will help our customers save on future investments, while the optional PoE capability cuts costs straight away by eliminating the need to run separate power lines.”

TE EN50155 Managed Ethernet switches can be used in networks running at speeds anywhere from 100Mbits per second to 10Gbits per second.

TE is also launching a series of complementary PoE splitters and injectors adjacent to the company’s existing portfolio consisting of unmanaged switches.

For more than 75 years, TE Connectivity has provides connectors and sensors for use in the harshest environments, enabling advances in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home.

The company has 80,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries around the world.

http://www.te.com

Flexible, ferrite-based NFC inlays and tags in the Block On-Metal range by Smartrac Technology group are suitable for items with metallic surfaces need to be identified or interacted with.

The tags can be used on industrial, retail and business to consumer (B2C) applications where metallic surfaces need to be identified or interacted with.

The Block On-Metal tags combine an antenna design with a thin layer of flexible ferrite material, which isolates the magnetic field from the metal surface. Ferrite redirects the reader’s inductive field and prevents energy from being wasted as heat within the metallic surface.

They can be used for industrial, retail and consumer, asset management, brand protection, secure product authentication, and payment. They can also be used for the identification and provision of a digital identity to many items – from metallic components to spare parts, signs, tools, even machines and domestic items. The tags have a die cut size of 50 x 50mm (1.96 x 1.96-inches) for the standard tag. Block On-Metal tags are suitable for roll-to-roll manufacturing processes, which makes onward processing much easier and more cost-effective, and allows converters to overprint the inlays if required.

Block On-Metal tags are equipped with the newest member of NXP’s Slix product family, the ICode Slix2 IC. This chip complies with the NFC Forum Type 5 standard, is backwards-compatible to Slix and offers an increased user memory size. It also has NXP originality signature, increased speed for inventory management, and increased read range due to superior resistance to detuning effects. Additional notable features of the ICode Slix2 IC are flexible user memory segmentation with separate access conditions, a password-protected on-chip service cycle counter and a 2.5kbit user memory size.

Block On-Metal will become available in high volumes from Q4 2019.

Smartrac provides both ready-made and customised offerings. Its portfolio is used in an array of applications such as animal identification, automation, automotive, brand protection, customer experience, industry, library and media management, logistics, retail and supply chain management.

http://www.smartrac-group.com