Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Friday, June 9th, 2023
Battery life is a critical factor for IoT devices. In this commentary, Brian Whitaker at Keysight Technologies examines how battery emulation and test software can help you accurately measure battery life and extend the battery life of an IoT device.
Battery life affects the cost and reliability of IoT-based infrastructure and is a key purchasing consideration for consumer electronic IoT devices.
Battery life can contribute significantly to the cost and reliability of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. While for consumer electronic devices, battery life is often a critical purchase consideration. Therefore, the fact the calculated battery life of IoT devices is often inaccurate is a significant issue for manufacturers.
One method to measure battery life is to divide the battery capacity in amp-hours by the average current drain in amps, which provides a time in hours. However, in the real world, this calculation is overly simplistic.
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Tags:battery, byline, commentary, interviews, IoT, Keysight, opinion, simulation, Tech Focus, technology, testing
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Friday, May 19th, 2023
The high-tech world we live in today demands super high speeds in our global IT infrastructure. In this commentary, Ben Miller at Keysight Technologies brings us to the frontiers of the data super highways needed to power the data-intensive applications that we use at work and in our lives.
Pushing the speed envelope with 1.6T data centre networks.
For the last 30 years, modern society has depended on data centre networks.
Networking speeds must continue to increase to keep up with the demand caused by emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and artificial intelligence (AI).
About the Author: Ben Miller is a Product Marketing Manager at Keysight Technologies, with experience in the semiconductor and test & measurement industries. He joined Keysight in 2022 as Product Marketing Manager for Digital Applications Software, promoting software solutions for Keysight’s oscilloscope, AWG, and BERT products. Ben has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Further innovation in high-speed data will enable 800 gigabits per second (800G) and 1.6 terabits per second (1.6T) network speeds.
Cloud and edge computing: The intelligence factory
A recent trend is the offloading of data processing to external servers.
Hyperscale data centres have popped up globally to support cloud computing networks.
Smaller data centres for edge computing have also become more common for time-sensitive applications.
Data centres have become “intelligence factories” providing powerful computing resources for high-demand applications.
Edge computing is compelling for its impact on AVs.
Instead of hosting a supercomputer in the car to process the sensor data, AVs use smaller servers on the “edge,” dramatically reducing latency.
Cloud computing applications span from controlling factory robots to hosting thousands of VR users in the metaverse.
Today’s 400G data centres are not yet fast enough for many emerging applications, so the networking industry is already looking toward 1.6T.
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Tags:AI, byline, commentary, data centers, data centres, Ethernet, interviews, Keysight, opinion, Tech Focus, technology
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Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Smokey tailpipe emissions may soon be a thing of the past. Hwee Yng Yeo at Keysight Technologies shares how the heavy transport vehicle market is catching up with the electric car market to lower their contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Private sedans and light-duty trucks lead the vehicle electrification race, leaving much upside opportunity for heavy transport fleets such as trucks and buses to catch up.
In the United States, data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reveals that while overall greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks declined over the past decade, medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses still chugged out well over 200 teragrams of C02 over the same period.
In Europe, the transportation industry must urgently decarbonise its trucks and buses to achieve the Paris Agreement target of keeping global warming below 2°C.
![US greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2020 by land transport type. Note: 1 Teragram = 1 million metric tons. Data source: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and 1990–2020 [EPA 2022].](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52850057476_87625a63a1_o.jpg "US greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2020 by land transport type. Note: 1 Teragram = 1 million metric tons. Data source: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and 1990–2020 [EPA 2022].")
US greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2020 by land transport type. Note: 1 Teragram = 1 million metric tons. Data source: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and 1990–2020 [EPA 2022].
Although these two heavy road vehicles represent only 2% of vehicles on the road, they emit a quarter of all transport-related greenhouse gases.
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Tags:AI, byline, commentary, heavy vehicles, interviews, Keysight, opinion, Tech Focus, technology
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Monday, March 20th, 2023
Jonathan Wright at Keysight Technologies demystifies AI by deconstructing the hyperbolic myths that arise in the absence of easy to comprehend information about its development and use cases.
“Conquer Testing Complexities with Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)” — a thought leadership paper commissioned by Keysight Technologies.
The concept of intelligent machines has resulted in marketing misrepresentation diluting the true power of artificial intelligence (AI) — especially in the software space.
A recent Forrester report commissioned by Keysight identified a paradoxical relationship between the interest in and adoption of AI in the software space.
About the Author: Jonathan Wright is the Chief Technology Evangelist at Keysight Technologies and renowned AI expert. Jonathan is involved in the standards-setting bodies establishing guiding principles governing the development and use of this important emerging technology.
It suggests there is a willingness to embrace AI-enablement in furthering digital transformation, but few have begun to do so.
The report indicates that 45 per cent of software executives are considering adopting AI for their software within the next three years.
This contrasts with the 11 per cent of technology firms that are currently using it today.
We are in an age of people slapping AI on a product to describe its overall functionality when it is only one subset of a small function that may use an AI algorithm that has been developed.
This is amidst the hype surrounding AI and the inevitable use of it in marketing to sell AI-enabled products as a magic bullet solution to every imaginable challenge.
Understandably, software executives are approaching this promise with skepticism, resulting in the curious paradox.
Demystifying AI
At the root of this paradox is a misunderstanding about what AI is, how it works, and where the technology is in its development.
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Tags:AI, Artificial Intelligence, byline, commentary, interviews, Keysight, opinion, Tech Focus, technology
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Sandeep Kapoor – Director of Demand and Channel Marketing at Keysight Technologies – shares his insights into how the next evolution of humankind will be driven by advanced technology.
Revolutionary inventions pave the way for future technological innovations
In 2022, the world celebrated the 75th anniversary of the well-known device, the transistor, and the 65th anniversary of another stellar device, the integrated circuit.
Since then, we have evolved from a single amplifier block to a 3000-transistor wafer in the 1970s to a nanometer process that can accommodate 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.
Charles Darwin made this historic statement 153 years ago: “From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
The quote from his book, On the Origin of the Species, is quite apt today when applied to emerging technologies, such as 5G, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and the digital twin.
In the last 35 years, the semiconductor market grew from over US$30 billion to more than US$600 billion, creating millions of employment opportunities.
60 years ago, the Mansfield News Journal correctly predicted the future in an article with the headline: “You’ll be able to carry [your] phone in [a] pocket in the future.”
Exactly 20 years after that, Motorola launched the first commercially available cellular phone, DynaTac 8000X, costing US$3995, weighing around 1 kg, and providing 30 minutes of talk time per charging cycle for 1G networks.
Emerging technologies mature as life-altering advances continue
The evolution continues as 5G networks overcome design challenges to enable <1 ms latency and up to 20 Gbps speed.
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
As we go into 2023, Keysight’s senior vice president, and president of the Electronic Industrial Solutions Group (EISG), Ee Huei Sin, offers the following predictions for key technologies for the new year and the years ahead.
Rapidly evolving technologies across cloud, digital twins and artificial intelligence, 5G and 6G, quantum computing, and electric and autonomous vehicles are powering innovation across industries.
Keysight Technologies supports development of these and other technologies by delivering advanced design and validation solutions, from software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow’s technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, to design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimisation and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments.
As the world’s leading test and measurement provider, Keysight’s customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets, and it is well-placed to anticipate key developments affecting the Electrical and Electronic (E&E) and IT landscapes, in the future.
Here are seven technologies that I believe will be key in the new year and beyond.
- Cloud cover to soften recession concerns
- Cybersecurity: the deepfake threat, hackers in your home, physical attacks
- Real-world use cases for digital twins and AI
- 6G will open new doors
- Quantum starts to realise its potential
- Electric vehicles will drive more integrated and intelligent energy consumption
- Carbon reduction
May I elaborate further on each of these technology areas.
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Tags:6G, byline, cloud, commentary, cybersecurity, digital twin, EV, interviews, Keysight, opinion, predictions, Quantum, sustainability, Tech Focus, technology
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
I helped a friend persuade her mother to use a robot vacuum-mop to help her clean her home. The initial push back was steep, but the outcome was sweet and rewarding. Here’s a reference for those trying to persuade their seniors at home to accept a robot vacuum-mop into their house-cleaning arsenal.
The S7 MaxV Ultra is Roborock’s current flagship model and embodies the latest features and technologies in robot vacuum-mops. Look out for the new S8 coming to the region soon.
Robot vacuums have successfully captured the market for the young and tech-savvy professionals, because the robot-cleaners relieve them of the tedious and time-consuming chores of house cleaning to free up precious time from their busy schedules.
Another market which needs the help of robot vacuums, however, has seen limited success – seniors for whom cleaning is physically demanding and sometimes painful.
Useful features and advanced technologies to look out for when looking for a robot vacuum mop.
Two hurdles to seniors accepting robot vacuums into their house-cleaning toolkit is their skepticism on whether the robots can do a good cleaning job, and general apprehension/fear of technology.
With the rapid development in robot vacuum technologies and features, the former is a rather moot point since robot vacuums these days tend to be able to do a pretty good job at vacuuming and mopping the home.
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Tags:appliances, mops, reviews, Roborock, robots, tech4home, TUCU, vacuum mops, vacuums
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023
Škoda gave a preview of its new fully-electric Enyaq Coupé iV and launched two improved models at Singapore Motorshow 2023. Prices below.
Skoda Enyaq Coupé iV has not gone on sale yet in Singapore. Interested buyers may register their interest on Skoda Singapore’s website.
Škoda Singapore is the first market in Asia Pacific to unveil the brand’s long-awaited fully-electric Enyaq Coupé iV at the Singapore Motorshow 2023.
Built on the MEB platform for Škoda electric vehicles, the Enyaq Coupé iV is the second addition to Enyaq iV family.
The two improved models are the mild-hybrid Octavia and hatchback Scala – both with a better fuel efficient 1.0 TSI engine.
The improved Octavia 1.0 TSI eTEC drivetrain has a reduced fuel consumption (4.3 litre/100km 1.0 TSI eTEC versus 5.3 litre/100km 1.5 TSI eTEC) and CO2 emissions (98 gram/km 1.0 TSI eTEC versus 122 gram/km 1.5 TSI eTEC).
The improved Scala is now equipped with features such as full LED headlights with daytime running lights, full LED rear lights with dynamic indicators, Virtual Cockpit, Multi-function steering wheel and Drive Mode selection.
More details below from the press release.
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Tags:automobiles, cars, Enyaq, event forecast, exhibitions, motoring, motorshow, Octavia, Scala, Singapore, Singapore Motorshow, Singapore Motorshow 2023, Skoda
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Friday, January 13th, 2023
Lexus showcased its new electrified eco-friendly car models at the Singapore Motorshow 2023 by launching the Lexus RX SUV and previewing the Lexus RZ BEV.
The 5th-Gen Lexus RX (right) and the Lexus RZ (left) at the Singapore Motorshow 2023. Jasmmine Wong (center), CEO of Inchcape Greater China and Singapore.
At the Singapore Motorshow 2023, Lexus also displayed an extensive hybrid lineup ranging from Luxury Sedans to SUVs: Lexus IS, ES, UX, NX.
The preview of the RZ at the Singapore Motorshow 2023 is its first public preview ahead of its official launch.
The battery electric vehicle (BEV) is built on a new dedicated all-electric platform, with the adoption of the new Lexus spindle body, a minimalist design and athletic silhouette that will set the new design direction for Lexus’ all-electric vehicles in the future.
One key focus of the Lexus RZ is the DIRECT4 all-wheel drive system.
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Tags:automobiles, cars, electric, event forecast, exhibitions, Lexus, motoring, motorshow, Singapore, Singapore Motorshow, Singapore Motorshow 2023, Toyota
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Mercedes-Benz has just launched at the Singapore Motorshow 2023 the new Mercedes-AMG SL which returns to its roots with a classic soft top and sporty character.
Mercedes-AMG SL 55 4MATIC+ roadster from Mercedes-Benz.
The luxurious roadster as a 2+2 seater is suitable for everyday use and puts its power down on the road with all-wheel drive for the first time.
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Tags:AMG, automobiles, cabriolet, cars, event forecast, exhibitions, Mercedes, motoring, motorshow, roadsters, Singapore, Singapore Motorshow, Singapore Motorshow 2023, sports
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![US greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2020 by land transport type. Note: 1 Teragram = 1 million metric tons. Data source: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and 1990–2020 [EPA 2022].](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52850513618_618b3cef67_o.jpg "US greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2020 by land transport type. Note: 1 Teragram = 1 million metric tons. Data source: Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and 1990–2020 [EPA 2022].")
Tech Focus: Four Ways to Enhance IoT Battery Performance Using Emulation Software
Friday, June 9th, 2023Battery life is a critical factor for IoT devices. In this commentary, Brian Whitaker at Keysight Technologies examines how battery emulation and test software can help you accurately measure battery life and extend the battery life of an IoT device.
Battery life affects the cost and reliability of IoT-based infrastructure and is a key purchasing consideration for consumer electronic IoT devices.
Battery life can contribute significantly to the cost and reliability of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. While for consumer electronic devices, battery life is often a critical purchase consideration. Therefore, the fact the calculated battery life of IoT devices is often inaccurate is a significant issue for manufacturers.
One method to measure battery life is to divide the battery capacity in amp-hours by the average current drain in amps, which provides a time in hours. However, in the real world, this calculation is overly simplistic.
(more…)
Tags:battery, byline, commentary, interviews, IoT, Keysight, opinion, simulation, Tech Focus, technology, testing
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