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Electronics For You
August 2019 Issue
Vol. 51 No. 8
COMPUTING
The Benefits and Challenges of the Internet as a Service for Cloud Computing
IaaS provides high performance computing on supercomputers, computer grids or computer clusters. This helps solve complex problems involving millions of variables or calculations. Examples include earthquake and protein folding simulations, climate and weather predictions, financial modelling and product design evaluation
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SMART WORLD
Solving the Problems of Innovation through Collaboration
In an age of disruption, where time-to-market makes the difference between pioneers and laggards, innovation must happen on multiple fronts
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Educational and Training Kits Market: An Industry Perspective
With automation, repetitive tasks have started becoming obsolete. To remain relevant in the industry in the coming years, developing new-age skills in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and cloud computing is mandatory
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WEARABLES
How Stretchable Electronics is Getting Created
Understanding of nano-scale phenomena, functional materials and soft devices has progressed to a point where substantial advances in stretchable electronics applications are becoming realistic
| TEST & MEASUREMENT
Benefits and Challenges of Cloud-Based Testing
Testing as a Service (TaaS) enables running as many tests in parallel as needed. This helps perform cloud-based tests faster than those that are hosted on local hardware
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INTERNET
Communication and Internet Technology: Address Resolution between IPv4 and IPv6, and Mobile IP (Part 5 of 6)
IPv4 address is a stateful address. This means that, if a node moves from one subnet to another, the user has to either reconfigure the IP address or request for a new IP address from dynamic host configuration protocol. Whereas, IPv6 supports a stateless auto configuration address. Thus, with IPv6, while moving from a subnet to another, a host can generate its own IP address
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Solar Optimism Needs to be Back in India
Sustainable growth of the solar energy industry depends on successful management of photovoltaic (PV) waste. PV waste recycling is still at a nascent stage globally, both in terms of technical standards and physical infrastructure. Use of potentially-hazardous materials in manufacturing and lack of commercially-viable module recycling technologies demand a strong regulatory approach to this problem
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Make Your Own ESP8266-12E/F Module Programmer
This article describes a method for making a programmer for ESP8266-12 E/F Wi-Fi chip and also discusses the support circuitry required for real-time applications
Download source code
| DO-IT-YOURSELF
Make This Arduino Uno-Based Window Alarm Annunciator
Presented here is a window alarm annunciator based on Arduino Uno board. An annunciator is mainly used in process plants, power plants and industries to monitor various plant conditions to alert operators about abnormal conditions or parameter deviations. It can also be used as a security/fire alarm
Download source code
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Build Your Own Low-Noise 48V Regulated Power Supply
Here is a low-ripple and low-noise 48V regulated phantom power supply for an audio preamplifier and driver. Such power supplies require well-filtered, low-ripple and low-noise output voltage with current less than 200mA. These are relatively rare and expensive. Presented here is a simple and low-cost solution suitable for many applications including test equipment and audio applications
| INTERVIEW
“Interoperability is required for devices, networks and applications”—Sushil Kumar, deputy director general - IoT, Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC)
As we witness the Internet of Things (IoT) slowly become the new norm, efforts towards cementing IoT standards by Indian standardisation bodies have been enormous. Sushil Kumar, deputy director general - IoT, Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) reveals to Baishakhi Dutta how IoT designers can refer to TEC’s technical resources for creating a standardised IoT ecosystem
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REGULARS
Tech News: Technology Updates
• India successfully launches Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft
• Thermal batteries will revolutionise renewable energy production
• Semi-liquid metal anode for next-generation batteries
• Robots can now relieve chronic pain
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Industry News: Industry Updates
• India’s electronics production only 3.3 per cent of global market
• Less than half of India’s cellphone makers are active
• NITI Aayog proposes that only EVs be sold in India by 2030
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REGULARS
New Products
| REGULARS
Software and Apps
• Software for Cloud
• Mobile Apps for Cloud
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How to Navigate through the AI Junk
Having a cool technology like artificial intelligence (AI) at our disposal was never meant to be a panacea, and we should stop being carried away with it. If AI is such a great thing, why should we focus and limit its applications in solving problems? Would it not be better to pre-empt problems and avoid them altogether?
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AI for Mission-Critical Applications: It’s All About Smarter Decisions and End Results
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is employed in safety-critical situations such as airports, ATM machines and aircraft operations. When decision-makers and business executives have reliable data analyses, recommendations and follow-ups through AI systems, they can make smarter decisions and better choices for their business, employees and future actions
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DO-IT-YOURSELF
Generate Power Using Microturbine
Presented here is the circuit that generates power from a water pipe in a building using a microturbine. The generated electricity can be used to charge batteries, which can be used for emergency lightning or other such purposes
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Build Your Own Hi-Fi Stereo Audio Power Amplifier
Here is a simple hi-fi audio stereo power amplifier based on TDA2616 IC. This amplifier works on two 12V batteries or one ±12V AC/DC adaptor. The circuit can deliver 2x12-watt output power for 8-ohm loads with ±16V dual-power supply
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INTERVIEW
“The open source chip movement has just begun”—G.S. Madhusudan, senior project advisor, IIT-Madras
In October 2018, India saw the launch of the first indigenously built chip that can change the Indian consumer and industrial electronics landscape. Baishakhi Dutta catches up with G.S. Madhusudan, senior project advisor at IIT-Madras, to talk about their design strategies for SHAKTI microprocessor and how it can serve the electronics community at large
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Expansion of the UAV Ecosystem in India
Originally used in military applications, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or a drone, is today found almost everywhere. According to ‘UAV Payload and Subsystems Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024’ report, the market is expected to reach a value of US$ 11.6 billion by 2024, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3 per cent during 2019-2024
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eSTYLE
FIRST LOOK: Some New Gadgets
• Dashcam
• Wireless flight adaptor
• Wireless charging pad
• Wireless mouse
• Portable charger
• Wireless headset
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BUYERS' GUIDE: Electric Cars Ready for Purchase in India
Electric vehicles (EVs) are getting popular in India every day, and many people have already taken the green route. Value proposition of EVs lies not only in massive reduction in carbon footprint but also in lower consumption of petrol, diesel, CNG and other fuels, which also amounts to higher financial savings at a personal level and a brighter future at the ecological scale. However, are EVs really that abundantly available in India? Where can buyers purchase them? What should they know about maintenance? We try to answer these questions in this article
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TECH FOCUS
How Blockchain will Upend Customer Experience
Blockchain is gradually becoming a vital part of our infrastructure, like the Internet. It will help empower all organisations and developers to build global solutions embracing blockchain technology towards a better future and a more connected world
| TEST & MEASUREMENT
Non-Destructive Cross-Sectioning Technique for Checking Components
One advantage of non-destructive cross-sectioning is that the same sample can be sectioned acoustically in as many vertical planes as desired with no damage to the sample
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DESIGN
How to Control Thermal Runaway in Batteries
This article discusses the reasons and various ways to control thermal runaway in batteries. Maintenance-free batteries do not mean that these will operate perfectly forever!
| SKILL INDIA
New-Generation Automotive Electronics, Infotronics and Skilled Workforce
Progress in technological innovations for autonomous and intelligent transport systems with entertainment, connectivity and information about location is advancing at a great pace with the involvement of industry, academics and various startups
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INTERVIEW
“Security for the IoT is tough and risky. A security breach can put human lives at risk”—Karan Kumar, co-founder and chief technology officer, Hogar Controls
A smart home hub can be connected either locally or to the cloud that uses such protocols as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Karan Kumar, co-founder and chief technology officer, Hogar Controls, discusses with Deepshikha Shukla advantages of Z-Wave technology and the security features required for home automation
| REGULARS
Q&A: Things You Wanted to Know!
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SMART WORLD
“More than fifty per cent of searches will be voice based by 2020” — Sahil Chopra, founder and CEO, iCubesWire
Voice technology, speech recognition and deep learning have changed the face of search as we know it. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and Big Data technologies are sure to help leverage the penetration and adaptability of voice-based search. Sahil Chopra, founder and chief executive officer, iCubesWire, in a conversation with Deepshikha Shukla, shares how voice-based search can improve digital advertising and search engine optimisation
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E-Mobility Driving the World Towards Cleaner Technology
By increasing e-mobility and improving the EV ride experience, solutions like PlugSurfing are paving the way to make a clean and efficient transport accessible to drivers across the world
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COMPUTING
Hybrid Cloud: New Edge for Cloud Providers
As the networking business moves from OEMs to software vendors, many networking functions are now being developed on software and deployed on commodity servers. This has given a boost to virtual network functions, which provide networking nodes functionalities such as routers and firewalls through software
| DO-IT-YOURSELF
Monitor Temperature with Voice Alerts
This project is based on Arduino Uno and Processing software for monitoring temperature and sending voice alerts. Processing is an open source IDE that can be used to visualise data and implement other functionalities
Download source code
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STARTUP ZONE
Made for India EVs to Reduce the Growing Pollution
India is finding methods to decrease its reliance on non-renewable sources of energy for a sustainable way of living. Switching to electric vehicles (EVs) is one way to reduce emissions together with lower fuel and maintenance costs. PURE EV is the electrical vehicle vertical of the 2016 startup PuREnergy—founded by Dr Nishanth Dongari, assistant professor at IIT Hyderabad, and Rohit Vadera, alumnus of IIT Bombay—that launched electric two-wheelers commercially in May 2019
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How to Get Your Startup Funded
The Indian electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) and the Internet of Things (IoT) startup story has had many highs as well as lows. While the boom truly began in 2013, it was only over the next two years that investors poured money to back entrepreneurs, products and ideas
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eSTYLE
SMART LIVING: Top Smartphone Tips of the Hour
Nowadays, cellular devices are no longer meant for calling only. Technology has gone through a herculean revolution in the last few years and changed our lives in various ways. Among many innovations, the smartphone has gained massive traction among people, with a huge insurgence of this device among masses
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SAFETY: Fire Safety and Pollution Control while Cooking
Cooking releases several pollutants as well as particulate matter into the air. When such pollutants are exhausted from a kitchen, these can release smoke, grease and odours in outdoor air. Exposure to contaminated air may lead to such health problems as asthma, cough and respiratory tract infections
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REGULARS
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