One of the most exciting capabilities of Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) audio is Auracast™ broadcast audio. Have you ever had trouble hearing a flight announcement at the airport? Or wish you could hear the audio on a muted TV while using a treadmill at the gym? Auracast™-supported transmitters can address pain points like these by sending direct-to-ear audio signals to an unlimited number of nearby users. Not only will Auracast™ unlock new audio-sharing experiences for mainstream consumers, but the technology will improve the quality of life for hearing aid users. With Auracast™, people who require assistive listening devices can tune into a low-latency broadcast using their own personal device instead of needing a Radio Frequency (RF)-capable device provided to them from the venue.
If you’ve ever walked through a manufacturing plant or a utility site, you can’t help but notice how much is going on. Various equipment and machinery are constantly in use to keep production flowing. To power every one of these processes, industrial companies typically use fossil fuel-based energy sources that generate carbon emissions and harm the planet. To highlight this sustainability challenge, industrial emissions have increased by roughly 70% since the turn of the millennium. Besides the equipment and machinery used in industrial buildings, emissions pile up from the transportation of goods and components along the supply chain as well.
Manufacturers leverage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to oversee the entire life cycle of a product, from design to disposal. A PLM solution collects various data points tied to other enterprise software applications and makes them accessible to users across manufacturing departments. These data are essential for manufacturers to optimize their production process, comply with regulations, promote employee collaboration, generate documentation, reduce quality issues, etc. There are many PLM software solutions available, but they don’t always have the same capabilities and differ in their approach to product visibility. To help simplify the purchase decision process, this blog post compares 7 renowned PLM software options from ABI Research’s PLM for Large Manufacturers competitive ranking.
Have you ever had to set up a meeting with a client or your co-workers who live in various time zones? Finding a time that works for everyone can be frustrating and time-consuming. You may find a time that works for your team in New York City, but attendees from Singapore are probably sleeping. Workplace inefficiencies such as this can be eliminated if your device has on-device Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded into its chipset. Recent advancements in AI model optimization unlock a plethora of fine-tuned, contextualized applications that offer unprecedented productivity gains to users.
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Introduction: The world of embedded systems is multi-faceted – from hardware and software to services and tools. ABI Research’s Senior Director Andrew Zignani and Senior Analyst Reece Hayden attended the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference in Germany last week. Here they present their key takeaways from the event.
A key theme at MWC 2024 was sustainability, and reducing energy costs is now a key concern and priority for all mobile operators. Although the discussion nowadays focuses mostly on active antennas and how network operators can deploy 5G, most global networks are still powered by passive antennas, which are also following sustainability enhancements. These are now referred to as “high-efficiency” antennas, highlighting that their design, manufacturing, operation, and technology are taking sustainability into account. These antennas have recently taken a significant step toward being adopted in the mainstream, from previously being discussed as a theoretical concept. These traditional passive antennas have inherent energy losses, achieved through both their design and the manufacturing process, which all add to increased energy output, and thus more Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. With base stations and their attached antenna units totaling 57% of all electrical power consumption in the passive antenna network, this is a key area for vendors to target in reducing their energy output while increasing their Radio Frequency (RF) efficiency.
Historically, enterprise data have been generated, processed, and stored in a centralized data center. However, centralized data centers are not capable of providing the real-time computing capabilities that digitized businesses require for real-time applications. A superior option is to use edge-to-cloud, whereby data are generated/processed on-site closer to the source and stored in the cloud. Edge-to-cloud platforms provide the low latency and real-time information flexibility that modern enterprises demand.
