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Electronics For You
July 2017 Issue
Vol. 49 No. 7
Decision Makers’ connect
Green Mobility Policy and Industry Drivers
India is viewing an all-electric car fleet by 2030,with no petrol or diesel cars sold in the country by that year. Here is a brief look at what the government and industry are doing, and will need to do, to make this possible.
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Smart World
virtual reality: Get The First Mover Advantage
Virtual reality market in India is forecast to grow at nearly 56 per cent between 2016 and 2021. Sectors such as healthcare and military stand to benefit greatly from virtual reality apps.
| Smart World
Navigate Your Way To Success With Google Maps
Google Maps helps to reduce logistics costs by cutting down on inefficient driving through longer routes.
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Smart World
Deep Learning For Deeper Employee Engagement
Tools like voice analysers and text analysers help decode an employee’s communication to the management.
| Design
Developer Board Trends For Industrial Applications
Hrishikesh Kamat, CEO, Shalaka Technology, recalls the challenges faced by one of his clients due to their machine operators’ lack of understanding of a machine.
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Innovation
. One charger for your Android and Apple devices
. Transform any laptop screen into a touchscreen
. True wireless charging
. Affordable 3D printer for fun
. Modular, customisable drone
. Computer with built-in 3D scanner
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Aurassure: Air Quality Monitoring To Keep Environment Clean
Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Patna, Gwalior, Amritsar—what unites all these cities is the problem of pollution. Delhi has consistently ranked as one of the most polluted metros in the world.
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Design
The Art Of Design For Manufactur
Have you ever met with designers who were in stress when their prototypes failed? Or have you seen the production team’s anxiety when they were facing manufacturing challenges at production line?
| Networking
Software-Defined Networking: A Revolution
The research for a new paradigm for a better architecture of networking began in 2004. After several proposals and researches, the concept of softwaredefined networking (SDN) emerged in 2008.
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Lighting
How Type ‘A’ LED Tubes Make Business Sense
In an enlightening customer story, Philips on its website shares the experience of State Bank of India, Agra Branch, which recently switched to LED lighting.
| Test & Measurement
Network Analysers Moving To Lasers For Increased Effectiveness
Benchtop network analysers have seen huge design changes in the last few years, mostly to ensure an integrated approach to measurements on active devices such as amplifiers and frequency converters.
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Test & Measurement
Signal and Power Integrity: Let Your Product Be In Harmony
An LED light manufacturing unit was working on a 150-watt streetlight project wherein the engineering design team had to rack their brains for a long time over an issue.
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Computing: “Roof Computing With Standard Interfaces Harmonises The IoT Ecosystem”
In order to ease the efforts of building applications over Roof platform, a unified interfacing and functional model is required. This is where Roof Computing, also known as IEEE P1931.1, comes in. Syam Madanapalli, Director - IoT Delivery, NTT DATA, talks about this technology in a conversation with Dilin Anand from EFY
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Interview
M2M Communications: “Integration Is A Big Issue
In IoT Device Deployment”
Telit is an enabler of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications worldwide providing wireless module technology, services and connectivity. It offers integrated products, platforms and services to support and enable IoT deployments from things to apps. Ashish Gulati, country manager for Telit, speaks to EFY’s Dilin Anand about how cellular technologies are evolving with the Internet of Things (IoT) and growth of connected devices
| Do-It-Yourself
Voting Machine Using AVR Microcontroller
Polling by electronic voting machines (EVMs) has become a norm during elections. Unlike paper ballot systems, EVMs are safe and reliable as these rule out the possibility of invalid voting.
Download source code
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Do-It-Yourself
Countdown Timer
Sometimes there is a need to switch on or off electrical appliances or gadgets after a predetermined time. The circuit presented here can switch on/off any electrical appliance (load) through a relay switch after the specified time set in minutes or seconds.
Download source code
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Low-Cost 3.7V To 5V-6V DC-To-DC Converter
This article presents a simple, low-cost DC-to-DC converter that converts 3.6V-3.7V battery input into three outputs of 6V, 5.3V and 5V. These voltage outputs can be used simultaneously or separately.
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Do-It-Yourself
3W Audio Amplifier Using TDA7056
Audio amplifier circuits commonly use single-chip audio ICs like LM384 and LM386. These circuits look very easy to assemble but require additional components like resistors, capacitors and sometime inductors.
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Design Your Own Li-Fi Dongle And Speaker
Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a new paradigm in wireless communication. In this article, we describe the design of a Li-Fi dongle (transmitter) and speaker (receiver) for audio and music applications.
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Do-It-Yourself
Centre-of-Mass Extraction Using MATLAB
Extracting the centre of mass of a binary pattern is an important task in pattern recognition area of digital image processing domain.
Download source code
| eStyle Buyers’ Guide
What To Look For In LED Bulbs
Think of lighting and one cannot ignore LED products, especially LED bulbs which have gained immense popularity in the last few years. And while you may think you know it all while buying an LED bulb, there are many crucial aspects that you may be unaware of.
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EFY Plus DVD
Fly High With SU2
The plane in the sky flies high and people looking at it marvel at its design. The complexities in designing the streamlined body of an aircraft are many.
| Tech News
Computing system inspired by human brain
A team of researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Notre Dame has created a computing system that employs a network of electronic oscillators to solve graph colouring tasks—a problem that tends to choke today’s computers.
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Industry News
Bluetooth Smart used the most for device connectivity
The Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready market is expected to be worth $5.34 billion by 2023, growing annually at 2.23 per cent between 2017 and 2023—according to a report by arketsandMarkets.
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India offers Apple tax sops to expand production
India has offered to let Apple import mobile handset components for use in local manufacturing tax free. The tax concessions will be subject to the condition of increasing local value addition over a period of time.
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Smart World
3 Ways Big Data Analytics Can Go Horribly Wrong
Big data analytics can prove fatal for your business if the algorithms entered are incorrect.
| Biotech
How Technology Is Helping Specially-Abled People
This year, the government of India dedicated the National Science Day to the theme “science and technology for specially abled persons.” The idea was to encourage innovation, awareness and reach of accessibility solutions to specially-abled people in the country.
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Tech Focus
Building A Future With 5G
The abysmal state of healthcare in India can be attributed to lack of adequate number of healthcare experts and specialists in the country. And for a long time now we have been struggling to make healthcare services affordable but without success.
| Ultrasonics
Cleaning Silently With Sound Waves
Often, we struggle to clean electronic gadgets and other gizmos, especially those having small, delicate, inaccessible parts. The proven solution to such a need is an ultrasonic cleaner.
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Tutorial
Laser: An Innovative Tool For Multidisciplinary Applications
Light in general and lasers in particular are ruling the world of science and technology for decades now. Interdisciplinary applications of lasers are in the fields of medical science, communication, defence, security, data storage and more.
| Embedded
Heterogeneous Architectures And Programming Models
Heterogeneous computing refers to systems which use more than one kind of processor or cores to maximise performance or energy efficiency. The processors incorporate specialised processing capabilities to handle particular tasks.
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Buyers’ Guide
How Online UPS Can Save You Money
A logistics enterprise recently switched to an online UPS system after experiencing regular equipment failures. The company had upped its production, which significantly increased its power consumption.
| eStyle Do-It-Yourself
How to Install A Wireless Speaker System
To make your whole house or office swing to melodies through a common control device without the cable clutter, Wi-Fisupported speakers are the way to go.
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EFY Plus DVD
Fritzing: Design Your PCBs With Ease
Fritzing is a CAD software that lets users design as well as simulate. It helps users to build connections between the components and the PCB.
| EFY Plus DVD
Creating Solid Geometry Using BRL-CAD
Anything that happens in real time is easier to conceptualise. This can be well illustrated by 3D games where users find simulation adventurous. It is the thrill of real-time ffects that makes these games a hit amongst the masses.
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Tech News
Wearable system to help visually impaired navigate
The white cane that visually impaired people frequently use to navigate paths has two major drawbacks: One, the obstacles they come in contact with are sometimes other people.
| Make In India
Market Survey: Are ‘Made In India’ Mobile Phones In The Growth Phase?
The Indian mobile handset market, including smartphones and feature phones, is booming. According to a Morgan Stanley research report, India will overtake the US next year as the second-largest smartphone market in terms of units sold.
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Do-It-Yourself
Arduino Based Digital IC Tester Using MATLAB
Testing of digital electronic systems generally involves applying a set of test stimuli to inputs of the device-under-test (DUT) and analysing responses of the system using a response analyser.
Download source code
| Software
A Guide To Programming In Perl, PHP and Python
Perl, PHP and Python are three very popular and easy-to-learn programming languages, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
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Career
Your Engineering Skills Won’t Go Waste In Field Application Engineering
If you have completed your undergraduate degree in engineering and are keen to get a job away from the conventional engineering disciplines whilst utilising (and gaining) technical skills, then industry experts believe that you could work as a field application engineer (FAE).
| EFY Plus DVD
Design, Simulate And Automate With Open Source Software
The following software, besides other, can be found in the DVD accompanying EFY Plus edition of this magazine
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eStyle First Look
. 165cm Smart TV
. OLED TVs With Dolby Technology
. 4G Android Smartphone
. 2.1-channel Speakers
. Amkette Pocket
. Bluetooth smart watch
. Asus Android Tablet
. GizMo ByTes
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