The Looming Problem of Battery Waste in Wearables and How to Solve It

Jeffrey Ortega, Ph.D., Director of Research,  ZPower

July 7, 2017 | According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans buy approximately three billion dry-cell batteries each year to power common household devices, including radios, toys, phones and computers. This volume creates nearly 180,000 tons of battery waste that is either recycled or ends up in landfills, where it can leach toxic chemicals into the ground and water supply. And while this number is staggering in and of itself, we live in a battery-powered world, and our need is only growing. Read more about The Looming Problem of Battery Waste in Wearables and How to Solve It

What You Must Do Before Shipping Batteries to India

Jody Leber, Global Battery Manager, SGS

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) recently gave smartphone manufacturers who want to ship batteries to India a little more breathing room. But just a little. In June 2016, the BIS released new norms that for the first time requires handset vendors to test smartphone batteries separately. In September, the BIS pushed the original deadline out to August 2017. Despite the extension, the timeframe remains tight. Let’s examine what manufacturers of smartphones, and any other battery-powered devices, can do today to avoid creating costly go-to-market delays. Read more about What You Must Do Before Shipping Batteries to India

A Simplified Strategy for Managing Power and Services for Edge Facilities

Phil Aldag, Marketing Manager, Vertiv Services

The information technology (IT) landscape continues to change, due in large part to the Internet of Things (IoT) wave, the ever-growing environment in which objects have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human interaction. According to Gartner predictions, there will be approximately 25 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, and Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts mobile data traffic will grow seven-fold from 2016 to 2021.

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Using Thermal Simulation to Design a Better Outdoor Electronic Product

Nitesh Kumar Sardana, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solution Pvt. Ltd.

Electronic products operate in varied thermal environments. Their operation is challenged when the size of the housing is reduced and when the product is mounted in an open environment exposed to climatic conditions. Solar radiation increases the temperature difference of the product’s internal air from the ambient by 150 percent to 300 percent. Read more about Using Thermal Simulation to Design a Better Outdoor Electronic Product

IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations Updated to Reflect 2017-2018 ICAO Technical Instructions

Neil McCulloch, Senior Manager, International Product Development, Labelmaster

Businesses need and want predictability, particularly when it comes to government regulations.  So the fact that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) updates its Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods every two years is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because industry knows the changes that are coming and a curse because there are changes coming. Read more about IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations Updated to Reflect 2017-2018 ICAO Technical Instructions

Five Questions Power Supply Professionals Should Ask Themselves about UPS Battery Maintenance and Replacement

Scott Baer, Marketing Manager-Batteries, Vertiv Services

In a recent battery maintenance quiz sponsored by Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, 71 percent of respondents accurately answered that during a power interruption, it only takes one bad cell to cause your data center’s uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to drop a critical load. Batteries are indeed the weakest link in the power chain and are historically a leading cause of costly downtime. Timely battery maintenance and replacement are essential to ensuring critical system availability. Read more about Five Questions Power Supply Professionals Should Ask Themselves about UPS Battery Maintenance and Replacement

Five Questions Power Supply Professionals Should Ask Themselves about UPS Battery Maintenance and Replacement

Scott Baer, Marketing Manager-Batteries, Vertiv Services

In a recent battery maintenance quiz sponsored by Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, 71 percent of respondents accurately answered that during a power interruption, it only takes one bad cell to cause your data center’s uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to drop a critical load. Batteries are indeed the weakest link in the power chain and are historically a leading cause of costly downtime. Timely battery maintenance and replacement are essential to ensuring critical system availability. Read more about Five Questions Power Supply Professionals Should Ask Themselves about UPS Battery Maintenance and Replacement