42 The PCB Magazine • August 2017
New Fast-Charging Flow Battery Aims
to Advance the State-of-the-Art in
Energy Storage
Masdar Institute researchers have engineered a
novel non-aqueous low-cost flow battery equipped
with fast-charging that is able to charge itself in
half the time it would normally take, which they
believe may enable cheaper and more efficient
large-scale renewable energy storage.
Dell Helps Future Proof Customers Globally
with Internet of Things Technology
Dell Inc. is helping new customers across the
globe, as well as its own manufacturing facilities,
to future proof their businesses through embrac-
ing IoT technology.
Convergence of Blockchain with Emerging
Technologies Set to Disrupt the
Healthcare Industry by 2025
In the next five to 10 years, a blockchain ecosys-
tem with healthcare-focused use cases involving
health data exchanges, smart assets management,
insurance and payment solutions, blockchain plat-
form providers, and consortiums will emerge.
5G Wireless and Beyond:
From Evolution to Revolution
From a technical standpoint, fifth generation mo-
bile wireless—or 5G, as it's commonly known—
is more about "evolution" than "revolution." In
many ways, 5G simply builds upon the mobile
infrastructure established by the current wire-
less standard, 4G LTE. From the standpoint of the
imagination, however, 5G is poised to reshape the
technological world as we know it.
New Design Improves Performance
of Flexible Wearable Electronics
In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State
University engineers have designed a flexible ther-
moelectric energy harvester that has the potential
to rival the effectiveness of existing power wear-
able electronic devices using body heat as the only
source of energy.
Building with Robots and 3D Printer
At the Empa and Eawag NEST building in Düben-
dorf, eight ETH Zurich professors are collaborat-
ing with business partners to build the three-sto-
ry DFAB HOUSE. It is the first house in the world
to be designed, planned and built using predomi-
nantly digital processes.
Global Healthcare M2M Market:
Demand for Remote Patient Monitoring
to Bolster Uptake
Some of the leading players operating in the
healthcare M2M (machine-to-machine) market
are Telefonica S.A., AT&T Inc., Vodafone Group
plc, and GE Healthcare.
A.I. Will Prepare Robots for the Unknown
"The goal is for A.I. to be more like a smart assis-
tant collaborating with the scientist and less like
programming assembly code," said Chien, a se-
nior research scientist on autonomous space sys-
tems. "It allows scientists to focus on the 'thinking'
things—analyzing and interpreting data—while
robotic explorers search out features of interest."
Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
Accelerate the Pace of Digital
Workplace Transformation
New research that examined how organizations
are evolving from a traditional office environment
to a digital workplace reveals that gaining compet-
itive advantage and improving business processes
are among the top goals of their digital transfor-
mation strategy.
3D Printing Market worth
$32.78 Billion by 2023
The 3D printing market is expected to be worth
US$32.78 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 25.76%
between 2017 and 2023. The growth is attribut-
ed to the factors such as the ease of development
of customized products, ability to reduce over-
all manufacturing costs, and government invest-
ments in the 3D printing projects for the develop-
ment and deployment of the technology.
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