NASA Mars Odyssey Releases Most Perfect Martian Plan Constantly

NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, launched technique back in April 2001, reached Mars in October of that year and began its operations in February of 2002. For the past eight and a half years, the outpost has been snapping photos, using its multi-band infrared camera.

That camera, called THEMIS (THermal EMission Imaging System), managed to take over 21,000 photos of the surface of Mars as its work began. NASA’s Jet impulsion Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at Arizona State University’s Mars Space Flight Facility, has been working on this map for years, and is finally able to show it off to the world.

Those 21,000 photos have been, in NASA’s words, smoothed, matched, blended and cartographically restricted to make a giant mosaic. The ultimate outcome is almost Google-Maps-like experience that allows panning and zooming with the click or swipe of a mouse. You can zoom in attractive far–the smallest surface facts that can be seen are about 100 meters wide, which is a new record for photography of Mars.

IEEE 802.3af/At-Biddable PSE Controller Saves Gap and Cost in Poe+ Mechanical Plans

The MAX5971B integrates a 0.5ohm power MOSFET, intellect resistor, and recent monitor to keep space and cost in PSE system the distinctive function circuit requires less than eight outer components. Additionally, the MAX5971B includes a 9-bit ADC and I2C boundary to facilitate advanced control management and power budgeting. Capable of delivering up to 40 W/port for PoE+ powered devices (PDs), the MAX5971B is well suited for IP phones, IP cameras, wireless LAN access points, and video surveillance cameras.

This PSE controller is wholly compliant to the IEEE 802.3af and IEEE 802.3at standards. The tool operates from 32 V to 60 V and provides IEEE 802.3af/at-compliant PD discovery, classification, and DC/AC load-detach detection. Class 5 and two-incident classification are supported for exposure and classification of high-power PDs. The MAX5971B also detect legacy PDs that use elevated capacitance as the discovery signature.

The device is totally software configurable through its I2C-compatible, 2-wire serial interface. The MAX5971B can be controlled with a system microcontroller it can be configured to activate autonomously without the necessitate for a host microcontroller or software; or it can be configured to drive in manual or semiautomatic modes, which offer design flexibility as well as field debug and diagnostic capabilities.

Fermi-Based NVIDIA Quadro Video Cards Made Official

In terms of user graphics cards, NVIDIA is still a way rotten from covering the complete market by DirectX 11-capable models. The similar cannot be believed about the professional front, however, now that the Santa Clara, California-based company has unleashed its line of Fermi-based series of Quadro adapters, all enabled by the GF100 graphics processing unit. This new collection promises higher performance and a wider feature set compared to its predecessor.

So far, NVIDIA has unleashed five products. The Quadro 4000 has 2GB of GDDR5 memory and 256 stream processors (SP). Also, the Quadro 5000 has 2.5GB VRAM and 352 torrent processors, whereas the Quadro 5000M, for mobile workstations, boasts 2GB GDDR5 and 320 SP.

Moreover the Quadro 6000 has a good 6GB VRAM and 448 stream processors. As for the Quadro Plex, it is the most dominant by far, with a massive 12GB of memory and 896 SP.

We have build engines like AXE to facilitate the conception of next-gen applications. When you connect these technologies with our Fermi architecture, the result is a new Quadro family that's exponentially better than anything the market has ever seen said Jeff Brown, general manager, professional solutions group at Nvidia.

Inemi Workshop to Highlight On Medical Electronics Packaging Technologies

The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), an industry-led consortium, is sponsoring a workshop on the technical and dogmatic challenges estimated in the implantable and portable segments of the medical electronics industry. The day-and-a-half workshop, scheduled for September 16-17 in Berlin will focus on identifying the technology challenges and regularity gaps that can best be solved by collaborative efforts by the medical electronics industry.

In the past 10 years, innovation has led to major advances in medical diplomacy and the therapies they deliver, said Bill Bader, CEO of iNEMI. The volatile growth of implantable and personal medical electronics is driving accelerated approval of efficiency technologies. Continuous technology improvements, the high-reliability requirements innate in medical electronics and the unique necessity for compatibility with the human body, present significant challenges for substrate, packaging and interrelate technologies used in these products.

iNEMI has road mapped the technology wants of the medical electronics segment for several years, continued Bader, and we have recognized multiple areas where further technology development is needed. With this workshop, we hope to bring together medical electronics companies from the implantable, portable and imaging segments to categorize the most critical needs, determine which needs are best solved through mutual efforts and then form action groups to begin the required work.

Etegent Technologies Awarded Two Navy Research

Etegent Technologies Ltd., formerly SDL, a high-tech, research and development company, today announced that it has been awarded two Phase I SBIR research contracts from the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent River, Md. The projects include the progress of low cost, dual function, control and diagnostic sensors for aircraft turbine engines and the development of robust pressure transducers for aircraft turbine engine control systems. In addition to the two new contracts, Etegent is also presently working on three additional SBIR projects with the U.S. Navy, with a Phase II SBIR deal focused on the progress of a computerized tool for exposure aircraft damage and queuing and viewing repairs.

For the indicative sensors project, Etegent will show the likelihood of a new sensor suite model that can sense pressure, temperature and vibration in an aircraft turbine engine, and incorporate self diagnosis/performance verification and IEEE 1451.4 Standard for Transducer Electronic Data Sheets capability. This project is supported by the Joint Strike Fighter and PMA-0261, H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopter programs.

As part of the transducers project, Etegent will influence its existing sensor technology to widen robust pressure sensors that can work reliably in awfully cruel environments such as a turbine engine combustor. The new sensor technology is likely to improve the potential of military and commercial monitoring and control systems.

ABB Expands Magnetically Actuated Outdoor Surf Technology to 38 KV

ABB, the primary power and automation technology company, announces the release of the 38 kV R-MAG outdoor vacuum circuit breaker.

First introduced in 2002 for 15 kV and 27 kV applications, the R-MAG breaker utilizes a magnetic actuator design that has only one moving part, offering an advance over the conventional spring charging device. Rated for 10,000 operations, the 38 kV R-MAG surf provides more than five times the IEEE necessity for fortitude capabilities. Moreover, the magnetic actuator requires no regular upholding during the life of the breaker, thus tumbling costly maintenance intervals, while increasing consistency and safety.

The 38 kV R-MAG breaker takes advantage of embedded pole technology, providing a compressed and modular design, suitable for a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions. Embedded in a solid insulating material of high dielectric strength, the vacuum interrupters are insulated from external effects of mechanical shock, dust, and humidity.

The R-MAG breaker is field proven, with thousands of units in service worldwide. ABB magnetic actuator technology delivers the state-of-the-art in distribution class breakers, while providing compact maintenance costs and improved consistency of our customers.

Corporate Wireless Exchange Options for Professional Consumers

A group of members more than 390,000 IT professionals from around 150 countries planned to introduce the 40 Gigabit Ethernet technology in July 2006. This group known as the IEEE or the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers was liable for the Ethernet standards that brought us the top data transfer technology known to man.

As of now, we are motionless dependent on their 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) technology for our data exchange needs. What the IEEE aims for was to increase this routine for up to 4 and 10 times. After almost a year of study, the project was seen greatly favorable, and so a mission force was assembled to take charge.

A label of 802.3ba, following the original 802.3, was given to the project. And its primary goal was to be able to distribute speed standards 40GbE and 100GbE, both greater than the 10GbE. There are two speed rates, as to be able to gratify to both small sever needs like home offices (40GbE) and large server demands like that of the internet (100GbE).

Although there are already 40 Gigabit technology being implemented by means of combining four 10GbE technologies into a single mode, the aspired 40GbE is completely dissimilar. The latest 40GbE will be molded into just one individual figure, like a 10GbE network technology with wider capabilities.

Nano Korea 2010 Among IEEE NANO Is On!

The Nano Korea Society team announced that 'Nano Korea 2010 with IEEE NANO ' will be held from August 17 to 20 at KINTEX, Korea. The theme of its 8th event is Nanotechnology for a Green World'. During the occasion they will redefine a range of issues regarding location and energy in the nano-technical viewpoint, share of nano-technology information from the world's scholars as well as exchange different opinions to solve these issues.

Principally this year, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) to swarm the seminar and large numbers of international scholars will visit including two Nobel Prize winners in the pasture of nanotechnology. It is definite that the status of Korea is No. 4 in Nanotechnology, internationally.

Starting with major speeches by Robert Grubbs (2005 Nobel Prize), Peter Gruenberg (2007 Nobel Physics Prize), Kim Ki-nam, President of Samsung Electronic, 1,000 studies will be announced with more than 300 lectures for four days. The IEEE NANO representative conference in IEEE will be divided into 14 professional areas.

Young Professors of Trinity Society Invited To Attend IEEE Conference

Trinity Institute Professor Ashutosh Dubey has been invited to attend IEEE Conference 2010, which will take place at Mangalore from29th July -1st August 2010.

Prof. Ashutosh had 5 years of experience in private sector and intellectual field. He was allied with number of indigenization and modernizing projects. He has presented a number of research papers in different National Conference.

The research paper titled A Complete Analysis of Grid Computing System in J2ME for Efficient Mobile Computing Techniques was chosen for IEEE Conference in which he analyzes numerous aspects of data mining services which are valid on Mobile computing which is functional for data warehousing conference.

He is also planned as a reviewer panel in several international conferences together with conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which is officially sponsored by IEEE Malaysia section.

Prof. Yogesh had 4 years of experience in studious field and his paper elected in IEEE seminar held at MANIT Allahabad. His research paper title is “A Low intricacy chosen for mapping for max out to average power reduction in OFDM.

Mr. Prakash Ramani, Mr. K C Jain, Dr. H L Vachhani, Dr S M Bhatia of Trinity Institute of Technology & Research congratulated the faculties for their outstanding achievement.

Student Wins International Explore Competition

A senior from National Cheng Kung University won the top prize at a global student research contest sponsored by the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the university said in a press report yesterday.

Huang Tsung-wei won the contest in Anaheim, California in mid June with research in digital micro fluidic bio-chips, said the university.

Huang's prize-winning effort involves drip routing algorithms for digital micro fluidic biochips and was praised by Iris Bahar, the competition organizer and a professor at Brown University, as a marvelous study concert, the statement said.

According to Cheng Kung University, Huang's research explores a way used to process biochips on a nanoscale as small as one-billionth of a meter. The process allows manufacturers to correctly complete all essential biochemical reactions, attain optimal revealing and raise the efficiency of micro fluidic chip detection.

Huang has published three papers in international conferences, together with the 2009 IEEE International discussion on Computer Design, the 2009 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design, and the 2010 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design.

PoE Technologies Release 120 Watt 8 Port PoE Network Switch

PoE Technologies announces the expulsion of their latest product, the NS-PoE-8, an 8 port Power-over-Ethernet switch. 120 watts of power balanced over 8 ports. Also projected for the recently ratified standard IEEE-802.3at, this new standard allows for PoE to have up to 25 watts of power per RJ45 Port.

The NS-PoE-8 was engineered for the physical safety market in mind, allowing for Integrators and Value-Added-Resellers (VARs) to easily solve power issues. The NS-PoE-8 increases the adaptability of a project, by providing superior power to PoE procedure such as high powered PTZ and door access controls.

With the ratification of IEEE-802.3at our clients will be able to take complex of the higher watt output. The NS-PoE-8 can now be used with both IEEE-802.3af and IEEE802.3at interchangeability. By using PoE regulars can save time and money by not having to afford separate cabling for power, says James H Riggs President/CEO of PoE Technologies.

Hybrid WiGig-Wi-Fi Chip Planned by Atheros, Wilocity

Atheros and Wilocity, which signify the Wi-Fi and 60-GHz wireless HDMI camps, have granted to work mutually to widen hybrid "tri-band" chipsets.

The two companies could increase their first product samples by early 2011, and transport them later that year, said Tal Tamir, chief executive of Wilocity, in an interview.

To date, Wi-Fi and the wireless multimedia technologies such as WirelessHD, WiGig, and others have been in quasi-competition with one another, as both strive to be the home's key wireless network technology. The battleground has been the living room, with the ultimate exclusion of the HDMI cable that currently serves as the transport mechanism for encrypted multimedia data.

Although the WiGig technology claims to have ranges beyond ten meters, the technology still can't rather match the coverage of 802.11n, roughly 70 meters (230 feet) indoors. Likewise, even the 150-Mbit/s maximum throughput 802.11n allows can't compete with the 7-Gbits/s throughput the WiGig measurement defines.

IEEE Calls For Involvement To Widen Standards For Quantifying GHG Emissions From Small Hydro And Wind Power Projects, And Grid Baseline Conditions

The IEEE Standards Association announced today a call for contribution for the IEEE P1595 Working Group to help develop new principles for quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits from small hydro and wind power projects and for grid baseline setting. The IEEE P1595 Working Group is part of the Climate Change Technology Sub-Committee (CCTSC) of the Energy Development and Power Generation Committee (EDPGC) of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE-PES).

The IEEE P1595 standard will utilize protocols for wind power, small hydro and grid baseline developed by the Government of Canada’s Department of Natural Resources CANMET Energy Technology Centre (NRCan-CETC) as its seed documents. These protocols were developed in accord with the ISO 14064 Part 2 International Standard for GHG Projects, which is used by regulated carbon offset credit markets such as in the Province of Alberta and in the Province of British Columbia. ISO 14064 Part 2 has also been adopted by the Voluntary Carbon Standard.

The IEEE P1595 functioning group will be working in assistance with the Climate CHECK, a collaborative solutions provider in the GHG and fresh technology markets. The IEEE P1595 working group will be utilizing Climate Check’s online standards development platform, which was developed in connection with the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI).

Online conventional exchanges

To improve their Online marketing is the obvious focus for many companies attempting to improve their reputation at the moment. Success stories like Dell’s use of Twitter or Nike’s Chalkbot are placed on a pedestal, and the hype surrounding brands using Facebook is at boiling point. One of the trends we’ve seen developing over the past year is the notion of targeting evangelists over influencers. Marmite’s Marmarati is a great example of engaging with a smaller group of passionate fans, instead of going after high-profile influencers was vast networks at their disposal.   

The theory is that those with real interest in the product or service you’re trying to promote are far more likely to spread the word to those with a similar mindset. Though smart PRs have been playing by a version of this rule for years (targeting those with interest in the right subject, but also with a large reach), tying social media into this to spread the word online is still a relatively underused concept. Blogger relations should be treated in the same way, but is quite often marred by a scattergun approach.

Nomadic the Web

The Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse launched a beta version website to assist stakeholders and the general public to contact the site. Funded during the Recovery Act to provide scientific, legislative, and project information on smart grid management, the Clearinghouse is managed by and run from the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute in Arlington, Va., with support from the IEEE Power & Energy Society and EnerNex Corporation.

Katherine Hamilton, president of Grid Wise Alliance, serves on the Advisory Board for the Clearinghouse. The team at Virginia Tech and IEEE has integrated key stakeholder groups, a mixture of end users, and the Grid Wise association execution Work set in the evaluation process. The team now encourages people to discover the site to see if they can find the information about smart grid they most need. The position starts with basic information and gradually gets more technical as you work through it, Hamilton added.

Forty Countries Represented At Leading IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

The Organizing team of the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, the highest running global gather of PV scientists and engineers, reported today a record attendance at this year's conference. Over 1,380 attendees traveled to Honolulu from 40 countries across the globe, including the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia. In addition, the conference hosted a lively exhibition hall with 40 booths that was also dwelling to an exciting display of over 500 top-tier notice presentations.

A record 930 technical presentations took place at the Hawaii Convention Center, representing an increase of over 40% from the 2009 conference. Participating industry and government notables included Hawaii Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona, SEIA's Rhone Resch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Jae Edmonds, Peter Cousins of Sunpower, DOE's John Lushetsky and Hawaii State Representative Hermina Morita. Numerous international universities and labs were represented in addition to council from IBM, CH2M Hill and many more.

We were thrilled to see the world's leading PV scientists and engineers meeting at our international conference to extra hasten solar technology as a cross-occupant solution to our energy needs, said Robert Walters, Conference Chair for the 35th IEEE PV Specialists Conference. The keenness for solar in the Hawaiian Islands made it the ideal forum for intellectual collaboration and discussion around PV.

IEEE Improves Power Grid Concert with IEEE P1547.8 Standard

IEEE, the world's top professional association for the development of technology announced IEEE P1547.8, a draft standard establishing a common scientific platform for distributed assets interconnection applications. The proposed standard expands upon IEEE 1547, while incorporating industry and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations for enhanced interconnection routine functionality. It also addresses energy storage challenges coming into play across the distributed resources and Smart Grid industries. Authorization of IEEE P1547.8, which is sponsored by the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 21 (SCC21), is targeted for calendar year 2012.

With IEEE 1547, the energy and service industries gained a stable, strong foundation for the additional construction and development of distributed resource networks. With more renewable energy sources coming online, storage capabilities are becoming more and more important and need to be addressed earlier rather than later, said Dick DeBlasio, program manager at the National Renewable Energy Lab facility of the U.S. Department of Energy, and IEEE Smart Grid liaison to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). By incorporating support for rising storage technologies, as well as other industry-driven recommendations, IEEE P1547.8 future-proofs the original scaffold by both extending current functionality and laying the groundwork for future advancements.

IEEE, Laptop Makers to Join Forces on Universal Power Supply

Some laptop manufacturers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are planning to work together on a consistent laptop power supply design.

The interest of the IEEE will be crucial to getting manufacturers to adopt any standards that emerge, according to reports in Australia.

The laptop makers involved in the plan are said to include big brands such as ASUS and Acer as well as the OEM manufacturers like Quanta and Compal.

By introducing standards to the laptop market the group hopes to facilitate the interoperability that has been a trademark of desktop PC designs.

This lack of standards in laptop manufacture has lead to the provoking situation where every firm has its own power supply design.

Ethernet QFSP

Avago has developed a new four-channel pluggable similar optic QSFP transceiver module for 40 Gigabit Ethernet applications.

The section is completely biddable to the IEEE 802.3ba 40GBASE SR4 design and provides a solution for multilane data communication and interconnects applications that incorporate four independent 10 Gbps data lanes in each direction to provide 40 Gbps cumulative bandwidth. In addition to 40 Gbps Ethernet interconnects, this transceiver can be used in datacom/telecom switch and router connections, as well as data aggregation and backplane applications.

With data rates of 10 Gbps for up to 100 metres using OM3 fibre, the transceiver is designed to operate over multimode fibre systems using a nominal wavelength of 850 nm. The electrical interface uses a 38-contact edge type connector while the optical interface uses either an 8 or 12 fibre MTP (MPO) connector. The element also provides greater electro-optical concert to enable low jitter required for high-speed computing, server clustering, Infiniband and Ethernet switching and core routers. Additionally, this transceiver is hot pluggable for ease of installation and servicing, and backward compatible with 5 and 2, 5 Gbps per channel applications.

IEEE Researcher John McDonald Gives Testimony on Advancement of Standards Development and Cyber Security for Smart Grid

IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the improvement of technology, today announced that John McDonald, IEEE Fellow and Director of Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE’s Digital Energy business gave witness on the progress of standards for Smart Grid interoperability and cyber security before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, House Committee on Science and Technology. Held July 01, 2010, the investigation was entitled Smart Grid Architecture and Standards Assessing Coordination and Progress.

The purpose of the inquiry was to review the efforts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to coordinate the development of standards for Smart Grid technologies. The hearing examined the status of the standards development process and focused on whether the current efforts are meeting the needs of stakeholders and are advancing national Smart Grid efforts. Mr. McDonald’s testimony addressed key issues such as:

• The skill of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel in coordinating tasks for the standards development process and assembly stakeholder input, as well as the policies and events currently in place to ensure private stakeholder buy-in and adoption of the standards that appear from the process.

• Which standards are currently existing to achieve interoperability of Smart Grid technologies and the top standard-related priorities for advancing their deployment

During the hearing, Mr. McDonald and four other leading Smart Grid experts addressed a range of important issues including testing & certification, cyber security and privacy matters, in addition to standards.

Call For Participation: IEEE Standard For Universal Power Adapter For Mobile Devices

The IEEE Standards Association recently announced a call for partaking for Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices Working Group.

Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMDTM) or IEEE P1823TM is a new standard with a purpose to drastically reduce the electronic waste caused by the failure to reuse a power adapter with changing devices. Acquisition cost of new mobile devices could be lowered by 10-15% with the reclaim of already owned power adapters.

The Working Group will categorize a power delivery link between a power adapter and a power using device in the 10 Watt to 130 Watt range. A communications link between the power adapter and the mobile power using device is also definite for safety and adaptability. Efforts will focus on defining the common connector, power specification, and communications protocol.

While planned for handy computing and entertainment devices, this standard may also be used with other mobile devices in use around the office, home or vehicle. The project is sponsored by the Microprocessor Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.

IEEE Delivers 1815 DNP3 Standard for Power Systems Interactions

IEEE has announced the authority of the 1815 Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) standard for electric power systems communications. The new standard, which improves appliance interoperability and strengthens security protocols, was fast-tracked for achievement and was delivered in only seven months. Programmed for final publication in July 2010, IEEE 1815 is expected to play a important role in the development and exploitation of Smart Grid technologies.

IEEE 1815 is a collaboratively developed, flexible framework that is the base for achieving better device interoperability and security. The robust, multi-layered protocol specifies an agile, forward-looking architecture enabling better optimized and more secure information gathering, exchange, and use, particularly in managerial control and data achievement (SCADA) systems. Expanding on widely used industry protocols, the comprehensive standard also preserves previous significant infrastructure investments by enduring backward friendly with existing object models, while incorporating emerging Smart Grid and other new technologies. Newly ratified as IEEE 1815, the protocols will benefit from the wide support, proficiency, and resources that IEEE offers, providing a basis for the continued deployment of Smart Grid technologies.

The accelerated exploitation of Smart Grid technologies, as well as thousands of new and legacy device installations in process automation settings like the electric utility, energy, and water industries, dictated the need for IEEE 1815. IEEE, in combination with the DNP Users Group, fast-tracked the protocol’s sustained development and approval. The standard passed precise evaluation by each group before being submitted to a diverse pool of more than 100 IEEE balloters.