Machine-to-machine Communication, Enterprise Mobility and Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles

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Electronic Design
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Product Engineering

September 2012 / Issue #6

From the CTO's desk

	Dear Reader, Thank you for being a loyal and enthusiast subscriber to our newsletter. Through this monthly, we intend to share with you emerging technology trends having far reaching influence and also wish to showcase some illustrative work being done by us and other organizations in varied domains / verticals.
Last weekend I decided to give some rest to myself as a CTO and chose to revisit the movie aficionado that I used to be a long ago! So I turned on my TV and began surfing various programs. I finally decided to watch ‘Rise of the Machines’ (Terminator 3) on an international movie channel. Being a huge fan of ‘Terminator’ series since 80s, I didn’t miss to enjoy this new installment either. While the movie got over, it somehow left me thinking if the movie title is drawing my attention to a big phenomenon taking place in the global engineering industry. It actually did. Machines are rising, that too in an unprecedented manner! ZigBee Alliance, IPSO Alliance, 3GPP, IETF, OMA, GSMA, IUT-T, IEC, IEEE, ESMIG, EPCGlobal GS1, OASIS, W3C, ETSI and several other international standardization bodies are working together to make this rise a win-win reality benefitting a spectrum of industries such as Automotive, Transportation and Logistics, Smart Energy and Security, Industrial Automation, Consumer and Healthcare. I am referring to M2M (Machine-to-machine) communications. Leveraging recent advances in next-generation wireless networks, machine-to-machine communication is unlocking a gamut of new opportunities, helping businesses and entrepreneurs better monitor their business, launch new services and serve customers effectively while allowing them to leverage new efficiencies to lower cost and energy consumption. On the other hand consumers too are drawing big benefits of M2M through new offerings in telemedicine, remote healthcare and remote diagnostics. Indeed, M2M shall progressively underpin other key areas of the global economy as well. Recent findings from leading industry analysts reveal billions of M2M devices shall become active over the next few years. Electronics product engineering and embedded development comes to play a huge role in bringing cutting-edge M2M embedded solutions to life. It is because M2M involves significant application of electronics and allied engineering / sciences in several critical areas such as robotics, sensors, magnetic, seismic, thermal, imaging, photovoltaic, automation, data management, energy management etc. Machine-to-machine communication is all set to create a connected world with extreme focus on new age sensibilities and a concern for sustainability at its heart. Indeed, everyone including industries and end users stand to gain from this rapidly emerging wave. We at Ascenten are eager to partner innovators who aspire to contribute to this big and exciting M2M world. Please share your views with me at JigarPatel@Ascenten.net. I would be happy to share some insights. Thank you and happy reading!
Cheers! Jigar Patel

Teaming Up with the Right Partner for Enabling
Next-gen Enterprise Mobility

Vishal Jani (Software Engineer, Ascenten)

As a CIO, all these years you have been managing a huge onus of myriad of IT goals and challenges. You have been instrumental in a slew of tactical and operational responsibilities that include developing an IT policy, administration of IT platforms, supervising technical infrastructure, managing business delivery solutions and mentoring other critical activities such as maintaining web systems, customer management platforms, workflow applications and the like. Also you have been expected to ensure adequate management of IT services, safeguard system health and smooth execution of projects.