Five Building Blocks of Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

Niranjan Pathare, Battery Management Solutions Marketing,
Will Cooper, MSP Microcontroller Product Marketing
Texas Instruments

Today, autonomous sensors are in use for a variety of applications. Typically found in smart buildings and factories, these sensing applications include humidity, temperature, and chemical gas monitoring. They are often placed in remote locations where line power is unavailable, so rely heavily on battery power to function. In order to provide dependable operation, batteries have to be changed often, adding to the total cost of ownership. Ownership cost includes expensive labor needed to change the batteries during routine maintenance. Read more about Five Building Blocks of Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

Battery Monitoring with Remote Services Ensures Critical System Availability

Milind Paranjape, Marketing Manager – Service Solutions
Emerson Network Power, Liebert Services

According to focus groups conducted by Emerson Network Power in 2012, IT managers, facility managers and C-level executives want UPS features that help them maintain and manage their critical spaces on a day-to-day basis. More specifically, they expressed a need for more information to do the following: predict, prevent, respond to, and recover from downtime risks; justify their capital requests; and answer questions posed to them by their senior management regarding failures and overall performance. Read more about Battery Monitoring with Remote Services Ensures Critical System Availability