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Top Electronics Industry Trends in 2019
By Niklas Kvist, Head of Engineering, JonDeTech T
he Internet of Things (IoT) is quickly becoming the “Intelli- gence of Things.” This and oth-
er trends in electronics, such as 5G, smart wearables, and sensors are major topics that will be critically im- portant to follow in 2019.
Intelligence of Things Everything that can be connect-
ed is rapidly being connected. This is not a new phenomenon, but the next step is that our IoT gadgets — both at home and in the workplace — are be- coming more and more AI-controlled. This is being enabled by individual sensors and devices with machine learning capabilities integrated lo- cally into each product. One such ex-
ample is Wi-Fi speakers with artifi- cial intelligence, with many more products sure to come. In 2019, development will likely
head toward niche-integrated solu- tions with multifunctional capabili- ties provided by various sensors, and including connectivity.
compact, low-power products. Applica- tion areas are mainly in the IoT.
Wearable Electronics Smart and digitally managed
gadgets in the field of health care have been on the agenda for quite some time. Many are now expecting
Experts forecast that 2019 will see wide adoption of smart clothing. This includes medical garments that can monitor patient wellbeing and exercise products that can measure running speed, body temperature, and absorbed UV.
This is already being achieved in
wireless communication sensors that are fully customized and optimized at chip-level to deliver cost-effective,
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that 2019 will also become the year of smart clothing. This type of clothing employs small sensors in patches, with the ability to measure a variety of things, including ECG, pulse and muscle use. These clothes can also be used to measure the temperature of sick individuals or the UV radiation absorbed by a swimmer using smart swimwear. There will also be new products
for exercise, including smart socks, which use pressure to measure run- ning distance, time and speed, as well as clothes that regulate heat themselves, depending on the body and outdoor temperatures.
5G, 5G, 5G While 5G will be officially
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launched in 2020, support products will be increasingly hot in 2019. These include communications infra- structure products that will be launched with support for faster
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speeds, faster response times and a huge number of users per station. Al- so, 5G is the enabler for vehicles to communicate with each other. We
February, 2019
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Nature Photonics. Microwave signals are ubiquitous in wireless communica- tions, but researchers thought they in- teract too weakly with photons. That was before SEAS researchers, led by Marko Loncar, the Tiantsai Lin Pro- fessor of Electrical Engineering, devel- oped a technique to fabricate high-per- formance optical microstructures us- ing lithium niobate, a material with powerful electro-optic properties. Loncar and his team previously
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give us dynamic control of light in a programmable electro-optic system,” says Cheng Wang, assistant Profes- sor at City University of Hong Kong. “This could lead to the development of programmable filters for optical and microwave signal processing and will find applications in radio astron- omy, radar technology and more.” Next, the researchers aim to de-
velop even lower-loss optical wave- guides and microwave circuits using the same architecture to enable even higher efficiencies, and ultimately achieve a quantum link between mi- crowave and optical photons. “The energies of microwave and
optical photons differ by five orders of magnitude, but our system could pos- sibly bridge this gap with almost 100 percent efficiency, one photon at a time,” says Loncar. “This would enable the realization of a quantum cloud —a distributed network of quantum com- puters connected by secure optical communication channels.” Web:
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