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HopalongPetrovski
I'm Spartacus!
Just spent most of today wrangling with electricity company for a better deal than the notified upcoming almost 50% increase on the usage rates and 30% increase on the daily supply charge here in Victoria.
Managed a small reduction on my existing daily charge and only 25% usage rate increase.
Worth being a squeaky wheel sometimes.
Still getting screwed I'm sure, but at least have the illusion of a chicken dinner for my trouble.
Managed a small reduction on my existing daily charge and only 25% usage rate increase.
Worth being a squeaky wheel sometimes.
Still getting screwed I'm sure, but at least have the illusion of a chicken dinner for my trouble.
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M_C
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BrainChip’s Rise: Harnessing Intellectual Property for Skyrocketing Valuations
Explore how BrainChip Holdings Ltd's rise in the stock market underscores the crucial role of intellectual property in business valuation. Learn why a robust patent portfolio can signal a company's innovative potential, boost its stock price, and drive growth in today's competitive tech landscape.
"As BrainChip and other successful tech innovators have proven, the rewards can be considerable, marked by substantial capital influx from public and private investment rounds."
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TheDrooben
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Just a mention of us alongside some minnows like Microsoft, Apple and Samsung. Nothing to see here.........View attachment 40702BrainChip’s Rise: Harnessing Intellectual Property for Skyrocketing Valuations
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Frangipani
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Could anyone with a respective tech background please comment on whether my layperson’s Akidaish gut feeling is justified or whether I am way off base? Ta!
www.eenewseurope.com
By Jean-Pierre Joosting
SECURITY MOTION DETECTION PIR TMOS IOT
The STHS34PF80 sensor contains thermal transistors that can detect stationary objects, unlike conventional PIR detectors that require the detected object to be moving to produce a measurable response from the sensor. Also, while PIRs need a Fresnel lens to sense moving objects, ST’s novel detector allows simpler, lens-free construction.
“Today’s smart homes, smart buildings, and IoT applications need accurate presence detection to improve control of systems such as lighting, heating, security, and safety monitoring for a sustainable future,” said Simone Ferri, General Manager, AMS MEMS Sub-Group, STMicroelectronics. “Our new STHS34PF80 is an economical, ultra-low-power sensor that lets building automation operate consistently whether detected occupants are moving or not. It’s made using an innovative combination of CMOS chip fabrication, silicon micromachining, and low-voltage circuit design capabilities.”
Embedding a smart algorithm for presence and motion detection, the STHS34PF80 targets alarms and security systems, home automation, smart lighting, IoT devices, smart lockers, and smart wall pads. Its lens-free range of four meters and 80° field of view cover a large area in front of the sensor. With operating current of 10 µA, power consumption is less than a conventional PIR, and the 3.2- x 4.2- x 1.455-mm surface-mount package is compact and suited to automated high-speed assembly. The sensor has high resistance to unwanted effects of direct lighting and high immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
The STEVAL-MKI231KA simplifies experimenting with the STHS34PF80. Plugging into the X-NUCLEO-IKS01A3 or the STEVAL-MKI109V3 lets developers use ST’s Unico-GUI graphical interface to configure the IR sensor and take measurements within a simplified workflow. Drivers for the STHS34PF80 are available on GitHub. In addition, a ready-to-use library for compensating and detecting presence of people or objects is available in the X-CUBE-MEMS1 software package. Users can quickly start running simple applications, taking advantage of the STHS34PF80 and testing the results to begin creating an application.
The TMOS is powered at a sub-threshold voltage below that needed to turn the transistor fully on. In this mode, the drain-source current is highly temperature dependent and produces an accurately measurable response to minimal infrared radiation. This enables the sensor to detect human presence, via infrared emissions, whether the person is moving or still.
Another benefit of sub-threshold operation is that the transistor consumes very low power, allowing battery-powered sensors that contain the STHS34PF80 to operate for long periods between charging or battery replacement. In addition, the standard CMOS fabrication technology ensures cost-effective sensor production with high wafer yield, also leveraging sub-micron transistor geometry for small sensor dimensions. This contrasts with PIR sensors, whose sensitivity can depend on pyroelectric-pixel size. Moreover, the integrated digital interface allows direct connection to the host without analog front end circuitry.
The STHS34PF80 is in production now and available in a 10-lead land-grid array (LGA) package, priced from $2.60 for orders of 1000 pieces.
www.st.com
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Here is also a link to the company’s product page:
PIR sensor for presence and motion detection in building automation
Highly integrated ultra-low power sensor with micromachined thermal transistors replaces conventional passive infrared detectors.
www.eenewseurope.com
PIR sensor for presence and motion detection in building automation
New Products | July 25, 2023By Jean-Pierre Joosting
SECURITY MOTION DETECTION PIR TMOS IOT
STMicroelectronics is launching a novel human-presence and -motion sensor/detector to enhance security systems, home-automation equipment, and IoT devices that typically use passive infrared (PIR) sensing.
The STHS34PF80 sensor contains thermal transistors that can detect stationary objects, unlike conventional PIR detectors that require the detected object to be moving to produce a measurable response from the sensor. Also, while PIRs need a Fresnel lens to sense moving objects, ST’s novel detector allows simpler, lens-free construction.
“Today’s smart homes, smart buildings, and IoT applications need accurate presence detection to improve control of systems such as lighting, heating, security, and safety monitoring for a sustainable future,” said Simone Ferri, General Manager, AMS MEMS Sub-Group, STMicroelectronics. “Our new STHS34PF80 is an economical, ultra-low-power sensor that lets building automation operate consistently whether detected occupants are moving or not. It’s made using an innovative combination of CMOS chip fabrication, silicon micromachining, and low-voltage circuit design capabilities.”
Embedding a smart algorithm for presence and motion detection, the STHS34PF80 targets alarms and security systems, home automation, smart lighting, IoT devices, smart lockers, and smart wall pads. Its lens-free range of four meters and 80° field of view cover a large area in front of the sensor. With operating current of 10 µA, power consumption is less than a conventional PIR, and the 3.2- x 4.2- x 1.455-mm surface-mount package is compact and suited to automated high-speed assembly. The sensor has high resistance to unwanted effects of direct lighting and high immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
The STEVAL-MKI231KA simplifies experimenting with the STHS34PF80. Plugging into the X-NUCLEO-IKS01A3 or the STEVAL-MKI109V3 lets developers use ST’s Unico-GUI graphical interface to configure the IR sensor and take measurements within a simplified workflow. Drivers for the STHS34PF80 are available on GitHub. In addition, a ready-to-use library for compensating and detecting presence of people or objects is available in the X-CUBE-MEMS1 software package. Users can quickly start running simple applications, taking advantage of the STHS34PF80 and testing the results to begin creating an application.
Thermal MOSFETs
The STHS34PF80 contains thermal MOSFETs (TMOS) that are sensitive to the heating effects of infrared radiation incident on their gates, as well as digital readout circuitry integrated efficiently on the same chip using ST’s mature and reliable silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. The SOI architecture facilitates micromachining with ST’s proven MEMS (micro electromechanical systems) processes to thermally isolate the TMOS for accurate temperature sensing.The TMOS is powered at a sub-threshold voltage below that needed to turn the transistor fully on. In this mode, the drain-source current is highly temperature dependent and produces an accurately measurable response to minimal infrared radiation. This enables the sensor to detect human presence, via infrared emissions, whether the person is moving or still.
Another benefit of sub-threshold operation is that the transistor consumes very low power, allowing battery-powered sensors that contain the STHS34PF80 to operate for long periods between charging or battery replacement. In addition, the standard CMOS fabrication technology ensures cost-effective sensor production with high wafer yield, also leveraging sub-micron transistor geometry for small sensor dimensions. This contrasts with PIR sensors, whose sensitivity can depend on pyroelectric-pixel size. Moreover, the integrated digital interface allows direct connection to the host without analog front end circuitry.
The STHS34PF80 is in production now and available in a 10-lead land-grid array (LGA) package, priced from $2.60 for orders of 1000 pieces.
www.st.com
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Here is also a link to the company’s product page:
Damo4
Regular
Broken link I think mate
Humble Genius
Regular
200 additional follows in less than 2 weeks - thats just over 15 new followers per day. Similar to the increase in coverage of Brainchip across multiple internet sites, news feeds etc,, the word is getting out there, and it seems to be growing exponentially.
PS - They are up another 7 to 10,207 as of just now.
PS - They are up another 7 to 10,207 as of just now.
Fullmoonfever
Top 20
Not new info on Gen 2 per sé however from an article a couple months old and not sure if posted prev but anyway.
I wonder if the so called customer feedback to evolve Akida came from a certain licence holder and that it will now lead to an additional licence on testing completion
www.biometricupdate.com
“We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices,” says Roger Wendelken, the senior vice president in Renesas’ IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit.
Applications that can benefit from fast vision transformation include facial recognition and other biometrics.
Akida’s second-generation technology features Temporal Event Based Neural Nets (TENN) spatial-temporal convolutions, which can efficiently process raw time-continuous streaming data. The technology enables more straightforward implementations while providing high accuracy and a lower development cost and is suitable for use in industrial, automotive, digital health, smart home, and smart city applications.
Akida’s second generation also offers Vision Transformers (ViT) acceleration. This neural network excels in computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation, BrainChip says. Akida’s ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections enables it to self-manage complex networks like RESNET-50 entirely within the neural processor without CPU intervention and reduces system load.
“With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in a wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few,” says Wendelken.
I wonder if the so called customer feedback to evolve Akida came from a certain licence holder and that it will now lead to an additional licence on testing completion
Vivotek unveils edge computing facial recognition camera | Biometric Update
A trio of edge AI developers have revealed new technologies that bring biometric storage and processing close to the place of application.
BrainChip unveils second-generation Akida platform
BrainChip Holdings Ltd. has announced the second generation of its Akida platform. It drives hyper-efficient and intelligent edge AIoT devices with advanced capabilities such as 8-bit processing, time domain convolutions and vision transformer acceleration.“We see an increasing demand for real-time, on-device intelligence in AI applications powered by our MCUs and the need to make sensors smarter for industrial and IoT devices,” says Roger Wendelken, the senior vice president in Renesas’ IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit.
Applications that can benefit from fast vision transformation include facial recognition and other biometrics.
Akida’s second-generation technology features Temporal Event Based Neural Nets (TENN) spatial-temporal convolutions, which can efficiently process raw time-continuous streaming data. The technology enables more straightforward implementations while providing high accuracy and a lower development cost and is suitable for use in industrial, automotive, digital health, smart home, and smart city applications.
Akida’s second generation also offers Vision Transformers (ViT) acceleration. This neural network excels in computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation, BrainChip says. Akida’s ability to process multiple layers simultaneously and hardware support for skip connections enables it to self-manage complex networks like RESNET-50 entirely within the neural processor without CPU intervention and reduces system load.
“With the addition of advanced temporal convolution and vision transformers, we can see how low-power MCUs can revolutionize vision, perception, and predictive applications in a wide variety of markets like industrial and consumer IoT and personalized healthcare, just to name a few,” says Wendelken.
M_C
Founding Member
I don't know about this particular use case, but ST micro i believe we are working with (based on my research)Could anyone with a respective tech background please comment on whether my layperson’s Akidaish gut feeling is justified or whether I am way off base? Ta!
PIR sensor for presence and motion detection in building automation
Highly integrated ultra-low power sensor with micromachined thermal transistors replaces conventional passive infrared detectors.
PIR sensor for presence and motion detection in building automation
New Products | July 25, 2023
By Jean-Pierre Joosting
SECURITY MOTION DETECTION PIR TMOS IOT
STMicroelectronics is launching a novel human-presence and -motion sensor/detector to enhance security systems, home-automation equipment, and IoT devices that typically use passive infrared (PIR) sensing.
The STHS34PF80 sensor contains thermal transistors that can detect stationary objects, unlike conventional PIR detectors that require the detected object to be moving to produce a measurable response from the sensor. Also, while PIRs need a Fresnel lens to sense moving objects, ST’s novel detector allows simpler, lens-free construction.
“Today’s smart homes, smart buildings, and IoT applications need accurate presence detection to improve control of systems such as lighting, heating, security, and safety monitoring for a sustainable future,” said Simone Ferri, General Manager, AMS MEMS Sub-Group, STMicroelectronics. “Our new STHS34PF80 is an economical, ultra-low-power sensor that lets building automation operate consistently whether detected occupants are moving or not. It’s made using an innovative combination of CMOS chip fabrication, silicon micromachining, and low-voltage circuit design capabilities.”
Embedding a smart algorithm for presence and motion detection, the STHS34PF80 targets alarms and security systems, home automation, smart lighting, IoT devices, smart lockers, and smart wall pads. Its lens-free range of four meters and 80° field of view cover a large area in front of the sensor. With operating current of 10 µA, power consumption is less than a conventional PIR, and the 3.2- x 4.2- x 1.455-mm surface-mount package is compact and suited to automated high-speed assembly. The sensor has high resistance to unwanted effects of direct lighting and high immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI).
The STEVAL-MKI231KA simplifies experimenting with the STHS34PF80. Plugging into the X-NUCLEO-IKS01A3 or the STEVAL-MKI109V3 lets developers use ST’s Unico-GUI graphical interface to configure the IR sensor and take measurements within a simplified workflow. Drivers for the STHS34PF80 are available on GitHub. In addition, a ready-to-use library for compensating and detecting presence of people or objects is available in the X-CUBE-MEMS1 software package. Users can quickly start running simple applications, taking advantage of the STHS34PF80 and testing the results to begin creating an application.
Thermal MOSFETs
The STHS34PF80 contains thermal MOSFETs (TMOS) that are sensitive to the heating effects of infrared radiation incident on their gates, as well as digital readout circuitry integrated efficiently on the same chip using ST’s mature and reliable silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. The SOI architecture facilitates micromachining with ST’s proven MEMS (micro electromechanical systems) processes to thermally isolate the TMOS for accurate temperature sensing.
The TMOS is powered at a sub-threshold voltage below that needed to turn the transistor fully on. In this mode, the drain-source current is highly temperature dependent and produces an accurately measurable response to minimal infrared radiation. This enables the sensor to detect human presence, via infrared emissions, whether the person is moving or still.
Another benefit of sub-threshold operation is that the transistor consumes very low power, allowing battery-powered sensors that contain the STHS34PF80 to operate for long periods between charging or battery replacement. In addition, the standard CMOS fabrication technology ensures cost-effective sensor production with high wafer yield, also leveraging sub-micron transistor geometry for small sensor dimensions. This contrasts with PIR sensors, whose sensitivity can depend on pyroelectric-pixel size. Moreover, the integrated digital interface allows direct connection to the host without analog front end circuitry.
The STHS34PF80 is in production now and available in a 10-lead land-grid array (LGA) package, priced from $2.60 for orders of 1000 pieces.
www.st.com
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Here is also a link to the company’s product page:
Opinion only DYOR
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Frangipani
Regular
Today happens to be the feast day of St James, the patron saint of Spain.
So Happy Name Day to all of you named James, Jacob, Jakob, Jakub, Jake, Jamie, Jim, Jimmy, Jacques, Giacomo, Jaime, Iago, Santiago, Tiago, Diego, Séamus, Hamish, Hēmi…
Chancing upon this 17th c Guido Reni painting of a scallop shell-less Saint James on the internet, I couldn’t help but picture a certain present-day unsaintly James praying fervently for the BRN share price not to ascend to heaven any time soon…
So Happy Name Day to all of you named James, Jacob, Jakob, Jakub, Jake, Jamie, Jim, Jimmy, Jacques, Giacomo, Jaime, Iago, Santiago, Tiago, Diego, Séamus, Hamish, Hēmi…
Chancing upon this 17th c Guido Reni painting of a scallop shell-less Saint James on the internet, I couldn’t help but picture a certain present-day unsaintly James praying fervently for the BRN share price not to ascend to heaven any time soon…
TasTroy77
Founding Member
Brainchip
I am alos on same boat looking for better deal not just electricity and gas but mobile and internet. On that note Electricity price rise and constant issue to produce one dont know how all the Electric vehicle will be chargedJust spent most of today wrangling with electricity company for a better deal than the notified upcoming almost 50% increase on the usage rates and 30% increase on the daily supply charge here in Victoria.
Managed a small reduction on my existing daily charge and only 25% usage rate increase.
Worth being a squeaky wheel sometimes.
Still getting screwed I'm sure, but at least have the illusion of a chicken dinner for my trouble.
I can open it mate. I'll take it down if no one else can
Teammate, opponent or other sport?
edgeimpulse.com
developer.nvidia.com
Edge Impulse takes NVIDIA TAO Toolkit pre-trained ML models to the Edge.
NVIDIA TAO models made on cloud GPUs, optimized for edge MCUs and MPUs.
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NVIDIA TAO Toolkit
Leverage the power of transfer learning to fine-tune NVIDIA pretrained models.
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Teammate: Great. Nvidia is warm in bed!Teammate, opponent or other sport?
Edge Impulse takes NVIDIA TAO Toolkit pre-trained ML models to the Edge.
NVIDIA TAO models made on cloud GPUs, optimized for edge MCUs and MPUs.
NVIDIA TAO Toolkit
Leverage the power of transfer learning to fine-tune NVIDIA pretrained models.
Opponent: Great. Validates a giant market for those who compete with Nvidia - makes BRN very attractive!
Other Sport: Hockey stick whipping the shorts!
IT’S COMING!
Sony-Honda Afeela EV will rely on Qualcomm's super chips
Sony Honda Mobility has devised a computer on wheels that can be personalized like a smartphone, socialize like a social media platform and make driving decisions like a human, but it won't work without powerful microchips from tech giant Qualcomm.
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