By delivering this family of COM-HPC modules in collaboration with ADLINK, we give these industries new choices for power efficient, high performance SystemReady design.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (PRWEB)
November 29, 2021

Summary:

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  ADLINK‘s unique 80-core Arm-based COM-HPC server type module sets a new standard ratio for edge performance to power. With up to 80 Arm v8.2 64-bit cores, up to 2.8GHz, and modest power demands at 175W TDP, users can reliably and predictably process compute-intensive workloads
• ADLINK has built an ultra-silent liquid cooled tower system based on the COM-HPC Ampere Altra module and its carrier, called the “AVA Developer Platform,” with 32-core by default. The COM-HPC Ampere Altra module also powers the “AVA-AP1,” a ruggedized vehicle prototyping platform with 80-core by default, developed in collaboration between ADLINK, Arm, and Ampere
• Both platforms host the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE), a new software initiative and reference implementation launched today by Arm, providing a cloud-native environment for embedded edge development

ADLINK Technology Inc., a global leader in edge computing, introduces the COM-HPC Ampere® Altra®, the world’s first 80-core COM-HPC server type module that eliminates power-performance limitations. The new server type module targets edge platforms that reliably and predictably process the most compute intensive workloads, eliminating bottlenecks and restrictions typically caused by memory caches and system memory limits on edge devices. The COM-HPC Ampere Altra core is an Ampere Altra SoC (system on a chip) using the Arm® Neoverse™ N1 architecture, providing premium performance within a relatively modest thermal envelope, lower TCO than x86 designs, and significantly lower power consumption.

The COM-HPC Ampere Altra delivers an unprecedented performance-power ratio of up to 80 Arm v8.2 64-bit cores running at up to 2.8GHz with only 175 watts. The COM-HPC Ampere Altra provides three PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes with a homogenous architecture and valuable compute power for demanding workloads, such as real-time/near real-time applications including autonomous driving, stationery and mobile robotics, medical imaging and robotic surgery, test and measurement, and video broadcasting. In addition, it is excellently suited as a native arm64 development and compilation system for lower power embedded arm64 designs.

“Ampere Altra delivers the scalable power and performance necessary to drive a variety of use cases in the embedded development community from autonomous vehicles to medical instrumentation and industrial robotics,” said Jeff Wittich, chief product officer of Ampere. “By delivering this family of COM-HPC modules in collaboration with ADLINK, we give these industries new choices for power efficient, high performance design. These can be applied whether in a vehicle or in the many edge devices out there that have had only x86 options to choose from in the past.”

“By teaming up with Ampere and Arm and using their Arm Neoverse N1-based Ampere Altra SoC, our high performance-per-watt COM-HPC Ampere Altra architecture allows our strategic partners and customers to process data intensive workloads at the edge without worrying about big upfront investments, hardware overheating, or ongoing maintenance costs,” says Alex Wang, ADLINK’s product manager of embedded boards and modules.

COM-HPC Ampere Altra supports the open source edk2 as bootloader with UEFI. Existing customers can just download a stock aarch64 (arm64) ISO such as Ubuntu and install it through booting a live ISO directly on the target. The same convenience we have become used to by using x86 / amd64 target systems.

COM-HPC Ampere Altra key features:

• Arm Neoverse N1-based architecture
• Scalable, from 32 to 80 Arm v8.2 64-bit cores (60 to 175 watts)
• 768GB DDR4 with 6 individual memory channels for demanding workloads
• 64x PCIe Gen4 lanes
• edk2 bootloader with TianoCore / UEFI
• Gigabit Ethernet support: 4x 10GbE and 1x GbE
• SOAFEE-compliant

Hardware reference platforms with the COM-HPC Ampere Altra module at its core

Arm today announced the launch of the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE) to accelerate the software-defined future of automotive. SOAFEE’s reference hardware platforms are ADLINK’s 32-core-default COM-HPC Ampere Altra-powered “AVA Developer Platform” which will be used by automakers to develop and test on Arm-based silicon, and the 80-core-default COM-HPC Ampere Altra-powered “AVA-AP1” for in-vehicle prototyping. Automakers are moving their vehicles from hundreds of simultaneous discrete ECUs, collapsing their in-vehicle compute architecture into a smaller number of powerful “domain controllers” with computer per major class of function (such as ADAS, infotainment) at first, to eventually one computer running all functions, with “mixed criticality” on a single powerful Arm SoC.

“ADLINK has found Ampere Altra to be the ideal solution for such a development platform for automakers to develop and test while waiting for their next generation IPs from silicon partners,” said Joe Speed, Field CTO, ADLINK. “The combination of SOAFEE, led by Arm, and ADLINK’s COM-HPC Ampere Altra-powered reference platforms brings cloud technologies and best practices for CI/CD, virtualization, and security to the developer’s desk and vehicles.”

Shipping of samples of the prototype system to key ecosystem partners is already in progress. ADLINK is taking pre-orders now. Find more information on the COM-HPC Ampere Altra module here and AVA Developer Platform’s support pages here.

About ADLINK Technology

ADLINK Technology Inc. (TAIEX:6166) leads edge computing, the catalyst for a world powered by artificial intelligence. ADLINK manufactures edge hardware and develops edge software for embedded, distributed, and intelligent computing – from powering medical PCs in the intensive care unit to building the world’s first high-speed autonomous race car – more than 1600 customers around the world trust ADLINK for mission-critical success. ADLINK holds top-tier edge partnerships with Intel, NVIDIA, AWS, and SAS, and also participates on the Intel Board of Advisors, ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee and Autoware Foundation Board. ADLINK contributes to open source, robotics, autonomous, IoT and 5G standards initiatives across 24+ consortiums, driving innovation in manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, defense, transportation and infotainment. For over 25 years, with 1800+ ADLINKers and 200+ partners, ADLINK enables the technologies of today and tomorrow, advancing technology and society around the world. Follow ADLINK Technology on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or visit adlinktech.com.

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AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
November 30, 2021

BP3 Global, an Austin, Texas based provider of intelligent automation services and solutions, today announced a significant investment agreement with Horizon Capital, a private equity investor specializing in technology and business services. The purpose of this investment is to accelerate BP3’s organic growth and acquisition strategy.

“The market for Intelligent Automation could not be in greater demand than it is right now. Staffing shortages and supply chain disruptions have only further increased the pressure to bring automation into every business” Said BP3 CEO, Scott Francis, “With this investment from Horizon, BP3 will have the opportunity to grow our business rapidly. Horizon is the perfect partner for our next phase; we knew we wanted to work with a firm that shared our obsession with client success and we believe we found that in Horizon Capital.”

With Horizon Capital’s $33 Million growth investment, BP3 plans further growth in the intelligent automation space with a particular focus on intelligent document processing, robotic process automation, and intelligent process automation. BP3 plans to expand into new markets to provide clients around the world with a more focus, more foresight, more follow-up approach to every engagement.

“We have spent several years researching the intelligent automation space and BP3 emerged as a clear leader for our investment thesis.” said Tom Maizels, Director at Horizon Capital. “BP3 has built a world class automation organization. We look forward to working hand in hand with the BP3 Global management team to grow the organization through targeted acquisitions and organic expansion.”

With this announcement Horizon Capital will appoint Simon Hitchcock, Managing Partner of Horizon Capital, and Thomas Maizels, Director at Horizon Capital, to the BP3 board of directors.

“We love that Horizon Capital shares our vision for delighting our clients every step of the way. We are looking forward to continuing to solve our clients biggest automation challenges and showing them ‘There’s a Faster Way to do that®’.” said BP3 CEO, Scott Francis

About BP3 Global, Inc.:

BP3 gives people faster ways to get things done. We streamline and automate the processes that drive everything from customer experience to employee productivity. To create more successful and lasting efficiencies BP3 brings more focus, more foresight, and more follow-up to every project. It is how we have achieved an unprecedented 99.9% success rate, and why some of the worlds more respected brands— such as Charter Communications, Keller Williams, and Eli Lilly — rely on BP3.

For more information about BP3 Global, Inc. please visit http://www.bp-3.com

About Horizon Capital

Horizon Capital is a private equity investor specialising in technology services buy and build transactions. The firm was formed in 2018 by a team of experienced investment professionals who had worked together for a number of years and identified a significant market opportunity to build a sector specialist focussed on high growth businesses of under £50m enterprise value.

The partnership prides itself on its approach to helping business owners and managers realise their ambitions. Buy and build is at the heart of every Horizon Capital investment and the firm is a market leader in supporting companies pursuing this strategy.

Horizon Capital has a proven track record of generating premium returns on investments which are underpinned by the firms value creation model. Horizon Capitals repeatable model consistently delivers accelerated growth in portfolio companies profitability both organically and through acquisition.

For more information, please visit http://www.horizoncapital.co.uk

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Netherlands in the USA

Our aim is to accelerate sustainable change in a wide range of fields, from climate change and clean energy, health and wellness, hyperloop and electric vehicles, data security and more.

AMSTERDAM (PRWEB)
November 23, 2021

Returning for their sixth consecutive year, The Kingdom of the Netherlands, today announced the delegation of 70 startups and scale-ups that will take part January 5 – 8 in the Netherlands (NL Tech) Pavilion at CES 2022, the global stage for innovation. The NL Tech Pavilions are dedicated spaces intended to foster collaboration, broker valuable partnerships and introduce groundbreaking NL tech solutions that solve global challenges across a wide berth of tech categories. For the sixth consecutive year, the Netherlands will showcase its tech solutions for a responsible future. Preview the CES 2022 NL Tech Pavilion companies here.

“The Netherlands is home to some of the world’s most forward-thinking technology innovators who are creating responsible tech solutions, products and services that will help shape the future in sustainability, circularity, IoT, digital health and more,” said Gary Shapiro, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® president and CEO. “We are honored to welcome them back to CES in 2022, and look forward to having them share their ideas and inspire an eager global audience.”

The 50 startups and 20 scale-ups feature companies solving global challenges including: sustainability and resilience, AI, robotics and quantum computing, health and wellness, smart cities and smart homes, smart mobility and vehicle tech, data security and big data. The Netherlands Startup Pavilion will be located in the Venetian Expo, downstairs in Eureka Park (Hall G, Booth 61928), and the Netherlands Scale-up Pavilion will be located upstairs in the Venetian Expo at (Halls A-C, Booth 50833).

“The Netherlands continues to pave the way and push boundaries by creating tech for a responsible future,” said HRH Prince Constantijn van Oranje, Special Envoy to Techleap.nl and the Netherlands. “Our aim is to accelerate sustainable change in a wide range of fields, from climate change and clean energy, health and wellness, hyperloop and electric vehicles, data security and more. CES offers an outstanding opportunity for our 70 Dutch start-ups and scale-ups to connect with like-minded tech entrepreneurs, expand their networks and create new business opportunities.”

The NL Tech Pavilion companies participating at CES 2022 include:

SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE:

• Blue Heart Energy: A thermoacoustic technology that radically improves the performance of heat pumps.
• Caeli: Worldwide air quality mapping and monitoring via satellites.
• Circularise: Facilitates a shift to a circular economy by digitising and tracing materials across complex supply chains on a public blockchain without risking confidentiality.
• Dayrize: A unique online consumer marketplace for sustainable products, with a mission to bring consumption within “planetary boundaries.”
• Expivi: Interactive 3D and AR for personalized e-Commerce. (Scaleup)
• Ferr-Tech: Sustainable and efficient wastewater treatment using Ferrate(VI), enabling reuse of water in industrial processes. (CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Hydraloop: Award-winning smart, decentralized, self-cleaning greywater recycling products for homes, office buildings, hotels, student housing, sports clubs and more. (Scaleup)
• iXora: A closed, immersive cooling module for data centers that ensures 20-30% power usage savings compared to traditional air-cooled racks.
• Incooling: Cooling down the planet, one server at a time.
• Leap: Allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it. Access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future.
• Nowi: A semiconductor company that specializes in the development of energy harvesting power management technology. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Ocean Grazer: Energy storage system for (offshore) wind farms and other renewable energy sources. (CES Innovation Award Winner)
• Orbisk: A fully automatic food waste monitor using AI image recognition that gives hotels, restaurants and cafés the ability to reduce food waste up to 50%.
• RanMarine Technology: WasteShark, a floating autonomous drone that cleans pollution from waterways and collects water quality data. (CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• SenseAnywhere: Temperature monitoring solutions for the pharmaceutical and food industries, including the safe distribution and storage of COVID-19 vaccines across Europe. (Scaleup)
• Tapp.online: Making paper smart and interactive by integrating sensors, printed batteries and microchips. 100% recyclable paper measures, remembers and transmits temperature, shocks and humidity data throughout the supply chain.
• TXTOmedia: Automatically transform an organization’s existing, text-based support content into dynamic how-to videos and interactive media at scale.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS:

• AirBliss+: The most comfortable, smart anti-pollution mask for consumers and businesses.
• Absolute Audio Labs: Powering high-definition audio hearing aids. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• AlphaBeats: An app that turns your smartphone or wearable device into a biosensor; AI-powered biofeedback signals enhance your favorite music — as you relax, music fidelity increases.
• CAREANIMATIONS: Solutions for comprehensible medical information that helps care providers to provide patients with easy-to-understand and tailored information to improve treatment adherence and self-management. (Scaleup)
• Crescent Medical: A head-camera built for, and with, surgeons that makes surgical live streaming easy. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Picoo: Picoo One is the first game console to play outside, providing screen-free and interactive gaming for children ages 6-12.
• Ivy Medical: A portable IV that allows patients free movement during their recovery.
• Jawsaver: Smart earbuds to stop teeth grinding and clenching.
• LifeSense Group: Digital health continence solutions using wearable sensors and smart textiles. (Scaleup)
• Light Tree Ventures: Lumaflex, the first flexible, powerful, red light panel created to aid in muscle recovery following training or to treat injuries and chronic pain.
• LoCoMoGo: The toy train that teaches children coding through play.
• Neurocast: True passive patient monitoring.
• Nostics: Instant, accessible and reliable testing for viruses and bacteria, including a three-minute Covid-19 test.
• PitchPerfect: A smart sensor for baseball pitchers that acts as a digital coach.
• PodoPrinter: SOLE, 3D-printed, flexible medical insoles.
• RetinaScope: A handheld, low cost retinal imaging device to empower AI-based screening for Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma and Age Related Macular Degeneration.
• Scentronix: Creating one-of-a-kind perfumes for every human. Algorithmic Perfumery is the AI-supported personalized perfume platform.
• Sencure: Enabling a new generation of medical wearables that are smaller and more accurate through chips and supporting technology.
• Steambox: The first self-heating lunchbox to use steam innovation and smart technology.
• Taem.io: Data driven team optimization.
• Tover: Evidence-based game-system that improves the quality of life of dementia patients. (Scaleup)
• TrueKinetix: Disrupting indoor sports using a patented robotics platform, enabling the best indoor experience of outdoor sports.

SMART CITIES AND SMART HOMES:

• insmart: A single platform for all HVAC devices that monitors from the consumer’s home and improves service engineer efficiency.
• PeopleFlows: Organize the flow of people using facial recognition to provide events with contactless control management and ensure Covid-19 measures.
• Tekle Holographics: Customized holographic solutions for enterprise. (Scaleup)
• Urban Mobility Systems: A developer and manufacturer of BEVs (battery electric vehicles) and electrification systems for construction equipment enabling zero-emission transport and construction. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• VideowindoW: Transform any glass surface into a transparent video display for dynamic glare control. (CES Innovation Award Winner)

SMART MOBILITY AND VEHICLE TECH:

• Brekr: Model B, a highly customizable electric bike with a classic, rugged design.
• Hardt Hyperloop: A world where distance does not matter — a 10,000 kilometer hyperloop network crossing national borders. (Scaleup)
• Routescanner: Routescanner, the first global platform that provides insight into all routes for worldwide container transport and helps users to find, compare and choose the best options.
• E-LIFT: Smart and sustainable charging solutions. E-Lift’s charging stations can be linked to any other smart hardware device or software solution.

5G AND INTERNET OF THINGS:

• Addoptics: Micron accurate and nanometer smooth 3D printing for high precision optical products.
• Capte: IOT monitoring for the transportation industry. Now public and private bussing companies can make use of their mixed fleet effectively.
• Dimenco: Simulated Reality – interacting with 3D objects in a virtual environment, without the need of any wearables. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• EZ Factory: A simple, visual software platform for factories to digitize procedures and improve safety and efficiency on the shop floor.
• Hiber: The world’s first global IoT satellite network to help it to deliver cost-effective, easy-to-use products, including HiberHilo for oil and gas well integrity monitoring, and HiberEasypulse for asset tracking and fleet monitoring. (Scaleup)
• Hyfen: Connecting the pension industry on a secure and efficient platform.
• InPhocal: A unique, concentric laser beam that reduces the need for ink and is 2.5 times faster than printing. (CES Innovation Award Honoree)

AI, ROBOTICS AND QUANTUM COMPUTING:

• Avular: Ready-to-fly drones and ready-to-drive rovers using a modular robot ‘brain’ and reconfigured modular robot platforms that allow companies to quickly and efficiently develop new mobile robots. (Scaleup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• BrainCreators: Digital Inspectors that reduce cost and improve consistency at an unrivaled speed. Human inspectors can now train their digital counterparts on our award-winning AI-powered software. (Scaleup)
• EdgeLeap: Smart AI assistants working along with you to surface business relevant insights.
• Datacadabra: Digital intelligence that enables you to work more efficiently. (Scaleup)
• DeltaProto: Builders of the best pick-and-place cobot (collaborative robot) for proto PCB assembly in the world.
• Lalaland.ai: AI-fashion models with real emotions. e-Commerce brands can make their models as diverse and one-of-a-kind as their target audience.
• LioniX International: A leading global provider of customized microsystem solutions specializing in integrated photonics and customized MEMS devices. (Scaleup)
• Mission Control Lab: The creators of Inventure Kits (invention + adventure), educational STEAM boxes with all of the materials inside.
• Morphotonics: Develops and sells roll-to-plate (R2P) OEM production technology for imprinting nano- or microstructures on extremely large area substrates. (CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• QuiX Quantum: Integrated photonics for optical quantum computing.
• SenseGlove: Force and haptic feedback gloves that enable professionals to physically interact with virtual objects for VR training and research purposes. (Scaleup)

DATA SECURITY AND BIG DATA:

• Prowise: Touchscreens and instructional, adaptive AI software packages for education, business and government.
• Red Kubes: A full platform experience for Kubernetes with an intuitive desktop-like user interface and ready to use pre-configured built-in applications to offer an out-of-the-box experience. (Scaleup)
• Roseman Labs: Creates new data business models that transform how organizations handle sensitive data, with unprecedented compliance, privacy and rapid deployment. (CES Innovation Award Honoree)

Interested media and analysts, please contact NLatCES2022@wearemgp.com to schedule an interview before or during CES 2022.

About The Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Netherlands strives to solve societal and economic challenges with local and international partners. A highly innovative country, The Netherlands ranks fourth on the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index, sixth on the Global Innovation Index, and Amsterdam is the number three startup ecosystem in Europe. As a trading nation, it has continuously ranked as one of the top four foreign investors in the US for multiple years. More than 825K jobs in the United States are the result of the strong economic relations with the Netherlands. Learn more at http://www.NLintheUSA.com

Through Holland in the Valley, the Dutch ecosystem in the Bay Area, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco empowers Dutch entrepreneurs and talent to innovate and scale in the US by offering a network, content and programs.

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“Our goal is to build solutions aimed at making life easier – PeopleOne is the solution that ticks all the boxes. This award is testimony to the core values behind the PeopleOne solution.”

DALLAS (PRWEB)
November 22, 2021

Impiger Technologies’  PeopleOne digital workplace engagement solution has been awarded the 2021 Tech Cares Award by TrustRadius, based on TrustRadius community nominations and user reviews. 

TrustRadius has recognized Impiger’s efforts for going above and beyond to support its communities, and stepping up to take an active role in the recovery of communities around the world who were struggling in the aftermath of the 2020 Pandemic.

The final 100 recipients of the award were chosen after considering companies’ volunteering, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, charitable donations, fundraising, and workplace culture, including model support for in-office and remote employees.

Jude Ramayya, the CEO, Impiger Technologies, states, “Our goal is to build solutions aimed at making life easier – PeopleOne is the solution that ticks all the boxes. This award is testimony to the core values behind the PeopleOne solution.”

The PeopleOne platform is the perfect solution for organizations to deploy for a highly collaborative and efficient workplace. The UI, both for web and mobile apps, is simple and virtually self-explanatory. In addition, with its creative, engaging, and productive features, PeopleOne has elevated employee engagement to new heights where an employee can work at optimal efficiency even in a remote work environment.

About Impiger Technologies

Impiger Technologies is a leading Digital Transformation Solution Provider based out of Dallas, TX, digitally transforming businesses with Digital Solutions in Mobile, Cloud, Web, IoT, AR, RPA, and AI Technologies. We have been in the tech services industry for more than 17 years and have provided services for more than 400 clients across multiple industries, including but not limited to Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, Healthcare, and Finance. We’ve brought more than 1000 creative, cutting-edge digital solutions to life for our clients across a range of technologies – iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, AWS, Azure, SharePoint, Drupal, WordPress, and so on. We’re here to help your business achieve today’s goals and tomorrow’s vision.

About TrustRadius

TrustRadius is a reputable business technology review site that doubles as an online community for member companies to provide in-depth reviews of various business softwares and technologies that they have used. Since 2016, the TrustRadius Awards have been the industry standard for unbiased recognition of B2B technology products.

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Nexcopy Lock License Flash Drive Counters USB Cyber Threats

The Lock License approach gives the user complete control on when the USB becomes writable. This means a user can perform all the scans and testing required before allowing the device to become writable.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 22, 2021

Nexcopy Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced flash memory solutions, introduces Lock License USB flash drives which serve as a valuable tool to combat against USB cyber threats.

USB flash drives can be a significant security threat to both consumers and organizations and pose a serious problem for those trying to protect their computers and networks.

USB flash drives are read / write devices by default and the write capability is a fundamental way malware can spread from computer system to computer system. The Nexcopy Lock License technology works fundamentally different than all other USB flash drives. The default state of a Lock License drive is write protected, or said another way read-only.

It is important to understand how a virus interacts with a USB device to fully appreciate the above sentence.

A virus designed to spread via USB has two main goals:

1) Spread any way possible via USB connectivity

2) Remain undetected as long as possible.

Because a virus is trying to stay undetected the malware will ping any USB device connected upon power up. Once the virus identifies if the USB device is unusable, the virus will go back into hibernation. For example, if a USB mouse is connected the virus quickly determines this is a HID device (Human Input Device) and does not have memory for the virus to spread it’s code. However, a virus will ping a USB flash drive and quickly determine it is read/write and will insert it’s code onto the USB flash memory.

Greg Morris, President of Nexcopy comments, “With a Lock License USB flash drive, the device is always write protected. This default state of the flash drive means a virus will identify the USB as read only, leave it alone, and got back into hibernation. Malware does not re-examine devices because the more active a virus is, the more likely the virus will be detected.”

The Lock License approach gives the user complete control on when the USB becomes writable. This means a user can perform all the scans and testing required before allowing the device to become writable.

The old ways of how a virus writes itself onto a USB flash drive is gone, because the Lock License USB is read only.

Content on a Lock License drive can be read from any computer or system at any time. However, a Lock License drive will become writable when an encrypted password is entered to remove the write protection.

Morris continues, “The default state of a Lock License drive returns when power is cut from the device, said another way, when the USB is removed from the host computer. There is no requirement to re-lock the drive, the process is automatic. This fundamental design change means a user will never forget to set the write protection of a Lock License USB drive.

The Nexcopy Lock License USB flash drive has the following features:

#Default state of drive is read-only, a.k.a write protected

#User defines when device becomes writable

#Writenable function is password protected

#Assign unique password to every device

#Write protect state returns automatically when device is disconnected

#Free command line utility for custom applications

#This is a hardware solution so cannot be hacked or manipulated

#Many body styles and colors available

#Available in USB 2.0 and 3.0 technology and ranging from 2GB through 128GB capacities

Stan McCrosky, head of Sales, comments, “This simple configuration change in our manufacturing process creates a game changing way users and corporations can fight back against USB cyber threats. Without the USB device being writable, it is impossible for a virus to spread to the device.”

The Oxford swivel style flash drive is the in-stock media Nexcopy carries for same day printing and shipping. Nexcopy inventories USB 2.0 media of 2GB and 4GB capacity and in stock USB 3.0 media of 8GB, 16GB, 32Gb, 64GB and 128GB capacities. The in-stock Oxford media is a black body with white swivel clip with full color printing via the Nexcopy Logo-EZ USB flash drive printer.

Product Information:

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https://www.nexcopy.com/downloads/lock_license_video.mp4

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This is another important step in engendering public trust and confidence in the testing and deployment of automated vehicles. – Amy Chu, Director of AVSC

WARRENDALE, Pa. (PRWEB)
November 18, 2021

The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium™ (AVSC) today announced the availability of a new best practice titled, Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving System Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs). The new guidelines integrate the AVSC’s Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and best practice for Operational Design Domain (ODD) to provide a framework for manufacturers to evaluate the behavioral competency of automated vehicles.

“As automated driving system testing advances, it is important that manufacturers communicate information about the safety of their vehicles in a consistent way, while still using testing protocols specific to their systems and ODDs,” said Amy Chu, director of the AVSC. “With the framework in our new best practice, manufacturers can evaluate the safety performance of their vehicles based on an elemental set of behavioral competencies such as maintaining proper lane position or responding appropriately in work zones. Linking behavioral competencies to a key set of scenarios for a given ODD provides relevant evidence for ADS safety performance and increases confidence in the safety performance of an AV.”

The new best practice provides an approach to specify testable AV behavior by:

•     Clarifying a lexicon surrounding automated vehicle behaviors,
•     Enumerating an elemental set of behaviors, and
•     Demonstrating how to derive metrics to evaluate AV behavioral competence.

Real-world driving involves complex interactions among numerous systems. In order to evaluate as many ADS subtasks within the DDT as possible, developers align them to a generalized set of behaviors. Developers then use system engineering techniques to map these behaviors to an elemental set of behavioral competencies. In other words, competence is considered as a collection of behaviors that cover a context-relevant and predictable part of the broader driving task. Proficiency across a set of behavioral competencies provides directional indication of the ADS-DV safety performance. For example, in the context of driving on a highway while maintaining a lane and approaching another vehicle, the ADS-DV would be expected to keep a safe distance, maintain the speed limit, and monitor the behavior of the vehicle in front of it while preparing to react if the scenario changes.

Human driver tests evaluate candidates against a small number of tasks which represent driving across a variety of different, related scenarios. Although human driving tests reflect a person’s ability to execute key driving tasks and knowledge of driving law, they do not reflect a human’s driving skill in every situation.

“Providing a framework for manufacturers to link behavioral competencies to key scenarios provides evidence for ADS safety performance that manufacturers can use to build their case for safety. This is another important step in engendering public trust and confidence in the testing and deployment of automated vehicles,” added Chu.

For more information about the AVSC, visit avsc.sae-itc.org.

The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium™ (AVSC) is an industry program of SAE Industry Technologies Consortia® (SAE ITC) building on principles that will inform and help lead to industrywide standards for advancing automated driving systems. The members of this consortium have long been focused on the development of safe, reliable and high-quality vehicles, and are committed to applying these same principles to SAE Level 4 and Level 5 automated vehicles so communities, government entities and the public can be confident that these vehicles will be deployed safely.

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC®) is an affiliate of SAE International. The SAE ITC team specializes in establishing and managing consortia by providing proven processes, tools and resources. SAE ITC enables public, private, academic and government organizations to connect and collaborate in neutral, pre-competitive forums thus empowering the setting and implementation of strategic business improvements in highly engineered industries globally. http://www.sae-itc.com.

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Nanotech Energy, the world’s leading manufacturer of graphene and the only producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries on the market

Building safer batteries is critical for the future of energy storage. Our proprietary, non-flammable lithium-ion batteries are infinitely safer and higher performing than the industry status quo, and to be recognized for these accomplishments at CES 2022, is a significant honor.

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
November 18, 2021

Nanotech Energy, the leading producer of high-performance, graphene-based energy storage, today announced that its non-flammable Graphene-Organolyte™ batteries have been named a CES® 2022 Innovation Award Winner in the Sustainability, Eco-Design & Smart Energy category. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, the CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in 27 consumer technology product categories. Awards are given out in advance of CES 2022, the world’s most influential consumer technology event, which takes place January 5-8, 2021 in Las Vegas. An elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers and more, reviewed a record 1800+ submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetic and design. A full list of the CES 2022 Innovation Award winners, including product descriptions and photos, can be found at CES.tech/innovation.

Additionally, Nanotech Energy is the only producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries on the market — batteries that enable a future and realize graphene’s potential to create real-world benefits, from safer, more cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly personal electronic devices to creating a more efficient way to harness renewable energy. Nanotech Energy’s proprietary electrolyte, Graphene-Organolyte, is not only stable and non-flammable — it’s also made from inexpensive materials and is easy to manufacture. During a press conference held in Reno, Nevada earlier in November, the company announced a new state-of-the-art production facility to increase manufacturing capacity for the U.S. and other markets, in support of Nanotech Energy’s exponential international expansion.

“Imagine a world where your smartphone charges in just seconds. And then imagine that instead of traditional lithium-ion batteries that lose their charge very quickly, you’re able to use long-lasting energy storage systems that can last three times longer on a single charge and are also extremely safe. That’s just a snapshot of a world charged by Nanotech Energy’s batteries,” said Jack Kavanaugh, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Nanotech Energy. “Building safer batteries is critical for the future of energy storage. Our proprietary, non-flammable lithium-ion batteries are infinitely safer and higher performing than the industry status quo, and to be recognized for these accomplishments at CES 2022, the world’s largest product technology showcase, is a significant honor.”

Key Product Facts:

1.    Higher performance: Nanotech Energy’s proprietary non-flammable graphene-based battery technology demonstrated more than 1400 cycles (nearly 10 years) of use for 80% cut-off, compared to a traditional lithium-ion battery’s 300-500 cycles (about two to three years). Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, Nanotech Energy’s batteries also maintain performance even during extreme weather (-40°C to +60°C / -40°F to +140°F), and decrease charge times significantly. Additionally, Nanotech Energy batteries can enable electric cars to achieve a range of more than 400 miles and operate in extreme weather conditions (heat or cold).

2.    Safer: In tests, traditional lithium-ion batteries catch fire immediately when penetrated, reaching extreme temperatures of nearly 750⁰C (1382⁰F). Nanotech Energy batteries vent some fumes with a maximum observed temperature of 100⁰C, but are not flammable and do not ignite. They also hold their charge at temperatures as high as 356°F (180°C), while commercial batteries discharge their energy at nearly 230°F (110⁰C). Thermal stability is critical to preventing thermal runaway, which causes battery fires, providing a promising solution to the long-standing safety problems of lithium-ion batteries.

3.    Sustainable: Traditional lithium-ion batteries are not sustainable. They have their own sustainability issues due to the lack of effective methods for recycling the valuable metals (such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium) that constitute the battery at the end of its life. Graphene is an abundant resource that can be produced more ethically and sustainably. Graphene also enables the use of less metals in battery manufacture, making the recycling of lithium-ion batteries more sustainable. Traditional lithium-ion batteries last 300-500 cycles (about two to three years); Nanotech Energy’s proprietary non-flammable graphene-based battery technology demonstrated more than 1400 cycles (nearly 10 years), with options for more sustainable models that are easily recycled. Additionally, by extending the lifetime of the battery from two to three years to more than ten years, Nanotech Energy’s batteries promise to produce more sustainable energy storage systems due to the use of fewer batteries.

Nanotech Energy will showcase its award-winning products in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES 2022 in Las Vegas and will participate as an exhibitor in Eureka Park at the Venetian Expo, Booth #633339. Contact sales@nanotechenergy.com to schedule a meeting. A media kit is available here.

About Nanotech Energy

Nanotech Energy is on a mission to bring transformative, graphene-based, energy storage products from the research lab to the mass market. Our very high surface area, single layer graphene material is already being used in multiple applications, including non-flammable batteries, transparent conducting electrodes, conductive inks, printed electronics, conductive epoxy, antistatic coatings and EMI (electromagnetic interference) shielding.

Founded in 2014 by Dr. Jack Kavanaugh and noted UCLA scientists, Dr. Richard Kaner and Dr. Maher El-Kady, Nanotech Energy is headquartered in Los Angeles and is a privately held company backed by Multiverse Investment Fund, Fubon Financial Group and other strategic investors. Learn more at https://nanotechenergy.com.

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