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Call to celebrate inspirational women engineers on International Women’s Day 2021

Three outstanding women celebrated nationally as Young Woman Engineers of the Year

World Engineering Day 2021 celebrates launch of new UNESCO report: Engineering for Sustainable Development

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EPDT March 2021 issue (inc. Displays & Communications features + EMS Outsourcing supplement) now available online

How LoRa opens up new opportunities in industrial IoT

- Silent motor start-up: Reducing noise in sensorless field-oriented motor control – even at low speed (01/03/2021)
  
  The move to electrically commutated motors has brought about significant energy savings & reduced maintenance demands compared to brushed motors. However, without the mechanical brush-ring combination to provide a commutation point, motor drive developers must resort to alternative commutation approaches.
- Learn how Smart Sensors can be made smarter (17/02/2021)
  
  Swindon Silicon Systems, a Sensata Technologies company, is looking forward to meeting you at the upcoming embedded world Exhibition & Conference (March 1-5), which is a completely digital event this year due to COVID-19. Register to visit Swindon Silicon Systems at embedded world 2021 at www.embedded-world.de/voucher using the code ew21456902
- Electrocomponents partners with Engineers Without Borders to put global responsibility high on the engineering agenda (09/02/2021)
  
  Electrocomponents backs the Engineering for People Design Challenge, boosting efforts to ensure young engineers prioritise sustainable & equitable design.
- Editor's comment: CES 2021 & what it holds for the electronics industry... (03/02/2021)
  
  As I write this column for EPDT's February issue in the first weeks of the new year, as usual, I’m following all the innovation being shown off at CES & thinking about what the coming year holds for our industry. While this year’s CES was, of course, a very different affair, it still offers a valuable insight into what consumers can expect from the electronics industry in the year ahead...
- Data collected from IoT devices will breed next new ‘Uber’ or ‘Netflix’, predicts report (28/01/2021)
  
  New report outlines 10 emerging IoT trends to watch in 2021, driven by the effect of the pandemic. It predicts that IoT data is set to unlock significant innovation over the coming years, as data insights move from digital to physical interactions, with the mining of vast new sources of data resulting from user interactions with ‘things’, rather than digital services.
- Tech for Good Awards: nominations open to recognise innovation that inspires & drives positive social or environmental change (25/01/2021)
  
  A new awards programme launched today will recognise & champion the organisations & individuals harnessing technology to achieve social, environmental, humanitarian & other positive contributions for public & planetary good.
- Health Tech 2.0, latest Women of Wearables conference, supported by Mouser (25/01/2021)
  
  Electronics distributor, Mouser is working in partnership with the organisation Women of Wearables by sponsoring its latest conference, Health Tech 2.0, to be held on Thursday 28th of January.
- Fingerprints celebrates 500 mobile device models integrations landmark (21/01/2021)
  
  Major milestone reflects mature & central role of biometrics in smartphones & mobile devices.
- CES 2021: World’s first hearing aid with on-board deep neural network scores two wins at CES 2021 Innovation Awards (18/01/2021)
  
  The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has named Oticon More an award winner in its prestigious CES 2021 Innovation Awards. The world’s first hearing aid with an on-board deep neural network (DNN) received honours in both the highly competitive Health & Wellness and Wearable Technologies categories.

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