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StoreDot to develop a 2-minute of charge battery

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 StoreDot Company, the developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, has revealed its development roadmap of the company for the next decade. Within this roadmap, the company stated that by 2032 it will be capable of mass producing of a 100-mile of range on a 2-minute charge battery. Current company’s battery, 100-mile of range on a 5-minute charge, will be delivered by the end of 2024.

Another milestone at the company’s roadmap is a 100-mile of range on a 3-minute charge battery, delivered by 2028. The progress in the roadmap is involved in a gradual transition to a solid-state battery. With this type batteries the electrolyte, through which the ions pass in the loading-unloading process between the electrodes, is made of solid material and not liquid or polymer-gel. The 2028 version will be semi-solid state, while the final 2032 battery will be full solid-state.    

Solid state batteries are an objective of the whole automotive industry. Such batteries should be safer and have a larger capacity, and therefore allow for a greater driving range. The challenge is to develop a solid material that will be stable at the one hand, and with high conductance rate at the other hand.

Dr Doron Myersdorf, StoreDot CEO, says: “It’s absolutely crucial that we give global automotive manufacturers a clear and realistic roadmap. Each milestone at our roadmap represents a radical 20% performance improvement – a major impact on the driver’s experience”.

Ultra-fast charging of EV’s batteries

StoreDot has developed the FlashBattery technology, allowing Li-ion batteries to be charged in only several minutes. This technology is based on NanoDots particles, each at the size of 2 nanometers, characterized by high capacity and integrated in the electrolytic liquid within the battery.

In early 2021, StoreDot has produced the pilot production batch of EV batteries in a plant of the Chinese battery manufacturer Eve Energy. These batteries were used to demonstrate full charge of a two-wheeled EV in just five minutes.

ASTERRA, IsraAID & GBUC Partner to Achieve Sustainable Water Goals in The Bahamas

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When Hurricane Dorian ravaged The Bahamas in 2019, clean water and sanitation were scarce. An Israeli-funded humanitarian organization, IsraAID, was on the front lines providing emergency response. IsraAID worked together with the Grand Bahama Utility Company (GBUC) to develop a water program for Grand Bahama. They called upon ASTERRA to provide the information and tools to make the new program sustainable, by using satellites to detect drinking water leaks underground utilizing their patented and award-winning Recover product.

NASA satellite images show Dorian thrashing Grand Bahama for nearly 40 hours as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in modern record. Over 70,000 people were left homeless, and few areas had running water or electric power. The hurricane raised the sea level by six meters, leaving 60% of the island surface covered by ocean water. The 20-foot surge of seawater and flooding, which sat for 3 days, destroyed the entire vertical infrastructure including pumping stations, utility poles, wires, electrical components, and control and motoring systems. GBUC’s freshwater aquifer, which was a high quality, abundant, and reliable supply of pristine drinking water for island, was severely compromised and impacted.

Together with IsraAID’s Anton Driz, an expert in integrated water resource management, a plan was put in place to desalinate the water using reverse osmosis. While this creates a reliable water supply, it consumes energy, and the water comes at increased costs. When leaks occur in the distribution system, those leaks are expensive. This is where ASTERRA products became a critical part of the water plan in Grand Bahama.

“The survey showed that 40% of the desalinated water was leaking back to ground water,” said Driz. “Desalination is expensive, particularly when there are leaks. Every gallon costs more, and this is an unsustainable cost. We knew ASTERRA would help quickly address water leaks and set them up for the future.”

Locating leaks in Grand Bahama’s pipelines was easy with ASTERRA’s Recover satellite aperture radar (SAR) product. Grand Bahama received reports showing the areas of probable leaks were contained within 14 kilometers—just 5% of the system. Once investigated and confirmed, ASTERRA Recover identified over three times more leaks every day than previously used detection methods.

Following the completion of GBUC’s $5 million reverse osmosis (RO) installation last month, they conducted a 30-day testing and commissioning process to ensure that the system was functioning adequately and at the specifications prescribed by the World Health Organization for potable water. Philcher Grant, GBUC and Public Affairs Chief Operating Officer stated, “Grand Bahamians and residents have experienced and overcome numerous challenges since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the island back in September 2019. Since then, our team has worked tirelessly with many partners including ASTERRA and we are grateful for their contribution which will help us to ensure that our customers have a reliable, potable water supply for years to come.” On December 13, 2021, the Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited (GBPA), the regulatory authority with responsibility for utility regulation in Freeport, declared that GBUC now provides potable water to 100% of Grand Bahama residents.

“We have both a social and an economic responsibility to prevent and solve problems like what occurred in Grand Bahama,” said Ionatan Ascher, LATAM Spain & Portugal Sales Manager for ASTERRA. “One of the sub targets of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) is smart water systems management. ASTERRA technology makes it easy to monitor and manage water systems by using our patented algorithm to detect treated water underground from satellite data. This helps locate, monitor, and resolve leaks in the pipelines.”

ASTERRA (formerly Utilis) provides data-driven solutions for water utilities, government agencies, and the greater infrastructure industry. ASTERRA products use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from satellites and turns this data into large-scale decision support tools. The company’s proprietary algorithms and highly educated scientists and engineers are the key to their mission, to deliver actionable intelligence to advance Earth’s resource resilience.

Since 2017, ASTERRA technology has been used in over 59 countries, saving over 169,280 million gallons of potable water, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 108,339 metric tons, and saving 423,200 MWH of energy, all in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. ASTERRA is headquartered in Israel with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. Their innovative data solutions are used in multiple verticals around the globe. ASTERRA is investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to bring their products to the next level.

[Pictured above: Eli Peretz. Photographrr: Mical Bendek]

OpTeamizer will train European customers of NVIDIA

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Yokneam based OpTeamizer, which provides solutions and consultation to AI R&D centers in Israel, has been selected by NVIDIA to provide consulting services to its customers in Europe, assist the company’s technology management, and consult companies on projects based on NVIDIA processors.

OpTeamizer was founded in 2015 by Tomer Gal, one of Israel’s leading AI experts, who participated in strategic developments of Intel Israel and General Electric Israel. Tomer, who has an M.Sc. in Computer Science in software optimization, is a member of the Israel Innovation Authority that evaluates grant applications by AI startups and a lecturer in artificial intelligence at the Software Engineering Department of ORT Braude College of Engineering.

In 2018, NVIDIA appointed OpTeamizer as its first Service Delivery Partner in Israel and the Middle East. OpTeamizer is accredited to train the industry in using NVIDIA’s GPU processors, to accelerate system performance and perform artificial intelligence development. The company is also a consulting services provider for companies that adopt GPU solutions when entering the world of AI.

Following the appointment, OpTeamizer provided a range of trainings and consultation services to more than 80 R&D centers of Israeli companies and multinationals operating in the country. Its customers include defense systems, healthcare, inspection systems, and other hi-tech companies. Tomer Gal and his team help companies migrate from CPU to the massively parallel GPU, accelerate the performance of new GPU systems, develop AI and neural network models, optimize neural networks, and select the relevant hardware for deployment.

OpTeamizer, which currently has 20 employees, trains developers at the R&D centers on NVIDIA’s development tools for the GPU environment and offers courses on CUDA C++, CUDA Python, CUDA for multiple GPUs, Deep learning for computer vision, and Deep learning for multiple data types.

The pending launch of the Jetson Orin AI Computer in 2022 signals a further upgrade in OpTeamizer’s unique status in NVIDIA technologies. Recently, the company has been appointed partner with the status of NVIDIA Jetson Partner for the European market, in addition to the Israeli market. It will provide development, consulting, and training services for European customers of NVIDIA, targeting the Jetson Orin platform.

OpTeamizer founder and CEO Tomer Gal says: “NVIDIA’s new Jetson Orin AI Computer will offer edge devices 6x times the performance improvement over the current generation. We will help top Israeli and European companies obtain optimal performance across a wide range of markets that have immense potentials, such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, drones, robotics, smart carts, and more.”

Tomer adds: “The strategy NVIDIA applies via a partner who specializes in its technologies helps companies enter the fast lane to the world of AI. These developments disrupt numerous markets and make such companies global pioneers. OpTeamizer skills and services will assist in implementing the latest NVIDIA technologies in the European market, setting the path for the creation of disruptive AI applications.”

Windward launched a solution for maritime container tracking

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Nowadays, majority of the global supply chain scene is taking place in the sea. Estimations are that around 90% of the global trade volume is lead by the shipping industry. In the last two years, the maritime supply chain has experienced a significant storm. On the one hand, the COVID-19 crisis has led to traffic restrictions and even closure of ports, and on the other hand the international trade volume has increased by 1,500%. In addition, the current crisis in Ukraine is threatening to disrupt maritime traffic, as some shipping companies have already announced they halt shipments to Russia. 

These factors create bottlenecks and huge delays in the arrival of transport ships to their destination. According to the data, only 30%-40% of the shipments reach their destination in the undertaken time. The uncertainty and the low reliability of arrival times make it very difficult to operate, and also disrupt risk management of companies along the supply chain – starting from exporters and shipping companies, to end customers and financial bodies such as banks and insurance companies. 

Windward Company from Israel, founded in 2010, has developed an AI based technology that provides information regarding global vessel traffic. Windward’s platform integrates data from various sources such as digital information systems of the global maritime trade, vessel’s ownership structure, company’s history, location details provided by AIS (Automatic Identification System), weather condition data, ports’ capacity and more. All this data is integrated in order to provide a snapshot regarding the current location of the ship at any given moment, and to also generate an AI-based forecast regarding expected ETA. Currently, without this system, it is required to ask the shipper for the vessel’s location, and as said – most data regarding arrival times is not reliable.   

Container level monitoring

Ami Daniel [pictured above], CEO and co-founder of Windward estimates in a conversation with Techtime that the current crisis is not going to disappear. “The current crisis is the result of a combination of factors, not all of them derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the one hand, there are more shipments, while at the other hand infrastructure upgrades are not keeping up with the increasing volume. Larger ships have been built, docks at the ports were expanded, but the infrastructure that handles all the goods has not made the leap – starting from the amount of cranes and tugs in the ports to trucks and trains that supposed to transport the goods to the end customer”. 

Windward, which started to be traded on the London Stock Exchange last year, has around 80 clients, to include government companies, energy companies, shipping companies, exporters and financial bodies such as banks and insurance companies that use the system as an instrument for pricing insurance policies. The company lately announced the launch of a new solution, which provides the ability to track the global maritime trade traffic at even a higher resolution – the container level, and not only the ship.

The system, Ocean Freight Visibility, is based on the container number that is included in the Bill of Lading (BOL). Using this number, it is possible to track the container’s location and to alert at real time regarding delays, which allows for the operator to take action in front of its customer. The technology provides daily insights and alerts through emails, and is also capable of being integrated with existing organizational IT systems.

According to the company, the solution is based on analyzing billions of data and databases points from various sources, in order to produce insights and forecasts for the shipping company, and to also provide a complete view of the supply chain. Daniel: “Maritime shippers are the key to effective supply chain, but without the suitable tools they are positioned as responders, as opposed to proactively initiate actions in order to manage predicted faults”.

 

CEVA’s 5G IP modem reveals New Industrial Mega-trends

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The provider of IP solutions for semiconductors, CEVA, announced the availability of PentaG2, its second generation IP modems platform for 5G networks. But unlike the first generation, PentaG2 is planned to answer the needs of a mature 5G industry characterized by well defined use cases and much detailed standards.

VP Marketing at CEVA, Moshe Sheier, told Techtime that the first generation of PentaG was heavily relied on Software Defined Radio, since the industrial standards were not yet finalized. “The latest releases of 3GPP 5G NR standards provides stable ground for new systems and allowed us replace many software defined accelerators with hardware ones, thus improving performance and reducing power consumption.”

PentaG2 includes a complete set of programmable accelerators and coprocessors, including Bit Modulation Unit (Tx), Bit Demodulation Unit (Rx), Equalizer and MAC engine co-processor Unit, Decoder/Encode as well as HARQ, MLD, Multi-radix DFT and more. The platform also includes a scalar DSP for PHY control, hardware acceleration scheduling, and running the protocol stack. All accelerators come with standard AXI interfaces for ease of integration.

“5G is not all about Smartphones”

PentaG2 platforms will initially be offered in two configurations: PentaG2-Max that is able to efficiently process the immense workloads required for 3GPP releases 16 and 17, and PentaG2-Lite for reduced capacity use cases, including LTE Cat1 and future 3GPP Rel-17/18 NR RedCap (Reduced Capacity, aka NR-Lite). “5G today is not all about smartphones, there are new established use cases including smart home, Industrial IoT, Wearable and more that connects 5G networks but can use smaller, chipper and lower performance chips.”

 

Former CEO of Porsche Digital joins Arbe

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Arbe Robotics announced that Thilo Koslowski has been named to its Board of Directors. Koslowski previously served as the founder and CEO of Porsche Digital GmbH, where he built a digital foundation and capabilities for one of the world’s most iconic brands. “Thilo Koslowski is well-recognized for developing strategies, partnerships, and innovative product concepts that set benchmarks in the automotive industry,” said Arbe Chief Executive Officer, Kobi Marenko.

At Porsche Digital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG, Koslowski created the foundation for the automaker’s digital transformation. His responsibilities included building digital products, processes, and business models, and building the digital ecosystem. Earlier in his career, Koslowski founded and served as VP of automotive/smart mobility practice at Gartner Inc.

Arbe provides 4D Imaging Radar Chipset Solutions for safe driver-assist systems and future full autonomous driving. According to the company, its imaging radar is 100 times more detailed than any other radar on the market. On January 2021, Arbe introduced the addition of Free Space Mapping capability to its Imaging Radar perception software stack. The Free Space Mapping support autonomous decision making by distinguishing between drivable from non drivable portions of the immediate driving environment. It is essential for navigation, path planning, and obstacle avoidance.

NEXCOM Partners with Hailo to Launch Next-Generation Vehicular Telematics Solution

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The israeli chipmaker Hailo announced its partnership with NEXCOM, the industrial computer hardware manufacturer, to launch NEXCOM’s VTC 1021, their next-generation AI vehicular telematics solution. NEXCOM’s AI solution features the compact Hailo-8 AI accelerator module, enabling high performance and empowering in-vehicle computers to run intensive AI applications more efficiently.

NEXCOM and Hailo’s joint solution facilitates operational efficiency in public transit and fleet management, including enhanced capabilities such as ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). Hailo stated that the in-vehicle solution’s compact, fanless design fits perfectly in cabins with limited space and is designed to withstand demanding automotive conditions, helping bring public transit vehicles and fleets into the smart era. The in-vehicle computer VTC 1021 powered by the Intel Atom x5-E3940 processor is also versatile, with the flexibility to power a variety of telematics applications such as infotainment, fleet management, ANPR, and mobile video surveillance. Among the target applications for the joint solution: driver drowsiness detection, occupant monitoring, pedestrian detection warning, collision avoidance warning, and more

“The future of the automotive industry holds endless promise for safety and comfort, but to achieve this, in-vehicle compute platforms must overcome significant technological hurdles,” said Liran Bar, VP Business Development of Hailo. “Scaling AI to meet these challenges requires ultra-high performance and flexible solutions, which our joint offering provides. With NEXCOM, we will leverage the power of AI to turbocharge the aftermarket platform’s compute power, thus making vehicles safer.”

“Our partnership with Hailo allows us to offer our customers advanced AI solutions which can power sectors such as public transportation and fleet management with more scalable, better-performing solutions,” said Jay Liu, Vice President at NEXCOM. “Our joint platform provides vehicles enhanced capabilities, including state-of-the-art applications which can vastly improve the driving experience as well as safety, ushering in a new era of smart transportation.”

Hailo’s specialized Hailo-8™ AI acceleration modules deliver unprecedented performance to edge devices. The modules are built with an innovative architecture that enables edge devices to run sophisticated deep learning applications that could previously only run on the cloud. Their advanced structure translates into higher performance, lower power, and minimal latency, enabling enhanced privacy and better reliability for smart devices operating at the edge.

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