MIPI Alliance Enables First Wave of 5G Smartphones

A new white paper— “Making the 5G Vision a Reality: A 5G Readiness Assessment of MIPI Specifications”—details how key specifications, such as those for cameras, displays and audio, enable the initial 5G smartphone market and address some of the growing 5G use cases beyond mobile.

OpenPOWER Summit Europe Provides Broad Collaboration Opportunity

Organized by the OpenPOWER Foundation, a group founded in 2013, the Summit is an excellent platform for exchanging ideas and enabling foundation member organizations and data centers to rethink their approach to technology and ways to customize POWER CPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. The systems under consideration include those for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation.

The event had a strong technical emphasis and gave many developers, engineers, executives, decision makers and researchers the opportunity to learn from and work together over the course of two days. Presentation topics included PCIe Gen4, CAPI, OpenCAPI, Linux, OpenBMC, GPU, FPGA, I/O, Power Architecture, performance optimization, system management and more.

DALI specifications from DiiA enable intelligent, connected LED luminaires

Addressing the market need for intelligent lighting fixtures with sensing and communication capabilities and IoT connectivity, the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA) has finalized a set of new specifications based on the DALI lighting-control protocol.

The specifications enable smart LED drivers and luminaires that can report operational, diagnostic and inventory data. Also, the specifications simplify the addition of sensors and wireless communication nodes (also known as network lighting controllers) to luminaires by taking care of power-supply requirements. In turn, this makes it more straightforward for luminaires to participate in the IoT. 

IoT security addressed by Fairhair specification

Sharing a common, IP-based infrastructure can bring a host of benefits for building automation and control systems in commercial buildings. These include centralized monitoring and control, real-time insights and status updates across the entire building, remote access via the Internet, easier maintenance and more.

However, there are significant security risks for systems that are always connected and remotely accessible via public Internet. The security architecture developed by the Fairhair Alliance aims to address these risks by specifying device-, network- and application-level protections for systems operating in a more open, IP-based environment.

Fairhair is an alliance of leading companies from the lighting, building-automation, semiconductor and IT industries that aims to facilitate the Internet of Things (IoT) for commercial buildings. The organization is developing a set of technical specifications for a common IP-based infrastructure, independent of the application ecosystem, and based on open standards, with a strong emphasis on security.

Zhaga publishes specification allowing mechanical IoT upgradability

“The Members of Zhaga who developed this specification and already introduced products at Light+Building this year note high interest from the market,” says Dee Denteneer, Secretary General of Zhaga. “As there is interest from several national authorities that intend to include the specification in their tender documents, I am also happy to report that testing and certification for the new specification is now also possible; providing assurance that modules and luminaires fit well”

Consumer Adoption, Interest in Wireless Charging Continues to Surge, New International Survey Shows

Consumer adoption of wireless charging technology has increased dramatically, according to a new survey conducted by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which highlights a
broad level of interest in wireless charging from consumers compared to a similar survey conducted last year.

The survey, which gauged perceptions and experiences of wireless charging among more than 1,600 consumers from the U.S., UK, Germany and China, indicated high levels of interest in seeing wireless charging beyond the home and car deployed in places including hotels, airports and coffee shops.

As the creator of the global standard for wireless charging called Qi (pronounced “chee”), the WPC and its nearly 570 member companies have sparked dramatic growth over the last year. There are now nearly 1,750 Qi-Certified products available at retailers, and Qi chargers are installed at thousands of public locations globally.

Recent ISTO Program News

Digital Illumination Interface Alliance

• 28 September 2018 - DiiA to present seminar at Hong Kong Lighting Fair
• 27 September 2018 - DALI specifications from DiiA enable intelligent, connected LED luminaires
• 26 July 2018 - DEKRA accredited as a DALI-2 test house

MIPI Alliance

• 19 September 2018 - Using the New MIPI I3C HCI Spec
• 18 September 2018 - MIPI Alliance Invites Mobile, IoT, Automotive and 5G Developers to MIPI DevCon Seoul
• 11 September 2018 - MIPI phone alliance standard aims at automotive sensors
• 2 August 2018 - MIPI Alliance to Advance Autonomous Driving, other Automotive Applications with New Data Interface Specifications at 12-24 Gbps and Beyond

​OpenCAPI Consortium

• 23 August 2018 - POWER9 and OpenCAPI’s future at Hot Chips presentation
• 26 April 2018 - SmartDV Announces OpenCAPI™ Verification IP (VIP)

OpenPOWER Foundation

• 4 September 2018 - OpenPOWER Open Hardware Shines at Open Source Summit North America
• 5 July 2018 - 2018 OpenPOWER/CAPI and OpenCAPI Heterogeneous Computing Design Contest – Build Your Own Super Processor

Printer Working Group

• 27 August 2018 - August 2018 PWG Face-to-Face Meeting Summary

TALQ Consortium

• 20 June 2018 - The Smart City Protocol ready for Implementation
• 7 May 2018 - Video: TALQ live at Light + Building 2018

Wireless Power Consortium

• 19 September 2018 - The Value of Qi Certification
• 7 September 2018 - IFA 2018: What’s New
• 13 August 2018 - Qi Wireless Charging Debuts at McDonald’s Flagship Restaurant in Chicago

Upcoming ISTO Program Events

Digital Illumination Interface Alliance

• 27-30 October 2018 - Hong Kong International Lighting Fair
• 14-15 November 2018 - LuxLive 2018

MIPI Alliance

• 31 October - 1 November 2018 - Linley Fall Processor Conference 2018
• 9 January 2019 - Alliance Reception at CES

Printer Working Group

• 14-15 November 2018 - November 2018 PWG Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting

TALQ Consortium

• 13-15 November 2018 - Smart City Expo World Congress

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