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• A guide to meeting key functional requirements for successful wearable designs
• Call for IEEE-ISTO Director Candidates
• OpenPOWER Summit Announces “Revolutionizing the Data Center” Speaker Lineup
• Automotive Industry Driving Wireless Charging into Mainstream Adoption
• Satisfaction Survey Winners
• The Connected Lighting Alliance endorses ZigBee 3.0 for residential lighting
• PWG Approved - IPP Everywhere Printer Self-Certification
• Current IEEE-ISTO Program News
• Current IEEE-ISTO Program Events

A guide to meeting key functional requirements for successful wearable designs

By Ariel Lasry, member of the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors and chief engineer, Toshiba Electronics Europe, with contributions from Peter Lefkin, managing director of the MIPI Alliance

Wearables are opening up imaginative opportunities for product innovation. The market is new, different and exciting, but it will be extremely competitive and pose new challenges for product designers who must integrate very specific functionalities and performance capabilities into miniaturised form factors. The purpose of this article is to summarise design considerations that developers can use to conceptualise and produce successful wearable products.

Call for IEEE-ISTO Director Candidates

IEEE-ISTO is now accepting nominations for candidates to serve on the board of directors. The Board of Directors manages the business and affairs of IEEE-ISTO. Candidates should have extensive experience in industry, preferably with the development of standards, or in research and development of technology. Directors also serve to promote the benefits of industry and government organizations partnering with IEEE-ISTO.

If you are interested in serving on the IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors, or would like to nominate someone, please contact the IEEE-ISTO Nominations Committee with your name, telephone number, and email address.

OpenPOWER Summit Announces “Revolutionizing the Data Center” Speaker Lineup

The OpenPOWER Foundation recently announced the lineup of speakers for the OpenPOWER Summit 2016, taking place 5-8 April at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) at the San Jose Convention Center. The Summit will bring together dozens of technology leaders from the OpenPOWER Foundation to showcase the latest advancements in the OpenPOWER ecosystem, including collaborative hardware, software and application developments – all designed to revolutionize the data center.

At the event, attendees will have access to more than 50 member presentations and will hear from newly appointed OpenPOWER leadership, including Chairman John Zannos and President Calista Redmond.

Speakers and abstracts can be found on the OpenPOWER Summit website.

Automotive Industry Driving Wireless Charging into Mainstream Adoption

Drivers the world over are unlikely to plug in their phones to charge them, but are happy to place them on a charging surface to charge and integrate the phone into the driving experience. Ranking just behind in-home charging, in-car charging is the location consumers most value wireless charging. With the introduction of 15W fast-charging capability and advanced phone-integration features now being offered by the auto industry, Qi wireless charging is quickly becoming the latest “must-have” feature in new cars.

It’s ironic that the auto industry has adopted wireless charging so aggressively. After all, automotive engineers are late adopters of new technology. Their considered approach is for good reason as new technology must be thoroughly studied for value, safety and reliability before it is designed into a “consumer device” that has a 10-to 15-year lifetime. Auto makers want to know that a feature that occupies some of the most valuable real estate inside the cab, the center console, will continue to add value in five or ten years.

Read the full post on the Wireless Power Consortium website.

Satisfaction Survey Winners

Congratulations to Rob Marchand, VoiceXML Forum, and Simon den Uijl, The Connected Lighting Alliance on winning the IEEE-ISTO Satisfaction Survey drawing. Rob and Simon are the proud owners of a new iPad mini!

The Connected Lighting Alliance endorses ZigBee 3.0 for residential lighting

The Connected Lighting Alliance [TCLA] has announced the endorsement of ZigBee 3.0, as the preferred open standard for residential connected lighting applications, simplifying choices for both lighting companies and consumers.

With ZigBee Light Link, previously endorsed by TCLA, being merged in to the new ZigBee 3.0 standard, the TCLA member companies studied and evaluated the new proposition. The conclusion was that ZigBee 3.0 exceeds the benefits of ZigBee Light Link and that therefore the new ZigBee 3.0 better meets the requirements of the lighting industry in the residential market.

PWG Approved - IPP Everywhere Printer Self-Certification

IPP Everywhere Printer Self-Certification Manual v1.0

This document defines IPP Everywhere Printer self-certification test procedures and the process required for PWG Members to register the test results on the PWG web site in order to use the "IPP Everywhere" logo.

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