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Electronics For You June 2023 Issue Vol. 55 No. 6 Strategy TECH: AI For Everyone: Building Better Businesses With Low- Or No-Code AI Imagine building an application powered by artificial intelligence (AI) with a rudimentary knowledge of coding! Well, now anyone can do that with AI-powered low-code/no-code platforms. Read on to know more
Technology TRENDS: Telecom Reforms In India And Futuristic 5G Applications The Centre will set up 100 labs in engineering institutions across India for developing 5G applications for various verticals. To realise new range of opportunities, business models, and employment potential, the labs will cover, among others, applications such as smart classrooms, precision farming, intelligent transport systems, and healthcare applications. The Centre has also made a provision of Rs55.6 billion for 5G testbed in The Union Budget 2023-24 of India presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman	Technology INTERVIEW: “Top Companies Need Highly Skilled Manpower And That Number Needs To Be Increased In India,” — Prof. Debabrata Das, Director, IIIT Bangalore Commenting on the industry-academia gap and the need for better training, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore’s Director, Prof. Debabrata Das, tells Yashasvini Razdan from Electronics For You, how IIIT Bangalore is enhancing its curriculum to create better engineers who can contribute vastly to the Indian ESDM sector

Technology FUTURE: Enhancing Defense With Quantum Computing And Intelligence Quantum computing and intelligence offer a glimpse into the future of defense, with the potential to revolutionise everything from cyber security to cyber warfare	Technology STANDARDS: Onboard IIoT Devices Seamlessly With The FDO Standard Manual onboarding of a large number of Industrial Internet of Things devices into a network is cumbersome and comes with security risks. The FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) standard automates the process, making it simpler and safer

Technology SOFTWARE: Will ChatGPT Soon Replace Software Developers? If there is anything that has caught the attention of the tech world in the last few weeks, it is ChatGPT. The media is projecting it as the next big thing after Google Search Engine, and experts are competing with each other in predicting its impact on society. This article tries to peek into ChatGPT from the perspective of a software developer	Design STRATEGY: Product Risk Analysis: Designing Robust Products Those who are following the author’s series of articles would have seen design of the charge controller in the previous article. In that article the design of the charge controller is a fully functional one, but it lacks safety features. A good product should not only function properly but must be robust. A well designed product will accept a certain amount of abuse and will continue to perform nicely. Such fault tolerant products are loved by the customers

Design PCB: High-Speed PCB Design: Do It Right The First Time High-speed PCB design consists of multiple steps. Design re-spin is not only cost-sensitive but also time-consuming. So, one should follow proper design rules early in the design cycle to have the PCB working at the very first attempt	Design SYSTEMS: Ultrasound On A Chip Supercharged With Al For Medical Scanning About two-thirds of the world’s population lacks access to medical imaging, whether in developing nations or communities living in underdeveloped nations. Built on a chip, Butterfly Network has been providing solution to the above said problem. This is through its specifically designed 3D ultrasound imaging system on a chip (SoC)

Design AI: When To Use Free Or Open Solutions For AI There are many free and open platforms and tools for developers of AI solutions. Should you go for them, or avoid them?	Design CIRCUIT: Reference Designs Of IoT Based Smart Plugs

Design IoT: Utilising Open Source For Cloud-Agnostic Delivery Of IoT Edge As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the demand for efficient and secure communication between devices grows ever more critical. Thin edge computing, with its ability to perform computation at the edge of the network, has emerged as a key enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article, we explore the fascinating intersection of thin edge and IoT, and examine how this powerful combination is driving innovation and transforming industries	Do-It-Yourself CIRCUIT IDEA: Kitchen Security Alarm Using MQ2 Sensor The most common cause of fire in a kitchen is gas leakage. This project will help you make an LPG leakage cum smoke alarm for your kitchen using a gas sensor. The sensor will detect the intensity of LPG gas as well as smoke, if any. If the intensity of LPG gas or smoke exceeds a certain limit, an audible alarm will notify to take care of the leakage as soon as possible

Do-It-Yourself PROJECT: Smart Ironing Device To Protect Your Clothes During ironing of clothes, they can get burnt, if the iron is kept over a cloth unattended. This usually happens when you get a phone call while ironing or get distracted by some other activity. To overcome this issue, this proposed solution automatically controls the iron wirelessly through a detachable motion sensor	Do-It-Yourself PROJECT: Automatic Restricted Quantity Liquid Dispenser This automatic restricted quantity water or petrol dispenser is based on RFID reader and Arduino. Whenever you want to fill a water bottle or can, or petrol in a vehicle, or any other liquid for that matter, you just need to place the correct RFID card for the quantity of liquid required. The Arduino board reads the data from the RFID reader, which in turn drives the relays through ULN IC for that particular quantity

Do-It-Yourself PROJECT: Millisecond Clock Display Using ESP32 RTC The author is fascinated by clocks and has made clocks of several types, but never with a millisecond display due to the huge processing power required for it. He was delighted when he could successfully run the 8.9cm (3.5-inch) ILI9488 TFT display in 8-bit mode with an ESP32 microcontroller	Do-It-Yourself PROJECT: Anti-Collision System For Vehicles High-end cars now come with auto-braking, obstacle detection, and proximity alert, which are important parts of an Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS). These use proximity sensors, cameras, and/or a lidar system. This project proposes to build a simple anti-collision system with a lidar

Do-It-Yourself PROJECT: Simple Water Temperature Indicator And Controller Using Arduino If you wish to monitor and control the temperature of water, or any other liquid for that matter, this proposed add-on module can be of help. It will let you set the maximum temperature to which the water needs to be heated, display the temperature at any stage of the heating process, give indications through a buzzer and LED on reaching the desired temperature and switch the heater off	Regulars Startups & Innovators • An EV Company On A Mission To Empower Women • Electrifying The Pen-Paper Circuitry • Ushering In A New Vayve Of e-Mobility With Solar Cars

Regulars Dashboard Key Industry Trends That Can Shape The Future Of Your Business	Regulars Truly Innovative Electronics Amongst numerous press releases of new products received by us, these are the ones we found worthy of the title Truly Innovative Electronics

Regulars Research & Innovation Updates • Drones and lasers team up to detect greenhouse gas leaks • Machine learning helps discover high-efficiency solar cell materials • Robust flight navigation developed for complex vision based tasks • Small wake-up receiver extends battery life from one day to one month • Underwater jellyfish-like robot cleans waste and collects fragile samples	Regulars Industry News: Industry Updates • Union Cabinet approves PLI Scheme 2.0 for IT hardware • Government to invest $2 billion in Mohali’s semiconductor laboratory • Indian drone companies receive first set of incentives under PLI • Renesas CEO meets PM Modi and discusses semicon ecosystem • BEL and Emjay to jointly manufacture electro-mechanical bollards

Regulars New Products • Components • Embedded • Boards and Modules • T&M	Regulars From You Your Suggestions and Things You Wanted To Know

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June 2023

Issue Vol. 55 No. 6