Presentations

An overview of the presentations given by the companies.

The rapid emerging IoT market space is key to the ‘City of the Future’. Many standards are available and new ones are arising. Size, cost and power consumption are paramount to these markets. Dialog Semiconductor currently focuses on Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 standards. Many applications are addressed using these technologies like smart home and wearables. This presentation will elaborate on how Dialog adresses these markets and go into the system architecture of these complex SoC’s. Towards large scale adoption of these technologies, software platforms (i.e. ecosystems) are important to provide interoperability and single point of control. Thread and HomeKit are examples of current platform standards that are supported by Dialog’s products.

These days, a small USB stick costing only €10 can hold up to 16 GB of data. In hospitals, a camera the size of a pill can be swallowed to survey a patient’s intestines. And in the oceans, tiny GPS transmitters track endangered turtles to help protect them. At the heart of each of these life-enhancing innovations is a microchip. ASML supplies equipment to all the world’s major chip manufacturers.

Knowledge sharing and gamification

The driving force behind ASML’s technological breakthroughs is its forward-thinking engineers.
Karel Driesse is the Corporate Learning Architect at ASML. To be able to make high innovative products, well skilled people are equally important on all aspects. With others it is his task to bring employees up to speed and keep up to speed within the ASML environment. In this session he will, together with you, look into a few aspects of how learning can be fun and engaging within ASML.

Healthcare technology evolves less fast while there are plenty of new ideas, technologies, techniques and studies. Before using new technology and techniques within the medical industry, they have to become mature. Mature within the market but also mature within the medical companies. Clinical trials, verification and validation takes a lot of time and for each alteration it has to follow that path again. The same applies to the electronics and embedded software in the healthcare industry.

BD Kiestra designs hardware and software to automate microbiological laboratories. Initial using PLC’s and PC’s, the time is there, for what I call, smart and distributed electronics. Every function will become smarter. Every function or module gets its place in a decentralized network. Networks become self-healing. Systems become more autonomous with the use of artificial intelligence. In the end, robots will take over the human tasks, but lets us first make it smarter.

RFID is an inevitable technology in the retail sector and will become an important part of the technology you can encounter in the city of the future. This statement will be explained by looking into current market and technology trends. We will have a look at the customer of today and his or her wishes and from that extrapolate what a successful retailer needs to do in order to keep attracting customers.

This first part essentially describes what could be done with the hardware of today. What is perhaps even more interesting is what the technology of tomorrow will look like. By giving a view into our current research I hope to give insight into the design decisions of our next generation RFID reader.

After this presentation I hope you will go shopping with a new way of looking at retail stores. Where you will discover the easy to overlook hardware designed to give a better shopping experience.

The energy landscape is changing rapidly. The entire chain of production, distribution and consumption will transfer totally the next years. As a grid operator, Alliander is in the heart of the energy transition. The lecture will focus on a couple of trends, which are super relevant to the city of the future, and their impact on Alliander and society.

Alliander is the largest grid operator in the Netherlands. We are responsible for a reliable, accessible and affordable energy infrastructure. We manage over 90.000 km of electricity cables and over 40.000 km of gas pipes. Every day we work hard to provide our 5,6 million connections with gas and electricity.

Moore’s Law shows that every 18 months we can double functionality on the same silicon area! This opens up possibilities for all kinds of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and robotics. The enormous amount of data available on the internet is a great resource to add artificial intelligence to our environment. In addition, the population density in cities increases. With the aid of all these technologies we can create a better living for humankind. What to expect in the near future?

AnSem is Europe’s leading fabless ASIC design and supply service company, specialized in state-of-the-art custom chip development and supply. AnSem brings innovation on chip, contributing to the formidable speed of technological evolution we experience every day. This presentation will bring a better understanding of tomorrow’s challenges. It highlights some of AnSem’s solutions and will learn you how you can contribute as an engineer to the technological evolution.

Currently, the energy market is changing radically to enable a sustainable energy solution. Consumers start producing their own solar or wind energy; electric cars are using quick chargers.  All of this influences the usage of our electricity grid.

Benchmark is engineering Power Quality Measurement systems for their customers. These systems are able to measure the quality of the grid constantly, keeping track of issues that occur due to constant changing usage.

The global trend is migrating data to the cloud for better analysis and improving the power quality over time.  This means ensuring real time monitoring and analysis of our electricity distribution grid.