In the last few years, there is rapid growth in Augmented Reality and Virtual reality. These technologies are helping the world to understand complex things by making the visualization easier and effective. They make it easy to visualize the object in 3 dimensions which not only creates a virtual image of imaginary objects but also builds 3D images of real objects. …
If you are an RF Design Engineer or anyone who has worked with Wireless Radios, the term “Impedance Matching” should have struck you more than once. The term is crucial because it directly affects the transmission power and thus the range of our Radio modules. This article aims to help you understand what Impedance Matching is from the basics and will also help you to design…
Switching power supply is a widely used power supply topology in power electronics. Whether it can be a complicated CNC Machine or a compact electronic device, as long as the device is connected to some sort of power supply an SMPS circuit is always mandatory. Improper or faulty Power supply unit could lead to a big failure of the product irrespective of how well-designed…
The rise of Internet of Things (IoT) has taken the evolution of sensors to a completely different level. Sensors are an integral part of any engineering company that works on the IoT platform. Various industries and organizations use different types of IoT sensors like temperature sensors, proximity sensors, water quality sensors, etc. as per their requirement. Founded…
Flow rate measurement involves the determination of the quantity of fluid passing through a specified surface area of a vessel at a particular time. Like all form of measurements, it has everyday life applications ranging from its use in monitoring water and gas consumption for bill estimation to more critical industrial applications (e.g large scale mixing of multiple…
For one of our projects, we tried to Interface LM35 Temperature Sensor with Arduino but were unable to do so. Yes, what seemed like an easy task became a whole day's effort. We initially assumed the sensor was defective, but after testing about 15 sensors, we saw the same issue over and over again; all of these sensors came from the same lot of 85 sensors we had in…
Road accidents are counted as one of the leading causes of unnatural deaths and the majority of the road accidents that take place are caused by human error. We all know that transportation automation reduces human errors. Vehicle automation is not enough instead, it is equally critical to establish safety assurance in the autonomous vehicle before being deployed on the…
In my previous article on EMI, we examined how the intentional/unintentional nature of EMI sources and how they affect the performance of other Electrical/Electronic devices (victims) around them. The article was followed by another one on Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) which provided insights into the dangers of EMI and offered some context to how poor EMI…
Harmonic distortion has always been a problem for electrical engineers as it leads to heavy power loss in AC induction motors and transformers. These losses in AC induction motors leads to excessive heating, which happens because of additional copper losses and iron losses (eddy current and hysteresis losses) in the stator winding, rotor circuit, and rotor laminations. This…
Anyone who deals with electronics will have come across waveform generator circuits like rectangular waveform generator, square wave generator, pulse wave generator, etc. Similarly, Bootstrap Sweep Circuit is a sawtooth waveform generator. Generally, the Bootstrap Sweep circuit is also called as Bootstrap Time Based generator or Bootstrap Sweep Generator.
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Soil health monitoring, irrigation scheduling, hi-tech greenhouses, evapotranspiration studies, watershed management, land reclamation, drought, flood forecasting, etc. play a vital role in farming. Farmers in India have been facing a lot of problems in terms of real-time and on-field data analytics. Undoubtedly, there are certain companies that offer the solution but the…
For the last many years, automobile manufacturers have turned their attention towards self-driven cars. It all became serious when Google launched its self-driving car project (Wamyo) in 2009. A few years later, Elon Musk announced Tesla would build a self-driving system into its cars and in November 2018, Tesla launched a feature called Navigate on Autopilot. By 2013, major…
