Energy Efficiency Accelerates with MosChip’s Smart Street Lighting Solution

End-to-end product development company takes initiative to upgrade street lights by replacing them with LEDs

MosChip, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish and maintain a smart center with centralized command and monitoring system (CCMS) in the state of Andhra Pradesh on a subcontracting basis. The subcontract is valued at Rs. 83 Cr and is to be implemented in 24 months with a seven-year maintenance contract.

“Energy efficiency is paramount to sustain the quality of life, business growth, and economic wellbeing,” said MosChip Senior Vice President Dhananjay Kulkarni.

A centralized smart center will be established in Amaravathi, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh to manage and monitor the entire process of automation. It is designed to adhere to additional IoT services in the future.

MosChip plans to control and monitor all the LED Street Lights through CCMS boxes by establishing a Centralised Command Center. A total number of 20,00,000 LED Bulbs will be linked with 30,000+ CCMS boxes installed. These boxes are a GSM/GPRS/RF-based product specially designed for street lighting projects which further ensures an optimal on-field product performance. This will result in a drastic reduction of operational and maintenance cost which is estimated about 20 percent less than the present expenditure.

“If you see the penetration of tech-oriented changes in our country, you will notice that we are now in the race to becoming a smart city,” said MosChip Chief Executive Officer Damodar Rao Gummadapu. “Smart lighting essentially rides on the same backbone concept. Hopefully, in upcoming years, we will be one of the smartest countries in the world.”

A study states that 72 percent of lights that are sold are LEDs, and with the Andhra Pradesh government making way into the smart city initiative, an upward curve of energy savings has also been noted. With smart street lighting, one can:

• Control multiple street lights from the single feeder for either single or three phases.
• Schedule time that can be monitored and changed via SMS.
• Receive alerts in case of theft/fault in the lights.
• Reduce electricity bills by up to 30 percent.
• Manage centralized monitoring and control of lights through reports.
• Receive current readings and device fault details via SMS.
• Receive detailed electricity consumption reports.

“MosChip’s advanced analytics not only ensures demand planning and predictive analysis but also capabilities to identify irregularities such as theft, wire cuts and light faults,” said Dhananjay Kulkarni. “There are long-term trends such as increased transmission losses which are detected to increase T&D efficiency. MosChip manufactures all components of the solution, including hardware, firmware, cloud application, smartphone application, and further customizes it based on the unique needs of individual customers.”

Traditionally managed street lights consume excessive electricity. MosChip, along with the Andhra Pradesh government, aims to overcome these challenges with the concept of a smart lighting solution. Once the entire project has been completed, the goal to conserve energy with effective improvement in street lighting will have been met.

About MosChip

MosChip is an end-to-end product development company with deep engineering expertise in Chip Design, Systems Design, Software Development for IoT and Vision Solutions. With more than 16 years of proven track record with a unique combination of product engineering skills, domain knowledge and technology expertise in segments such as aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications, mobile electronics, and security. MosChip helps their customers reduce time-to-market of their products with our field proven IP’s.

MosChip’s product development experience with SOC, wireless connectivity, software, and systems engineering allows us to be able to meet with the most complex hardware and software design challenges. With a large pool of engineers segmented into teams with multiple engineering disciplines, MosChip can deliver ASIC, firmware, drivers, boards, and platform solutions.

INFOGRAPHIC: Top 10 Trends for Indian Defence Offset Business

India allocates about 1.8% of its GDP to the defence spending and ranks among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of defence expenditure. With only 35% of defence equipment manufactured in India, it also is one of the largest importers of defence equipment. Even if the defence equipment are manufactured in India, it involves huge import cost of raw material.

To overcome the above-said challenge and to promote the Government’s “Make in India” initiative, the Ministry of Defence is focusing on increasing the defence manufacturing in India. To leverage the defence imports and to boost domestic defence manufacturing industry, the MoD has an “OFFSET POLICY” in place. The offset policy was first made the part of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) in 2005. The policy has gone through a lot of revisions over time and the latest revision to it were made in 2016.

This infographic share the top 10 trends in the Indian Defence Offset Business to look forward in 2017.

https://moschip.com/blog/infographic-top-10-trends-for-indian-defence-offset-business/ 

MosChip adds another Feather in its Cap

Since the year 2000, Electronica India is the leading trade fair for electronics components, systems and applications in India. An excellent platform to promote new businesses and indulge in experts’ knowledge, Electronica India provides resourceful insights into the latest technologies and applications in all electronics sectors as well as the photonics industry.

This year, EMegatech, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of I/O controller cards presented their new serial over Ip product line by MOSCHIP 8142 in Electronica India show held in Bangalore from 21-23rd September. Most of the EMegatech designs were connectivity products, except MOSCHIP’s SeSe, an SoC based design. They displayed 4S, 8S and 16 using MosChip’s MCS8142 design.

EMegatech executives Winsome Fang (from Sales) and Andy Lee (Executive Assistant to GM) were present at the event to promote their new line of products. They actively explained the details of the products to enquiring visitors along with their pricing quotes.

Harry Morwin from MOSCHIP, who was there to support EMT new launches also interacted with the visitors who were interested to know more about the SeSe application details. This event serves as an important landmark in recognizing MOSCHIP’s progress to become a global leader in the years to come.

https://moschip.com/blog/company/newsmoschip-adds-another-feather-in-its-cap/

NOW & FUTURE: A sneak peek in the Aerospace industry

Today, the Aerospace industry is on the threshold of entering a new era, where it will presume bigger responsibility in making the nation self-reliant in Defence Production. Flying cars, hybrid vehicles, massive jets, sleek new fighters, and Mars-bound rockets. These are the kinds of things we consider when we think of our latest heights in the endless evolution of human flight. But there is more to this, the sector has a lot more to offer…. more than what we can imagine!!! Let’s take a sneak peek into this sector of Aerospace.

The outlook for Aerospace industry is clouded by many uncertainties like constrained military budgets, new and changing requirements, technology advances, and competition from non-traditional rivals. 

The Software upliftment.

Software is handling a greater percentage of the jobs done on an aircraft. Increased communication with ground control will soon allow for more efficient landings. Currently planes approaching an airport do so in a stair-step process. This allows the control tower to maintain safety at each stage. But when the exact position of each plane is known, the approach can be continuous. The smoothness of the descent will mean every flight will be shorter by two or so minutes and save about 100 gallons of gas. That time may be minuscule for the passenger, perhaps, but worldwide, the savings are enormous.

Communication.

Planes usually need communication to provide information on their current location. This is very important especially for those working in defence programs. Communication allows pilots to tell the distance between them and other pilots to prevent them from crashing into each other. But, communication can only go so far. A recent research program allows a set of drones to be able to communicate with each other’s distance without even talking. These drones were simple AI machines that could tell the distance between each other. This is truly helpful in terms of flying and coordination especially for those pilots with surveillance and targeting assignments.

Growth

Major challenges to international growth include political risks such as export-control regulations and offset requirements, technology-transfer requirements, and intellectual-property issues. Many of these challenges may have reoccupied leaders in 2017. But today they are less concerned about their companies’ inherent abilities to make sales in international markets and more about the political landscapes of the customer nations. So, we may now look forward to a better growth this year.

Education

Aerospace is the third most popular field for engineering students. With over 38,000 new aerospace engineering jobs that opened last year, 4,000 of them were taken by students! That’s a huge number. The aerospace profession has expanded form hardware-based science, technology, and engineering, to systems, and even systems of systems-based engineering. At a very high level that trend has become even more important. And thus, this year we expect, a lot of young professional to take up Aeronautics as a profession!

Data Handling

Surveillance vehicles get a lot of attention for political, military, and techie reasons. But in the field of aerospace engineering, their development and employment is a much smaller challenge. It is likely to be found with millions of investments that the government recently marked for “big data.” This data brings us to a conclusion that there will be a lot of data which would help the defence to be upgraded.

In a nutshell, we can look forward towards a positive and proportionate growth in this sector of Aeronautics and defence. And talking about this sector and technologies that drives it, Moschip is the name that comes in our mind. It has not only successfully been a pioneer in the field of Semiconductors Design Services but has also put its footprint in the field of IoT, Cloud and Connected Devices domain, with respect to this sector of Aeronautics and defence. Driven by a positive outlook, Moschip is moving to more flexible, agile models.

https://moschip.com/blog/company-newsnow-future-a-sneak-peek-in-the-aerospace-industry/

Moschip grabs the Best Electronic System Design Company – Established Indian Company

Mentor Graphic corporation (NASDAQ:MENT), a leader in electronic hardware and software design solution along with Silicon India, announces the 2016 Leadership Awards for Embedded / VLSI industry.

The Silicon India Award is one of its kind, felicitating the best of VLSI/Embedded industry, since 2010.This is the 6th edition, where in the best of VLSI/Embedded industry were honoured with a great show.

Among few others best firms, Moschip grabbed the award for the BEST ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN – ESTABLISHED INDIAN COMPANY.   Moschip is one of the pioneers in publicly listed semiconductor design and service company. It has an extensive experience in arrays of industries like Aerospace and defence, Consumer electronics, IoT to name a few.

“This Award Would Not Only Motivate But Also Give Inspiration And New Spirit For Innovation And A Strong Entrepreneurial Drive.”- Speaks Mr. Ram Reddy, CEO & Chairman, Moschip.

Moschip’s extensive ASIC design experiences ranges from architecture to netlist. With its mission to constantly exceed the client’s expectation, it has a long way to go!

https://moschip.com/blog/company-news/moschip-grabs-the-best-electronic-system-design-company-established-indian-company/

The First Chapter of AeSI, Aerospace Luminary Lecture series of Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Aeronautical Society of India in association with MosChip, Organised the 1st AeSI Aerospace Luminary Lecture series, Hyderabad Chapter at Taj Deccan.  Attended by 300 Plus guest, it has been one of the major event that the city witnessed on Sunday evening. Air Marshal SB Deo, vice chief of air staff & Indranil Manna, director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur were the key note speaker of the evening.

“The Indigenously Designed Developed And Manufactured (IDDM) Category Will Be The Ministry Of Defence‘s First Priority When It Comes To Procurement Of Weapons And Spare Parts, Said Air Marshal SB Deo, Vice Chief Of Air Staff.”

Speaking at the Aerospace Luminary Lecture series of the Hyderabad chapter of the Aeronautical Society of India here on Sunday, Mr Deo said: “The private sector had once challenged to obliterate public defence organisations like DRDO. Today we are around and they are not,” he said. Speaking about leadership at DRDO of stalwarts in the sector, he said passion is crucial. “Working for profit cannot take us far. Working with passion can,” he said.

The meeting was presided by G. Sateesh Reddy, Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister, who lauded the work of the society while asking it to continue contributions even as he outlined the activities lined up for the society this year.

“Weapon technology should be desi”- Air Marshal SB Deo

Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sirish Baban Deo and IIT Kanpur Director Indranil Manna delivered lectures on Make In India programmes in the aerospace sector and progresses in technology for the sector. Prof. Manna, an expert in materials sciences, said the perspective of the world about India should change. “We are thought of as a trading country when we should be a making country,” he said. He added that pursuit of the aerospace sector, among other things, is to make materials like aluminium better for the industry.

As part of the Lecture Series, Mr. Ramachandra Reddy, Chairman & CEO of MosChip Semiconductor Technology Pvt Ltd., gave a presentation on the Semiconductor Industry, journey & success story of MosChip and their contribution to Indian Defense Labs. Moschip has been a pioneer in the field of Semiconductors Design Services, with constant innovations, technological advancements and vision oriented leadership. Moschip has now, put its footprint in the field of IoT, Cloud and Connected Devices domain, said Mr. Ramachandra Reddy.

https://moschip.com/blog/company-news/the-first-chapter-of-aesi-aerospace-luminary-lecture-series-of-hyderabad/

The Happy Marriage of DevOps and IoT - Moschip

The Happy Marriage of DevOps and IoT

Service revenues rooted in micro-controller-based IoT are expected to reach a whopping $7.3 trillion by the year 2017, according to a recent IDC report, with the radical new paradigm shift of DevOps leading to the perfect storm of IoT adoption.

About two years ago, we started to see a groundswell, The Internet of Things (IoT).  IoT promised that businesses would see trillions of dollars in new value as everything on the planet became connected. This value was going to be driven by increased efficiencies, better customer engagement, and new business models.

A few years further backwards, the hottest term in IT was DevOps. Based on Agile and Lean principles, DevOps helped in enhanced speed and quality of IT services delivery. Enabling a continuous delivery approach, it ensured that the software is thoroughly tested, validated and bugs identified at the earliest. Since then, DevOps has been ensuring the alignment of goals of all functions of the enterprise. The outcome is a seamless process that works efficiently and without glitches. DevOps has already gained a foothold at the enterprise level, as it has been critical to make the best use of cloud computing, big data, and, now, the Internet of Things (IoT).

DevOps makes possible the deployment of software across several platforms simultaneously. Organizations that embrace DevOps in IoT and formalize it through integrated, cross functional teams are likely to have a decided advantage over those that do not.

DevOps in IoT also enable constant update of devices and features, and faster release cycles of connected systems. The ability to constantly deliver new software updates makes it possible to sell services that generate continuous revenues, rather than simply the one-time sale of the underlying product.

Most importantly, IoT is something that comes into play with automated security testing (continuous testing), integration testing (continuous integration), and, finally, deployment (continuous deployment). This is where DevOps methodology can play a vital role.

When the IoT application is tested, a DevOps system needs to consider security around the information coming from sensors.  These are points-of-entry that are easily compromised, such as somebody hacking into your thermostat and sending misleading data.  DevOps security testing tools need to regress through the IoT application to ensure that exposure is minimized.

The case for evolving DevOps, from enterprise systems to IoT edge devices is compelling. But we must agree, change is rarely easy, and instituting DevOps in IoT is no exception. Bringing about a cultural and organizational change, to build necessary processes and systems is rather difficult. Also, IoT systems can be very large, unique, and complex and may require robust hardware platforms. This increases cost. To add to this, IoT solutions have very high demands for reliability, quality, security, and safety. This can be both risky and expensive at the same time.

While we’re still playing around with DevOps and IoT, it’s clear that the connections can be made, and we can indeed benefit from the marriage of IoT and DevOps.  The DevOps concept has been proven at the enterprise level. It is now evolving toward gateways and edge devices, to meet the unique challenges of developing and managing IoT systems.