Plug in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) use energy storages usually in the form of battery
banks that are designed to be recharged using utility grid power. One category of
PEVs are Electric Vehicles (EVs) without an Internal-Combustion (IC) engine
where the energy stored in the battery bank is the only source of power to drive the
vehicle. These are also referred as Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). The second
category of PEVs, which is more commercialized than the EVs, is Plug in Hybrid
Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) where the role of the energy storage is to supplement the
power produced by the IC engine.
Plug in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) use energy storages usually in the form of
battery banks that are designed to be recharged using utility grid power. One
category of PEVs are Electric Vehicles (EVs) without an Internal-Combustion
(IC) engine where the energy stored in the battery bank is the only source of
power to drive the vehicle. These are also referred to as Battery Electric Vehicles
(BEVs). The second category of PEVs, which is more commercialized than the
EVs, is the Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) where the role of energy
storage is to supplement the power produced by the IC engine.
There have been many developments in the field of power electronics since
the publication of the second edition, almost five years ago. Devices have
become bigger and better - bigger silicon die, and current and voltage
ratings. However, semiconductor devices have also become smaller and
better, integrated circuit devices, that is. And the marriage of low power
integrated circuit tecnology and high power semiconductors has resulted in
benefit to both fields.
The continuous progress in modern power device technology is increasingly
supported by power-specific modeling methodologies and dedicated simulation
tools. These enable the detailed analysis of operational principles on the the device
and on the system level; in particular, they allow the designer to perform trade-
off studies by investigating the operation of competing design variants in a very
early stage of the development process. Furthermore, using predictive computer
simulation makes it possible to analyze the device and system behavior not only
under regularoperatingconditions, but also at the rim of the safe-operatingarea and
beyond of it, where destructive processes occur that limit the lifetime of a power
system.
It was the publisher’s idea that I write
RFID in the Supply Chain: A Guide
to Selection and Implementation
. Not only am I editor of
Enterprise Inte-
gration System
,
Second Edition Handbook
and author of
The
Complete Book
of Middleware
, I also had some innovative business process and project
management ideas on improving the effectiveness of integrating enterprise
systems with information on product traceability, the scope of which has
been widened by the RFID technology mandates.
Radio frequency identifi cation (RFID) technology is a wireless communication
technology that enables users to uniquely identify tagged objects or people.
RFID is rapidly becoming a cost-effective technology. This is in large part
due to the efforts of Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) to
incorporate RFID technology into their supply chains. In 2003, with the aim
of enabling pallet-level tracking of inventory, Wal-Mart issued an RFID
mandate requiring its top suppliers to begin tagging pallets and cases, with
Electronic Product Code (EPC) labels. The DoD quickly followed suit and
issued the same mandate to its top 100 suppliers. This drive to incorporate
RFID technology into their supply chains is motivated by the increased ship-
ping, receiving and stocking effi ciency and the decreased costs of labor, storage,
and product loss that pallet-level visibility of inventory can offer.
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS , THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BECAUSE WE COULDN ’ T FIND ONE LIKE IT . We
needed something to hand to all of those people who have come to us asking for “a good
book to read on RFID.” When we looked for candidates we found some great books, but
most were aimed at electrical engineers or top-level managers, with very little for those of
us who are in between. This book is for developers, system and software architects, and
project managers, as well as students and professionals in all of the industries impacted by
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) who want to understand how this technology
works. As the title suggests, this book is about RFID in general and not just the most
recent developments; however, because so much is going on in the area of RFID for the
supply chain and especially the Electronic Product Code (EPC), we have devoted consider-
able space to these topics. Regardless of the type of RFID work you may be doing, we
think you will find something useful here.
The purpose of this book is to help anyone involved in small-scale geophys-
ical surveys. It is not a textbook in the traditional sense, in that it is designed
for use in the field and concerns itself with practical matters – with the-
ory taking second place. Where theory determines field practice, it is stated,
not developed or justified. For example, no attempt is made to explain why
four-electrode resistivity works where two-electrode surveys do not.
If one examines the current literature on GPS receiver design, most of it is quite a
bit above the level of the novice. It is taken for granted that the reader is already at a
fairly high level of understanding and proceeds from there. This text will be an
attempt to take the reader through the concepts and circuits needed to be able to
understand how a GPS receiver works from the antenna to the solution of user
position.
Thank you for purchasing the Earthshine Design
Arduino Starter Kit. You are now well on your way in
your journey into the wonderful world of the Arduino
and microcontroller electronics.
This book will guide you, step by step, through using
the Starter Kit to learn about the Arduino hardware,
software and general electronics theory. Through the
use of electronic projects we will take you from the
level of complete beginner through to having an
intermediate set of skills in using the Arduino.
