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LeddarTech apresenta soluções essenciais de detecção e percepção que permitem ADAS e direção autônoma na CES Las Vegas 2022

A LeddarTech convida os fabricantes LiDAR, fornecedores de níveis 1 e 2, integradores de sistemas e OEMs automotivos para descobrir o que há de mais recente em tecnologias de detecção e percepção ADAS e AD no estande 7061, de 5 a 8 de janeiro na CES

QUEBEC, Dec. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A LeddarTech®, líder global em tecnologia de detecção ADAS e AD mais flexível, potente e precisa, tem o prazer de anunciar sua participação em cinco locais na CES Las Vegas, de 5 a 8 de janeiro de 2022. O local da LeddarTech Showcase demonstrará quatro novas soluções de ponta que permitem que OEMs, fornecedores de níveis 1 e 2, integradores de sistemas e fabricantes LiDAR resolvam desafios essenciais de detecção e percepção ADAS e AD em toda a cadeia de valor dos mercados de veículos automotivos, de mobilidade e off-road. Além disso, a LeddarTech estará presente em outros quatro locais de Parceiros de Ecossistemas.

Lançamento da LeddarTech Showcase (Estande #7061, LVCC West Hall)

O tema do estande da LeddarTech na CES (#7061) é “Solução de Desafios Essenciais de Detecção e Percepção em ADAS e AD.” O estande, localizado no novo LVCC West Hall, no coração da seção de Tecnologia de Transportes/Veículos, contará com tecnologias e soluções inovadoras.

A LeddarTech recebe os representantes da CES e apresenta soluções em primeira mão que tratam de problemas críticos enfrentados pelos clientes:

  1. Descubra os benefícios da fusão de dados brutos com aLeddarVision™
    Uma solução abrangente de fusão e percepção de sensor aberto para ADAS de veículos industriais automotivos e off-road e aplicativos de direção autônoma L2-L5.
  2. Maximize o desempenho LiDAR com o LeddarSteer™ DBSDUm dispositivo de direção de feixe digital (DBSD) de grau automotivo escalonável, adaptável e confiável para fabricantes LiDAR e desenvolvedores de sistemas de visão aumenta o alcance e a resolução enquanto otimiza custos e fatores de forma.
  3. Explore uma solução de desenvolvimento LiDAR que reduz riscos, custos e tempo, agilizando o tempo de colocação no mercado com o LiDAR XLRator™
    Uma plataforma de desenvolvimento LiDAR versátil e solução de design de referência para automóveis. O XLRator é alimentado pelo LeddarEngine (SoC e software de processamento de sinal) e componentes essenciais de colaboradores de desenvolvimento, ams OSRAM, STMicroelectronics e TE First Sensor que permitem aos fabricantes LiDAR e integradores de sistema de níveis 1 e 2 desenvolver sensores LiDAR de grau automotivo atendendo aos requisitos específicos de OEMs. A plataforma XLRator também integra o LeddarSteer DBSD.
  4. Perceba os benefícios da ferramenta de simulação LeddarEcho™ na redução do tempo de desenvolvimento
    Um aplicativo de software de simulação de sensor SiL para desenvolvedores e integradores de sistema ADAS/AD que modela várias arquiteturas e componentes de sensores para desenvolver projetos LiDAR ideais e validar o desempenho resultante em casos de uso de aplicativos específicos.

Além disso, visite a LeddarTech nos locais de seus Parceiros de Ecossistema:

A dSPACE (Estande #3555, LVCC West Hall), empresa cujas soluções vêm, há décadas, acelerando o desenvolvimento de tecnologia inovadora de veículos, hospedará a LeddarTech na demonstração das ferramentas e modelos de simulação de alta precisão LeddarEcho criados para ajudar e intensificar de maneira significativa o desenvolvimento e a validação de sensores LiDAR com base na LeddarEngine e nos respectivos sistemas ADAS e AD.

A Canadian Automotive Parts and Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) (Estande #6367, LVCC West Hall) Canadian Automotive Parts and Manufacturers Association (APMA) é a associação nacional do Canadá que representa os fabricantes OEM de peças, equipamentos, ferramentas, suprimentos e serviços de tecnologia avançada para a indústria automotiva de todo o mundo. A LeddarTech tem orgulho em fazer parte da associação como colaborador técnico na iniciativa referente a veículos autônomos “Project Arrow”.

Governo de Quebec – Investissement Québec (Estande #51827, The Venetian Expo, 2o andar, 201 Sands Avenue, Las Vegas) é o parceiro ideal para empresas internacionais que desejam se instalar em Quebec. Além disso, oferece apoio às empresas locais para que possam acessar e expandir seus negócios para mercados inovadores. A LeddarTech tem orgulho de ser um de seus representantes em sua missão comercial na CES. A empresa destacará suas soluções de sensores para aplicativos ITS e de mobilidade.

Marque uma reunião com a LeddarTech na CES:

A LeddarTech contará com representantes de todas as divisões disponíveis. Você está convidado a marcar uma reunião AQUI para demonstrações de produtos, entrevistas na mídia, discussões com analistas da indústria ou investidores, perguntas sobre como ingressar no Ecossistema Leddar ™ ou para saber mais sobre as incríveis oportunidades de carreira existentes. A equipe estará lá para recebê-lo no estande ou se encontrar com você – somente com hora marcada – no LeddarTech business lounge #W318 – LVCC West Hall – Nível 3.

Sobre a LeddarTech

A LeddarTech fornece a tecnologia de detecção mais flexível, robusta e precisa para sistemas avançados de assistência ao motorista (ADAS) e direção autônoma (AD). A LeddarTech permite que os clientes resolvam desafios ambientais essenciais de detecção, fusão e percepção em toda a cadeia de valor. A empresa oferece soluções econômicas e escaláveis, como LeddarVision™, uma plataforma de fusão e percepção de sensores de dados brutos que gera um modelo ambiental 3D abrangente com suporte a múltiplos sensores para configurações de câmera, radar e LiDAR. A LeddarTech dá suporte aos fabricantes LiDAR e integradores de sistemas automotivos de Nível 1-2 com o LeddarSteer™, um dispositivo de direção de feixe digital, e a solução de desenvolvimento LiDAR XLRator para desenvolvimento LiDAR de estado sólido de grau automotivo com base na LeddarEngine™, e componentes principais de parceiros globais de semicondutores. A LeddarTech é responsável por muitas inovações avançadas de detecção remota, com mais de 100 tecnologias patenteadas (concedidas ou pendentes) ADAS aprimoradas e capacidade de condução autônoma.

Para mais informações sobre a LeddarTech, visite www.leddartech.com, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, e YouTube.

Contato:
Daniel Aitken, Vice-Presidente, Gestão Global de Marketing, Comunicações e Produtos, LeddarTech Inc.
Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ramal 232
daniel.aitken@leddartech.com

Os logotipos Leddar, LeddarTech, LeddarSteer, LeddarEngine, LeddarVision, LeddarSP, LeddarCore, LeddarEcho, VAYADrive, VayaVision, XLRator e afins são marcas comerciais ou marcas comerciais registradas da LeddarTech Inc. e suas subsidiárias. Todas as outras marcas e nomes de produtos são ou podem ser marcas comerciais ou marcas comerciais registradas usadas para identificar produtos ou serviços de seus respectivos proprietários.

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GivePower Receives Energy Globe Award for Its Innovative Solar Water Farm in Kenya

Local solar-powered desalination technology provides access to clean drinking water for up to 35,000 people in the region every day

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — GivePower, an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing clean water and clean power in developing regions around the world, was awarded the prestigious Energy Globe Award for its Solar Water Farm in Likoni, Kenya. Over 2,500 projects competed for top honors from 180 countries. GivePower won the national award for Kenya.

GivePower's Solar Water Farm Max in Likoni, Kenya.

Likoni is a coastal community in the Mombasa area. Though Mombasa is the country’s second largest city, many Likoni residents lack access to reliable power and fresh water. Around 47 percent of Likoni residents live on less than $1 per day.

Commissioned in June of 2020, the Likoni Solar Water Farm Max is the third of six solar-powered desalination plants deployed by GivePower within the last three years. Powered by solar energy and battery storage, GivePower’s desalination systems are housed in 20-foot shipping containers and each Max system can transform up to 70,000 liters of brackish or seawater into clean, healthy drinking water for up to 35,000 people every day. Unlike most ground well systems, GivePower Solar Water Farms produce a higher quality of water over a longer period with virtually no negative environmental impact. The Likoni project remedies issues associated with local groundwater resources, which have high salinity levels in the area. Before the plant was built, Likoni residents were required to boil surface water, pay high prices for piped water, or transport water from distant locations. Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to clean and affordable drinking water.

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“Traditional water collection methods can cause illness, come at great expense and broadly undermine quality of life, particularly for women and girls often charged with fetching water supplies,” said Michele Magee, President of GivePower. “GivePower’s Likoni Solar Water Farm extends social, health and economic benefits to all community members by providing easy access to a safe and reliably managed water source. We are honored to see our critical work recognized by the Energy Globe Award.”

To date, the Likoni Solar Water Farm Max has distributed nearly 20 million liters of clean drinking water to the local community and has saved residents tens of thousands of dollars in water costs while improving water quality and safety. The installation supports the local economy by providing full-time work to eight residents and supplying local distributors with water. Across Kenya, GivePower employs 24 full-time workers. Proceeds from the water sales help to support staff salaries, equipment maintenance, and future projects in other communities.

About Likoni, Kenya

With a population of over 55 million, 41 percent of Kenyans do not have access to safe drinking water and 71 percent of Kenyans use unimproved sanitation solutions. These challenges are especially evident in the rural and low-income urban settlements like Likoni, where the average total cost for an unreliable water supply is more than $15 per month per household. In comparison, the average water bill of a typical household in Nairobi that is connected to a piped system is only $4.46 per month. This comparison highlights the economic burdens that often fall more heavily on unconnected rural customers and urban neighborhoods. Even those areas with piped connections often suffer from an inconsistent flow of water. The struggle for access to affordable, clean, potable water drives many to contaminated sources of water that bring illness and disease to these communities.

About GivePower

GivePower is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to extending the environmental and social benefits of clean, renewable energy around the globe. GivePower uses solar and battery storage technologies to deliver essential services to the developing world. The organization has helped bring clean power and clean water to underserved communities in 24 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Visit GivePower at www.givepower.org. Follow GivePower on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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UK to Lift COVID Travel Ban on 11 African Countries

Britain will end a ban on visitors from 11 African countries aimed at combatting COVID-19, the government said Tuesday, despite an alarming spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

After the variant was first detected in southern Africa and Hong Kong in November, the British government compiled a travel “red list” of the 11 African nations later in the month.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced in parliament Tuesday that the ban would be lifted on Wednesday at 0400 GMT since the country had achieved community transmission of omicron.

“Now that there is community transmission of omicron in the U.K. and Omicron has spread so widely across the world, the travel red list is now less effective in slowing the incursion of omicron from abroad,” he said.

While the ban remains in effect, only British citizens or residents arriving from the listed countries are allowed to enter the U.K. on condition they quarantine in a hotel at their expense.

The countries on the list are Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Javid said Monday that omicron, which is more transmissible than earlier variants, would be dominant in London “within 48 hours.” U.K. health authorities say omicron infections are doubling every two to three days, amounting to about 200,000 new cases daily.

South African scientists say the health effects of omicron may be less severe than the delta variant but warn it is premature to reach conclusions.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.

Source: Voice of America

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Biden: US Has Ordered Enough Pfizer Anti-Viral Pills to Treat 10 Million Americans

U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is encouraged by data released by Pfizer Inc on its COVID-19 anti-viral medicine and his administration has ordered enough of the pills to treat 10 million Americans.

“Getting vaccinated and getting your booster shot remain the most important tools we have to save lives. But if this treatment is indeed authorized “and once the pills are widely available” it will mark a significant step forward in our path out of the pandemic,” Biden said in a statement.

Source: Voice of America

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Nonprofits Urge Addition of Deadly Noma Disease to WHO List

The disfiguring disease noma, found mainly in poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa that lack health care, kills 90% of victims, most of them children, when left untreated. Noma is preventable, and to that end, aid groups are urging the World Health Organization to add Noma to its list of neglected tropical diseases.

Eight-year-old Amadou Compaore recently recovered from noma, a little-known tropical disease.

Although noma has scarred his face, Compaore, relatively speaking, is one of the lucky ones. If noma is diagnosed within the first few weeks of infection, it is easily treatable with a course of antibiotics.

His father, Sibiri Compaore, told VOA, he noticed the disease in the run-up to Christmas. To begin with, Amadou said his mouth ached to the point where he couldn’t eat anymore. He even had great difficulty drinking sachets of water.

Compaore senior took his son to the nearest city, Kaya, about 25 kilometers away, where medical staff were able to identify the disease thanks to awareness building by the Swiss non-governmental organization Sentinelles.

Sidi Omar Boena is a nurse at a Sentinelles medical center in Ouagadougou, specializing in the treatment of noma.

He says most health workers in Burkina Faso have not heard of the disease noma and that diagnosing it in people 400 to 500 kilometers from Ouagadougou is very difficult.

He says that he is sometimes forced to diagnose noma with photos sent to him via WhatsApp.

Odette Serene, who also suffered from noma, now receives regular follow-up treatment at the Sentinelles clinic, including support in finding a job.

She now works as a tailor, but she says people still laugh at her, which makes her sad. She says Boena has done a lot to take care of her, however.

Noma is just one of many illnesses currently missing from the World Health Organization’s list of neglected tropical diseases.

Doctors Without Borders, a medical NGO, is running a campaign to have noma added to the WHO list, which already includes diseases like rabies and dengue fever.

“Of course, at the community level, there is discrimination affecting the patients, and so every time there is a case, we might not even be aware because patients are hidden by the communities or they are dying. More than 90% of people are estimated to die,” Jeantet said.

The WHO says when it adds diseases to the list, factors like social stigma and death rates are taken into consideration. The WHO says resources are limited, so some diseases have to be left off.

WHO press officer Ashok Moloo explains the effect of adding a disease to the list.

“It really brings the disease or the condition to another level … It also adds to the advocacy part of the disease, awareness creation and also resources,” Moloo points out.

As for Amadou Compaore, he says what the doctors have done to help him has been an inspiration. He told VOA he wants to become a doctor, to treat people so that they can be cured, like him.

The WHO plans to make possible new additions to its neglected tropical disease list in 2023. It remains to be seen if noma will be among them.

Source: Voice of America

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GSF: global scientific and technological cooperation still mainstream

GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Greater Bay Science Forum 2021 (GSF), themed “Exploring the Future, Sharing Scientific Achievement”, concluded on December 13 in Guangzhou, China. A strong message came out of the three-day event is that global scientific and technological cooperation is still the mainstream despite the trend of anti-globalization.

The forum, initiated by the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO), attracted more than 100 academicians and experts from around the world to have in-depth exchanges on science frontiers such as life sciences, nanoscience, network communication, sustainable development, marine science, and intelligent industrial software. It has become the consensus of its participants to promote shared innovation and the development of the world’s scientific undertakings and better benefit humankind.

Andrea Baccarelli, professor and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences in Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said in his congratulatory message to the forum via video, “It is really a moment to this event. I’m so impressed by GSF and its mission, particularly in a time like today. It’s fundamental to have focusing on the science communication.” He also expressed his willingness to work together with scientists and colleagues in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Sarah Gille, physical oceanographer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Sverdrup Gold Medal Winner of American Meteorological Society (2021) said, “This (GSF) is an exciting moment in science. We face immense challenges, including caring for our environment and addressing climate change, challenges that will draw on every area of scientific expertise. These challenges also represent opportunities allowing us to do new science and train new scientists into our fields, and to shape our research to address big societal questions.”

Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Carrie Lam expressed in her video address that Guangdong and Hong Kong have been cooperating closely in different fields, including scientific and technological innovation. Hong Kong will continue to work closely with Guangdong to jointly promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area.

Chief Executive of Macao SAR Ho Iat Seng said in his video address that Macao will further collaborate with the innovation resources of other cities in the Greater Bay Area to strengthen industrial technology innovation.

Speaking at the forum, Ma Xingrui, governor of Guangdong Province, said that Guangdong is thoroughly implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and accelerating the construction of a strong province of scientific and technological innovation, led by the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. He believes that GSF is a grand event for global scientists that integrates functions such as scientific exchange and discussion, demonstration of scientific achievements, as well as promotion of scientific consensus and innovation mechanism, which is of great significance to promote scientific exchange and mutual learning among countries.

Zhong Nanshan, academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a renowned respiratory disease expert said that cooperation and joint efforts, domestic and international, are needed for fighting the epidemic. “If one place can’t handle it, the whole world can’t handle it. No country is safe, until all countries are safe.”

Bai Chunli, academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of ANSO, said the Alliance has joined hands with global innovation partners to address livelihood and science and technology challenges, and has continued a number of joint research programs around global scientific topics such as fighting COVID-19 jointly.

He said, it is expected that GSF will play a pivotal role in providing Greater Bay Area solutions for global science and technology innovation governance.