IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2015 - 44

Transportation Electrification

electrification, such as electric vehicles, charging stations, grid-connected chargers, more electric airplanes,
more electric ships, off-road vehicles, trains and traction, connected
vehicles, self-driving cars, and intelligent highways.

Another important area that is domiLow-power designs are
nant in emerging system applications is
going monolithic to
transportation electrification. The IEEE
Technical Activities Board commissupport mobile and
sioned a task force in 2010 to champion
hand-held applications
the course for transportation electrification for the entire IEEE. The effort is
and remote sensing
known as the IEEE Transportation
Smart Homes, Smart Buildings,
networks.
Electrification Initiative (TEI).
and Smart Cities
PE is the essential driving force
A closely related system application,
of electrification, at least at the early
but at a higher level to transportation
stages. In 2014, the IEEE TEI was transitioned into the
electrification and sustainable energies, is the initiative
IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC),
for smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities. Smart
with PELS providing its administrative home. The IEEE
homes are a natural growth from the smart grid, since
TEC has a total of seven core Societies and many affiliate
the power will be from the smart grid, together with
societies. The core societies are PELS, the IEEE Industry
local renewable generation. The scope of smart homes is
Applications Society, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Socibroad and ever evolving, but it generally includes the folety, the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the IEEE Intelligent
lowing features: smart appliances, smart lighting, perTransportation Systems Society, the IEEE Consumer Elecsonalized energy, mobility, mobile communication,
tronics Society, and the IEEE Standards Association.
smart security, and remote personal care. To carry out
The IEEE TEC has attracted many partners in a consmart control and monitoring, a smart (remote) sensor
sortium that includes industry, academic, and profesnetwork is needed.
sional organizations as well as government agencies.
For smart buildings, the key features include integration
The community covers all aspects of transportation
of renewable energies, high-voltage ac or medium-voltage

LF
CF
A 660-MHz, 140% Efficient PwrSoC, UBC, CA, 2009
Toward
Monolithic
(PwrSoC)

VOut Probe

SMT Indusctors
A 233-MHz, 80-87% Efficient PwrSoC, Intel, 2005
3.05 mm
Two-Segment

PwrSoC2014 Had a Record of 213 Attendees
It Enjoys 67% Industry Participation
Commercial Product Offering Is Around the Corner

2.55 mm

Power Switches
Gate
Drivers

Gate
Drivers

Hysteresis Comparator and
Automatic Duty Ratio Corrector

Phase Two
Change Pump

Gate Drivers

Phase One

A 100-MHz ~78% Efficient PwrSoC, RPI, 2013
FIG 6 Low-power designs are going monolithic to support mobile and hand-held applications and remote sensing networks.

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