NORTHVALE, New Jersey, USA – New Yorker Electronics has added the new Vishay Semiconductors VEMD8081 High-Speed and High-Sensitivity PIN photodiode with enhanced sensitivity for visible light. The Vishay PIN Photodiode provides increased photocurrent of 33µA in a 4.8mm by 2.5mm SMD package with a 5.4 mm2 sensitive area detecting visible and near infrared radiation.
Designed at a slim 0.48mm height, the device is idea for optical heart rate detection in wearable devices such as fitness trackers and smartwatches when placed between two pulsing green LEDs. They are also used in SpO2 measurement in medical monitors when combined with red and infrared emitters.
The new Vishay VEMD8081 offers 15-percent greater reverse light current than its predecessor, the Vishay VEMD8080, while maintaining the same package dimensions. It utilizes Vishay’s proven wafer technology to detect visible and near infrared radiation. The device provides designers with a drop-in replacement that can improve performance by increasing signal output, or extend battery life by reducing LED current.
The VEMD8081’s rectangular shape maximizes the area of the photodiode receiving reflected light, eliminating the wasted area typically found in square photodiodes. For heart rate measurement in wearable devices, the light reflected off the skin is received by the photodiode and converted to an output current, with the device’s increased sensitivity enabling more accurate measurements.
Features & Benefits:
Enhanced sensitivity to visible and infrared light
Rectangular 4.8 mm by 2.5 mm top-view, surface-mount package with a low 0.48 mm profile
Typical reverse light current of 33 µA
Radiant-sensitive area measuring 5.4 mm²
Wide spectral range from 350 nm to 1100 nm
Fast switching times and low capacitance of 50 pF enable high sampling rates
± 65° angle of half-sensitivity
Temperature range of -40 °C to +85 °C
840nm wavelength of peak sensitivity
RoHS-compliant, halogen-free, and Vishay Green
Moisture sensitivity level (MSL) of 3 in accordance with J-STD-020 for a floor life of 168 hours
Applications:
High speed photo detector
Wearables
Samples and production quantities of the VEMD8081 are available now, with lead times of 10 weeks. New Yorker Electronics is a franchise distributor for Vishay and supplies the full line of Vishay Optoelectronics including Optocouplers, Optical Sensors, 7-Segment Displays, Infrared Receivers, Solid-State Relays, LCD Displays, Visible LEDs, Infrared Emitters, Plasma Displays, Photo Detectors, IrDA Transceivers and Infrared Touch Panels.
The on-demand industry has made human lives swift and easy. Now you don’t have to stand in long queues or wait outside a pharmacy to buy medicines. Medicine delivery applications are becoming more and more popular day by day. Just a few taps, you can easily order medicines, with the medications being be delivered to your doorstep within no time. These types of applications are quickly gaining popularity, as it has already brought convenience to many lives by saving them from stepping out of their houses to buy medicine.
Read this whole article if you would like to know more about the features, requirements, and cost of developing an on-demand medicine delivery app.
Market Size Worldwide
According to the reports by Statista, the market of mHealthapplication will grow up to $100 billion and by 2025 the market will grow around $332.9 billion. This progress shows that the market of mHealthapplication will not settle soon, and instead continue to boom.
Almost all games are developed directly or indirectly, knowingly or unknowingly from a cultural context of the developers. Localization is a process of adapting a game in a way that players from a particular location can all feel that the game was made for their region. The complexities arise from the inception of the process of localization. There can be different versions of the same game to be released in different locations. And different locations can have different languages, cultures, vibes, people, and localities. In order to tailor the game to a specific audience in a specific region, there are numerous variables like the above, to be taken care of by video game developers. Another layer of this localization is the censorship by governments in different regions. Some don’t accept gore and violence, and some don’t accept AR, some have age restrictions according to the genre, etc.
Why it is important:
It’s always the nuances that make any game addictive to play. It’s these cultural nuances, regional relevances and connecting factors that make you feel more than satisfied after finishing the game. To achieve this level of localization, the game developers need to include art assets, exclusive manuals, relevant audio, appropriate hardware, cutting out and adding different segments of the game according to the relevance. Considering the advantages of it, many developers across the world are working on the same with the help of game outsourcing companies like RubixQ.
The inception of localized games can be traced back to the localization of the Japanese game Puck-man to the United States. They changed the name to one of the most popular games, Pac Man, with altered names, cultural contexts, etc. A noteworthy fact is that India stands second in terms of the smartphone user base in the whole world and has more than 10% of the global gaming audience. Just by that sheer number, we should have got at least a dozen localized global games. But the truth is, we don’t have that many impactful localized games yet. It comes with its own difficulties, though. India is home to dozens of recognized and unrecognized languages and cultures. To satisfy each one of them is a task next to impossible unless planned and organized structurally.
There are 2 methods or production models for deploying localized games. One is a simultaneous shipping method, and the other is a post-gold localization method. Simultaneous shipping method needs a lot of planning, at least the last 4 months of the game development to truly include the culture, context, language and other regional settings into the game. Whereas in the post-gold method, the game retroactively altered to suit different regions and markets.
As much as we welcome foreign games, the experience that a localized game can offer is completely different, especially when the scope to showcase the culture is so huge without overdoing it. One such game is Subway Surfers World Tour 2018 – Mumbai. However, it’s always important to be aware of some sensitive topics that can trigger emotions and sentiments of people. For example, In 2016, Pokemon Go was caught in a petition for placing virtual eggs in sacred places like temples. So, every game developer must consider religious aspects, historical information, and other national elements before including them in their game.
Developers often get confused between translation and localization. A mere translation can never be enough to simulate the regional relevance in a game. The suspension of disbelief caused because of the difficulty in comprehension can always break the immersion experience of players and easily disrupt the gamer’s interest to continue the game. However, localization is not always necessary. It entirely depends on the financial viability, genre, the game’s objective, scope and the setting.
If the genre is fantasy, there’s no point in localizing the game; instead, we have to make the setting as alienated from the reality as possible in that case. According to the teasers and trailers, the Indian counterpart to PUBG, the FAU G is supposed to have Indian locations throughout to give a localized gaming experience. To keep the gamer experience at the forefront and make the gamers feel important, Playstation even announced that they are hiring people to play their video games, test linguistic consistency, the accuracy of locations, etc. When done meticulously, it can easily connect your game to the 2.5 billion video gamers across the world.
We live in an age where innovation takes place every morning in every industry. For years, companies have used too much workforce in redundant processes, which is a waste of money and employees. Employees working in the same processes every day result in productivity reduction and can cause errors in critical areas.
In an industry like insurance, these minute details are very critical to process any claims or documents. The insurance industry has started adopting various technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc., to automate the processes. RPA could be used to automate many functions that are part of the insurance industry. Insurance automation using RPA can be used widely in the niche to deal with legacy systems, automate repetitive tasks, and even collect external data. It helps to improve efficiency and also to build a better customer experience.
Some of the RPA use cases in Insurance, areas where insurance companies across the world are using RPA are:
Claims Management: RPA in Insurance makes it possible to integrate all the different claim processing information from multiple sources. Manually intensive processes such as data extraction, complex error tracking, claims verification, aggregation of claims from various data sources, and more can be automated, thus accelerating the process and providing a better customer experience.
A global provider of risk management reduces TAT by 76% with automation: Read how a US-based global insurance provider implemented RPA software to process insurance claims documents and reduced the processing time of documents from 30 minutes to 3 minutes
Underwriting: RPA can capture and process reliable data automatically and at a much faster speed from both internal and external sites. It helps to free up about 30 percent of the capacity. It can also ensure the quality and timely delivery of the work. RPA can be used to reduce risks and also encourage more new customers to arrive, with quicker response times.
Policy Administration: RPA allows insurance companies to automate many processes without making any changes to their current infrastructure. Essentially, it automates the transactional and administrative aspects of operations such as accounting, settlement, risk capture, credit monitoring, tax, and regulatory enforcement.
TruBot Increases Productivity For A Leading Insurance Provider: Read how one of India’s largest insurance companies implemented RPA software solutions to increase productivity by 87%
Finance & Accounting: RPA systems can perform clicks, keystrokes, keystrokes, auto-filling templates, copy-pasting information, field entries, and more, automating a considerable portion of the regular bank reconciliations and minimizing transaction costs as well as policy cost footprint.
A leading general insurance provider automates policy payments reconciliation: Read how robot process automation software helped a bank to retrieve reports, vendor reports, and internal reports for the reconciliation and achieve 99% accuracy.
Product Development: Automation helps insurers verify the NCB slab for policies issued daily by referring to the claim status for previous policies. For the private sector, receive status by email. For the public sector, visit the main insurance authority site. Update the system accordingly, and notify the customer.
A leading general insurance provider automates the No Claim Bonus validation: Read how RPA software tools help a leading insurance company to reduce the turnaround time (TAT) by 65%.