A growing segment of our population is more focused on green initiatives than ever before. For reference, roughly 14% of new cars sold today are electric, vs. around 5% in the year 2020. However, adopting new technology only solves a segment of the larger problem. More and more attention is also being paid to waste, reuse and recycling operations. In this article, learn about the latest solutions from Microchip for smart waste management processes and reuse.
Microchip solutions that relate to efficient energy and water use include:
- Smart Waste Management
- Water Bottle Refilling Stations
- Smart Irrigation Systems
- Asset Tracking
- Restroom Dispensers (Soap, Paper, Water)
- Low Standby Power
Paper Waste Reduction in Public Restrooms
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- Low-power MCUs, motor control
- Sensing (signal chain)
- MCUs/FPGAs
Reduce Waste, Encourage Reuse With Public Water Refilling
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- Display
- MPU/MCU
- Sensing (signal chain)
Reduce Waste, Encourage Reuse With Residential Trash + Recycling
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- Low-power MCUs, motor control
- Sensing (signal chain)
Reduce Waste With Industrial Trash Compaction + Sorting
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- FPGA for embedded vision/AI
- Power drive
- Motor control
- MCU for general control
- Sensing/safety
Reduce Waste by Preserving Heat/Cooling with Smart Doors
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- Sensing (for opening + closing)
- Motor control
- Sensing/safety
Consume Less Power
Ideal Microchip Solutions:
- MCUs
- Devices in sleep mode consume less power
- Flexible power-down options as well as special peripheral control to optimize power consumption
- Technologies such as MCUs with XLP, Ethernet Wake on LAN and power-down link detection
- Peripheral Module Disable (PMD) and Analog Peripheral Manager (APM) gate power to analog peripherals such as ADCs for any programmed duty cycle
- Counters and Real-Time-Clock circuitry enable low-power timed wake up
- FPGAs
- Polarfire® FPGAs 50% lower power than SRAM FPGA
- Flash Freeze Mode for 4th Gen FPGAs