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Soteria Battery Innovation Group Files Patent on Technology to Battle E-Bike Fires

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GREENVILLE, S.C., Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Soteria Battery Innovation Group filed a patent application on a novel battery safety technology designed to reduce the probability and ferocity of e-bike battery fires. The technology offers a simple yet effective solution: a thermally insulating, fire-retardant blanket that can be easily wrapped around each individual cell within an e-bike battery pack. By slowing or preventing fire propagation from cell to cell, this technology addresses a critical safety concern in the e-bike market.

E-bike batteries are often composed of more than 50 individual cells, closely packed within a tight, sealed container. When one cell catches fire, the resulting heat can quickly ignite neighboring cells, causing fifty miniature explosions, each one shooting jets of flame and molten material outside the battery pack. 

This technology borrows the geometry of spacer material used in aerospace composites called honeycomb. When formed from a flame-retardant, insulating material, and in the size and shape to cover each battery, this honeycomb barrier forms the perfect insulator that can keep each cell from heating the other cells, slowing or stopping the propagation of the fire.

As part of a years-long study on e-bike battery safety in collaboration with industry partners including NASA, Polaris, the Fire Department of New York and many others, Soteria’s technology team dismantled over 30 different e-bike batteries to gain a thorough understanding of potential safety gaps. Though insulating cells from one another is a common battery safety strategy, not one of these batteries had any insulation between the cells. “When I saw these results, I realized that for something to be widely adopted, it had to be easy to install, light weight and inexpensive,” said Brian Morin, CEO and Co-Founder of Soteria and one of the inventors of the technology.

The honeycomb structure, made from inexpensive fibers commonly used in firefighter uniforms, will add only about three ounces to the weight of the pack and cost less than $3 per e-bike battery pack once fully licensed and installed. With e-bike battery pack prices running $700 – 900 or more, this technology represents a small add-on to significantly improve safety. Installation is straightforward: once the cells are placed in their frame, the honeycomb slips neatly over the array of cells, allowing a top frame, busbars and other electrical components to be installed in their normal fashion afterwards.

“Once fully manufactured, Voltaplex will plan to use this material in all of our battery packs,” said Rebekah Weaver, Manager at Voltaplex, a subsidiary of Soteria that specializes in providing customized battery packs. In line with Soteria’s commitment to improving safety across the industry, the company will allow the material to be purchased and licensed by others so that it’s use may be widespread. Manufacturers of e-bike batteries or similar batteries, such as power tools, robotics, medical devices and other applications using 18650 and 2170 cylindrical cells, will be able to benefit from this advancement. 

Soteria will be cooperating with supply-chain partners to make the material broadly available to licensees, including DuPont, Kaneka, and Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.). For licensing information or to obtain samples, please contact Abby Zielsdorf, Business Development Coordinator at Abby.Zielsdorf@Soteriabig.com

About Soteria Battery Innovation Group, Inc.
Soteria is a lithium-ion battery safety company which has technology to eliminate battery fires and also runs a consortium to promote best practices for lithium-ion battery safety. Soteria’s mission is to have inherently safe batteries everywhere, which Soteria believes will take a wholistic approach to safety, combining complementary safety technologies from many companies and strategies. Soteria’s consortium of over 120 members including NASA, Mercedes, DuPont, Motorola, Lenovo and many more. Soteria was founded in 2017 by Dr. Brian Morin and is headquartered in Greenville, SC. For more information, please visit www.SoteriaBIG.com.

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Huawei Launches Over 20 All-New Xinghe Intelligent Network Offerings to Amplify Industrial Intelligence

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2024 /CNW/ — During HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, announced more than 20 all-new Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings globally at the summit themed “Xinghe Intelligent Network, Amplify Industrial Intelligence”. These purpose-built offerings contribute to an AI network ecosystem and help customers seize opportunities for intelligent development and maximize intelligent productivity.

With the development of AI technologies, the world is advancing from digital transformation to intelligent transformation. All industries are quickly adopting AI technologies to create new use cases, for example, self-driving cars, intelligent diagnosis and treatment, and intelligent train inspection. All of these are significantly improving the efficiency and experience of our work and daily lives.

The advent of the intelligent era is driving networks into intelligent ones. Huawei has been making joint efforts with partners to lead research and practices of intelligent networks. That’s why Huawei constantly upgrades its Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings to help customers grasp opportunities for intelligent development, build new intelligent network infrastructure, and maximize intelligent productivity in the intelligent era. Key highlights include the following:

Xinghe Intelligent Campus focuses on AI-enabled, experience-centric campus network construction, ensuring zero freezing for audio and video applications, zero degradation on services, and zero waiting for interactions.Xinghe Intelligent WAN introduces a wide range of intelligent technologies to intelligently schedule millions of flows and precisely optimize service experience.Xinghe Intelligent Fabric adopts the AI Turbo engine to improve network throughput, enhancing foundation model training efficiency.Xinghe Intelligent Network Security integrates AI technologies into network security detection, accurately and rapidly identifying threats.

To support network solutions in various scenarios, Huawei released more than 20 featured offerings globally. Examples include the industry’s first 100 Tbps fixed-form Ethernet data center switch, the industry’s first 51.2 Tbps liquid-cooled fixed-form data center switch, the industry’s first AI router, high-quality 10 Gbps campus switches and Wi-Fi 7 APs, Intelligent SASE Branch Security Solution, and the industry’s first IP Autonomous Driving Network Solution. All these offerings are designed to help customers with greater business returns.

As the intelligent era calls for intelligent networks, Huawei will continue to drive the development of intelligent networks and upgrade its Xinghe Intelligent Network products and solutions, ultimately helping global customers to stride towards the intelligent era and reap more benefits.

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HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 | Huawei Unveils the Brand-New Xinghe Intelligent Fabric Solution, Powering the AI Era

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, over 300 industry leaders, experts, and scholars gathered for the data center network session themed “Xinghe Intelligent Fabric, Powering the AI Era.” The event featured discussions on the evolution and technological advancements of data center networks. During the session, Arthur Wang, President of Data Center Network Domain at Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, introduced the newly upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Fabric solution. This cutting-edge solution aims to establish a data center network characterized by one map for intelligent operations and maintenance (O&M), one network for diverse computing, and one platform for simplified deployment, providing a robust network infrastructure to support enterprises’ digital and intelligent transformations.

In his keynote speech, Arthur Wang outlined the emerging trends in data center network development. He emphasized that in the AI era, data center networks require both a “brilliant brain” and “resilient bones.” The newly launched Xinghe Intelligent Fabric solution is designed to deliver a powerful network infrastructure tailored for the AI era, featuring:

One Map for Intelligent O&M: Zero Management Concerns

Huawei’s exclusive network digital map enables rapid cross-data center and cross-vendor fault identification within minutes. Additionally, the NetMaster network large model facilitates AI-driven O&M, eliminating manual intervention and ensuring zero management concerns.

One Network for Diverse Computing: Zero Service Interruptions

The Xinghe Intelligent Fabric supports various application scenarios, including intelligent computing, general-purpose computing, and storage. The innovative Network Scale Load Balancing (NSLB) algorithm increases network throughput to 95% and boosts AI training efficiency by over 10%. With the exclusive iReliable three-level fast switchover capability, it achieves sub-millisecond switchover, guaranteeing zero service interruptions.

One Platform for Simplified Deployment: Zero Configuration Errors

By employing digital twins to simulate networks in advance and verify configurations post-deployment, the solution ensures 100% accuracy in network changes. By harnessing network-security convergence capabilities, AI creates an intelligent security matrix to analyze millions of security policies, achieving zero configuration errors.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to collaborate with industry partners to enhance research and innovation in data center networks, promote intelligent upgrades, and create greater value for the industry.

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Cultivating a Culture of Peace: International Day of Peace Statement by Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif

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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2024 /CNW/ — The longing for peace transcends time, geography and religion. Based on justice, human rights and universal values outlined in the UN Charter, a culture of peace brings us all together in our common agenda for humanity. We can only co-exist by aligning ourselves with such a world order.

On today’s International Day of Peace, we call on world leaders to end conflict and embrace a culture of peace as enshrined in the UN Charter and related international law.

As the UN General Assembly outlined in the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace  a quarter of a century ago, this must include: “Respect for life, human rights and fundamental freedoms; the promotion of non-violence through education, dialogue and cooperation; commitment to peaceful settlement of conflicts; and adherence to freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance, solidarity, cooperation, pluralism, cultural diversity, dialogue and understanding at all levels of society and among nations.”

Educating for peace starts at home and continues in school through years of education. This takes place during the most formative years of a child learning about their identity, ethics, values, conscience, courage and compassion. Wherever there has been a failure in imparting on children the imperative for peace, the world is turned upside down. This is a global failure with no geographical boundaries.

Today, we live in a world of unprecedented violence, armed conflict and chaos. All the genuine and heartfelt commitments made in 1945 in the UN Charter seem to be fading away. Children and adolescents are the most vulnerable, the least protected, and the most impacted. They bear the brunt. 

Global conflicts killed three times as many children in 2023 than in the previous year, according to the United Nations. The number of forcibly displaced people reached an unprecedented 120 million in May 2024.

“In 2023, the United Nations verified a record 32,990 grave violations against 22,557 children in 26 conflict zones, a 35% increase from the previous year,” according to recent analysis by the UN.

We can end these violations and invest in a constructive co-existence globally. We can use our resources for education, rather than for wars. In classrooms around the world, girls and boys who have withstood the wrath of war can rebuild their hopes and their lives. Cultivating a culture of peace is possible. The financial resources exist. The choice as to how we use them is ours.

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