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T-Mobile Donates $5 Million to University of Washington Aimed at Further Advancing Local Engineering Talent and Innovation

T-Mobile

On Thursday, the University of Washington hosted a groundbreaking event celebrating the start of construction for their new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), made possible in part by a new $5M donation from T-Mobile. As part of the agreement, the Engineering Academic Center will also be named by T-Mobile in the coming months. By supporting the development of this new learning facility, the Un-carrier continues to further its commitment to enabling students from diverse backgrounds to have a modern, inclusive, state-of-the-art environment in which to collaborate and experience top-notch engineering and STEM education, while fueling future innovation. “T-Mobile is committed to helping prepare the next generation of engineers and as one of the largest employers of UW College of Engineering graduates, we felt it was critical to invest in a big way to support the advancement and development of the best talent for our collective region and local economy,” said Neville Ray, president of technology, T-Mobile. “We also anticipate that the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building will offer more opportunities for T-Mobile to join with the university and students on leading-edge technologies that further advance the possibilities of 5G.” T-Mobile has been working together with the UW for more than a decade to address the increasingly high demand for trained engineering talent. In 2017, Ray put a call out to the state of Washington to train more engineers, helping drive further awareness of the escalating need for a stronger engineering talent pipeline that supports local private and public companies like T-Mobile. That same year, according to the UW, the state of Washington ranked 49th in the nation in the production of engineers, making it clear there was not enough capacity in state institutions to keep up with the demand for talent. Fast forward to today, and that call to action has started to pay off. Over the past decade, the UW has nearly doubled the number of undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees - but classroom and activity space has not kept up. Projects like the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB) that are backed by both public and private investments – are essential for creating a new home for engineering students and for fueling a healthy, thriving workforce of the future. “Our great public university is dedicated to creating access to excellence for the students of our state,” said UW President Ana Mari Cauce. “We couldn’t accomplish this without the help of T-Mobile. With this new facility, we will be able to open doors of opportunity for even more talented, driven future engineers. These future innovators, creators and entrepreneurs will get the kind of student-centered, hands-on training that will empower them to take on the biggest challenges facing our communities.” As the world evolves, so will the need for tomorrow's talent to come into careers capable of problem-solving with a multidisciplinary mindset. T-Mobile, like many others, looks to higher education institutions including the UW to prepare students for the jobs, and challenges, of the future. View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from T-Mobile on 3blmedia.com

September 16, 2022 01:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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How T-Mobile Is Supporting Hispanic & Latino Communities with Digital Literacy Programs

T-Mobile

As part of our Equity In Action plan, we have furthered our long-standing support of the country’s largest and most influential Hispanic/Latino advocacy organizations—the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and UnidosUS (formerly National Council of La Raza). According to McKinsey, Hispanic/Latino business owners and workers are more likely than other demographics to encounter barriers to digital reskilling and consequentially leaving them behind in digital opportunities. T-Mobile’s support of digital literacy aims to address inequities experienced by Hispanic/Latino students and business owners and bring digital literacy programs directly to growing Hispanic/Latino communities across the U.S. T-Mobile began supporting LULAC’s Conexiones program in 2021. Key pillars of the program include an introduction to digital privacy and security, using the internet to conduct research and to identify misinformation, combating cyberbullying, building a healthy self-image and digital reputation, and cultivating positive relationships online. In 2021, we also supported the Unidos Latinx in Business program, which aims to help Hispanic/Latino business owners thrive in a digital world. Program participants learned how to use affordable technological solutions including 5G connectivity, digital payments, and budgeting apps to streamline their business operations. The Latinx in Business program also offers overviews on how to use email, social media, and texting to provide customer service, as well as timely information on COVID-19-specific federal aid programs for small businesses, and COVID-19 safety protocols. Learn more in T-Mobile's 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from T-Mobile on 3blmedia.com

September 15, 2022 04:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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Qualcomm Wireless Reach and Hapinoy Celebrate the Expansion of Mobile MicroBusiness Hubs for Women Microentrepreneurs in the Philippines

Qualcomm

MANILA, Philippines, September 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ initiative, and Hapinoy celebrated the success of their joint Mobile MicroBusiness Hubs Program, coinciding with Hapinoy’s 15th Year Anniversary. During its 15 years, Hapinoy established itself as the “katuwang” (partner in ups and downs) of sari-sari stores throughout the Philippines with its holistic approach of community-building, training, and market linkages. With support from Wireless Reach, Hapinoy and their sari-sari store owners were able to build mobile technology capabilities, effectively taking things into the era of digitization. Through Mobile MicroBusiness Hubs and earlier iterations of the program, participating store owners reported an average 10-20 percent increase in their incomes, even during the Covid-19 pandemic. The program has reached more than 40,000 micro-entrepreneurs and brought expanded service offerings to more than half a million citizens. These expanded offerings include a range of financial services. In the Philippines, approximately one million of these sari-sari stores, owned by female microentrepreneurs called Nanays (Filipino for ‘Mother’), provide their communities access to critical goods and services. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Nanays faced many challenges, including supply chain disruptions and reduced purchasing power. These issues threatened the social and economic well-being of sari-sari store owners and the communities they serve. The MicroBusiness Hubs program has been instrumental in the digital transformation of sari-sari stores and helped Nanays successfully navigate a “new normal.” “Economic growth is correlated with poverty alleviation and access to financial services is a key element of development and growth in emerging economies, especially in this digital era,” said Nies Purwati, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Qualcomm International Inc. “ The MicroBusiness Hubs platform has been a proven and valuable resource for so many women to improve their livelihoods as essential sari-sari stores.” Through its longstanding collaboration with Wireless Reach, Hapinoy has been evolving its offerings by embracing advanced wireless solutions and training women micro-entrepreneurs on mobile-based technologies since 2014. “The support from Wireless Reach was absolutely instrumental in preparing and helping us transition through the pandemic,” said Mark Joaquin Ruiz, Hapinoy Co-Founder and President. “Both our organization and program were able to quickly make a full digital transition, bringing all business operations fully online and allowing the MicroBusiness Hubs program to scale its impact to already participating and new micro-entrepreneurs, even in the face of lockdowns and shortages of goods and capital.” The full-scale digitization, including technical assistance from Qualcomm companies on the development of an AI-powered Chatbot, enabled Nanays to not only overcome many of the global challenges of recent years, but actually was able to introduce new income generating activities that were particularly relevant during the pandemic. As a newly-minted fully sustainable social enterprise, Hapinoy plans to further scale Mobile MicroBusiness Hubs to thousands of additional sari-sari stores across the Philippines – focusing on creating communities of Nanays and helping on-board them to new opportunities, skills and technologies to level-up their businesses. In a period of seismic change and uncertainty, the future has never looked more optimistic for these women microentrepreneurs. Hapinoy Mobile MicroBusiness Hubs is a collaboration between Wireless Reach and Hapinoy. ### About Qualcomm Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. About the Wireless Reach Initiative Wireless Reach invests in sustainable programs that demonstrate innovative uses of wireless technology to strengthen economic and social development globally. Our programs foster entrepreneurship, aid in public safety, enhance the delivery of health care, enrich teaching and learning, and improve environmental sustainability. Since 2006, Wireless Reach has benefitted more than 20 million people. Qualcomm and Wireless Reach are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. About Hapinoy Founded in 2007, Hapinoy is a pioneering social enterprise based of the Philippines which aims to be a constant partner of women microentrepreneurs who own micro-retail shops called sari-sari stores. These “Nanays” (Filipino for Mother) - as Hapinoy fondly calls them - are organized into on-ground and online communities and are provided access to learning, financing, technologies, and new business opportunities. Since inception it has now impacted close to 100,000 sari-sari storeowners all around the Philippines. Media Inquiries Hapinoy Name: Issa Paulmanal Title: Head of Communications and Communities Email: issa@hapinoy.com View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from Qualcomm on 3blmedia.com

September 14, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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Paving the Way for 6G Commercialization

Keysight Technologies

As the fifth generation (5G) of wireless technology ushers in a new era of connectivity, it is forever changing the way future generations and technology will coexist. Technologists envision an even more expansive vision for 6G, with ubiquitous and near-instantaneous connectivity that can bridge the human, physical, and digital worlds. Realizing these ambitious goals will require not only the development of new technologies, but even more so, new ways of collaborating across the ecosystem. 6G will leverage high data throughputs of 100 Gbps to perhaps as high as 1 Tbps, low latency, and artificial intelligence to improve the human experience, make infrastructure more sustainable, and businesses more efficient. Key drivers for 6G include bringing connectivity to rural areas, intelligent monitoring to improve energy and transportation efficiencies, and enabling immersive remote presence, digital twins, holographic telepresence, and extended reality. Bringing the first phases of these 6G technologies to market by 2030 starts with ensuring that early research doesn’t become fragmented — which would make it harder to commercialize, as happened with pre-5G generations of wireless technologies. The entire 6G ecosystem must work together, as 5G has done, and starting now, to avoid the obstacles experienced with previous generations and pave a clear path to commercialization. Lessons from previous generations Unlike pre-5G generations of wireless technologies, 6G is being defined first by what it can do, not how it will do it. By focusing on alignment around the path to commercialization, industry leaders can determine if that path will be successful. With 3G, companies and the standards bodies started with how the technology would work and focused more on spectrum usage for mobile broadband/internet and the introduction of IP. Early movers prioritized differentiated technologies from the outset, which fragmented the industry and ultimately made it difficult for users to change service providers or use devices in different countries. With 4G, the industry began to coalesce more on an IP-only network, the user handoffs across heterogeneous networks, and other cooperative efforts in backhaul and power consumption across systems and devices. Even then, despite 4G being seen as the de-facto universal standard, it experienced competing priorities as with the push for investment and status between LTE vs. WiMAX. For 5G, industry leaders took an outside-in approach, setting their sights on the needs of a broader set of markets with special attention to the enterprise. This includes Industry 4.0 and opportunities to advance the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Pushing the value of the network closer to the edge expanded the research footprint, as technical solutions required a knowledge exchange across service and cloud providers, component and device manufacturers, test and measurement experts, and network orchestrators. 5G is the first truly universal standard. Ultimately, 6G will benefit from these lessons, and more as 5G rolls out. New ways to collaborate towards a shared vision Given the breadth of use cases being explored for 6G, its ecosystem is becoming larger and more complex than previous generations. This means that a much more diverse set of organizations and stakeholders must collaborate earlier to align on the vision, identify the technical challenges, and develop the standards and solutions to measure and validate new approaches. Early market makers are extending their research collaborations beyond the technical standards bodies and forums to include participation in regulatory and advocacy groups, as well as investment in experimentation hubs. So far, 6G research is benefiting from this approach, which aims to establish the structures and tools for collaboration from the outset to speed the move of technology theory into practical experimentation. Moving from vision setting to action Hundreds of partners across academia and industry have assembled under consortia like the 6G Flagship program and the North American NextG Alliance, in which Keysight is a founding member, to find practical approaches for creating an infrastructure that can support capabilities that once could only be considered science fiction: holographic communications, intelligent surfaces, and what Ericsson calls the internet of senses. Similar groups in Europe, China, Korea, and Japan underscore the necessity that only a global, multi-pronged, multi-stakeholder approach can facilitate these ambitious plans: Establishing the mmWave Coalition The next generation of cellular will demand even more data bandwidth than 5G and push research to frequencies above 100 GHz to enable ultra-high data-rate short-range networks. Early market makers are starting by exploring untapped parts of the radio spectrum, into what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) described as frequency bands “long considered to lie at the outermost horizons of usable radio spectrum.” Four years ago, Keysight banded with other thought leaders in a grass roots effort to form the mmWave Coalition and advocated to make above-95 GHz spectrum more accessible and useful for innovative services and technologies. Creating the Spectrum Horizons program The mmWave Coalition’s advocacy led to the FCC creating the Spectrum Horizons program, which provides the regulatory framework for experimentation across these upper-frequency bands, from 95 GHz to 300 GHz, so-called sub-terahertz wireless. Keysight was recently granted the first FCC Spectrum Horizons Experimental license for developing 6G technology in sub-Terahertz (THz) frequency bands, between 95 gigahertz (GHz) and 3 THz. To continue this blending of industry, business, policy, and standards, Roger Nichols recently became the second Keysight executive to be appointed to the FCC’s Technical Advisory Council (TAC) where he and a diverse group of leading technology experts provide technical expertise in several important areas, including 6G, artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced spectrum sharing as well as emerging wireless technologies Speeding 6G commercialization The steps industry leaders are taking today are laying the foundation and regulatory framework to promote 6G technology development while also ensuring no harmful interference to existing authorized users. The FCC license allows for the enhancement of innovation sandboxes, where researchers are able to experiment at these high frequencies over the air. By working in bands of contiguous spectrum, researchers can avoid designing over-complicated radios that have to cross disjointed frequencies to achieve high data throughputs. With experimental licenses in hand, investment in adapting or inventing the appropriate tools will ramp up, including the test and measurement solutions on hand in the Keysight 6G Transceiver Test Testbed. The investment in such research infrastructure is significant and enables innovators to share resources and insights so they can isolate the technical hurdles and find solutions early to help speed the commercialization of 6G for all. View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from Keysight Technologies on 3blmedia.com

September 14, 2022 09:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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Smart Water Solutions - A New Frontier for 5G, IoT and BSS

Ericsson

The water challenge and need for rapid digitization of water utilities Water is the most precious resource for humankind, it’s often referred to the most valuable commodity on this planet. Yet almost half the global population is living in areas where there is water scarcity at least one month per year, and this percentage is expected to increase year on year. UN has defined Sustainable Development goal 6 which aims to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. Source: On the other hand, 95 percent of the world’s population has access to mobile networks. The proliferation of latest 5G networks globally and their ability to support several types of IoT devices, from simple sensors to industrial cameras and artificial reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) devices, are supporting rapid digitization across all industries. ICT technologies can support the rapid digitization of water industry also, thus improving the overall distribution and efficiency of the network without the need to redesign the existing infrastructure. With the support of Business Support Systems (BSS), communication service providers (CSPs) can help develop and monetize new innovative solutions and business models to efficiently onboard and manage vendors, and develop an ecosystem of partners to enable innovation and co-creation. In its latest Ericsson Mobility Report (EMR), Ericsson predicts Cellular IoT devices to touch around five billion by 2027, almost three times higher than 2022 levels. Smart water solutions – optimizing distribution and management of water network 5G, along with IoT and BSS platforms, enables several smart water solutions which can be deployed by water utilities to proactively manage water, monitor the distribution network, and monetize the value across the service chain. We explore some smart water uses cases below and the role of BSS in each: Smart water grids Water networks have centralized water storage and treatment setup along with a huge and complex distribution network spanning hundreds of kilometers. The centralized setup, consisting of pumping stations, treatment plants and reservoirs, is typically managed by supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems with sensors/ controllers connected to central monitoring and management software. However, too often there is negligible monitoring of the water distribution network. This makes it impossible to know what happens to the water when it moves through the distribution network leaving open questions, such as: How much water reaches the customers? How much is lost during transmission? Is the water getting contaminated by the time it reaches the customer? Such problems may manifest as leakages, reduction in hydraulic pressure and contamination of water which cannot be detected until customers complain about it. 5G and IoT enable deployment of a high efficiency two-way monitoring and management system that can be deployed on a water distribution network. Done well, this results in water loss prevention, improved portable water supply, transparency in distribution/charging and increases overall efficiency. In a smart water grid, IoT devices such as sensors/actuators are deployed across the distribution network in addition to what is deployed at centralized sites. These devices enable collection and analysis of real-time information on water pressure, temperature, water quality, etc. which can be used by water management systems to take real-time decisions when abnormalities are detected. Such early warning and control systems can enable immediate grid isolation, provide warnings/alerts to customers and, mobilize technicians quickly – thus, improving customer experience and allowing the quick rectification of faults. These deployments can be supported by deploying a 5G massive IoT (mIoT) network slice which is a virtual customized network created over and existing 5G network. A mIoT slice will be capable of supporting millions of IoT devices, low power mode, and the wide coverage needed for such installations. We have seen early adoption for smart water IoT based solution, in Singapore and the Netherlands where they have deployed smart water grid to manage water demand, monitor and support their water supply distribution systems. Besides the 5G network provided by the CSP, many partners, including sensor vendors, control device vendors, applications, field staff, etc., need to be onboarded and managed over their lifecycle. BSS can support onboarding, monetization, and settlement for such a setup by enabling digital partner management capabilities, specifically in the area of: Zero-touch/automated onboarding process for new industry partners, innovation labs, developers Multi party charging and billing for application/solutions deployed on CSP’s or partner stack Supply partner settlement functionality covering revenue sharing and compensation models Remote support through AR In addition to digitization of water infrastructure, technology can also play a key role in the daily operation and management of the water grid. One such area is supporting technicians who are deployed in remote areas. A 5G Network slice can be used to deploy a high-capacity uplink/downlink slice enabling a technician to use an AR/VR device and get support from experts based in central offices. The remote technician will connect the AR/VR glasses to the 5G slice and communicate with the expert. The high upload and download speeds enable the remote expert to see in real time what the technician sees on their laptop. The expert can then provide guidance to the technician through voice commands or by annotations overlaid on the technician’s field of vision providing helpful guidance. High bandwidth also enables the quick sharing of engineering drawings to a remote technician, thus improving the overall response time for closure of the incident. The involvement of multiple partners, such as AR platform providers, cloud infrastructure providers, device partners, etc. and need to manage CSP offerings such as network slice and virtual functions, requires BSS to evolve to support and simplify complex commercial relationships between the partners. Ericsson Digital BSS provides several capabilities to enable these use cases: Enterprise offers and account management Onboarding of partner services with vertical application offerings Co-creation capabilities for partners to add value to the network by building new services in BSS Partner monetization and support for new business models in the value chain with catalog driven architectures to support charging and billing Fulfillment and orchestration of virtualized services and 5G network slices Partner platform management BSS exposure capabilities Which role in the value chain? Network developer, service enabler, or service creator? For more details on these three roles refer to 5G monetization All these capabilities are provided through our enablement layer Ericsson Digital Experience Platform (DXP), that is fully integrated with Ericsson’s business enablement products (BSS) like Ericsson Charging, Ericsson Billing, Ericsson Catalog Manager and Ericsson Order Care. The Ericsson BSS stack allows full integration with OSS and network capabilities to enable an end-to-end solution. We explored a similar use case in a recent eBrief for remote support in smart factories and its implications for BSS, Full steam ahead for Industry 4.0: Exploring BSS for smart factories. Geo-visualization through AR for underground infrastructure Another water management use case is enabling technicians to identify the exact locations of underground pipes and other infrastructure. With an AR/VR handset and associated software, technicians can see the overlay of underground pipes in their field of vision. This helps prevents costly mistakes of digging in the wrong place or damaging some other utilities infrastructure, which can happen when technicians are at risk of incorrectly interpreting the physical location of underground pipes in 2D-maps. This use case necessitates similar BSS capabilities as the previous remote support through AR use case, mainly related to capabilities around enterprise offer management, partner monetization through new business models, revenue sharing schemes, network slicing, service level agreement (SLA) management, partner platform management and BSS exposure capabilities, all integrated with OSS and network capabilities. Smart metering and digital wallets Another key area digitization can support is automatic meter reading (AMR). This helps the utility provider and consumers get accurate readings over multiple intervals to get a clear view of consumption patterns across hours/days and enables the creation of itemized and accurate bills. Smart meters can be connected to 5G network slices and automatically transmit meter readings to central servers. BSS can support utilities by managing complete billing for their customers through the billing-on-behalf (BoBo) functionality Along with smart meters, digital wallets and mobile payment options are also needed to support digital payments. The combination of digital payments with smart meters enables complete digitization of consumption tracking, digital payments and management of the water connection based on payment details thus avoiding loss of revenues. Ericsson Wallet Platform allows users to store, transfer and withdraw money, paying merchants and utility providers. With an open and published API first technology Ericsson Wallet Platform is the core of the mobile financial services echo-system with partners (merchants, bill payment aggregators, financial service, and utility providers). Ericsson Wallet Platform combines the high-performance telco level and high secure financial level capabilities into one platform. It also includes tight integration with Ericsson Charging with opportunities for cross domain use cases. Ericsson Digital BSS – a key enabler for smart water solutions With the proliferation of mobile networks and connected devices across various industries, and the benefits that ICT brings to industries, embracing 5G and IoT solutions is clear choice for the water industry. In a recent eBrief, BSS for sustainable choices: Exploring Electric Vehicle (EV) smart charging, we have shown how IoT-based solutions and sustainable-focused use cases can also be deployed in other industries including the Energy and Transportation sector. Conclusion Here, in this blog, we have presented BSS capabilities for water utilities and have analyzed use cases such as smart water grid, remote support and geo-visualization through AR and digital wallets in conjunction with automatic meter reading solutions. Most importantly, advanced BSS partner management capabilities will make it possible for CSP to onboard and manage partners, design and offer services with complex commercial agreements and capture revenue streams across B2C, B2B, B2B2X and many other business models. In a recent report published by Ericsson and Analysys Mason, “ IoT partner enablement in BSS: Readying CSPs for new IoT market opportunities ”, we demonstrate how imperative it is for CSPs to start to prioritize the transformation of their BSS partner management stacks for IoT and invest in architecturally agile platforms that are configurable and expandable with extensive automation to achieve profitability of IoT use cases for vertical. As such, CSPs should select partners that can deliver end-to-end solutions with established interconnections between BSS, OSS, and network, and have the scale to deploy the platform in many CSPs worldwide – an important factor in the successful evolution of CSP’s IoT ecosystem. 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September 13, 2022 12:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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How ColdTrace X Is Protecting Life-Saving Vaccines, One Cold Room at a Time

Qualcomm

Qualcomm products mentioned within this post are offered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. The World Health Organization reports that over 50% of vaccines worldwide are wasted. Millions of doses of vaccines are discarded because they have not been stored at the correct temperature as they are moved along the cold chain. If at any point during the journey it gets a little too hot or a little too cold, the vaccine must be thrown away. In rural areas, unreliable electricity causes clinics to lose power routinely, and equipment often malfunctions at cold chain storage centers and during transportation. As a result, already stretched thin clinic workers feel they must keep a constant watch over their medications at every step. Traditionally, monitoring vaccines relies on clinic workers looking at basic thermometer readings and recording them with pen and paper. As this is labor intensive, it generally happens infrequently in the distribution chain, if at all, leaving many points of potential failure. To solve this challenge, Nexleaf Analytics developed ColdTrace X, a remote temperature logging system, in close collaboration with VVDN Technologies as their engineering and manufacturing partner. This innovative wireless solution provides real-time monitoring of storage conditions at different stages of the vaccine cold chain to protect the potency of these life-saving vaccines. Nexleaf is a non-profit organization whose mission is to work with countries to ensure they have the data needed to build lasting solutions that improve people's health. Nexleaf provides the technology, expertise, and data to Ministries of Health and international aid organizations in twenty-seven countries to monitor their cold chains. How ColdTrace X works ColdTrace X uses temperature sensor nodes, Bluetooth and cellular technology to continuously monitor temperatures inside vaccine refrigerators and cold rooms. The sensor nodes communicate with a base station, which acts as a gateway to collect critical temperature data to provide customizable analytics, report-generating tools, and SMS alerts when temperatures exceed the required range. The base station offers battery life that lasts up to seven days, ensuring continuous operation in the event of a connectivity or power disruption and the ability to store data for several months. The complete system is designed for vaccine refrigerators and cold room monitoring in rural clinics and health facilities to empower health workers, inform ministries of health, and improve overall cold chain performance. The image above shows a door sensor installation. In the next image, we see the base station that collects data from the sensors to alert clinic workers with instant fault information for technicians to act on. It also transmits details to a central service for analytical review. The ColdTrace X Project The most critical element of the project for VVDN was to ensure the optimization of the power consumption and accuracy of the temperature sensors to provide the correct alerts. Developers and R&D engineers at VVDN carefully selected each small component, in particular considering the battery backup requirement. The mechanical design of the product was given strict consideration as it had to achieve a temperature accuracy of +-0.5C and response time as per T90 20 minutes maximum in accordance with EN12830:1999 and IP67 rating of the product. The solution complies with all the certifications, including CE marking, Wireless Planning and Coordination ( WPC ) and the WHO Performance, Quality, and Safety ( PQS ) for use in immunization programs. It took almost a year to develop the complete solution, including design, hardware, and software, and to ensure it was ready for mass production. The Technology Behind the Success of ColdTrace X The ColdTrace X system utilizes the Quectel BG95-M3 multi-mode LPWA module, based on the cutting-edge Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem, to provide reliable optimized connectivity. This technology helped to provide the seamless connectivity needed to send all the critical data over the cloud uninterrupted for further analytics and decision making. The underlying Qualcomm Technologies communication and power management solutions in the module was fundamental in meeting the major requirements for the solution's success: LTE CATm1 with global band support helped increase the solution's reach in more countries. NB-IoT with 2G fallback extended usage considerably into the rural areas where connectivity is challenging. Quectel’s BG95-M3 module’s long battery life, supported the need to power the device for extended periods. This was the second version of the product. The earlier solution was based on wired temperature sensors. It worked well, but wired sensors introduced installation constraints and wire length limitations. With the technological advancements provided by Qualcomm Technologies, they successfully upgraded to a wireless sensor-based solution. Future technology upgrades, such as adding 5G connectivity, will further enhance ColdTrace X features and provide health workers with even more benefits in terms of speed and latency. Qualcomm 9205 LTE Modem is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from Qualcomm on 3blmedia.com

September 12, 2022 10:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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News Release

Students Gather for College STEM Day at the Chemours Discovery Hub

The Chemours Company

Chemours is committed to being a good corporate citizen, an upstanding steward of our local environmental resources, and good neighbors with Unshakable Integrity – one of our values. As part, we aim to enhance the communities where we live and operate by increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. To ensure we’re helping to find and inspire the next generation of innovators, we partner with schools in local communities to provide early access to STEM education and offer scholarships for high school and college-bound students. In advance of the start of the new school year, we had the opportunity to host students from the University of Connecticut and Delaware State University for a day of personal and professional development and hands-on STEM experiences at our main innovation center – the Chemours Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware. Over 85 students joined us—including many incoming freshmen from the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion, which former Chemours President and CEO Mark Vergnano and his wife Betsy founded at the University of Connecticut to increase the number of under-represented students in engineering and other STEM fields. The students began their day with a warm welcome from Randy King, Vice President of Technology at Chemours, and then participated in a session on building self-confidence led by award-winning keynote speaker Jimmy Naraine. Next, a panel discussion about professional development with Chemours employees, including Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Chief Brand Officer Alvenia Scarborough, shared insight on the power of developing your personal brand and building strong networks. The students were also treated to a tour of Chemours’ research and development labs, where they experienced first-hand the cutting-edge science and how that science is transformed into products that help the world. Engaging with Chemours’ scientists and researchers, students experienced the innovation behind advances in clean hydrogen energy, 5G communications, refrigerants that reduce global warming, immersion cooling, lithium-ion batteries, paint formulations and testing, and more. Throughout the day, students were able to network with each other and Chemours team members and get an in-depth view of how we are creating a better world through the power of our chemistry. For students interested in experiencing what a different kind of chemistry company can do, visit our careers page to find open internship and co-op opportunities. View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from The Chemours Company on 3blmedia.com

September 12, 2022 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

6WIND is coming to MWC Las Vegas, helping CSPs reduce Energy Consumption by Two-thirds!

6WIND

6WIND, a leading high-performance virtualized & cloud-native networking software company today announced their participation at MWC Las Vegas. 6WIND deliver high-performance and secure Virtual Service Router (VSR) Solutions, which are deployed bare-metal, virtualized, or containerized on COTS servers in private and public clouds. 6WIND VSR Solutions help reduce the carbon footprint by lowering the energy consumption by two-thirds, cost effectively without sacrificing performance by drastically reducing the hardware servers required. 6WIND VSR solutions; vPE, vCSR, vSecGW, vCGNAT, vBorderRouter & vCPE, have proven their energy saving capabilities and their impact on reducing the carbon footprint. These solutions deliver high performance, security, scalability, flexibility, openness and agility, to global CSPs, MNOs, Cloud Providers, Data Centers and Enterprises. These are deployed bare-metal, virtualized, containerized or cloud-native on COTS servers in private and public clouds. At MWC Las Vegas, 6WIND will show case its VSR, Cloud Native and Host Acceleration solutions on booth no. W2.952. 6WIND will demonstrate how they can help reduce the cardon footprint by two-thirds with their VSR solutions! 6WIND will also present a Tech Talk on Sept 29 at 11am, where they will share how CSPs can accelerate their virtualized and cloud native journey whilst lowering their energy consumption by two-thirds! More details here. “We are very excited to be present at MWC Las Vegas as these events provide an excellent platform for us to showcase our offerings to our target audience. At 6WIND we are proud to be a Green Tech company, contributing to the reduction of CO 2 within our eco-system. We are helping CSPs, MNOs and Cloud Providers to build efficient, competitive and sustainable networks with our VSR solutions. We look forward to meeting with our customers and prospects at this leading industry event.” commented Julien Dahan, CEO, 6WIND. About 6WIND 6WIND is a green tech virtualized & cloud-native networking software company and the worldwide leader for Virtual Service Router solutions. 6WIND software is deployed globally by CSPs, MNOs, Cloud Providers, Data Centers & Enterprises, allowing them to replace expensive hardware & build their new 5G networks with virtualized networking software solutions for routing and security use cases. 6WIND has a global presence with Headquarters based in Paris - France, Santa Clara, CA - USA and Singapore. Social follow - LinkedIn & Twitter www.6wind.com Contact Details 6WIND Neelam Bahal, VP Global Marketing +44 7805 090701 neelam.bahal@6wind.com Company Website https://www.6wind.com

September 12, 2022 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Hybrid Working: Five Ways To Create a Powerful Hybrid Office

Ericsson

By Peter Linder, Head of 5G Marketing North America If you’ve reflected lately about what hybrid working means for you and your workplace, then my guess is you’re not alone. As more businesses move toward hybrid working, there are at least five areas where you can improve your game: from where you work and when you work, to how you commute and travel, and even how you recharge afterwards. Coming up with a plan today could make navigating this new landscape easier for you, your colleagues, your customers and your families. The dawn of hybrid working In 2020, the transition from a traditional to virtual working model was instant and uniform. The office was closed literally overnight. Instead, we were asked to make immediate headspace for an unknown but unavoidable option: virtual working. This was a no questions asked and just do it moment. After two years of changing return-to-office dates, today, we are instead seeing the transition to a hybrid working model: a flexible work model that supports a blend of in-office, remote and on-the-go workers. And while this transition is fluid, it has its own challenges such as having a mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated workers and substantial differences between the IT environment at home and in the office. The truth is, people have worked remotely and fully virtually long enough to cement new ways of working, which we either love or hate. A well-functioning hybrid working model should balance the needs of the business, your team’s most effective ways of working and your individual and family situation. These varying needs have seen companies pioneering their own approaches to hybrid work. Know where you work best High-level hybrid working policies are easy to understand, and invariably will set limits on the share of the work week that can be spent working remotely. However, the real challenge is figuring out how to realize it in a way that supports you and both your colleagues. Take my situation, for example. My work falls into two big buckets: synchronous work where I collaborate with colleagues and customers, and asynchronous with more productivity-related work. While the synchronous portion benefits greatly from in-person collaborations in an office, personally I feel I have a better set-up at home for the asynchronous part and fully virtual meetings. My agenda consists of strategic/creative and project/review-oriented meetings. The strategic/creative work has suffered the most during the pandemic and needs attention with thoughtful collaborative sessions. After two years of practice, the project/review sessions work well in a virtual set-up. But how does this affect work relationships? For me, maintaining existing work relationships has worked OK, but building relationships with new team members needs attention. Job changes during the pandemic have forced us to be creative with virtual coffees, but there is more to do. Most workers view hybrid working as taking place in two locations: an office and a home. However, I expect to see more remote work options where secondary work locations grow in importance such as remote work in a different office, a secondary residence, or any part of the world. My hypothesis for a baseline plan for the fall is to spend one or two days weekly at the office, focused on synchronous sessions and relationship building, while actively pursuing creative uninterrupted work sessions in secondary locations for a few days up to a week per quarter. Know when to workand when not to The boundaries between on- and off-hours got blurred in the virtual world. For many, this reality was further accentuated if they found themselves working in a global organization that never really stops. On the upside, the pandemic gave us more flexibility. Suddenly, we reallocated time used for office lunch breaks, commuting and business travel to productive work. Yet on the downside, what was once a hard stop at the end of the day quickly became very soft. To manage the new complex environment, many found ways to work more hours to deal with challenging tasks. As a result, the output per individual increased. The total amount of hours I spent on work-related tasks has increased during the pandemic, perhaps as much as my travel has decreased. For me, this added another challenge to an already complex schedule. Collaborations with colleagues residing in a continent further east must happen in the morning. Support to customer-facing teams needs to be allocated evenly across all time zones. These two realities and a personal commitment to daily exercise routines make my days very front end heavy. The second challenge is that my asynchronous work tends to be back end heavy, with time for strategic/creative thinking allocated at the end of the day, which is not optimal. To manage this, I have set up firm off-limits hours in the morning and strive to combine physical exercise with strategic creative/thinking early in the day when my mind is fresh and works best. I also aspire to block out a week per quarter for strategic/creative work that requires long sequences of uninterrupted time. Design your own commute Pre-pandemic work commutes were eating into valuable time at both ends of the day. During the pandemic, commutes went from miles to feet with a virtual work-from-home model. With the move to hybrid working, work commutes are coming backbut will they ever be the same again? Since you’re likely to have already turned your commuting time into productive time during the pandemic, you probably don’t want to see it go back into a black hole of wasted time. Fortunately, you don’t have to. Today, the combination of fewer commutes into the office, together with new scheduling realities that allow you to avoid rush hour when you do commute, the days of sitting in daily traffic tailbacks or cramming into the metro, twice a day, all workdays in a week, are surely becoming memories of a bygone era. When it comes to planning my own commute, my base plan is to take eastbound conference calls from home and commute into the office after the morning rush. I aim to return after scheduled meetings in the afternoons and conduct asynchronous work at home to avoid the early evening rush hour. I find the avoidance of peak travel times lowers my commuting stress and – somewhat surprisingly – my ‘micro commute’ in the afternoon refreshes me, pumping me up for the last few hours of work. Only 1 in 4 consumers say they want to return to their pre-pandemic commute Find out why in Ericsson’s Augmenting the daily commute report Get ready for business travel to be rescheduled The work situation for road warriors shifted dramatically during the pandemic. In my case I was grounded for 805 days, meaning I had to find creative ways to work with zero travel. Previously, work travel was fairly common, especially in the United States; a global leader in business travel spending. According to the US Travel Association, prior to the pandemic the US spent $306 billion per annum on business travel, split between general business travel and meetings/events. In the hybrid working model, optimal travel might be somewhere in between in-person (100 percent travel) and the virtual (0 percent) world, at half my pre-pandemic business travel levels. But how will I achieve this? My hypothesis for how business travel could change in a new hybrid working model is: travel to build new relationships should bounce back and might even increase short term travel associated with event for customers and employees should bounce back to fill the zoom-fatigue gap short-term and even medium- to long-term depending on how well we pivot to meaningful hybrid events travel where you travel to events as an audience should decline to make room for customer-facing travel customer-facing travel settles in on a reduced level travel associated with internal meetings focused on relationship/team building, on a overall lower level. I envision my own travel to increase short-term focused on relationship building. Travel centered around meeting customers and partners at their premises or at events with extensive networking opportunities. In the longer term, relationship building and cross-company collaborations will remain central to capturing the potential for customer-led innovation. Reload and recharge An evident struggle in the virtual-only world was how to reload and recharge. When locked down in a home office without travel options, we got stuck in the same environment for a long stretch. Office workers struggled with using their vacation time in 2020, and many vacation plans in 2021 were limited to national vacations and travel. So far in 2022, we have seen the travel industry struggling to rehire fast enough to meet the rapidly surging demand. Vacation cultures vary substantially between different markets, from monthly shutdowns in Europe to family weeks around major US holidays, such as the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most businesses are seasonal, and planning can unlock time for recharging and reloading. Finding your seasonal business dips during the year gives you an opportunity for structured vacation planning. After a challenging and intense summer in 2021, I ran out of steam in the fall and ended up with most of my time off during the last six weeks of the year. This year I have pushed to even it out more over the year, with half of my vacation in one sequence. Breaks play a central role in a hybrid office model and will bring us back better if we invest the time to get this part of the job done well too! Let’s keep the conversation going Thank you for reading to the end. I hope you have found inspiration to formulate a hybrid office plan that serves you, your teams, and your business well over the next 12 months. Get involved in the conversation by reaching out to me on LinkedIn, Twitter,or via e-mail, or SMS/TXT and let me know your thoughts on hybrid working models. Learn more about the future workplace in Ericsson’s Dematerialized Office report. Learn more about connectivity best practices for supporting employees with hybrid work, or browse other Cradlepoint resources about connecting remote work. Listen to our podcast Reimagining the future of work Read more about the Ericsson Virtual Workspace View additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from Ericsson on 3blmedia.com

September 07, 2022 11:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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