The Economics of a Motor! The Multidisciplinary Marriage between Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, and Software Engineering! The Promise of a California Based Start-up Turntide Technologies with Bill Gates, Iron Man Actor Robert Downey, Jr., Co-Creator of iPhone Tony Fadel as Investors!! Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

News24.com has published an interesting article. Motors use up to half the World's Electricity! In other words, as much as half of the world’s electricity is consumed by the motors only, which power fans, electric cars, pumps, industrial machinery, HVAC-Thermal comforts (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning), etc!

What is a motor? Electric motors convert electricity into motion by using electromagnets to generate magnetic fields which turn a rotor around a shaft.

The conventional analog motors (standard induction motors) constantly draw electricity. The magnetic field is wasted and doesn’t contribute to turning the rotor. The design of the motor dates back to 1838! Their raw material cost is high, rotor current resistive loss is high, winding complexity is high, precise control is through sine waves and programmability is low!!

California Based Start-up Turntide Technologies brought smart technology as an alternative! The performance characteristics including torque, power density, efficiency, versatility, and cost are better than conventional motors. They found a way to maximize the conversion by turning magnets inside the motor on and off as often as 20,000 times a second!! This process uses 30% less electricity!

It is all happened due to software wrapped in metal. Turntide Patented Technology brings Raw Material Cost: Low, Rotor Current Resistive Loss: Zero, Winding Complexity: Simple, Precise Control: Square Waves, Programmability: High.

Turntide Smart Motor System marries a patented high rotor pole switched reluctance motor with matching motor controller, optional IoT Supervisor, and powerful user-friendly software: Unprecedented energy efficiency, lower maintenance costs, and Remote monitoring and control!!

The evolution of electric motors is highly incremental: 1800: Direct Current Motor (Graph: Time (X-axis) Vs. Power (Y-Axis) Graph is a horizontal line, means constant). 1910: Alternating Current Induction Motor: Time vs Power graph (Sinusoidal Waveform), 1980: AC Motor & Variable Frequency Drive, 1990: Switched Reluctance Motor, 2016: Turntide SMC High Rotor Pole Switched Reluctance Motor (Graph Square Waves).

It is the first software-driven motor: the most efficient, reliable, and intelligent motor ever made. No magnets or overlapping coils—common causes of motor failure,

Dear EEE Students, ECE Students, and CSE Students

You might be wondering, what is it for me? Please don’t bethink narrow, confined to only your department. Recently I have seen many students opting for CSE or Switching departments from EEE to CSE/ECE. But, read the following statement again and now tell me, “Do you belong to EEE family or Do You belong to CSE family or Do You belong to ECE Family or altogether New Family?”

Read this now: “Turntide Smart Motors is fully software enabled with built-in sensors for speed, torque, and temperature. When connected to the Turntide Cloud, operating data from the Smart Motor System is continually transmitted to the cloud through a secure connection, allowing for remote monitoring, decision-making, and action from just about anywhere.”

Think Multi-Disciplinary!!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Source Inspiration:

turntide.com/technology/

https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/motors-use-up-to-half-the-worlds-electricity-bill-gates-and-robert-downey-jr-want-to-change-that-20210303