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Technology Talks

Big data gets physical: Structural and physical health monitoring during the age of IoT

While in the past most information on the internet was generated by humans or computers, with
the emergence of the Internet of Things, vast amount of data is now being created by sensors
from devices, machines etc, which are placed in the physical world. Here we present a series of
example applications enabled by such sensor data and what we call “Physical Analytics”, which
provides underlying intelligence for structural and physical health applications. The end-to-end
solutions and experiments, which are being presented in this talk, range from infrastructure
management and optimization, environmental sensing and controls, to earth quake forecasting.
All these different applications have been built using a single platform, which is comprised of a
set of “configurable” technologies components including ultra-low power sensing and communi-
cation, big data management technologies, numerical modeling for physical systems, machine
learning based physical model blending, and physical analytics based automation and control.

David Ramahi, CEO, Optomec, Inc. Mr. Ramahi has been an investor and member of the David Ramahi
Optomec Board of Directors since 1998. In 2002, he joined the Company full time to lead its CEO
transition from initial technology development to commercial sales. Under Mr. Ramahi’s Optomec, Inc.
leadership, Optomec has set and executed a focused business strategy that has led to
profitability and high revenue growth. More recently, he has overseen the expansion of the
product portfolio to include Additive Manufacturing hardware and software solutions that are
uniquely targeted at 3D Printed Electronics and the Internet of Things. Prior to Optomec, Mr.
Ramahi was based in Belgium as the Director of European Sales for Rosetta Technologies, and
following a successful acquisition acted as Director of European Major Accounts for Engineering
Animation. Mr. Ramahi received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT.

Computational Modeling of Multi-functional Structures

We live in a 3-dimensional world, and to fully realize the IoT vision of ubiquitous Smart Connect-
ed products, sensing and connectivity must conform to that 3D reality. However, legacy Sensor
& Antenna production and integration is generally 2D in nature, failing to optimize for cost, size,
weight and performance when adapted to 3D products. This session describes how Optomec’s
patented Aerosol Jet solution for 3D Printed Electronics can directly print or integrate 3D
Sensors and 3D Antenna onto existing industrial structures and consumer products, an
essential building block for IoT rollout. Printable Sensor types presented will include Strain,
Creep, Current, Gas, Temperature, RF, etc; as well as a wide variety of Antenna types including
Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, etc. Solutions for improving the packaging/assembly process for
traditional discrete sensors and antenna in a 3D setting also will be discussed. The benefits of a
direct digital approach include lower manufacturing cost, as well as functional benefits; ie: a
tightly coupled sensor provides more sensitive data, which is critical to maximizing LifeCycle
savings in Industrial applications, like Condition Based Maintenance and Predictive Analytics.
Finally, emerging developments in the supply of standard printable sensor and antenna
reference libraries will be discussed.

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