UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS

FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA MECÂNICA

PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO
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INGLÊS - LEITURA

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TEXTO 1 - Flexible, Printed Batteries for Wearable Devices

O texto a ser lido para responder às questões 1 a 3 foi extraído da seção Energy News da versão
eletrônica da revista Technology Review, publicada pelo MIT. Leia-o e responda às questões.

1. Qual o novo produto apresentado no texto?

2. Compare o novo produto aos similares já existentes no mercado, citados no artigo.
a. Quais os limites ou desvantagens dos produtos similares já existentes?
b. O que há de novo na tecnologia do produto apresentado no artigo?
c. Quais as vantagens dessa tecnologia?
3. Quais os possíveis usos que a empresa prevê para o produto?

TEXTO 2 – The Internet of Things

Para responder às questões 4 a 6, você deverá ler um texto contido na seção Science and Technology
da página eletrônica Digital Agenda for Europe, http://ec.europa.eu . Leia o texto e responda às
questões.

4. O que é a Internet das Coisas, segundo a Agenda Digital da União Europeia?

5. Como o terceiro ou próximo momento da Internet das Coisas é descrito?

TEXTOS 1 E 2

Para responder às questões 6 e 7, você deverá levar em conta as informações dos textos 1 e 2.
Lembre-se: para serem consideradas corretas, suas respostas deverão conter evidências/ informações
dos dois textos.

6. Considerando-se a política de incentivo da União Europeia para a Internet das Coisas (Texto 2), é
possível afirmar que o trabalho de pós-graduação de Christine Ho e a startup que ajudou a fundar
(Texto 1) seriam apoiados caso tivessem surgido em um país europeu? Justifique sua resposta
com informações dos dois textos.
7. Em que medida os usos previstos para o produto divulgado no Texto 1 vão ao encontro das
aplicações da Internet das Coisas na sociedade, conforme descrito no Texto 2? Justifique sua
resposta com informações dos dois textos.
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MIT Technology Review
ENERGY NEWS

Flexible, Printed Batteries for Wearable Devices

Imprint Energy is developing a long-lasting, bendable, and rechargeable battery.
By Daniel Lovering on July 18, 2014
A California startup is developing flexible, rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used
industrial screen printers. Imprint Energy, of Alameda, California, has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer
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batteries in wrist -worn devices and hopes to sell them to manufacturers of wearable electronics, medical
devices, smart labels, and environmental sensors.
The company’s approach is meant to make the batteries safe for on-body applications, while their small size and
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flexibility will allow for product designs that would have been impossible with bulkier lithium-based batteries.
Even in small formats, the batteries can deliver enough current for low-power wireless communications sensors,
distinguishing them from other types of thin batteries.
The company recently secured $6 million in funding from Phoenix Venture Partners as well as AME Cloud
Ventures, the venture fund of Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, to further develop its proprietary chemistry and
finance the batteries’ commercial launch. Previous investors have included CIA-backed venture firm In-Q-
Tel and Dow Chemical.
The batteries are based on research that company cofounder Christine Ho began as a graduate student at the
University of California, Berkeley, where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic
zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
The batteries that power most laptops and smartphones contain lithium, which is highly reactive and has to be
protected in ways that add size and bulk. While zinc is more stable, the water-based electrolytes in conventional
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zinc batteries cause zinc to form dendrites, branch -like structures that can grow from one electrode to the other,
shorting the battery. Ho developed a solid polymer electrolyte that avoids this problem, and also provides greater
stability, and greater capacity for recharging.
Brooks Kincaid, the company’s cofounder and president, says the batteries combine the best features of thin-film
lithium batteries and printed batteries. Such thin-film batteries tend to be rechargeable, but they contain the
reactive element, have limited capacity, and are expensive to manufacture. Printed batteries are
nonrechargeable, but they are cheap to make, typically use zinc, and offer higher capacity.
Working with zinc has afforded the company manufacturing advantages. Because of zinc’s environmental
stability, the company did not need the protective equipment required to make oxygen-sensitive lithium batteries.
Despite demand for flexible batteries, Ho says no standard has been developed for measuring their flexibility,
frustrating customers who want to compare chemistries. So the company built its own test rig and began
benchmarking its batteries against commercial batteries that claimed to be flexible. Existing batteries failed
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catastrophically after fewer than 1,000 bending cycles, she says, while Imprint’s batteries remained stable.
Imprint has also been in talks about the use of its batteries in clothes and “weird parts of your body like your
eye,” Ho says. The company also recently began working on a project funded by the U.S. military to make
batteries for sensors that would monitor the health status of soldiers. Other potential applications include
powering smart labels with sensors for tracking food and packages.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/528996/flexible-printed-batteries-for-wearable-
devices/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-
all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140721

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Wrist: pulso
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To wear: vestir, usar
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Bulk: volume
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Branch: ramos
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To bend: dobrar
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DIGITAL AGENDA FOR EUROPE
A Europe 2020 Initiative

The Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology and a market development based on the inter-connection
of everyday objects among themselves and applications. IoT will enable an ecosystem of smart
applications and services, which will improve and simplify EU citizens' lives.
Whereas in the first run Internet of Things referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio-frequency
identification (FID), helping to automate inventory, tracking and basic identification, the second
current wave of IoT sees a strong verve for connecting sensors, objects, devices, data and applications.
The next wave could be called a “cognitive IoT”, facilitating object and data reuse across application
domains, leveraging on hyper-connectivity, interoperability solutions and semantic enriched
information distribution, incorporating intelligence at different levels, in the objects, devices,
network(s), systems and in the applications for evidence-based decision making and priority setting.
Economically, it could generate billions of Euros that easily translate into growth and employment,
provided it ensures trust and security for the European citizens and businesses. At the same time, the
IoT will bring hyper-connectivity to a global society, using augmented and rich interfaces. This global
society will also be characterized by higher semi-autonomous system behavior than today.
Applications for Society
Smart cities are an obvious application of IoT as a horizontal enabler, covering sustainable smart grids
, smart mobility and smart health.
Advances in integration and miniaturization of ultra-low power components and micro systems and
increased autonomy and flexibility of service robots is accelerating the diffusion of embedded ICT in
all types of physical objects and artifacts ranging from clothes and even bodies to homes, cars and
transport systems, as well as all public spaces and cities.
IoT Research and Innovation
The IERC-Internet of Things European Research Cluster groups together the IoT projects funded by
the European research framework programs, as well as national IoT initiatives.
Policy Environment
Creating a climate for trust and responsible innovation is essential, as the development of IoT touches
upon questions of security, privacy and trust. Furthermore, as the IoT will become widespread in
citizens' lives at home, in the office, in public or on the move, discussion needs to identify any policy or
regulatory requirements, where an impact could be foreseen, as well as in terms of education.
In order to fully deploy IoT, pervasive and easy access to wireless and mobile communication and
identification/numbering resources to connect billions of objects is necessary.
Tags:
Internet of things - Smart Cities - architecture - privacy- iot governance - innovation - platforms - virtual objects - sensor
networks - semantics - interoperability - iot-application - smart industry - iot standardisation - semantic interoperability - virtual
world - societal challenges - sensing enterprise - cyber physical systems - wsn - citizen - device to device
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/internet-things