Next-generation industries
Explore Applications
- Asset tracking
- Energy generation and distribution
- Factory automation
- Home and professional appliances
- Home, building, and city automation
- Industrial motor control
- Industrial tools, motor drives, and equipment
- Lighting and controls
- Medical and healthcare
- Metering
- Point of sales and retail logistics
- Power supplies and converters
- Smart city
- Smart farming
- Smart home
- Space
Our products and solutions
High levels of innovation are required to deliver solutions that meet the specific need of the diverse applications in the industrial market. For example, power and energy management technologies are needed for power ranging from microwatts in home appliances to megawatts in factory motors and connectivity solutions that can cover a range of data rates as well as distances from centimeters to tens of kilometers.
Enabling technologies for the evolution of the industrial market include pervasive embedded processing such as Artificial Intelligence capabilities, wired and wireless connectivity, security and protection, innovative power technologies, cloud & edge computing, and big data analysis.
Over 30 years of continuous investment and experience in the industrial market has allowed ST to develop a portfolio of technologies, products and solutions that offer our customer tailored solutions for different applications. For demanding industrial applications there is no one-size-fits-all but ST has the ability to deliver solutions for all.
The Next Automation Age
A profound transformation is making the industrial world more technically advanced and sustainable: the “Next Automation Age.” The changes are driven by demand for increased safety for both personnel and equipment in factories, higher levels of intelligence in processes, and greater flexibility and efficiency. Newer semiconductor technologies like wide-bandgap silicon carbide and gallium nitride, combined with advanced digital control architectures, can deliver significantly higher power densities and conversion efficiency than conventional silicon technologies. Advances in smart power BCD process technologies, with embedded phase-change memories, can facilitate transitions from analog to digital control improving power conversion and motor-control applications. Embedded on-chip, galvanic isolation extends or supersedes earlier-generation system-level protections with superior intrinsic safety and robustness. At the same time, it protects users from electric shocks while delivering exceptional power and high-speed data transfer rates across isolated barriers. These are just some of the innovations emerging from an industrial electronics sector striving to meet the smart industry trends of the current and foreseeable sustainable future.
Read the full paper on IEEE Explore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9911230/
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