Vehicles have been powered by internal combustion engines (ICE) for over a century. However, you cannot fail to notice that things are changing rapidly with the rollout of electric vehicles (EV). This topic is being discussed across the automotive industry and in mainstream news outlets.

When we think of an EV, many people think of pure battery electric vehicles (BEV). However, the EV segment consists of MHEV (mild hybrid), HEV (hybrid), PHEV (plug-in hybrid) and BEV variants. The MHEV architecture provides a low-impact path for automotive manufacturers to modify an existing vehicle platform and reduce CO2 emissions, while still being able to cover long distances regardless of the availability of charging stations. Continue reading in today's blog! 

Together, we are ON Semiconductor, a hashtag and slogan our communications team launched, which has turned into a global campaign. One that continues to unify our company and push our team towards success, despite the trying circumstances that our team and industry have had to overcome this past year. Our collective efforts have awarded us in being named "Gold Stevie^® Winner for Company of the Year - Manufacturing - Large" for the second consecutive year in the 2021 American Business Awards^®, a premier business award program.

Keep reading to learn how a global company unified to gain this prestigious award. Together, we are ON Semiconductor. 

Like so many industries within the Internet of Things (IoT), Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) connectivity has completely altered the landscape of asset management. Bluetooth LE now represents a 50% share of the trackable asset tags in the market today. RFID-based tags and labels are still in use but have limited capabilities in their ability to provide active data about events surrounding the asset. RFID is not considered to be a tracking system but more of an identification technology requiring a scanner and human intervention. This is why most RFID tag manufacturers are now considering Bluetooth LE for the development of new tags. With Bluetooth LE running on the embedded MCU,  a number of value-added services are now possible, like environmental data log transmission, cold-chain management and accurate, real-time localization.

Continue reading to examine the history of Bluetooth technology and our company's technology portfolio for asset management.