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Industry to Promote New Open Systems Power Model at Second AUPS Conference on June 13 -- EPA Official Joins Representative from Steelcase, Cell Phone Charging Regulation Expert from China MII
SAN FRANCISCO-(Business Wire)-May 20, 2008 - How is power really distributed in the office? How did the world's largest country establish a workable cell phone charging standard? How does the Environmental Protection Agency view the proliferation of power supplies?
These questions, among many others, will be up for consideration at the second gathering of the Alliance for Universal Power Supplies (www.allianceforuniversalpower.org/home.php), scheduled for June 13 in San Francisco, the organization announced today. AUPS is an industry standards group committed to developing a universal power interface for electronic products that use external power supplies. AUPS will meet at PG&E Auditorium, 77 Beale Street, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At the event, the spotlight will be on John Katz, Pollution Prevention Coordinator at the EPA Region 9; Guili He, China Academy of Telecommunication Research of the Ministry of Industry and Information, who will share China's successes in implementing a cell phone charging standard; and Joel Zwier, Manager, Advanced Marketing, at Steelcase. Zwier will discuss "Power Distribution and Connectivity Challenges in Today's Office."
The half-day conference will also feature an industry panel, "What's Stopping All of Us from Doing What Everyone Wants?" and include sessions on "The Consumer's Voice" and "A Greener Workplace."
According to Darwin Chang, CTO, Westinghouse Digital Electronics, "The formation of the AUPS is an important step for companies committed to creating open systems to power their products. A sensible standard will serve as a catalyst for manufacturers and boon to consumers."
AUPS is comprised of a diverse group of organizations, including consumer electronics manufacturers; ASIC and power supply power firms; energy and waste management companies; various government agencies; equipment and tools manufacturers serving the automotive and aircraft industries; residential and commercial builders; cable and telephone companies; and the hospitality sector. Through development of industry standards, AUPS members seek to enable their products and services to be universally compatible and eco-friendly. AUPS focuses on multiport, reusable and efficient developments that ensure interoperability and encourage innovation and market growth.
In the past decade alone, the consumer electronics industry has developed and sold billions of devices that require AC to DC power supplies. Because every new CE device comes with a charger, some 3.2 billion power supplies will be designed and shipped in 2008 alone. And because every electronic product has a unique voltage and current requirement, many incompatible power supplies must be designed, produced, packaged, shipped and discarded unnecessarily. By making power supplies universal and reusable through digital collaboration, manufacturers can eliminate costs, consumers enjoy the convenience of powering any product with any power supply, and significant reductions in solid waste can be achieved.
About AUPS
AUPS (www.allianceforuniversalpower.org) is an organization that supports and will set industry-wide standards for the development and adoption of universal AC to DC power supplies. AUPS promotes and develops timely, relevant standards for the power supply industry, ensuring interoperability and encouraging innovation and market growth. AUPS, positioned as a true public private partnership, is poised to become one of the leading standards organizations in the electronics industry.
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