CTO Insight on Cloud Computing
Video in English
TE CTO & VP Erin Byrne discuss her perspectives on Cloud Computing and megatrends influencing design architecture.
Be curious and learn to adapt your skills to the latest customer needs to always add value. Confidence in your ability to learn and adapt will serve you well in any environment.
Erin is focused on solving the challenges of commercializing leading-edge technology. To help her customers win in their markets, she leads a global team of multi-disciplinary engineers in partnering with customers to design solutions enabling next-generation connectivity. She sees every challenge as an opportunity to continuously improve. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Chemistry, she spent nearly half her career developing optical components and designing processes and products for both communications systems and sensing applications. Having worked in companies ranging in size from startups to large multinationals, Erin has developed the breadth to solve many types of technical challenges and the depth to lead different business models, helping her teams and customers win by connecting strategy to execution. With all her success, Erin finds great professional reward and personal satisfaction in empowering others, enthusiastically supporting them in building their careers and developing different perspectives that create personal opportunities.
Which industry dynamics are driving advances in connectivity?
Demand for sensors comes from the increasing ability to derive valuable information at a reasonable cost in areas as diverse as industrial automation, medical devices, smart agriculture, and electric vehicles. In each case, the ability to provide timely, meaningful feedback on a critical parameter comes from the combination of precise and accurate sensors and the connectivity and speed used to relay the information and create a response. In addition, the more efficient use of assets eliminates waste and contributes to overall sustainability.
Which sensing trends are you watching?
There are two trends that will continue to impact our roadmaps and the value we can create for our customers. The first is miniaturization, where we will continuously look for ways of providing the same quality sensing output in a smaller package. Smaller devices enable access to more sensing points, for example in smaller blood vessels in the body. Smaller sensors also require less material to fabricate, providing more sustainable solutions overall.
The second trend is enabled by digitization of our sensing signals, we call this trend “intelligent sensing”. It encompasses everything from simply converting our analog signals to digital for easier signal processing, all the way to using AI and machine learning together with multiple sensors to create a single valuable output from this sensor fusion. With a large number of sensing modalities, connectivity and power, and now AI, TE is in a great position to capitalize on this fast-growing trend.
How do you approach tough problems?
Since my early research days, I have approached every challenge with a simple idea: “If it were easy, it would have already been done.” Once a customer need is identified, no matter how tough, we begin surveying the existing or most logical solutions, looking for ways to help the customer achieve differentiating value. Often these tough problems also have solutions from other industries or disciplines. Having already been proven in another context, these solutions enable us to propose options for our customers that are lower risk, address their requirements, and offer additional benefits.
Be curious and learn to adapt your skills to the latest customer needs to always add value. Confidence in your ability to learn and adapt will serve you well in any environment.
Erin is focused on solving the challenges of commercializing leading-edge technology. To help her customers win in their markets, she leads a global team of multi-disciplinary engineers in partnering with customers to design solutions enabling next-generation connectivity. She sees every challenge as an opportunity to continuously improve. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Chemistry, she spent nearly half her career developing optical components and designing processes and products for both communications systems and sensing applications. Having worked in companies ranging in size from startups to large multinationals, Erin has developed the breadth to solve many types of technical challenges and the depth to lead different business models, helping her teams and customers win by connecting strategy to execution. With all her success, Erin finds great professional reward and personal satisfaction in empowering others, enthusiastically supporting them in building their careers and developing different perspectives that create personal opportunities.
CTO Insight on Cloud Computing
Video in English
TE CTO & VP Erin Byrne discuss her perspectives on Cloud Computing and megatrends influencing design architecture.
Which industry dynamics are driving advances in connectivity?
Demand for sensors comes from the increasing ability to derive valuable information at a reasonable cost in areas as diverse as industrial automation, medical devices, smart agriculture, and electric vehicles. In each case, the ability to provide timely, meaningful feedback on a critical parameter comes from the combination of precise and accurate sensors and the connectivity and speed used to relay the information and create a response. In addition, the more efficient use of assets eliminates waste and contributes to overall sustainability.
Which sensing trends are you watching?
There are two trends that will continue to impact our roadmaps and the value we can create for our customers. The first is miniaturization, where we will continuously look for ways of providing the same quality sensing output in a smaller package. Smaller devices enable access to more sensing points, for example in smaller blood vessels in the body. Smaller sensors also require less material to fabricate, providing more sustainable solutions overall.
The second trend is enabled by digitization of our sensing signals, we call this trend “intelligent sensing”. It encompasses everything from simply converting our analog signals to digital for easier signal processing, all the way to using AI and machine learning together with multiple sensors to create a single valuable output from this sensor fusion. With a large number of sensing modalities, connectivity and power, and now AI, TE is in a great position to capitalize on this fast-growing trend.
How do you approach tough problems?
Since my early research days, I have approached every challenge with a simple idea: “If it were easy, it would have already been done.” Once a customer need is identified, no matter how tough, we begin surveying the existing or most logical solutions, looking for ways to help the customer achieve differentiating value. Often these tough problems also have solutions from other industries or disciplines. Having already been proven in another context, these solutions enable us to propose options for our customers that are lower risk, address their requirements, and offer additional benefits.
