Mes: febrero 2021

NORWOOD, Mass., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — At the start of the year, HMI Performance Incentives launched the first ever Fuel the Dream: Travel Bracket Challenge. This promotion, put together with help from partner Teneo Hospitality Group, encouraged people to vote on which hotel destination was their favorite over a four-week period. By voting, participants were entered to win one of ten travel vouchers to the participating hotels. Each week, voters would return to pick the next set of hotels, those that had moved on from the round before.

The winning hotel was Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa in Grand Cayman. Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa was the only destination found outside of the continental U.S. The win suggests that travelers are ready to start exploring Internationally again. It was also very impressive, as it beat out some other extraordinary hotels such as Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Kiawah Island Golf Resort.

«The travel industry was greatly impacted by the COVID-19 virus in 2020, and this impact continues into 2021,» said Founder and President of HMI Performance Incentives. «Now, however, with a viable vaccine and hope for travel returning, this promotion has rekindled our love for travel and the impact that it can have on our mind, body, and soul. We’re very enthusiastic about the excitement created from this promotion and look forward to reintroducing more exciting travel promotions in the coming months. It is time for all of us to re-imagine our personal travel experience.»

The other participating Teneo hotels and resorts included Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley in Park City, Sonnenalp Vail, Omni Mount Washington Resort, Snow King Mountain Resort and Spring Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Silverado Resort and Spa Rancho Bernardo Inn, Omni Amelia Island Resort, Sanctuary and the Villas at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, Omni Nashville, Boston Park Plaza, Charleston Place, A Belmond Hotel, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, 1 Hotel South Beach in Miami, and Hotel del Coronado.

«Teneo was happy to assist in this wonderful promotion of some of our incredible resorts and hotels domestically and in the Caribbean,» said Mike Schugt, President of Teneo Hospitality Group. «We are sensing tremendous optimism for the coming weeks and months. Engagement from clients and hoteliers is rising and our Teneo members are ready to host safe meetings again.»

Upon receiving their certificate for their hotel voucher, one participant of the promotion said, «Thank you very much and I am excited to schedule the trip… I could not be happier with our relationship…Thanks for all your support.»

About HMI Performance Incentives
Founded in 1980 in Cambridge, MA, HMI Performance Incentives is a global leader in designing and managing sales and customer incentive solutions. At HMI, success is measured by the outcome of our clients’ programs and their satisfaction. Our programs are designed to inspire sales growth, motivate customer loyalty, and increase brand awareness and expand market share. With 40 years of experience in the performance improvement industry, we know what it takes to deliver results.

About Teneo Hospitality Group
Teneo Hospitality Group is a Global Sales Organization for the Finest Collection of Hotels, Resorts & Destination Management Companies (DMCs) Worldwide. Its global team is based in key geographic source markets and is an extension of its members’ local and regional sales teams. Teneo has wide-ranging knowledge of the hospitality industry and serves the meeting planning community by providing valuable expertise and acting as trusted advisors.

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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Today, Rhombus Energy Solutions and IoTecha Corp. announced a partnership to provide end-to-end vehicle electrification services for the medium- and heavy-duty (M/HD) electric vehicle (EV) fleet market. This collaboration will build on the existing partnership between Rhombus and IoTecha, in which IoTecha’s intelligent charging controllers and IoT.ON™ cloud services have been employed in Rhombus’ bi-directional high-power M/HD EV charging infrastructure. Rhombus’ market-leading chargers have been deployed in a variety of scenarios, including charging infrastructure for a number of public transit buses and electric school bus fleets. The Rhombus and IoTecha partnership will be one of the first to support Plug-and-Charge, a key feature of the Combined Charging System (CCS) and ISO/IEC 15118 Vehicle to Grid (V2G) communication that enables seamless and secure charging with compatible aggregators and utilities. Plug-and-Charge will be supported by Porsche Taycan, Ford Mustang Mach-E and Lucid Air EVs on the Electrify America network.

«As the leading vendor of bi-directional, V2X-ready chargers, Rhombus has enjoyed a highly productive relationship with IoTecha,» said Rick Sander, Chief Executive Officer of Rhombus Energy Solutions. «Our bi-directional high-power DC chargers are built for the high availability required by medium- and heavy-duty fleets. We are pleased to extend our relationship with IoTecha to provide fleet operators with a complete solution including charging infrastructure and cloud management tools, and we look forward to what the future holds for our partnership.»

One of the areas that Rhombus and IoTecha are collaborating on is V2G operation, which is a gamechanger for both consumer and commercial electric vehicles. V2G has the potential to dramatically reduce energy costs by putting power back on the grid and/or enabling peak shaving during peak load hours. V2G also enables a variety of new revenue streams for both vehicle owners and charging network operators. These new capabilities enable IoTecha and Rhombus to deliver a solution that includes UL-certified AC and DC charging infrastructure, and cloud services to support these chargers, that will seamlessly interoperate with aggregators to provide V2G services to fleets, utilities and other M/HD EV operators.

«IoTecha has been a pioneer in developing controller solutions for the electric vehicle charging ecosystem,» said Oleg Logvinov, Chief Executive Officer of IoTecha. «We have partnered with Rhombus over the past several years to enhance intelligence in their market-leading EV chargers. With this partnership we will extend our joint capabilities to cloud-based management of charging infrastructure. Plug-and-Charge and V2G are just two examples of what we will accomplish together.»

The Rhombus and IoTecha partnership is also developing a network visualization and management capability for vehicle fleets that can operate in both cloud and edge computing modes. The goal of this collaboration is to combine IoTecha’s IoT.ON™ cloud services with Rhombus’ VectorStat™ energy management solution to provide end-to-end management and visualization for M/HD EV fleets. This will simplify fleet charging and integration with other fleet vehicle management applications. These capabilities will be integrated with existing Rhombus and IoTecha products and made available in future releases.

About IoTecha
IoTecha is accelerating the Electric Vehicle revolution by providing an integrated Platform called IoT.ON™ – consisting of software, hardware and Cloud components – for the Smart Charging infrastructure and ultimately enabling the integration of tens of millions of Electric Vehicles with the Power Grid. IoTecha customers are prominent global manufacturers of both Electric Vehicles and EV charging stations. IoTecha products include V2G and HomePlug Protocol Analyzer, Combined Charging System on Module (and custom modules), EV charging stations and IoT.ON™ Cloud-based services. For more information, please visit http://www.iotecha.com

About Rhombus Energy Solutions
Rhombus develops and manufactures next-generation bi-directional electric vehicle charging infrastructure, high-efficiency power conversion systems and energy management system (EMS) software for bi-directional capable electric vehicle fleet charging, energy storage and microgrid applications. The high reliability of our solutions is the result of decades of experience developing high-power systems for a variety of applications and deployment scenarios, including UL-1741-SA «smart inverter» grid solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.RhombusEnergy.com.

Press/Media/Analyst Contact for Rhombus: Carolyn Paynton
Carolyn@RhombusEnergy.com
Telephone: 888-978-6564

Press/Media/Analyst Contact for IoTecha: Brenda Mancuso
brenda@iotecha.com
Telephone: 908-300-5178

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Carolyn Paynton, Rhombus Energy Solutions, +1 888-978-6564, Carolyn@RhombusEnergy.com

Brenda Mancuso, IoTecha, +1 908-300-5178, brenda@iotecha.com

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC), a global group of automotive and technology industry leaders cooperating to help expedite the delivery of automated and assisted driving compute solutions, reported today that 2020 saw significant organizational growth and progress. Members have finalized two key foundation documents, new working groups have kicked off work, and critical topics such as cybersecurity are now being addressed. Additional work and liaisons are kicking off in 2021, and new members are invited to help drive these initiatives forward.

«The need for AVCC’s guidance for autonomous vehicle computing has gained importance over the past year, and we are proud of our technical committees’ work to unite and build consensus around industry recommendations,» commented Armando Pereira, President of AVCC. «We more than doubled our membership and are on the cusp of publishing two of the first cornerstone technical recommendations that will be the foundation for industry work for years to come.»

Growth
When it launched in 2019, AVCC featured eight leading OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and semiconductor companies: Arm, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, and Toyota.

In the space of a single year, the AVCC grew 150%, as original members were joined by an additional twelve, including:

• Ansys
• Brodmann17
• Mazda
• Nissan
• RTI
• Sandia National Laboratories
• SEI ANTech Europe
• Renesas
• Synopsys
• Veoneer
• Xilinx
• Zenseact

These members bring a wealth of expertise in automotive compute elements and interaction, imaging signal processing, and cybersecurity.

Progress
Fourth quarter 2020 marked the launch of the newest working group, Cybersecurity, which commenced with a valuable membership poll of current cybersecurity practices, standards and needs analysis to drive prioritization of the work. This quarter, AVCC will release a set of technical reference documents for AV Systems Architecture and Image Signal Processing. The Micro-Benchmarks Working Group will release their first of three documents in development, focused on AV Condition Benchmarking Recommendations, in 2Q21. These recommendations will facilitate easier cooperation, expedite RFPs, and provide the groundwork for deployment-at-scale.

The ongoing goals of AVCC are to:

• Develop a conceptual compute platform architecture, its hardware requirements and software APIs to define an automated and assisted driving-vehicle ecosystem that uses processors, accelerators and other application-specific engines
• Offer technical recommendations/specifications guided by the objectives of portability, interoperability, scalability and a balance between performance and cost
• Identify relevant system level requirements in the architecture, hardware or software APIs
• Work with standards bodies to identify, leverage and influence the development of industry standards

It is the intent of the Consortium to focus this work to synchronize deliverables with the start of vehicle mass production cycles.

Driving the Future of AV
The path to delivering autonomous vehicles is long and complex. Significant challenges to deployment include:

• ultra-high-performance computing requirements within the power, thermal and size constraints of a vehicle,
• security and safety concerns such as firmware protection, threat modeling, privacy, and regional regulatory and standards compliance
• excessive costs and complexity of offering proprietary solutions
• public adoption    

The AVCC understands these technological complexities and obstacles need to be overcome, and is bringing the industry together to deliver recommendations that address these challenges.

For more information about AVCC and how it is helping accelerate the delivery of safe and affordable automated and assisted driving vehicles at scale, including information how to become a member, please visit http://www.avcconsortium.org.

About AVCC
The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) is a global nonprofit group of automotive and technology industry leaders coming together to help accelerate mass production of safe and affordable vehicles with assisted driving and autonomous compute technology (SAE levels 1-5). This computing platform will be designed specifically to move today’s AV prototype systems to deployment at scale. The group collaborates to develop requirements for the compute platform architecture, its hardware requirements, and software APIs for each building block in autonomous vehicle systems. http://www.avcconsortium.org

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Armando Pereira, Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC), +1 925-262-1024, info@avcconsortium.org

Sarah LaLiberte, Mainspire, on behalf of AVCC, 978-502-8558, sarah@mainspire.com

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NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — As millions of people continue to be inoculated with the COVID vaccine and reported cases of the virus continue to decline, consumers itching to hit the road again are anxiously awaiting a third component to further stimulate travel: Spring! One year after business and leisure travel came to a screeching halt, consumers are seeing light at the end of a dark tunnel and beginning to jockey for position as the weather thaws and the prospects of travel begin to heat up. Joseph Rosendo is one globetrotter who knows a thing or two about travel destinations, safety, and patience. The Emmy-winning host of Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope on PBS spoke with ExpertFlyer.com to discuss his 40-year career as a travel writer, a year without travel and plans for the year ahead, and his new book, Musings – The Short Happy Pursuit of Pleasure and Other Journeys.

«For Travelscope’s 12 seasons we have brought experiential travel experiences to consumers around the country, and around the world,» Joseph Rosendo explains. «And I think that is the reason for our success. Today, travelers are interested in genuine, authentic experiences with other people and their cultures, not just a list of landmarks they can check off, and I think our PBS show inspires viewers to experience the world for themselves.»

Rosendo concurred that consumers are chomping at the bit to get back out there and experience the world and physically connect with people again, himself included. The PBS show was placed on hiatus in 2020 and he is anxious to hit the road and roll the cameras once again. But the pandemic gave Rosendo the downtime he needed to compile (and consolidate) 40-plus years of travel experiences, reflections, and insights into a new book. «‘Musings’ is almost a travel diary of my adventures over the past 40 years and includes tips and short, fun stories about destinations and my travel life that are easy to read and digest.»

As spring approaches, Rosendo recommends travelers focus on trips that feature the great outdoors to maintain safe distance protocols. «There are so many great treasures in the world and so many here in the U.S.,» Rosendo says, reminding U.S. travelers that experiencing amazing locations doesn’t require international travel. «We visited beautiful national parks during the pandemic including Yosemite and Big Sur in California. We shouldn’t be afraid of traveling. We just need to be more discerning about where we travel and how we travel.»

As consumers look ahead to summer destination options, Rosendo suggests researching locations who have lifted travel restrictions but beware of their guidelines. For example, Rosendo says that New Zealand and countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, such as Taiwan, seem to have a handle on the pandemic and offer amazing travel experiences. But he says you have to ask lots of questions as you research potential destinations that claim to be safe. «Does their idea of safety match mine and what exactly are they doing to keep visitors safe?»

To listen to the entire podcast with Joseph Rosendo, visit ExpertFlyer’s blog.

About Joseph Rosendo
Emmy-award winning director and host Joseph Rosendo has been a travel, food and wine journalist and travel broadcaster for 40 years. Since 2007, he has hosted, directed and written Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope®, the award-winning PBS travel television series. «We close each show with a quote from Mark Twain: ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness,'» says Joseph. «It’s a truth that first turned me on to travel and has kept me hooked for more than fifty years.» He welcomes questions and e-mails at jrosendo@Travelscope.net and fans at http://www.Facebook.com/Travelscope.

About ExpertFlyer.com
Each month, ExpertFlyer’s One-on-One blog goes face-to-face with the travel industry’s leading decision makers to discuss and address topics relevant to many of today’s business and frequent travelers.

ExpertFlyer.com was conceived and created by an eclectic team consisting of a veteran elite tier frequent flyer, an airline captain and corporate travel manager, and information technology professionals to deliver a 24/7 real time powerful air travel information service. The company provides its subscribers and corporate travel managers alike with a complete, concise, and efficient way to access the ever-changing details of worldwide air travel information. For more information, please visit expertflyer.com.

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