Standards And Specs For In-Seat Power On Aircraft Still In The Clouds

Your Opinion Counts
The laptop industry didn't get much of a chance to vote on the ISPSS technologies that are already in place. You however, still have a chance to voice your opinion about the next generation of systems.

This month, the AEEC committee will be voting on the voltage and connector issues. The day before the official vote, attendees of the Portable By Design Conference, in Santa Clara, Calif., will have the opportunity to participate in a "straw poll" on the same issues. To be held Wednesday, Feb. 11, between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. at the battery-management session, your inputs will be hand-carried to the AEEC meeting for review. Electronic Design will report on the outcome of the vote.

A working group within the AEEC/CEI Subcommittee has spent some three months gathering information from a variety of sources, including the laptop manufacturers. This fact-finding task force has put all of its research into a white paper, which has been distributed to the AEEC/CEI membership weeks prior to the Feb. 10-12 voting session. Copies of the white paper are available to any interested parties. To receive a copy, contact the Passenger Electronic Device Association (PEDA), 6320 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367; (818) 887-3123; fax: (818) 883-5706).

PEDA was founded in response to the ongoing airline activities which involve mobile computing, so that there is a unified body of representatives from the notebook manufacturing sector, the battery industry, the adapter vendors, and other related PED industry segments.