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10 CONNECTED LIFE TE: Creating the Connected Life As a world leader in connectivity and sensor solutions, TE understands the challenges and demands for rapid and reliable connectivity. TE's engineers leverage the power of the company's expertise across many industries, bringing knowledge gained in one market to solve problems in another market. This intra-collaboration — what we call The Power of TE — speeds solutions and drives even greater innovation and value for our customers. TE's global reach, and daily collaborations with customers in more than 150 countries, provide true evolution and innovation for manufacturers driven by connectivity. Learn more about TE solutions at te.com. © 2016 TE Connectivity MATE-AX, MATEnet, SmartSeal, TE Connectivity, TE, and TE connectivity (logo) are trademarks. Alexa, Amazon, Apple, HomeKit, Samsung, Siri, and SmartThings are trademarks of their respective owners. Other product and/or company names mentioned herein might be trademarks as well. 3) Flight Controls and Landing Gear Sensors and sealed harness assemblies attached to landing gear are exposed to water and chemicals, not to mention extreme temperature fluctuations of +50°C while on the ground on the hot tarmac to –60°C while in flight at high altitude just a few minutes after takeoff. Aircraft and systems manufacturers must work together to design interconnected solutions that can perform effectively under these conditions. Systems that control engine speed and wing position, like other aircraft functions, continue to shift toward electronic systems and away from hydraulics and pneumatics. These systems are controlled by fly-by-wire and embedded computing components that require high reliability, particularly in the harsh environment of flight. 4) Engines and Power Distribution Power-switching systems can improve efficiency and load balancing, thereby improving how an aircraft uses available power. For example, manufacturers have embedded sensors and added electrical monitoring equipment that can detect when maintenance is needed, ensuring that engine health is managed efficiently. Today's aircraft use five times as much electrical power as they did 30 years ago. So, smart power-switching systems are more critical now that electrical systems are commonplace in aircraft, and particularly as the industry moves to hybrid electrical-fuel systems in the future that can supply power to engines. 5) Grounding Systems The new generation of composite material airframes made from carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) reduce weight, and therefore improve fuel efficiency and load capacity, but they can't dissipate lightning strikes and electrostatic discharges the same way a metal airframe can. Therefore, these planes need highly sophisticated grounding systems that provide sufficient conductivity, safely. These composite structures use new dedicated grounding paths with a combination of traditional metallic elements to maintain a low-resistance pathway for grounding and lightning strike dissipation purposes. Aircraft: When EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS TE Connectivity's solutions help solve the aviation industry's space, weight, reliability and efficiency challenges. For example, TE is working with the ARINC Incorporated industry standard group on the Mini Modular Rack Principle (MiniMRP) distributed avionics system that creates flexible capabilities in a smaller, lighter package – so manufacturers can deploy them anywhere they need design flexibility. Similarly, TE's grounding system solutions can be tailored to virtually any commercial aircraft. Visit te.com/connected-aircraft to learn more.