At Littelfuse, the company are tying together not only circuit protection but also power control and contactless sensing systems for smart functionality, by providing these critical efficiencies at both the electro-mechanical level and the board level.
Littelfuse is a complete solutions company. The company is bringing power efficiency and automation for today and tomorrow’s smart appliances. And we see trends in multiple markets: automotive, industrial, consumer appliances. Littelfuse can take all of those broader visions, innovations from these other markets to appliance designers.
Connected appliances have become more and more a part of regular life. People don’t really think about wired telephones anymore, and they’ll forget about wired appliances too, moving towards to more seamless self-sustaining systems. Consumers will take connected appliances for granted just as they do with smartphones.
We see the same trend in appliances just like we do in automotive; it’s that constant drive for energy efficiency, and Littelfuse has the same response here.
Take an example, a traditional mechanical part consumes a lot more power as they wear out, such as a door switch on a refrigerator. They get more hungry as they get older. Now take a magnetic sensor as an example, our Hall effect sensors require very little power and no moving parts, thus ensuring higher efficiency and longer life. It all adds up to a greener planet. Littelfuse innovations are helping enable the new designs we’re seeing today.
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