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Iran-China Non-Oil Trade Hits $7.8 Billion in Three Months: IRICA

Apadana Central — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:45:38 +0000

The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) put the non-oil trade exchanges between Iran and China in the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to June 22, 2023) at $7.8 billion.

While describing the $30 billion trade exchanges between Iran and China last year (ended March 20, 2023), Mohammad Rezvanifar said that Iran exported $3.5 billion worth of non-oil goods to China from March 21 to June 22, 2023.

In this period, Iran imported $4.3 billion worth of products from China, he added.

Speaking in an interview with Fars news agency, Rezvanifar stated that Iran exported 35.5 million tons of non-oil goods, valued at $12.5 billion, in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year.

Iran’s import of products in the first three months of the current Persian calendar year registered a 1 and 5.9 percent growth in weight and value respectively, the IRICA chief noted.

Iran imported 8.6 million tons of goods, valued at $14 billion, from March 21 to June 22, 2023, he continued.

Rezvanifar went on to say that Iran’s non-oil trade in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year registered a 24.42 percent growth in terms of weight and an 8.84 percent decline in terms of value compared to the same period last year.

In this period, five countries, namely China, Iraq, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India were Iran’s top export target markets, he added.

Under the 25-Year Iran-China Partnership Cooperation Contract, China should be one of the important trade partners of the Islamic Republic of Iran. China is regarded as one of the important customers of Iranian oil and gas condensates and Iran plays an important role in the transit of goods from China and India to the European countries.

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Iran Hypersonic Missile’s Range Could Be Extended to 2,000km, Senior Commander Says

Apadana Central — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:34:28 +0000

The range of the next version of an advanced hypersonic ballistic missile developed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force could be extended to 2,000km, the force’s commander said.

In remarks at a ceremony in the northern province of Mazandaran, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh highlighted the country’s advancements in the defense industry, including development of missiles.

“Today, we have achieved all complex technologies in the field of the defense industry,” he stated.

The senior commander referred to the recent unveiling of the Fattah hypersonic missile, and said its future version may have a range of 2,000 kilometers.

He went on to say that the Iranian people will soon hear more good news in the field of the country’s missile power.

Fattah hypersonic missile was unveiled by the IRGC in a ceremony held in Tehran on June 6.

The projectile, whose name has been chosen by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, has a range of 1,400 kilometers.

The missile’s warhead has a spherical engine running on solid fuel with a movable nozzle that allows the missile to move in all directions.

Earlier, Brigadier General Hajizadeh had said the homegrown hypersonic ballistic missile had undergone all tests.

The new missile can penetrate all air defense missile systems and detonate the enemy’s anti-missile systems, he added.

Describing the production of the projectile as a “huge leap” in Iran’s missile industry, the commander said the missile can maneuver below and above the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of Mach 13.

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Iran, Venezuela to Launch Scientific-Technological Cooperation Committee

Apadana Central — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:18:34 +0000

A joint scientific-technological cooperation committee will be set up between Iran and Venezuela to strengthen cooperation in the fields of science and technology.

The Iranian Center for International Cooperation of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology of Venezuela to bolster bilateral ties.

The MoU was inked on Thursday between Venezuela’s Vice President for Science and Technology Gabriela Jimenez Ramirez and Head of International Science and Technology Interactions Cooperation Amir Hossein Mirabadi.

Setting up the Iran-Venezuela Joint Innovation and Technology Center and designing a framework of cooperation in the fields of science and technology based on equality, justice and mutual respect have been cited as the main aims of the MoU.

Easing knowledge and technology relations, launching joint research and development (R&D), market development and joint production in Venezuela, mutual cooperation in technology parks, special programs to train and strengthen national talents, growth of scientific projects, venture investments based on technology are common goals behind setting up Iran-Venezuela Innovation and Technological Center.

Communications and Information Technology (ITC), artificial intelligence and mechatronics, medicine, medical and laboratory equipment and nanotechnology, investing in knowledge-based companies, etc. are fields of cooperation between the two countries of Iran and Venezuela.

The task of the joint committee is to create the necessary organizational, legal, technical and financial conditions for the operationalization of this memorandum.

The joint committee can hold its meetings alternately in Venezuela and Iran or virtually.

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Next-generation Wireless Technology May Leverage the Human Body for Energy : UMass Amherst

Apadana Central — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:12:10 +0000

Next-generation Wireless Technology May Leverage the Human Body for Energy

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst use the body to harvest waste energy to power wearable devices

AMHERST, Mass. – While you may be just starting to reap the advantages of 5G wireless technology, researchers throughout the world are already working hard on the future: 6G. One of the most promising breakthroughs in 6G telecommunications is the possibility of Visible Light Communication (VLC), which is like a wireless version of fiberoptics, using flashes of light to transmit information. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that they have invented a low-cost, innovative way to harvest the waste energy from VLC by using the human body as an antenna. This waste energy can be recycled to power an array of wearable devices, or even, perhaps, larger electronics.

“VLC is quite simple and interesting,” says Jie Xiong, professor of information and computer sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. “Instead of using radio signals to send information wirelessly, it uses the light from LEDs that can turn on and off, up to one million times per second.” Part of the appeal of VLC is that the infrastructure is already everywhere—our homes, vehicles, streetlights and offices are all lit by LED bulbs, which could also be transmitting data. “Anything with a camera, like our smartphones, tablets or laptops, could be the receiver,” says Xiong.

Previously, Xiong and first author Minhao Cui, a graduate student in information and computer sciences at UMass Amherst, showed that there’s significant “leakage” of energy in VLC systems, because the LEDs also emit “side-channel RF signals,” or radio waves. If this leaked RF energy could be harvested, then it could be put to use.

The team’s first task was to design an antenna out of coiled copper wire to collect the leaked RF, which they did. But how to maximize the collection of energy?

The team experimented using different daily objects to amplify the harvested power, and discovered that the human body is one of the best materials. Credit: Cui et al., 10.1145/3560905.3568526

The team experimented with all sorts of design details, from the thickness of the wire to the number of times it was coiled, but they also noticed that the efficiency of the antenna varied according to what the antenna touched. They tried resting the coil on plastic, cardboard, wood and steel, as well as touching it to walls of different thicknesses, phones powered on and off and laptops. And then Cui got the idea to see what happened when the coil was in contact with a human body.

Different coil designs influence the amount of power harvested. Credit: Cui et al., 10.1145/3560905.3568526Immediately, it became apparent that a human body is the best medium for amplifying the coil’s ability to collect leaked RF energy, up to ten times more than the bare coil alone.

After much experimentation, the team came up with “Bracelet+,” a simple coil of copper wire worn as a bracelet on the upper forearm. While the design can be adapted for wearing as a ring, belt, anklet or necklace, the bracelet seemed to offer the right balance of power harvesting and wearability.

“The design is cheap—less than fifty cents,” note the authors, whose paper won the prestigious Best Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. “But Bracelet+ can reach up to micro-watts, enough to support many sensors such as on-body health monitoring sensors that require little power to work owing to their low sampling frequency and long sleep-mode duration.”

“Ultimately,” says Xiong, “we want to be able to harvest waste energy from all sorts of sources in order to power future technology.”

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