Positioned to capitalize on change

UP-CLOSE LOOK: From left, Sensata Technologies Inc. design engineer Jonas Bautista, General Manager Andrew Forti and Engineering Director Frank Sienkiewicz discuss wireless sensors. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
UP-CLOSE LOOK: From left, Sensata Technologies Inc. design engineer Jonas Bautista, General Manager Andrew Forti and Engineering Director Frank Sienkiewicz discuss wireless sensors. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

2019 PBN Innovative Companies: Technology

Sensata Technologies Inc.


Sensata Technologies Inc. in Attleboro knows how to change with the times.

Starting as a jewelry metal supplier more than 100 years ago, the company now makes 47,000 products in the automobile, aircraft and space industries. Next up: the future.

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In 2018, the global leader of sensing and electrical services formed Sensata Ventures – a sort of internal startup to focus on new opportunities.

“The pace of change, and the way technology accelerates that change, drives us to be quicker and faster,” said Alexia Taxiarchos, senior director of global communications.

As a result of the work so far, Sensata Ventures filed seven patent applications and developed battery-management systems in which sensors monitor, report and regulate on battery systems used in today’s and tomorrow’s engine technology.

“The need for cleaner and more-efficient products and increasing demand for more-electrified products, within and beyond automotive, are fundamentally changing the way that people will move and engage with technology,” Taxiarchos said.

She said as the world moves from the traditional internal combustion engine to electrified engines “the safety paradigm changes drastically.” Batteries have intense burning capacity and battery-management systems can make sure the batteries are operating correctly in applications such as industrial equipment and electrical bikes.

An agreement signed in 2019 with S Volt Energy Technology Co., part of the Great Wall Motors company in China, will continue to develop and commercialize wireless battery-management system technology for the next three years, and in the long term, wireless systems could be a $2.5 billion market opportunity for Sensata. The company plans to hire more than 100 people for Sensata Ventures, adding to Sensata’s 20,000 employees globally.

“We know how to have foresight and leverage our engineering to deliver services to customers before they even know they need it,” said Taxiarchos.

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