The Abandoned Cable Problem: State-of-the-Industry and Smart Solutions | Realcomm Advisory
The Abandoned Cable Problem: State-of-the-Industry and Smart Solutions Author: Realcomm Staff Writer The exponential growth in the amount of voice and data communications cabling presents challenges for airflow and space management in building risers and plenum spaces. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has declared that excessive cabling is also a fire safety hazard that creates an unnecessary threat to life and further contributes to property damage in the event of a fire. This week we’ve a
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The walls have ears: Warrant granted for Amazon Echo recordings — RT America
In fact, police seem to have already relied on his smart meter that measures electricity and water usage. Police found that on the night of the murder, Bates used roughly 140 gallons of water between 1:00am and 3:00am. Investigators believe that this could be a sign that he had used water to wash away evidence of what happened on his hot tub patio, Engadget reported.Regardless of what’s discovered on the Echo, the use of evidence gathered from smart devices has been controversial. Kimberly Weber, Bates’ a
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Smart Mirror – Optical grade glass allows touch overlay and voice control
The VanityVision smart mirror provides superior picture quality compared to a standard two way mirror. Durable, waterproof, and easy to clean.
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LED brightness adjustment: high-frequency PWM dimming – Power House – Blogs – TI E2E Community
In one of my previous blog posts, I introduced different dimming methods for light-emitting diode (LED) drivers: analog and pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming. In this post, I will elaborate more on PWM dimming and how to get its frequency fast enough in order to reduce its effect on humans or other living creatures. Let’s review why PWM dimming is preferable to analog dimming in some applications, such as rear lamp. The brightness and color of an LED depends on the current flowing through. Once the curr
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Android Things OS For IoT – Geek Sexy News
Google has finally released a fully supported version of Android for open source development boards in the form of Android Things (aka Brillo). I think the potential is there for this to open even …
AF-11FX + GUI +Big Dish = 1.36Gbps at 8+ miles – Ubiquiti Networks Community
My fiber POP is very heavily loaded with backhauls going everywhere, and we are running out of 5 ghz spectrum to get the bits to the next tower. And of course, sectors to feed the masses. Enter the AF-FX11. First step was to call a coordinator (I called Liz at Intelpath) to check on spectrum availability. I was a bit concerned by all the nay-sayers stating that there are almost no 80 mhz wide channels available. Well, turns out there were 80 mhz channels available for me. Woohoo!! Because I really wanted
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America’s first offshore wind farm just launched with GE turbines twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty
The Block Island Wind Farm, which consists of five massive wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island, began delivering power December 12.
Automotive Robots Step Out from Safety Barrier | Engineering360
Automotive Robots Step Out from Safety BarrierJohn Simpson29 November 2016 Human beings and robots are working side by side at the Smart Production Lab in Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant—a configuration made possible because the robots have been taught to show consideration for their co-workers.The robots grab and install transmission shafts and clutch rings—which is nothing out of the ordinary for a vehicle manufacturing plant—except that they are not performing their work behind a safety barrier. When a person approaches a robot, the machine immediately slows down, moving its arms out of the way while attempting to carry on working.Dr. Wolfgang Hackenberg, head of the Volkswagen Smart Production Lab (l), and employee Johannes Teiwes are developing smart robots. Image credit: Volkswagen.”The robot detects my approach and shows consideration for me,” says Wolfgang Hackenberg, head of the Smart Production Lab. “This is the fundamental prerequisite for smart human-machine interaction.”The brains of the smart robot are in custom software that processes waves and gestures, calculates all sequences of human motion recorded by the sensors around the robot’s working area and evaluates the results. A wave from Hackenberg is sufficient to stop the robot. He waves again and the machine continues its work or hands over components and tools.In Volkswagen’s vision of the digitalized factory of the future, machinery and equipment, robots, goods and products will be networked with each other. People and robots will no longer work on a component beside each other or after each other but, rather, at the same time acting in cooperation.”Up to now, it has been necessary to ensure physical separation between the working steps and working areas of people and robots,” Hackenberg says. “This is not genuine cooperation. We have integrated a proprietary robot and sensors using software in such a way that workers and robots can use the same working space without any hazards and can even interact.”In developing the system, the lab cooperated closely with scientists from the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, in Bremen, in which Volkswagen recently acquired a stake. One of the first results of this partnership was the software that allows direct cooperation between humans and robots, which can be applied to other industrial robots as well.While human workers in the factory of the future will be required to perform complex tasks with high levels of specialist expertise, creativity and problem-solving capabilities, Hackenberg says robots—with integrated sensors to allow for their safe operation among humans—will assume more responsibility for ergonomically difficult, physically strenuous work.
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Sound Shirt – Music For Everyone
The hearing-impaired and even the deaf can now experience music, in a new collaboration between the Junge Symphoniker Hamburg Orchestra in Germany and wearable tech company CuteCircuit. The pair have created the Sound Shirt, an incredible garment that translates sound into vibrations. When the Junge Symphoniker Hamburg Orchestra plays classical music, the wearers can feel the various instruments, each sound
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