Somewhat quietly, the next generation of wireless technology, 5G (for 5th Generation), is sprouting up in cities around the globe. At this juncture, communities would ideally be given the opportunity to weigh in on these fundamental questions. Do people want this kind of future? What impact will this technology have on health, the environment, culture, values and innate human perception?
Unfortunately, categorizing the global rollout of 5G as a “stealth” operation is not unduly dramatic. Communities are starting to weigh in, but many are only able to do so during or after installation of 5G infrastructure as they come to realize what is happening.
The 2018 rollout of 5G in parts of Asia, Europe and the United States surfs in on the vision that the vast potential of this new iteration will allow us to design our way into the future. The telecom literature is heavy on how we have to bite the bullet and lay in the infrastructure now to open and support the possibilities for a flourishing connected future.
With 5G no longer selling just the promise of faster connectivity speed, but the broader notion of offering the technology that will support a whole new way of thinking, playing and working (see pro 5G chart on this page).
“We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from 187 countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites.
Satellites, phased array and exponential radiation: the true nature of 5G
Arthur Firstenberg, author and activist who founded the Cellular Phone Task Force, is a leading voice in matters related to electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs). The task force was formed in 1996 in response to the health and environmental threats posed by the launch of the wireless revolution in the United States. It serves as a global clearinghouse for information about wireless technology’s injurious effects, and provides a national support network for people injured or disabled by electromagnetic fields.
Firstenberg equates going from 4G to 5G as going from “blankets to bullets.” And this does not mean that he thinks 4G is a safe fuzzy blanket. Rather, he is graphically pointing out how different in character and consequence the 5G frequency is compared to the longer wave form of 4G that travels from a distant cell phone tower.
Firstenberg explains that the most important fact to understand about 5G is called “phased array.” In order to connect so many things to the internet to make them “Smart” and do what we want them to do, a much greater bandwidth is needed. However, the greater the bandwidth, the shorter the waves. Put very simply, many small antennas are required to produce these short waves, which are then focused into a beam that can be directed at a specific target.
Firstenberg says this “will totally change the way cell towers and cell phones are constructed and will transform the blanket of radiation which has enveloped our world for two decades into a million powerful beams whizzing by us at all times.” Hence, his characterization of 5G frequencies as “bullets.”
To support and direct these short waves, there need to be cellular base stations placed very closely together, about 500 feet apart along every street. Since the boxes must blast their signals in order to get them inside homes and buildings, the only way to do this economically is with phased arrays and focused beams that are aimed directly at their targets. Think — there will be transmitting cellular base stations everywhere; on utility poles, on bus stops, on buildings including hospitals and schools, to achieve the needed close proximity.
But the proliferation of closely spaced cellular boxes does not complete the connection of everything. To achieve the connection of everything, it is necessary to launch 20,000 satellites that will send their highly focused beams of microwave radiation to 5G devices on the ground. And in turn, each device will send a beam of radiation back to the satellite.
Now extrapolate — since the telecom vision is to connect everything, many more things than cell phones will be communicating by shooting beams through our atmosphere, our walls and our bodies (and the bodies of all living things — plants, animals, insects, microbes) as they travel between base stations, satellites and devices. Hence, radiation levels and exposure become exponential.
Firstenberg also informs us that “another important fact about radiation from phased array antennas is this: it penetrates much deeper into the human body and the assumptions that the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) exposure limits are based on do not apply. When an ordinary electromagnetic field enters the body, it causes charges to move and currents to flow. But when extremely short electromagnetic pulses enter the body, something else happens: the moving charges themselves become little antennas that re-radiate the electromagnetic field and send it deeper into the body.”
Physiological dangers of EMF exposure
Martin Pall, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University, offers a 90-page, seven-chapter document discussing the effects of 5G EMFs in the body, and also the corruption of international science investigating this. Pall feels that the effects we now see from lower frequency EMFs will be much more severe with 5G EMFs.
Particularly concerning are the effects of these EMFs on the eye. Given the cellular reactions caused by these frequencies, we may encounter a “gigantic epidemic of each of the four types of blindness: cataracts, detached retinas, glaucoma and macular degeneration.” Pall also cites a concern for kidney dysfunction. Since the kidneys have so much fluid in the form of blood and what will become urine, 5G EMFs “may be expected to impact both glomerular filtration and reabsorption, both essential to kidney function.”
Pall has said that installing essentially millions of 5G antennae without having done any biological testing is the “stupidest idea anyone has had in the history of the world.”
Ongoing rocket deployment and ozone depletion
But now back to the 20,000 necessary satellites — two 5G test satellites were launched by SpaceX in February 2018. On March 29, 2018, the FCC gave approval to SpaceX to launch 4,425 satellites into low orbit around the Earth, and it is expected that hundreds of satellites will be launched into low and midrange orbit in 2019. All 20,000 satellites could be put into orbit over the next two years. The companies with the biggest plans to launch satellites include:
- SpaceX: 12,000 satellites
- OneWeb: 4,560 satellites
- Boeing: 2,956 satellites
- Spire Global: 972 satellites
There are several ways to fuel a rocket launch and none of them are friendly to the environment. Rockets that use solid fuel create massive ozone depletion. Liquid kerosene can also be used and while this fuel destroys less ozone, it releases massive amounts of black carbon soot into the air, especially at high altitudes.
Computer models suggest that if the number of annual rocket launches increases by 10 or more times, the combination of ozone depletion and the black soot could produce a 3-degree warming effect over the Antarctic and reduce the ozone in the world’s atmosphere by 4 percent. And, since 5G satellites have a lifespan of about five years, there will need to be ongoing launches.
A third mercury-based rocket propulsion system is currently being developed by Apollo Fusion. This works on the basis of ion propulsion and uses powerful magnets to push away small charged particles at high speeds, thereby generating thrust. But, if there was ever a malfunction causing this type of engine to explode, the environmental consequences would be enormous as mercury, an extremely strong neurotoxin, would spread throughout the atmosphere and over the Earth.
In addition, these satellites, which are each the size of a small refrigerator and weigh about 880 pounds, will contribute to an enormous amount of space junk over time as they complete their life span and are no longer operational. Eventually they will fall back to the Earth burning upon re-entry, with the hazardous materials in these satellites released into the atmosphere and floating to the ground as dust or in raindrops.
Leslie Shankman became aware of 5G in early 2019 when a friend in Taos, NM became debilitatingly ill from a 5G cell box placed on her property, forcing a move. Currently a writer and editor, Shankman has worked in business, lived and worked at a yoga institute, and assisted seniors with living and dying. She has lived in Bellingham since 1993.
Technological evolution of 5G and birth of the Smartgrid
The lineage of technology generations started in the early 1980s when 1G was released, supporting cell phones with the analog transmission of voice-only calls. These first phones had poor battery life and voice quality, little security, and were prone to dropped calls. 2G was released in the early 1990s, evolving from analog to digital operation, which introduced call and text encryption, along with data services that created the capacity for different kinds of picture and text messaging.
The introduction of 3G networks in 1998 ushered in faster data-transmission speeds allowing cell phones to be used in more data-demanding ways, such as for video calling and mobile internet access. The term “mobile broadband” came about with 3G cellular technology. The fourth generation, 4G, was released in 2008. Going beyond the mobile web access of 3G, 4G also supports gaming services, HD mobile TV, video conferencing, 3D TV, and other features that demand high speeds. Most current cell phone models support both 4G and 3G technologies. (1)
The applications supported by 4G have evolved to offer connected cars, cheaper monitors and TVs, digital health devices that can report data directly to doctors, laptop/tablet combinations, curved TVs, 3-D printers, smart homes allowing a wide range of remote functions from afar, and wearables such as smart watches. In the tech world, these creative applications have spawned the vision of connecting all kinds of things through the internet. (2)
In a January 13, 2014, Time magazine article, Tim Bajarin wrote that “The Internet of Everything (IOE) has become a catch-all phrase to describe adding connectivity and intelligence to just about every device in order to give them special functions.” He went on to describe the advent of everything “Smart,” that we are now so familiar with — “… All end up with the ‘smart’ moniker in front of them when they become tied to the Internet and interconnect to ecosystems of devices, software and services.” Note: Now, these years hence, this is more commonly referred to as the Internet of Things — IoT).
Bajarin pointed out that developing this market would yield an enormous financial impact as well:
“… during a meeting I had with the CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, he outlined Cisco’s thinking on IOE. The financial numbers he predicts for the impact of IOE in the public sector alone: $4.6 trillion. He believes it will have a dramatic impact on everything from city planning, first responders, military, health and dozens of other environments.”


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I have a few questions related to this video. My first would be does Jonathan Kleck understand the alleged alien language used in the communication?
if he doesn't then how does he know they are invading? If he does then why doesn't he translate for us?
Also, for what reason would aliens pre-announce an invasion on some radio frequency? That would eliminate the advantage of a surprise attack, unless we are dealing with really stupid aliens.
How is it that in the entire world that only Jonathan has received this message?
If you listen to the sound of the data he presents as alien communication ... well, any competent radio / cell technician, and many with general electronic education, would tell you that this is the sound that would come from a phone that is experiencing a silicone chip failure.
The chip has lost it's timing and is processing the data as sounds, which are probably there somewhere in that data stream along with the digital id which identifies his phone to the cell network.
Cell phones work on a similar system to the old trunking system. Consider they send short burst of data with an Id tag, but many phones are using the same frequency at the same time! Your phone filters out the digitized voice packets that do not match your cellphone ID, but if there is a failure then that filtering may not take place until it syncs up again ... this sounds exactly like what Jonathan heard and recorded.
The event took place when a CME from the sun was messing with the data of satellites, radio communication, and CELL phone equipment, etc. There are many external influences that can cause a cell phone or cell phone equipment to malfunction. Temperature, humidity, to many people on the CELL phone equipment at the same time, Radio frequency interference from magnetic fields, the microwave oven, a router, CB communication, chip failure due to heat, or dropping your phone in the water, defective chip, can cause intermittent failures. There are far to many possibilities to mention here, but assuming that just because you don't understand something that it is an alien pre-invasion message goes way beyond what most would consider logical thinking.
The invasion has already taken place, Jonathan, has just not acknowledged it. Ten million aliens have come from Mexico across the border to the US.
As far as the real alien dudes are concerned, If they have the technology to travel through space then I don't think they will be broadcasting in the cell phone frequency range.
Fear is one thing God says is the opposite of faith, but He also says that: 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
So fearing an alien invasion based upon Jonathan's video would be quite a large stretch. But fear itself of any kind .... does not come from God.


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Invasive cyber attacks on data centers cost billions of dollars, but can be mitigated by sophisticated software and hardware-based security defenses. However, a physical attack on machines in a data center using various fault injection methods can cause damage without compromising security. Therefore, Intel developed the Tunable Replica Circuit (TRC) telemetry control technology supported by the 12th generation core Alder Lake platform to detect similar attacks.
“Software protections have been strengthened through virtualization, layered canaries and code verification,” said Daniel Nemiroff, Intel’s principal engineer. “This has led malicious actors to turn their attention to physical attack computer platforms. A favorite tool of these attackers is fault injection attacks with flash voltages, clock pins and electromagnetic radiation that cause circuit timing errors and allow them to execute malicious instructions and potentially flash secrets.”
Intel’s Alder Lake 600-series chipsets (which Intel calls the Platform Control Hub, or PCH) have a TRC module that constantly monitors the operation of other components in the system, including the CPU, which supports the company’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). himself.
TRC monitors timing failures due to voltage, clock, temperature, or electromagnetic malfunctions, which can be caused by a variety of factors. For example, when certain CPU times are out of the ordinary, this could indicate a cyber attack (using a malicious command or exploiting holes in security). A set of TRC sensors are tuned to detect errors caused by fault injection rather than normal workload voltage drops, so Intel is confident that the technology won’t use mitigation techniques to ensure data integrity under normal conditions due to false positives.
“The circuit is optimized for security applications by changing the monitoring configuration and building infrastructure to increase the TRC’s vulnerability to false injection attacks,” said Carlos Tokunaga, principal engineer at Intel Labs.
While TRC technology is being tested on client platforms, it could also find its way into Intel’s upcoming data center platforms. For obvious reasons, it is very difficult to physically enter a data center to access a PC. But once a criminal is in, TRC can be very useful as it can access multiple systems at once.


For the electric PA, or audio system, to come into being, the component parts first had to be invented and then combined to fulfill a need. The three basic building blocks of all PA systems are:
Or, in simple terms, we need a microphone, an amplifier, and a loudspeaker.
Most historians go with David Edward Hughes, who seems to have beaten Alexander Graham Bell, Emile Berliner, and Thomas Edison by a few years to demonstrate his rudimentary carbon microphone in 1875. He never sought a patent for his invention, as he wanted it to be a gift to mankind but he did coin the word “microphone” by thinking of it as the audio equivalent of the microscope.
Throughout the 1870s and 80s, various loudspeaker-like devices existed, most notably on Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone (1876) and Edison’s phonograph (1877), but the true moving coil loudspeaker, the forebear of all loudspeakers since, was invented by Oliver Lodge in 1898.
The final piece of the PA puzzle came along in 1906 when Lee DeForest invented the Audion, the first device capable of amplifying an electrical signal.
The first documented example of an electric PA system being used to amplify speech and music at a public event was on December 24, 1915, at San Francisco City Hall, when Jensen and Pridhams’ Magnavox system was publicly demonstrated (Magnavox being Latin for “great voice”).
Improvement and refinement of PA technology continued, with systems for motion pictures being a primary driver. Things really started to get interesting during the 1950’s as the invention of the electric guitar and the growing popularity of rock ‘n’ roll increased the need for greater amplification.
The first operational amplifiers were used in professional audio equipment, notably as summing devices for multichannel consoles.
In 1967, the Monterey International Pop Festival becomes the first large rock music festival and the Broadway musical “Hair” opened with a high-powered sound system. These large format demands for more power continued to drive evolution forward with technology being invented to fill the need.
Once the amplification concern was addressed, focus turned to the quality and shape of the sound that was now coming (loudly) from the system. EMT produced the first digital reverberation unit as its Model 250 in 1975. The ability to affect the quality of the sound coming out of an audio system charged the well-known 1970’s commercial, “Is it Live or is it Memorex?” In the TV commercial, the “Queen of Jazz,” Ella Fitzgerald, would sing a note that shattered a wine glass while a Memorex tape recorded her voice. When playing back the recording from the tape, the commercial would question the audience, “Is it live or is it Memorex?” The idea being that with new technology, live and recorded sound couldn’t be differentiated.
In 1990, Dolby proposed a five-channel surround-sound scheme for home theater systems. The digital and experiential era had begun and digital audio systems were rapidly replacing analog systems.
Digital audio is an audio signal or more simply, a sound signal that has been converted into digital form, where the sound wave of the audio signal is encoded as numerical samples in continuous sequence.
Digital audio systems may include such applications and are used to manage compression, storage, processing and transmission components. Conversion to a digital format allows for convenient manipulation, storage, transmission and retrieval of an audio signal. Unlike analog audio, in which making copies of a recording may degrade the original recording quality when using digital audio, an infinite number of copies can be made without any degradation of signal quality.
Gone are the days of seeing racks on racks of amplifiers on stage. In the past, an Audio Engineer required many racks of amplifiers for a show, as each one was capable of only producing so much power. Audio Engineers can now fit the same amount of power into a smaller footprint, as amplifiers have got lighter and more powerful. This effectively reduces the quantity or size of the electronics needed to reproduce an amplified signal.
As seen in consumer electronics, technology has advanced to needing smaller components, are made with lighter materials and have immensely more capabilities compared to analog counterparts.
Analog consoles did not have all the onboard processing, effects units. The advent of digital consoles brought on the ability to put much more into a single device.
There is a more prolific use of powered speakers, as opposed to a separate amplifier and speaker combination. In a traditional audio setup, you have amplifiers on the ground and speakers in the air. Now those two components are combined into one. This saves both on the quantity of equipment and the footprint required. Audio Engineers no longer need to have five to six racks of amplifiers to power their system – they only need an electrical distribution rack. They are effectively running power directly to the speakers instead of power to the amplifiers and then cable to the speakers.
With the desire for more control, more flexibility and more creativity, effects units have become ubiquitous in the audio setup. In the days of analog equipment, an Audio Engineer may only have 3 or 4 effects units for the entire show. Now they may have three or four effects units available on a single input. This proliferation of effects units provides Audio Engineers with increased artistic choice and control.
Digital audio can now be carried over a network using audio over Ethernet, audio over IP or other streaming media standards and systems. Digital audio can be carried over digital audio interfaces, such as Dante (delivering ultra-low latency and near-perfect synchronization), AES3 (also known as AES/EBU, this was jointly developed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European Broadcasting Union EBU) or MADI (Multichannel Audio Digital Interface).
Several interfaces are engineered to carry digital video and audio together, including HDMI and DisplayPort.
Modern technology now allows everyone to have a computer in their pocket. As we see in Smartphones, technology is getting smaller but the screens are getting bigger. There is a demand for them to do more and more with the ease of just adding an app. This provides the Audio Engineer with the capability to tune the PA and make adjustments right from a Smartphone or tablet, giving them the flexibility to assess the sound quality anywhere in the room and not have to run back to the console to make adjustments.
Computer-based acoustic PA modeling allows Audio Engineers to “design” their audio system rather than “just hang a bunch of speakers.” Systems are now strategically designed, as opposed to just assembled. These CAD programs allow you to input room models and architectural CAD drawings to accurately plan and project how speaker systems will work in a venue before you even get on site. This design work improves PA design and can reduce setup time on site.
Continuing wireless technology improvements and reliability to reduce the amount of cabling and connectivity that is currently required.
Lighter, smaller and more powerful components that reduce the costs associated with the storage, shipping and setup time for large audio systems.
Cost reductions as new technologies are developed so that the advancements can be put into action on the stages, floors, trusses, and towers of the events of tomorrow.
The audio industry has come along way since that first microphone was created in 1875 and will certainly continue to think “outside the box” to drive future innovation of technology. While basic physics rule the law of sound and how it is carried or transmitted, the Audio Engineers of today and tomorrow will keep on using their creative and the hardware available to meet the demands of an ever-evolving industry.


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What is Active Noise Cancelling?
Noise cancelling headphones use microphones to listen to the incoming sound, then some fancy processing creates inverse waves which get fed back into the headphones. These inverse waves cancel out the ambient sound. One way to think about this is if the ambient noise (aeroplane engines / air conditioning, say), is “+1” the headphones would create and add “-1” so your ear hears 0 (i.e. nothing, within reason of course).
What is Noise Isolating
Many in-ear and on-ear headphones isolate you from ambient noise. Some are better than others. The idea here is a physical barrier between your ear and the offending sounds.
With over-ear headphones, the noise isolation usually isn’t a lot, but enough to muffle the surrounding sound somewhat.
With in-ear headphones, how much sound they reduce is based entirely on how good a seal you’re able to get. Everyone’s ears are different, and as such, in-ear headphones fit everyone differently.


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Earlier The Apple Blog reported that the next generation of iPhone might have an RFID reader built in, if rumors prove true. Well, there’s no need to wait that long. Wireless Dynamics in Canada has announced a device called the iCarte that will add both RFID and NFC capabilities to the iPhone. The New York Times/GigaOM reports.
“A chip embedded in the iCarte turns your iPhone into a portable electronic wallet, able to process contactless payments. It can also transmit any information it receives directly to enterprise databases using Wi-Fi or 3G network connections, so that orders and purchases can be automatically input into your company’s home server.”
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Knock-off mobile phone makers run into trouble in ShenzhenPosted: 03/9/2011 6:00 am
The prices of mobile phones are going down faster than a beer at a frat house, and that is causing problems for some of China’s “no name” brand phones. Huaqiangbei is famous for being ground zero for mobile phones in Shenzhen, but declining prices on legitimate brands such as Nokia and Samsung are putting the squeeze on manufacturers. The Shenzhen Daily reports there are 3,000 manufacturers of knock-off (more commonly known as shanzhai) mobile phones in the Huaqiangbei area, and sales are down 12% already this year.
Phone buyers now have higher requirements in looking for mobile phones, and more buyers are buying branded phones plus around 300 new brands of registered mobile phones are released in the market since last year. For a unbranded mobile phone maker to release a new model the need to invest around one million yuan. Investing in making new mobile phones will help maintain their market share of unbranded phones but with a risk of bankruptcy if it doesn’t sell well.
This risk have forced companies to go out of business, and many said the knockoff mobile phone industry should undergo restructuring. With newer and intense market competition will surely out phase manufacturers, while those with a strong research and development ability will stay a little longer.
In nearby Hong Kong, some Nokia-branded phones are being given away with the purchase of other electronic items, underscoring how far their value has plummeted in recent years.
As bleak as the picture seems for knock-off mobile phone makers, Huaqiangbei, at last check, still had a vast selection of devices. So no need to panic…. yet.


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The modern world is constantly evolving. Take a precise look around – technologies have already become an inseparable part of our lives, bringing both relief and acceleration. If you either are a devoted driver or involved in the automotive industry you can’t help noticing that the concept of vehicles is getting connected, automated and redefined. The Internet of Things (IoT) has empowered organizations to transform their attitudes to conducting business and generating revenue. Moreover, even those industries that have been able to survive on the same business model for a long time realize it’s high time they changed since in this case technology is not only enabling sustainability but increasing customer satisfaction and quality of experience.
Modern vehicles are extremely intelligent, with a wide range of sensors that collect and process data from in and around the vehicle. In addition, advances in communication technologies allow vehicles use this data to communicate with each other and their surrounding infrastructure. Not only are connected vehicle solutions able to support traffic management but help tackle traffic congestion and road safety concerns in urban settings as well. Why is high-speed connectivity essential in this case? As the car becomes a more tailored transportation method, it demands rapid data sharing and management, and as a result the mentioned innovations can’t be implemented without reliable connectivity. What are the latest connected vehicle innovation trends and how do they influence the automotive industry?
Vehicle diagnostic testing is essential to identify vehicle faults and notify drivers before it becomes a hazard. How does it work? Connected vehicles utilize smart sensors to continuously monitor fuel levels, tire pressure, engine health, and more. In addition, combining advanced analytics with this data provides critical insights into vehicle conditions and enables preventative maintenance. Moreover, telematics functions enabled by diagnostic sensors allow fleet operators to monitor all aspects of their vehicle fleets from a single point.
The developed solutions provide travelers with real-time road condition information in smart cities. Moreover, innovations in the internet of things (IoT) allow vehicles to communicate with a wider range of public infrastructure. Can the applications of vehicles-to-infrastructure go beyond traffic management? You’ll definitely be surprised to learn that they are able to assist with accident alerts and parking availability!
Vehicle-to-everything enables vehicles to communicate with other vehicles, infrastructure, and pedestrians. Thus, autonomous vehicles can improve their navigational performance while contributing to the overall road safety. However, the cost associated with the mentioned systems greatly impacts their adoption.
Connected cars use the internet in order to receive vehicle software updates, contact emergency services, connect with other devices and infrastructure, and more to be mentioned. These assets are especially of great advantage in areas with limited connectivity, such as tunnels and mountainous areas. However, the bandwidth and latency limits of conventional communication methods limit the performance of autonomous vehicles.
Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital and data analytics platforms, 5G, blockchain, cloud, and telematics are enabling intelligent functions in CVs. AI is used to perform the driver’s tasks, more so in autonomous cars. Digital platforms, 5G, and the cloud enable the seamless collection, sharing, and processing of massive data sets from various sources and in multiple formats. The application of blockchain will ensure data security. Properly analysed, the data gathered provides a better understanding of the entire vehicle ecosystem and helps build new products and services.
As we see, the opportunities for connected car markets are huge –from mobile mechanics to other client-centric mobile services. Real-time location information and trip history for connecting with friends and family anytime can be viewed from any device, which means real-time connectivity. However, there are lots of obstacles on the development path. Which ones and how to overcome them? Stay tuned to learn more! We are about to reveal very exciting news!


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Reference Clock: Used to generate sampling clock [more...
Option Synchronisation: Direct synchronisation of up to 4 cards [more...
Option Star-Hub: Synhronisation of up to 16 cards without phase delay [more...
Option Extra I/O: 24 digital I/O + 4 analog outputs [more...
±10 V Amplifier: Extra board with ±10 V output levels and 1, 2 or 4 channels [more...
Bank Switching: Output of two signals controlled by bank signals [mehr...
Standard drivers for Windows and Linux as well as examples for C/C++, Delphi and Basic are included in the delivery [more...
SBench 5: Comfortable measurement software for windows [more...
Option LabVIEW drivers: Libraries and examples for LabVIEW[more...
Option DASYLab driver: Direct access to cards with DASYLab [more...
Option MATLAB driver: Universal driver for all cards [more...
Option VEE driver: Libraries and examples for Agilent VEE [more...


The ASYZ was built in the late 1960s at the ‘East European Hollywood’ Barrandov Film Studios in Prague to provide sound effects and electronic music for film productions, with the final version, the ASYZ2 completed in 1971. The instrument was designed by electronic engineers, Antonín ka [name incomplete], Bohumil Matoušek and later by the sound engineer and designer Pavel Pitrák who maintained the instrument throughout the seventies and eighties. The ASYZ remained in use until the 1990s and is now housed at the collection of the Cinepost post production company, Praha.
The original design was a keyboard-less modular type device intended to be used for processing external audio signals and for generating sound effects, the modules being connected using colour coded patch cables. The instrument was controlled by manually switching a rotary dial to select different timbres and pitches or by programming a 16 step three track sequencer, a six octave keyboard was added in the 1990s. The modules of the ASYZ included a Voltage Controlled Oscillator, white noise generator, low and high pass filters, a parametric equaliser, ring modulator, phaser, signal mixer, VCA, ADSR envelope shaper, LFO, random signal generators, envelope followers and auxiliary circuits. The output of the instrument was controlled by a small six-channel mixing console and monitored using a built-in oscilloscope.
Milan Guštar. ‘Elektrofony II’


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We provide custom solutions for automated, real-time streaming of environmental data from in-situ, sensor-networks deployed in the field to remote satellite sensors, all directly accessible on the web.
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During recent hustings, an opposition candidate opined that cabled internet was a thing of the past and Wireless was the future. She stated it was a technology that was redundant.
This shows a complete lack of understanding of the technology, and I should know, I used to work in the field.
Firstly, all of the wireless technology currently coming on tap needs to be connected to something, that’s usually an underground fibre connection. Secondly, wireless technology while great on the move has issues with latency, which is fine for the average user but no good if you are a pro-gamer or someone who uses high bandwidth for work reasons, and you need a quick response time.
Underground fibre technology has a very large place in our technological future.
However, politicians are so consumed with the technology themselves that they fail to grasp that Scotlands issues with rollout are not a result of the technology. They are a result of “economic viability” caused by complications in rolling out those technologies.
How many times have you seen the rollout of a new type of internet technology or other utility services? Just think about it for a moment, because every single one of us has seen it at some point in our lives. How we see it, is usually a massive hole ripped in the street. This is where the bottleneck in rolling out superfast broadband is, not the technology, not the cabling, but the way in which it has to be laid – usually by ripping very large holes in the road surface.
This comes with huge cost and it is extremely time-consuming for broadband providers. It also upsets the equation of profit vs loss. If you are a broadband provider, you cannot reasonably roll out technology where you are going to make a loss – your shareholders would eat you for breakfast. This results in the only real possibility for new technologies being Openreach, which consistently take vast sums of public money to do it. But because of the cost and the time to roll out such technologies, rural areas are often two or three generations behind inner-city areas.
For the private companies, well they concentrate on tightly grouped, highly populated areas which make the cost of digging up streets worth it because they can recoup the cost by providing many connections.
Government is investing in the wrong thing.
Government invests in the technology and rollout of technology using old methodologies when it should be investing in the surrounding infrastructure. It should be investing in concrete pipes, not fibre optic cable.
Now, this might raise an eyebrow, but what if there was a way to assure the rollout of new technologies at a much faster pace, even to rural areas and allow councils the opportunity to actually make a profit in the long term? There is!
What the Scottish Government should be investing in is paying local councils to upgrade the under road infrastructure. As councils replace road surfaces, the Scottish Government should be funding councils to dig a little bit deeper, burying large conduits which are big enough to carry all utilities to peoples homes. This should be done as a matter of course in new developments, and in old towns and cities, as the councils replace the road surfaces. Or, if Scotland is to be bold, as a standalone infrastructure project across the length and breadth of Scotland, creating jobs and apprenticeships over a 10-year term – something which could be very helpful in post-covid recovery.
By burying proper conduits into the ground it delivers a number of benefits. The first is that councils could lease the space underground to utility providers to pay for the cost of maintenance, and for the cost of rolling out such infrastructure. Those utility providers would be happy to pay those charges because it assures the upkeep of that conduit network, but also because now they can lay their utilities without having to pay for the road to be dug up every time a cable needs fixed, or laid for the first time, or to upgrade existing technologies.
The second benefit is that a rollout of a new technology to a housing scheme would take a day to lay the cables, where before, all of the digging would likely have taken weeks/
The third benefit is that because companies are no longer having to dig for themselves, their overall cost reduces, meaning that companies that once only concentrated on high population areas would suddenly find, all they really need to pay for is some cabling. This would make areas of the country where other providers previously would not go, highly attractive to all of the different providers. With new providers comes competition for Openreach forcing them to up their gain.
A whole other raft of opportunities also opens up, like local communities being able to install and roll out their own network locally with ISP’s simply connecting onto it. However, the one thing that would happen is that as new technology appears, it could be rolled out rapidly, without the logistical nightmare that we currently have. So rather than 10 years to roll out technology with different parts of Scotland having different generations of communications technology, all parts of Scotland could have it within a few years. Where government assistance for rollouts would be required, it would be much less than present-day, because all they would be assisting with funding, is the underlying technology, not the cost of digging up the street.
But here’s a large benefit – the cost for councils of maintaining road surfaces would drop substantively because many a pothole is created by the digging of road surfaces for utilities. If it becomes as simple as opening a manhole and dropping in a cable, there’s no need to destroy the road surface.
If Scotland is to compete in the 21st century, we need to rethink how we roll out utilities and services to end-users, and the only way to do that is to rethink everything around it. Proper pathway infrastructure for utilities is where we must start if Scotland is to be fit for the 21st century.
And this now leads me on nicely to democratising electricity – Please have a read: https://www.martinjkeatings.com/democratising-electricity/


All phones have been tested and rated for use with hearing aids for some of the wireless technologies they use. However, there may be newer wireless technologies used that have not been tested yet for use with hearing aids. It is important to try the different features of phones thoroughly and in different locations, using your hearing aid or cochlear implant, to determine if you hear any interfering noise. Consult your service provider or the manufacturer for information on hearing aid compatibility. If you have questions about return or exchange policies, consult your service provider or phone retailer.
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Innov8 Cabin Solutions’ New CFLEX Cast and CFLEX Command Products Breathe New Life into the Cabin Management Systems of Legacy Aircraft
More than 8,000 aircraft built from the 1990s through the 2010s are facing obsolescence, supportability and functionality issues in the cabin. Innov8’s CFLEX Cast delivers a flexible, wireless cabin that easily integrates with other products and current source equipment, enabling easy and efficient use of personal electronic devices (PEDs). Innov8’s patented CFLEX Command liquid crystal display (LCD) programmable switch technology gives customers a simplified, highly reliable, easily supported cabin-control capability at an affordable price.
“Earlier cabin management systems were based on the premise that integrating cabin entertainment with cabin control in the same system and over the same network was a good idea. With the explosive growth of personal electronic devices over the past decade, though, passengers now prefer to carry on their own devices for productivity and entertainment. This renders much of the current CMS obsolete and rarely used except for features like moving map, external cameras and satellite TV,” says Steve Galipeau, Product Development leader at Innov8.
The CFLEX Cast product line solves the cabin entertainment management challenges by enabling current and future sources of entertainment to be wirelessly distributed to the PEDs on the aircraft, including the new CFLEX VŪ bulkhead monitor replacement products from Innov8. CFLEX Cast also allows the customer to retain and use existing monitors if desired. When the older technology devices eventually fail, Innov8 replacement products are both affordable and flexible. CFLEX Cast includes the CFLEX Cabin Entertainment Unit (CEU) and CFLEX Wireless Access Point (WAP). CFLEX Cast achieves a truly “wireless cabin” capability, and it does so in an affordable, flexible and supportable manner.
CFLEX Command provides both federated and networked solutions that can be adapted to provide the most cost-effective, updated cabin-control system for the customer. Innov8 owns the intellectual property for programmable display switches. The CFLEX Cast products greatly simplify the audio/video control functions by removing them from the current CMS and allowing them to be handled by PEDs. CFLEX Command takes advantage of this by offering LCD programmable switch panels that fit in the cutouts for the existing panels and support the reduced control functions. On-board software enables loading and reloading of switch programming without having to send the units back to Innov8 in the unlikely event that a switch fails. CFLEX Command is both proven and flexible, allowing supportability and adaptability which translates into much lower overall acquisition and life-cycle costs.
CFLEX Cast and CFLEX Command join the Innov8 CFLEX Simplicity family of products that include the CFLEX VŪ products, the CFLEX Charge USB Charger, and the CFLEX Arm with CFLEX Holder for ease and efficient use of PEDs. For more information about these products, please visit www.innov8cabin.com.


The TinyTemp is a very compact, inexpensive and power-efficient temperature
acquisition system developed at La Silla. In its present version it supports
16 Dallas DS18S20 sensors on a single 3-wire bus, and delivers the information
at a rate of one update per second on a standard serial interface. Each
sensor comes from the factory programmed with a unique address. The TinyTemp
controller communicates with the sensors over a single serial data line,
identifying the sensors by their addresses.
-10 to +85 degrees Celsius at rated accuracy
1/16th degree Celsius
0.5 degrees guaranteed, 0.2 degrees typical, no calibration required
Amount of sensors:
16, but could be increased to about 100 by software modification
Amount of sensor buses: 1, but can be
increased to 16 by adding one connector and one resistor per bus, and modifying
2-line RS-232 compatible
4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity
Compatible with the QuaT system used at NTT. See sample at end of this
5 Volt, 60mA peak, provided by wall transformer
Over serial port, stored in EEROM
Over serial port, no need to open case. Operational software stored in
Roughly DM 450 for one TinyTemp with power supply and 16 sensors.
Add costs for sensor mounts and wiring.
Connect an RS-232 terminal to the serial port, configured for 4800 baud,
8 data bits, one stop bit, no parity. The TinyTemp serial connector is
a DB-9 wired as DCE, so it transmits on pin 2, receives on pin 3, while
pin 5 is ground. Use a 3-line cable for this connection, or at least make
sure that pin 4 is left unconnected. This pin is used to put the TinyTemp
into software load mode, so connecting a signal here may result in erasing
When the TinyTemp is powered up, it displays a short notice inviting
the user to press the "s" key (lowercase always) to enter setup mode. If
no "s" is sent within 3 seconds, the TinyTemp will enter normal data acquisition
After entering setup mode, the TinyTemp allows to press "x" to exit
into data acquisition mode, or "i" for identifying sensors. In this
latter mode, the TinyTemp will ask the user to connect one sensor (only
one!) to the bus, and then enter the sensor number. The sensor must be
connected as shown in this photo, that is, aligning the TO-92 case with
the plastic half cylinder in the LEMO connector. Then the user enters the
desired sensor number, from 0 to f in a single hexadecimal digit, and the
TinyTemp will then read out the sensor ROM address, program it into EEROM,
and let the user know the address read. After this operation, the user
can choose between programming another sensor, or starting data acquisition
For QuaT compatibility, the format is the following: The TinyTemp sends
the sensor number in two digits (01 to 16), followed by a ":", and the
temperature value expressed as sign (- or space), two digits for the integer,
decimal point, and two digits for the fractional part. This is followed
by a carriage return character (13), and the next sensor follows. The last
sensor is followed by a CTRL-R character (30) instead of the carriage return.
The entire sequence repeats roughly once per second.
This is how the output looks on a typical terminal configured for automatic
... and so on until
followed by a small triangle. Due to the lack of a CR after this, the
line for sensor 01 of the next packet will be appended to this line.
If another format is desired by an user, that can easily be implemented,
but would no longer be compatible with the NTT.
Sensor bus wiring:
The sensor bus is connected to the LEMO 1-5 connector. Only pins 1, 2 and
3 are used: Pin 1 is +5V, pin 2 is the data line, and pin 3 is
ground. The sensors must be connected in the same order as when looking
into the connector: When you can read the sensor lettering, right pin is
+5V, middle one is the data line, left one is ground. The bus cable should
be unshielded twisted line.
Here is the schematic diagram of the controller. Click on the image for a larger
version for printing. As you can see, the complexity of the circuit is not
such as to shock anyone!
Almost everything is done inside the Basic Stamp.
Here is the software that goes into the Basic Stamp,
and here is the program you need to modify, compile
and/or download it. Here are links to the relevant information about the
temperature sensors, and the microcontroller
used in this system. If you need to download a program into the TinyTemp, you
need a full RS-232 cable (pins 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are required) and a PC.
If necessary, a programmable offset value for each sensor could be included.
This would bring the accuracy into the 0.1 degree range after calibration.
An option to manually enter sensor addresses could be added. The output
format can be adapted to user requirements. Other sensor types, like relative
humidity, can be supported. The amount of sensors can be dramatically increased,
and the amount of independent sensor buses too. The TinyTemp can
also be built into a bigger box, for those users who don't trust such a
Any comments, questions, requests and ideas should be addressed to Manfred


Cabling and Data Transfer
by Anna Moore and John Henning
The following summarises the current cabling installed on the 200inch telescope. We describe how signals from both benches are carried to the computer room that is the central hub for communications. From this location signals can be routed to the data room in which the diagnostics pc for this run will be located.
Current cabling existing at 200inch:
o There are (27) 50-ohm coax lines, (12) 62.5u multimode fiberoptic lines, and (120) general-purpose copper conductors at the prime focus cage.
o All the fiberoptics have ST-type connectors and run to the Cass cage, whence they can be routed to the computer room (CR).
o Six of the coax have BNC connectors; they run to Cass and can be continued to the CR. Fourteen coax have specialized Amp "coaxicon" connectors, but breakout cables can convert these to BNC-- these also run to Cass and potentially to CR. and seven coax run directly to CR.
o The plain conductors, while probably not of interest, run either to Cass or CR.
o It appears that LLT currently uses up to eight of the coax for existing functions, and none of the fibers.
o The cabling distance PF<->CR is ~100meters.
o We currently have (14) 50-ohm coax lines between coude and the computer room. No fiberoptic... but it is a short run and we can run some F.O.cables if that is needed.
Suggested cabling method:
Coude to computer room:
o 3 analog cameras
o 1 photodiode analog output 
Use 4 × 50ohm lines
LLT to computer room:
4 analog cameras
1 photodiode analog output
1) Analog to GigE?
IP engine (Pleora) located at prime focus (up to 6 analog inputs, 2 simultaneous)
)->1000Base-SX(short wave optical fiber) converter located at prime focus (arrived)
3) 100m of 62.5 multimode fiber to computer room
4) 1000Base-SX->1000BaseT converter located in computer room (arrived)
into PC PCI card (Patrick has supplied a PCI single GigE?
card for testing)
- 30 Sep 2006


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icloud… The world’s first absolutely free online computer was launched on April 23, 2009. Swedish company Xcerion announced the launch of the unique system icloud in New York. Cloud technologies represent an Internet service that provide software to clients having no personal computers and those who can not access their computers at a […]


In an emergency situation, being without a means of communication can be a matter of life and death.
By keeping this little gadget in your car, in your brief case, or at home or work, you are guaranteed to have the power you need if your smartphone battery dies.
The Power Bank 2600 is a lightweight, portable charging device that you can take with you wherever you go and provides more than enough power to easily fully charge your smartphone (both iPhone and Android based). It will also recharge many other electronical devices including basic mobile phones, game players, iPods, and MP3/MP4 players. The Power Bank 2600 easily recharges using the included USB cable so you can be sure to always have it ready when needed.
This Power Bank 2600 is a universal charging device with a large charging capacity of 2600mah. It will charge most USB charging mobile phones and electronic devices including: iPhone & iPad, HTC, Samsung Mobile & Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nokia, Blackberry, PSD, PDA, GPS, Digital Camera, and other tablet PCs & digital devices.
How to Use:
Charging your iPod/iPhone & Other Digital Devices
1. Connect the ipod/iphone using the original canle or adapter and press the ON/OFF button to turn on the Power Back.
2. Connect your device using it's original cable or by using the adapter and press the ON/OFF button to turn on the device.
Recharging the Power Bank
1. Connect to a standard USB wall adapter (not included) and a MicroUSB cable (not included) or the included cable & pin adapter.
2. Connect to your computer using a MicroUSB cable (not included) or the included cable & pin adapter.


By building edge connectivity as close to the gamers as possible, an immersive, hyperspeed gaming experience is built. Edge computing is a viable solution for data-driven operations that require lightning-fast results and a high level of flexibility, depending on the current state of things. Reliability – with the operation proceedings occurring close to the user, the system is less dependent on the state of the central network. These applications combine voice recognition and process automation algorithms. The intermediary server method is also used for remote/branch office configurations when the target user base is geographically diverse (in other words – all over the place).
Speed — It’s been mentioned several times, but the primary advantage of computing power at the source is reduced latency, or the time it takes to send/receive data. There may be times in cloud computing where the server is in another city, another state or even across the world, reducing the likelihood that immediate, real-time decisions can be made, especially when quicker response times are essential. Centralized cloud infrastructure allows the integration of a system-wide data loss protection system. The decentralized infrastructure of edge computing requires additional monitoring and management systems to handle data from the edge. On the contrary, edge computing requires enforcing these protocols for remote servers, while security footprint and traffic patterns are harder to analyze. To achieve liftoff for Arise in Wolfsburg, the company turned to edge computing company Vodafone.
Additionally, due to the sensitive nature of this type of data, some organizations might hesitate to process or store this information in a public cloud providers’s data center. Autonomy.Edge computing is useful where connectivity is unreliable or bandwidth is restricted because of the site’s environmental characteristics. Examples include oil rigs, ships at sea, remote farms or other remote locations, such as a rainforest or desert. Edge computing does the compute work on site — sometimes on theedge deviceitself — such as water quality sensors on water purifiers in remote villages, and can save data to transmit to a central point only when connectivity is available.
Edge Computing Challenges
The biggest problem of cloud computing is latency because of the distance between users and the data centers that host the cloud services. This has led to the development of a new technology called edge computing moves computing closer to end users. The ‘Edge’ refers to having computing infrastructure closer to the source of data. It is the distributed framework where data is processed as close to the originating data source possible. This infrastructure requires effective use of resources that may not be continuously connected to a network such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, and sensors. Rugged industrial computers are often deployed in factories and manufacturing facilities for industrial automation and control.
- Hospitals also rarely store patient data on dedicated servers but instead purchase the services of a third party.
- Edge computing gained notice with the rise of IoT and the sudden glut of data such devices produce.
- We’ve seen the term “edge” used so many times in news, articles, blogs and campaigns that we’re starting to feel some semantic satiation on whether it’s even a real word anymore.
- Most of the data involved in real-time analytics is short-term data that isn’t kept over the long term.
- Edge IoT devices, security cameras, video games, and autonomous devices can’t possibly send all of their data to centralized facilities.
The cloud can get centralized computing much closer to a data source, but not at the network edge. As devices grew smaller over the years, their computing and processing powers have grown exponentially. While data warehouses and server farms were once considered to be the ultimate choice for computing speed, the focus has quickly shifted to the concept of cloud or “offsite storage”. Companies like Netflix, Spotify and other SaaS companies have even built their entire business models on the concept of cloud computing.
Introduction To Edge Computing
Data is the lifeblood of modern business, providing valuable business insight and supporting real-time control over critical business processes and operations. Today’s businesses are awash in an ocean of data, and huge amounts of data can be routinely collected from sensors and IoT devices operating in real time from remote locations and inhospitable operating environments almost anywhere in the world. If stated simply, Edge Computing is nothing but the intelligent Internet of things in a way.
Data lifecycles.The perennial problem with today’s data glut is that so much of that data is unnecessary. Consider a medical monitoring device — it’s just the problem data that’s critical, and there’s little point in keeping days of normal patient data. Most of the data involved in real-time analytics is short-term data that isn’t kept over the long term. A business must decide which data to keep and what to discard once analyses are performed.
“Edge computing” is a type of distributed architecture in which data processing occurs close to the source of data, i.e., at the “edge” of the system. This approach reduces the need to bounce data back and forth between the cloud and device while maintaining consistent performance. As a network is pushed further from the fortress-like cloud, issues arise regarding the physical security of outposts — even as the edge makes data transmission more secure. Since edge computing is a distributed system, ensuring adequate security can be challenging. There are risks involved in processing data outside the edge of the network.
An intelligent edge network processes and analyzes data based on where it is produced, namely locations at the edge of a businesses network. These locations are offices or infrastructure that produces data, and typically most of a businesses network will be considered an edge location. Public cloud adoption has grown exponentially across enterprises so telcos that want to offer telco edge services should draw lessons from the cloud players’ success. There are many other benefits of edge computing that we have already discussed.
Fog Computing — Fog computing pushes intelligence down to the local area network level of network architecture, processing data in a fog node or IoT gateway. Smart energy grid — Organizations are placing green, energy-efficient initiatives at the forefront of their sustainability pledges. One way to do this is through sensors and IoT devices that can monitor energy usage in warehouses and offices. By analyzing energy consumption through edge computing, real-time adjustments can be made on machinery or lighting during peak or off-peak hours.
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In 2006, the cost of manufacturing downtime in the automotive industry was estimated at $1.3 million per hour. A decade later, the rising financial investment toward vehicle technologies and the growing profitability in the market make unexpected service interruptions more expensive in multiple orders of magnitude. Today, edge computing takes this concept further, introducing computational capabilities into nodes at the network edge to process information and deliver services. The first vital element of any successful technology deployment is the creation of a meaningful business andtechnical edge strategy. Understanding the “why” demands a clear understanding of the technical and business problems that the organization is trying to solve, such as overcoming network constraints and observing data sovereignty.
In the case of AR and VR, the technology is not yet appropriate for many use cases. Some of these challenges include the size, weight and power needs of headsets that make them impractical for remote use over what is edge computing with example long periods of time. Technology companies are working to improve headset form factor, for example Facebook’s Oculus Rift S. The following diagram demonstrates where the sweet spot is for edge computing.
Although the Internet has evolved over the years, the volume of data being produced everyday across billions of devices can cause high levels of congestion. In edge computing, there is a local storage and local servers can perform essential edge analytics in the event of a network outage. Edge computing with 5G creates tremendous opportunities in every industry.
By utilizing an edge computing platform, drones can increase the throughput of large image and video files to local servers and in-region computational resources eliminate bandwidth bottlenecks, and speed up drone performance. Increasingly, though, the biggest benefit of edge computing is the ability to process and store data faster, enabling more efficient real-time applications that are critical to companies. Before edge computing, a smartphone scanning a person’s face for facial recognition would need to run the facial recognition algorithm through a cloud-based service, which would take a lot of time to process.
This amount of data puts an incredible strain on the internet, which in turn causes congestion and disruption. Banks may need edge to analyze ATM video feeds in real-time in order to increase consumer safety. Mining companies can use their data to optimize their operations, improve worker safety, reduce energy consumption and increase productivity. Retailers can personalize the shopping experiences for https://globalcloudteam.com/ their customers and rapidly communicate specialized offers. Companies that leverage kiosk services can automate the remote distribution and management of their kiosk-based applications, helping to ensure they continue to operate even when they aren’t connected or have poor network connectivity. Modern drone systems need access to city-level server networks for lower latency operational commands.
Machine And Computer Vision
To understand the points mentioned above, let’s take the example of a device which responds to a hot keyword. Imagine if your personal Jarvis sends all of your private conversations to a remote server for analysis. Wearable IoT devices such as smartwatches are capable of monitoring the user’s state of health and even save lives on occasions if necessary. Apple smartwatch is one of the most prominent examples of a versatile wearable IoT.
Rugged NVR computers are used to gather, process, and analyze video footage, only sending footage that sets off certain triggers to the cloud for remote monitoring and analysis. This reduces the amount of required internet bandwidth, since not all video footage has to be sent to the cloud, only specific clips where triggers have been set off are sent for additional analysis and inspection. This is different from the traditional model where all video footage was sent to the cloud for remote monitoring and analysis. Deploying rugged NVR computers to manage smart surveillance systems is especially beneficial for those on metered data plans where they pay for the data that they use. Rugged edge computers are deployed as IoT gateways for smart agriculture applications.
Autonomous vehicles require ultra-fast processing; otherwise, any delay in the vehicle’s maneuvering can be deadly. Unlike the large, bulky server farms of the past, edge computing utilizes infrastructure near end-user locations to deliver content seamlessly with minimal latency. In some cases, we need both to achieve latency that’s below 10 milliseconds. But there are still challenges for 5G as telcos will deploy gradually at first and focus on major cities.
Edge Computing Acts On Data At The Source
Thanks to devices getting smarter and more powerful, they are becoming more capable of handling and processing large amounts of data, reducing the need for the compute power of a traditional data center. By encouraging organizations to move their data to the edge, there’s an emphasis reducing latency and providing more processing of data close to the source. At the same time, edge computing spreads storage, processing, and related applications on devices and local data centers. Rugged edge computers enable autonomous vehicles because they can gather the data produced by vehicle sensors and cameras, process it, analyze it, and make decisions in just a few milliseconds. Millisecond decision making is a requirement for autonomous vehicles because if vehicles cannot react fast enough to their environment, they will collide with other vehicles, humans, or other objects.
Vmware Edge Compute Stack
Companies that initially embraced the cloud for many of their applications may have discovered that the costs in bandwidth were higher than expected, and are looking to find a less expensive alternative. BMC works with 86% of the Forbes Global 50 and customers and partners around the world to create their future. Connectivity.Connectivity is another issue, and provisions must be made for access to control and reporting even when connectivity for the actual data is unavailable. Some edge deployments use a secondary connection for backup connectivity and control.
Typically edge computers that are tasked with performing machine vision are equipped with a performance accelerators for extra processing power. Edge computing is the computational processing of sensor data away from the centralized nodes and close to the logical edge of the network, toward individual sources of data. It may be referred to as a distributed IT network architecture that enables mobile computing for data produced locally. Instead of sending the data to cloud data centers, edge computing decentralizes processing power to ensure real-time processing without latency while reducing bandwidth and storage requirements on the network. Sending all that device-generated data to a centralized data center or to the cloud causes bandwidth and latency issues.


IPv6 black-holing (null routing, or the action to silently discard traffic matching a given destination IP prefix) is bugged with Quagga and/or iproute2. Indeed, none of the following commands seems to be working:
quagga-router(config)# ipv6 route 2001:db8::/32 lo blackhole linux-shell$ ip -6 route add blackhole 2001:db8::/32
Notice that the quagga command requires an interface, while its IPv4 counterpart doesn’t. I tested with the linux loopback interface lo and a dummy interface ds0 trying to mimick the FreeBSD discard interface, in vain. The iproute2 command also fails and it is apparently a known bug since 2003, wtf?
So how to circumvent this buggy behavior without breaking in blood tears?
Well, simply use a dummy interface and static, high metric routes. Here is the /etc/network/interfaces snippet from my debian routers for null routing 2001:db8::/32 and 192.168.168.0/24:
# blackhole iface ds0 inet manual pre-up ip link add dev ds0 type dummy pre-up ip link set ds0 up up ip -6 route add 2001:db8::/32 dev ds0 proto static metric 255 up ip -4 route add 192.168.168.0/24 dev ds0 proto static metric 255 down ip link del dev ds0
If you know any proper method to achieve the same result, please share. Mine is dirty, but at least I am not leaking traffic or looping back and forth with my upstream router anymore. Yay!


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Interpolation unit IPE2000
The programmable interpolation unit IPE2000 - USB is intended for connection to incremental position and angle measuring systems with sinusoidal input signals phase-shifted by 90 °. It can be used on a large number of encoder systems that work according to a wide variety of measuring principles,
operate. The IPE2000 - USB realizes a subdivision of the signal periods up to 2048-fold. The interpolation unit works with both single-ended and differential input signals. The configuration can be done via the EEPROM or via USB. The
Possibility to equip the unit with a serial interface and / or an active current / voltage converter.
An AMAC-specific gain and offset control as well as the possibility of phase correction of the internal GC-IP2000 guarantee a high measurement accuracy under industrial conditions.
The unit can be connected to a standard meter or controller via the RS422 interface. The internal operating voltage is 5 VDC.
The functions of the interpolation circuit GC-IP2000, such as switchable analog filters or digital hysteresis, make the unit ideal for use in control systems.
| Product type
|Interpolation unit with GC-IP2000


・Prof. L. Davidson willbe giving a talk
on Oct. 17th, 2016. (updated on Oct. 5, 2016)
・Yuri Amimoto received "Research Encouragement Prize" for female students.
(updated on Jun 14、2016)
・Prof. Takayuki Arai's Vocal-Tract Models are Now Exhibited at the Händel-Haus Museum.
(updated on Jun 6, 2016)
・Prof. E. Hume will be giving a talk
on June 14th, 2016. (updated on Jun 8, 2016)
・Takako Igeta and Emi Yanagisawa obtained PhD. (updated on May 25, 2016)
・Prof. Arai supervised experiments for a NHK TV program for children
. (updated on Jan. 15, 2016)
・Prof. Arai's lectures received "Good Practice Award" from Sophia Univ.
(updated on Jan. 15, 2016)
・Prof. Arai's Vocal-trac Models had been exhibited at Tachnorama in Swtizerland. Go to Sophia University's website
for further details. (updated on Jan. 15, 2016)
・Prof. Arai supervised demonstrations of "Onsei to Kotoba no Fushigi (Wonders of Voice and Laugugage)" for kids at Nihon Univ.
(updated on Jan. 4, 2015)
Lab collaborated in an educational exibition of acoustics called "Science Square"
(only Japanese available) at the
National Museum of Nature and Science. (updated on Jan. 4, 2015)
・Emi Yanagisawa's defense for the doctoral degree
is scheduled on Jan. 9th, 2016. (updated on Dec. 28, 2015)
・Takako Igeta's defense for the doctoral degree
is scheduled on Jan. 8th, 2016. (updated on Dec. 28, 2015)
・Dr. Jason Shaw will be giving a talk
on Dec. 14, 2015. (updated on Dec. 28, 2015)
What's New (Continued...)
The series of events involved in
speech communication is called “Speech Chain,” and it is a basic
concept in the speech and hearing sciences. We focus on research
related to speech communication. The fields of this research are
wide-ranging, and our interests include the following interdisciplinary
- education in acoustics (e.g., physical models of human vocal tract),
- acoustic phonetics,
- speech and hearing sciences,
- speech production,
- speech analysis and speech synthesis,
- speech signal processing (e.g., speech enhancement),
- speech / language recognition and spoken language processing,
- speech perception and psychoacoustics,
- acoustics for speech disorders,
- speech processing for hearing impaired,
- speaker characteristics in speech, and
- real-time signal processing using DSP processors.
Takayuki ARAI, Ph.D.
Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8554 JAPAN


NEW RCA IP TELEPHONE SYSTEM MAKES IT EASY TO CREATE A WIRELESS VoIP OFFICE
Feature-Rich System Leverages the Internet for Savings Up to 50% for Small Businesses
Las Vegas, NV, January 7, 2014 – Small businesses can now set up a complete office VoIP system in minutes, with none of the hassles of wiring with the latest RCA Wireless Office Telephone System from Telefield, licensee for RCA business telephones. The fully featured desk-phone system is being showcased at the 2014 International CES in RCA booth 8632 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 7-10. The RCA brand is owned by Technicolor and licensed to Telefield for manufacturing and distribution.
The heart of the new RCA IP170S IP phone system is in its completely wireless architecture. Since many small businesses and start-ups today don’t run network cabling for office computers, the included RCA Base Station connects to each phone (up to six), all utilizing IP-DECT wireless technology. Not only can businesses skip having to wire their offices for VoIP phones, the phones themselves can be placed almost anywhere there is a power outlet.
Additionally, the RCA IP170S automatically pairs up with the low-cost VoIP service delivered by Broadview Networks, an award-winning provider of cloud-based phone services. VoIP Services from RCA and Broadview are only $19.95 per line and do not require annual contracts.
Setting up the system and activating service is a simple matter of plugging the base station into an existing router and visiting rca4business.com to sign up for the service. Once sign-up is complete, setup information is downloaded and the phone is activated and ready for use in minutes. Phones can be located up to 900 feet away from the base.
“Small businesses love our low-cost and powerful VoIP services, but can’t always afford to install the network cabling necessary to support existing VoIP offerings,” said Dwight Sakuma, President of Telefield North America. “Now, with our Wireless Office offering, small businesses can set up a complete low-cost VoIP Phone Sytem in minutes—all without having to undergo expensive and troublesome installation or sign a contract.”
The RCA-hosted VoIP service offers powerful features such as unlimited nationwide calling plus Canada for one low monthly rate, a complete digital receptionist system, customizable voicemail, voicemail delivery over e-mail, music on hold and caller ID with name and phone number.
Additional features of the IP170S include:
- 12 Direct-Access Keys for quick dialing of frequently-called numbers
- Three-way conferencing
- Call pickup/hold/swap/transfer/waiting
- Call log for all incoming and outgoing calls
- Do not disturb mode
- Multilingual display with supports for 12 languages
- 2-year warranty
Features of the Broadview Networks-powered IP phone service include:
- $19.95 per line per month
- Unlimited long distance to U.S. & Canada
- Digital receptionist (auto attendant)
- Receive voicemail notification and attachments over e-mail
- Call transfer
- Music on hold
- Direct dialing to extensions
- No annual contracts
- Customer satisfaction guarantee
The suggested retail price of the RCA IP170S system is $159.99; an individual IP070S desk phone lists for $119.99.
About RCA: RCA is one of the most recognized names in the electronics industry, delivering innovative and reliable technology that has been entertaining families for over 90 years. Consumers throughout the world depend on the RCA brand to provide products and services that feature the latest technology and design, are easy to use, and deliver the highest value and longevity. It's no wonder why generations of families continue to rely on the RCA brand for their home entertainment and lifestyle. RCA is a global trademark administered by RCA Trademark Management SAS of Technicolor SA. Learn more at rca.com


Since we talked about this in class, I figured I’d pass on this piece of information:
According to James Cowie, Renesys’ CTO, “In an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air.” [emphasis added]
This happened about 19 hours ago …
This is the first time that a government has locked its population out of the world wide community of the Internet.


When a crucial component, deep inside your industrial complex, begins to fail, how do you know?
In many industrial installations, areas are hard to reach and/or dangerous. Moving parts are subject to wear, tear and corrosion, deteriorating over time.
Manual checks are expensive and difficult. Remote monitoring, using fit-for-purpose sensors, coupled with quality low power wireless networks and dashboard and alert systems, can pinpoint failure, before it occurs.
OmniTabz offers end-to-end high quality LoRaWAN networking solutions. They include the world-leading, ultra reliable LoRaWAN ThingPark network server from Actility, sensors, network coverage solutions and dashboard/alert systems.
The Internet of Things offers an opportunity to understand what’s happening to your assets and the environment. If you are planning to set up your own LoRaWAN network environment, OmniTabz can help.
We have deep expertise in the set up and operation of LoRaWAN networks – the perfect solution for private, self-managed environments.
The block diagram here is a simple overview of the components of a LoRaWAN network.
In small areas, such as an industrial complex or campus, it is not difficult to build a private LoRaWAN network to provide suitable coverage. With the network in place, then it’s a matter of installing sensors with assets or in a location to monitor the environment.
What can OmniTabz do to assist? We can help by:
If you are planning or contemplating a LoRaWAN IoT solution, talk to us about how we can support your IoT network implementation.
OmniTabz is proud to be a reseller of Actility ThingPark Enterprise (TPE) LoRaWAN IoT network server solutions. Actility, a founder member of the LoRa Alliance, has been closely associated with LoRaWAN since its inception. Actility’s ThingPark solutions are in operation across the world and offer the broadest range of capabilities with the greatest reliability.
We offer the the Actility solutions shown here
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How Messages are Counted and Billed
What are message credits?
If you have a paid Shout subscription, your plan includes message credits. Message credits allow you to send text messages with your Shout phone numbers. Each month you will receive a new allotment of message credits. Unused message credits become roll over credits and roll over from month to month.
You can check your message credits from the usage page on the web application and in the Text Usage drawer from the menu in the mobile application.
How many message credits does it cost to send a message?
It costs 1 message credit to send a single text message with a Shout automation.
It costs 0 message credits to send a 1-to-1 text message from the inbox.
It costs 0 message credits to send a direct message in Shout, a message via Facebook, or a message via Instagram with or without Shout automations.
Messages sent via a Shout automation include messages sent with the following features:
- Broadcast messages
- Drip campaigns
- Recurring events
- Order followups
- Invoice alerts
- Shipping alerts
What happens if I send more messages than I have credits to send?
Sometimes you may send more messages, either with a Broadcast message, or with a bot or drip campaign than you have available in your account. It can be difficult with Shout Automations to know exactly how many credits you'll use.
Shout makes this easy for you to manage by automatically billing your payment method on file when you need more credits to send messages. You can pick how much is automatically charged for more message credits from the Texting services page on the web application.
If for some reason we are unable to bill your payment method on file, then Shout will not deliver the messages that require credits.
Unused message credits roll over month to month and are also know as roll over credits.
What are Message Segments?
Telecommunications carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile measure how long a text message is by segments. They limit the length of messages based on number type (Local versus Toll-Free), and they use message length as a key factor in detecting and blocking spammy messages.
In Shout, every message composer includes a segment counter which adds up as you type so you know how many segments (or how long) your message is. The number of segments a message is does not effect the cost to send the message in Shout. However, we recommend you pay attention to the segment counter and avoid long messages, so the message goes through the cell carrier correctly and you don't get your message marked as spam.
The message composer may be disabled if you attempt to send a message that is beyond the carrier limits.
Users that send too many messages marked as spam risk the carriers blocking all messaging from your phone number.
- For more information on how to use Customer Service and Marketing Numbers, click here.
- Emojis use up more segments than plain text
- Make your messages short and concise
How to Track My Message Credit Usage
- Click here to view your message usage
You can only view your message usage from the web browser of your phone, tablet, or from a computer.
- Or click on the Account button
- Click Settings
- Under General, select Usage


Modifying a JRC NRD-525 for DRM reception
C56 and C102 on the IF-AF Amp board of the NRD525 were moved to the solderside in order to make some space for the DRM-Interface.
Input to the DRM I/F is TP1.
The output is connected to pin 15 of motherboardconnector P28.
The 10.8 Volt DC is obtained from L3.
Click here to read more about it: downloads/JRC_NRD525_Low_Res.pdf
Output of the DRM I/F
The black (RG174) coax connects one of the Scope outputs (bottom right) to the output of the DRM I/F via pin 15.
This can only be done if the RTTY I/F is not fitted!
Extended filter switching
A new firmware (V1.4) in combination with some simple hardware modification results in bypassing the 455 kHz filters FL1 - FL4 resulting in a 455 kHz bandwidth of about 12 kHz necessary for the DRM I/F.
See for more details:
New backpanel connectors
The SO239 type bulkhead connectors for the VHF / UHF were replaced by N-type bulkheads.
The original RS-232 connector was replaced by an DB9 type.
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SMCRoute - a Static Multicast Router (Version 0.8)
smcroute <options> [<command>]
SMCRoute is a command line tool to manipulate the multicast routes of the Linux kernel. It can be used as an alternative to dynamic multicast routers like 'mrouted' in situations where static multicast routes should be maintained and/or no proper IGMP signaling exists.
Multicast routes in the kernel exists only as long as smcroute or another multicast routing daemon is running. Only one multicast router daemon can be active at the same time, so it's impossible to run smcroute and e.g. 'mrouted' at the same time.
With the '-d' option smcroute is started as daemon otherwise smcroute searches for an already running smcroute daemon and passes most other option (a, r, k) to it. The '-k' option will terminate a running daemon.
Multicast routes can be added with the '-a' option and removed with the '-r' option. They can be used togehter with the '-d' option or alone. Multiple use of the '-a' and '-r' option is possible.
-v Prints copyright message at startup and gives some more detailed error/status information to stderr.
-a <InputIntf> <OriginIpAdr> <McGroupAdr> <OutputIntf> [<OutputIntf>] ...
Adds a static routing entry for IP multicast packets to the kernel that match the following criterias:
<InputIntf> - the interface on which the packet must be received, e.g. eth1, gre0, ...
<OrigingIpAdr> - the IP address of the sender, e.g. 126.96.36.199
<McGroupAdr> - the IP multicast target address of the packet, e.g. 188.8.131.52
Packet that match the criterias will be send out on all interfaces in the output interface list: <OutputIntf> [<OutputIntf>] ...
-d Starts the program in daemon mode. -h Prints a short help message to stdout.
-r <InputIntf> <OriginIpAdr> <McGroupAdr> <OutputIntf> [<OutputIntf>] ...
Removes a multicast route. Parameters are the same as for the '-a' option.
contains active multicast routes
contains the 'virtual' interfaces used by any active multicast routing daemon
IPC file created by the smcroute daemon
Carsten Schill (firstname.lastname@example.org), check http://www.cschill.de
Thanks to everyone who uses the program.