Even though lifeguards are essential to maintaining safety at swimming pools, they can't always see everything that's happening. That's where a new swimmer-saving underwater robot is designed to come in.
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Whether one is dealing with a manufacturing plant or a smart city, the architecture of a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system depends on several design considerations, says Ingo Freise, software architect at
Deutsche Telekom.
One is the ability to combine legacy sub-systems, such as a final-assembly cell, with greenfield deployments such as an image processing system for quality control. Another design consideration relates to the challenge of combining multiple connectivity and data management technologies, with the added complication that these are sourced from multiple vendors.
Deutsche Telekom dealt with such issues when working on the MySMARTLife project in a consortium with the cities of Nantes, Hamburg, and Helsinki. Naturally, our involvement in the project focused on the city of Hamburg.
Covid update: 11 February 2021
11 Feb 2021
A round up of this week s coronavirus-related news and countermeasures from the photonics industry.
The robot coughs out a precise, repeatable cloud of droplets and aerosols. Research into the spread of coronavirus has been joined by a robot that, unlike a person, can cough out a precisely specified and repeatable consistency of droplets and aerosols. The coughing robot helps determine the effect of masks and various air purifiers on the spread of droplets and aerosols. Measurements made with the robot are also used to verify the accuracy of computer simulations.
Since autumn 2020, a joint project by Finland-based research agency VTT, Tampere University and THL (the Finnish Institute for Health & Welfare) has studied the mechanisms of the droplet and aerosol transmission of Covid-19 and the methods for reducing the risk of transmission.
It has been two years or so since the last ISC West trade show, the biggest security show in the U.S. market. The coronavirus pandemic has caused a year’s worth of trade show cancellations, and the trend will continue for a while longer.
The absence of trade shows has been transformative for the security marketplace, among others, as companies implemented a variety of alternative approaches, with mixed results. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What impact has the cancellation of trade shows had on the security industry?
In the 1977 book, The Age of Uncertainty, author John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
Robust laser applications are being developed for self-protection and reconnaissance systems.
Hensoldt announced on 25 January that it is working with German technology research institute Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, to develop ‘future-proof, robust and powerful’ lasers for self-protection systems on land vehicles and reconnaissance applications.
Integration of the first laser demonstrator in IR countermeasures is planned for 2021. Dr Oliver Rudow, programme manager for land vehicle self-protection at Hensoldt, said that ‘we are in promising dialogue for two others’.
He added: ‘With laser technology, we are advancing into a new wavelength range and higher power classes, which will enable us to develop various applications and novel products in the land, sea and air sectors.’