Saturday, January 27, 2018
Apple Pay – How Printed Store Receipts are Handled
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Labels: Apple, credit card, Education, Pay, provacy, Security, Technology
Monday, December 4, 2017
Should I Buy Another Chevy?
Looking at older autonomous model Bolts - the lidar units were mounted on roof mounted rods and the car had sensors stuffed into drilled and cut holes in the body. The new autonomous Bolt has sensors hidden in the bumpers and fenders and the lidar unit is hidden in the roof rack. The new model appears to be a huge step up.
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Labels: autonomous, Car, Education, Engineering, hardware, lidar, self-driving, sensors, software, Technology
Monday, September 4, 2017
Automobile USB Phone Charging
It's nice day for a ride to the beach. You grab your stuff jump and in the car. Ooops - last night you forgot to charge your phone and you've only got about 30% but...... No worries, the beach is a 90 minute drive away which should be more than enough time for your phone to charge.
Friday, August 11, 2017
The Future of Wireless is Fiber
Cactus Cell Tower (Image source: www.extremetech.com) |
- Current International Telecommunication Union (ITU) specifications for 5G specify a total download capacity of at least 20Gbps and 10Gbps uplink per mobile base station.
- In contrast, the peak data rate for current LTE cells is about 1Gbps.
- Under ideal circumstances, 5G networks will offer users a maximum latency of just 4ms, down from about 20ms on LTE 4G networks.
- The 5G specification also calls for a latency of just 1ms for a stepped up service called ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC).
Fiber to the tower is a critical enabler of 5G wireless services including The Internet of Things.
For more information see Preparing the Transport Network for 5G: The Future Is Fiber and check out the rest of the OP-TEC August 2017 edition and previous monthly newsletters here.
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Labels: Education, fiber, Internet of Things, optics, STEM, Technology, Wireless
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Wisconsin and Taiwan's Foxconn
- Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan.
- Foxconn currently has 12 factories in nine Chinese cities along with factories in Asia, Brazil, Europe, and Mexico.
- The company is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue that, as of 2012, produced approximately 40 percent of all consumer electronics products sold.
- Foxconn is the largest private employer in China and one of the largest employers worldwide.
- Major customers comprise all the biggies including Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Google, and Dell.
- In reaction to a spate of worker suicides in which 14 people died in 2010, a report from 20 Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labor camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime. The company claims these issues have been resolved.
- The complex will be located at a 1,000-acre site in southeastern Wisconsin.
- This will be the first liquid crystal display manufacturing facility in North America and that has environmentalists a little freaked out.
- It will take four years to build and will employ up to 10,000 construction workers over those four years.
- The factory floor area will cover 20 million square feet.
- Up to 13,000 workers could eventually be employed and paid an average of $53,875 a year, plus benefits.
- Will generate estimated $181 million in state and local tax revenue annually, including $60 million in local property taxes.
- Wisconsin will kick in $3 billion in state incentives over 15 years.
- Wisconsin is not projected to break even on the incentive package for at least 25 years (that's 2042).
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Labels: Chinese, Electronics, Foxconn, Industry, manufacturing, Technology, Wisconsin
Monday, May 2, 2016
STEM Studies: The Future of Engineering
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Labels: Careers, Engineering, Math, Mathematics, Science, STEM, Technology
Friday, November 20, 2015
SUNY Poly Utica Computer Chip Commercialization Center (Quad-C)
Yesterday before a meeting at SUNY Poly Utica I had the chance to go on a tour of the almost completed Computer Chip Commercialization Center (Quad-C) building located on campus. Here's a few specs on the facility:
- 253,000 sq. ft. including 56,000 sq. ft. of Class 100 and Class 1000 capable cleanroom space.
- Will host phase one public-private partnerships highlighted by a consortium spearheaded by SUNY Poly CNSE that includes leading technology companies such as Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Incorporated (ANS), SEMATECH, Atotech and CNSE partners, including IBM, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron.
- Annual operating budget to exceed $500 million
- Projected to result in the creation of 1,500 high-tech jobs, groundbreaking academic programs, and cutting-edge workforce training opportunities.
- The cleanrooms are stacked - not something you see much of outside of highly populated places like Singapore.
Those 1,500 new jobs will have an average annual salary of $91,000, and an estimated annual payroll of more than $136 million once full-scale production is achieved. I am a strong believer in public-private partnerships and the SUNY Poly CNSE effort is one of the most successful I've had the opportunity to see.
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Labels: Education, Engineering, nanotechnology, New York, Photonics, technician, Technology