If you don't mind breaking the rules, you can use your iPhone 3G as a wireless broadband modem for your notebook. Lifehacker explains how: It starts by "jailbreaking" your phone, meaning hacking it a bit so it can run software from sources other than the App Store. This is a...
Intel has finally launched its Centrino 2 processor targeting the notebook market with some significant appeal, but nothing is shipping until August, which means goodbye for this year to the back-to-school rush. by Erik Sherman
If you could monitor the value of your life as closely as you watch the value of your share portfolio, would you know what external factors have an impact? What's more, are you doing enough to build value? Life is not about who has the most toys,...
Last month, Robert Feldman, Morgan Stanley's chief economist and co-director of research, predicted a coming "massive shift to chicken" as beef and pork prices continue to soar. Chicken prices are soaring too, of course, but not by as much. And the inputs that go into the production...
The Hanford complex, located about 220 miles east of Seattle, is being decommissioned from a nuclear weapons production site. Reduce energy consumption to comply with Executive Order 12902 and EPAct 1992. Replace 50-year-old steam plants. Improve ability to measure, monitor and manage energy use. Develop an ESPC with Johnson Controls...
Hyatt Regency Perth has used the services of ProDesign Lighting to assess and monitor the hotel's energy management system on a number of occasions over the last ten years. This service was offered in conjunction with the conception, design, and implementation of theatrical and architectural lighting within the hotel. Kevin...
Housed in a nondescript bomb-proof building at an undisclosed location, Orlando's Operation Center is the top secret hub for all of the city's police, fire and EMS emergency communications. It is also home to the Orlando's terrorist response team, with offices for the mayor and staff. In an effort to...
A young pregnant woman was referred to the Ruppiner Kliniken by her GP because she was found to be suffering from cardiac irregularities. Following an electrophysiological examination it was clear that the woman needed rhythm control throughout the pregnancy. In such cases telemetric ECG monitoring is the ideal way to...
A high-tech R&D facility was experiencing problems with several computer workstation CRT monitors, located in various areas of their new office complex. When the monitors were placed in offices located directly behind an electrical service closet, the displays exhibited significant distortion and flicker. By testing the CRT monitors in conjunction...
A commissary is the military equivalent of a commercial supermarket. DeCA operates 300 commissaries around the world. Refrigeration Monitoring & Control Systems RMCS are used by commissaries and commercial supermarkets to monitor and control refrigeration, HVAC, and lighting systems. The work for EMC was to monitor performance of refrigeration, HVAC,...
Popular in Europe and other continents, aseptic milk never has been a hit with American consumers. A primary reason is ample refrigeration in U.S. households. Another is taste; Americans don't like the cooked off-flavor notes common to aseptic milk. New processing technology, however, could change consumers' flavor perception of aseptic...
By far, the most common customer complaint received by fluid milk processors is oxidation off-flavors. One study found exposure of milk in blow-mold plastic containers to fluorescent lights in supermarket dairy cases caused light-induced oxidation in approximately 80% of store samples. A few years ago, a major dairy processor had...
Ken Bright, energy czar of Durham College in Oshawa, Canada, realized he needed more electrical data in order to manage energy saving projects. The electrical monitoring system would be used to create a baseline with which to gauge his energy savings programs, as well as to prioritize energy savings opportunities....
A technology leader in the development of fast whole-blood analyzers and manufacturer of medical devices and diagnostic products had to integrate single board computers SBCs, LCD panels and assemble the machines ourselves, but found that the quantities they needed were too small to justify the cost of their in-house manufacturing....
A thumbnail is a small version of a picture that represents the full-size version of the picture. Using thumbnails of graphics on your Web page can reduce download time for visitors to the page. (Because modem speeds vary, downloading large, full-size graphics can take a lot of time.) Visitors can...
The University of New Orleans UNO was established in 1956 by the Louisiana Legislature in order to bring public-supported higher education to the state's largest urban community. Challenged with outdated systems, and the need to integrate equipment from different vendors with existing and new construction, the University called upon Johnson...
West Texas A&M University, established in 1910 and a Member of The Texas A&M University System, serves more than 6,500 students from a five-state region. The 135-acre residential campus ranks among the top five employers in the Texas Panhandle. They wanted to have fund deferred maintenance on equipment and building...
EDEMSA, a major Argentinean utility, required an energy management system to monitor and track losses throughout its entire system, to increase efficiency and maximize profitability. An ION enterprise energy management system from Power Measurement was the ideal solution, enabling EDEMSA to examine technical losses within substation equipment (such as transformer...
Alpena's old process was time-intensive, laborious, and costly. All monitoring was done manually thermal demand was roughly estimated while power quality and loading went unmeasured. Guesswork meant replacing equipment before it was necessary. Power Measurement installed power metering in all 22 substations, using energy management software and intelligent ION meters....
As assistant director of the Electrical Services Unit of Duke's Facilities Management Department, Aurel Selezeanu knows that rapid response is critical to avert costly and possibly life threatening consequences of a major electrical problem. A variety of built-in connectivity options saves on cabling and installation, and allows integration with legacy...
