Firefighting and the IoT
With a son who’s been a volunteer firefighter and EMT since he’s been in high school and is now a professional engineer working in fire equipment sales and support, you can best believe that I was interested in a recent article in Forbes entitled “How The Internet Of Things Can Help Firefighters Save Lives."
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Ready for IPv6
In case you missed the news, the North American well has finally run dry on IP (IPv4 – 32 bit) addresses. But not to worry. Critical Link has made the leap to IPv6 (128 bit). All of our Linux-based SoMs have IPv6 support available. This includes the MitySOM-5CSx, MitySOM-335x, and MityDSP-L138(F) families, as well as our new 5CSx-based MityCAM cameras.
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Proof of extra-terrestrials? Not this time.
Image processing was put to a pretty interesting use recently, when what was supposed to be proof of an extra-terrestrial visit was debunked using a program called SmartDeblur.
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MTBF for the MitySOM-5CSx (Cent’Anni)
They’re industrial, scientific, medical, telecommunications, defense, transportation… Quality, performance, and longevity all matter. Case in point illustrating our commitment are the results of some testing that one of our customers did on the MitySOM-5CSx.
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What’s for dinner? Whatever robo-chef’s making
Before my wife and I know it, we’re going to be empty-nesters, and that will mean a bit less pressure to get a good meal on the table every evening. Maybe there's a robotic chef in our future?
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Improving automotive safety. (I’m all for it.)
One aspect of automotive technology I read about recently takes on the distracted driver problem, which is getting worse as the number of distractions is on the rise.
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Play Ball!
I’m not much of a baseball fan, but I do know that it’s the most data-intensive sport, and has been recording just about everything that can be recorded for an awful long time. And now Major League Baseball is going even further with the statistics it’s gathering by introducing a system called Statcast.
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“Interesting info if you’re a geek/engineer”
TI has a very handy "Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference" available. Definitely of interest to engineering types...
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Big news on the semi-conductor front
This week's announcement that Intel will acquire Altera is especially interesting to Critical Link, as we are an Altera partner. We're looking forward to seeing what innovations come out of this.
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Is it just me?
I recently had a diagnostic ultrasound, and while I was laying there on the table looking at the fuzzy, grainy image, something occurred to me. And that something was that the image quality doesn’t seem to have improved all that much over the last 26 years.
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