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Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | Author: Ananda Perwira

As technology advances, so too does our understanding of the world around us. We are constantly in need of fine tuning our ability to manipulate that technology to better suit our needs. This is true from the most rudimentary inventions to more complex systems such as automobiles. The challenge continues to be how to constantly improve and craft variations of this technology that will be a larger benefit to the world as a whole. Although the automobile, just like bread or lighting, has certainly had a profound impact on the evolution of modern civilization, it has also come with some negative impacts as well. This includes energy consumption and damaging pollution.

In order to combat these obstacles designers and engineers have worked to create concepts that are better equipped to handle these challenges, such as the electric car. Now as more advances have evolved there have been some profound changes with other technological fields such as replacing the vastly inefficient traditional incandescent light bulb with highly superior LED lights. LEDs (light emitting diodes) have not only become incredibly popular, they are gradually being used in a vast array of areas that have for a long time been strictly the domain of traditional incandescent bulbs.

These lights have been thought by consumers as being too expensive to be a viable replacement for traditional lighting but production costs have dramatically decreased and coupled with the creation of super bright LED lights there finally looks like a shift in domestic lighting.

There are several aspects to LED technology that are attractive to designers and consumers. To begin with incandescent bulbs will exceed their initial purchase cost by as much as 10 times during the course of their lifetime. One of the first alternatives, the compact fluorescent bulb, used 75% less power then the standard bulb making it a substantially better investment. It also had the potential to last as much as 6 times longer. In comparison LED lights last over 10 longer then compact fluorescent bulbs and are created without a filament. This aspect alone enables them to be constructed out a solid piece and gives them unprecedented durability. A standard household bulb will typically last for as long as 750 hours, whereas a cluster of LED lights generating the same amount of visible light will last as long as 100,000 hours. That is a profound difference. To further compare the two ends of the lighting spectrum a 20 watt bulb generating enough light to read would require only 1.5 watts of power to create the same amount of light using LEDs. more…

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Sunday, June 19th, 2011 | Author: Ananda Perwira

There is no question that our earth is heating up. In this past 20 years, average global temperatures have been risen significantly and it makes the weather and environment become so unstable and hardly predicted. The global climate change makes summer and tropical areas even extremely hotter while winter warmer and drier. However, the climate change leads to increased use of air conditioning systems in houses and buildings. But the question “Do the air conditioning systems solve the problems we have?”

Our air conditioning systems can even aggravate the problems in the long run to the environment and energy resources. As we know, many conventional air conditioners are not only electric guzzlers but also produce harmful gases to the environment. Hence, the air conditioning systems must be environmentally friendly and energy-efficient.

You can call Air Conditioning by Jay’s Comfort Team for your eco-friendly, energy efficient air conditioning and heating systems. AC by Jay provides green arizona heating and cooling solutions including geothermal air conditioning systems, Blu eQ heating and cooling systems  and solar-power ac systems. more…

Friday, May 06th, 2011 | Author: Ananda Perwira

In this world we live in, we now face serious problems due to climate changes, global warming and energy crisis. From the unstable ecosystem, natural environment damage, the decreasing of volume of ozone layer to air pollution that makes people and the entire life on earth suffering.

We know that our bad activities have caused the increasing of average global temperatures around the world in the last 100 years, especially in the past 20 years. Industrials with their hazardous waste materials including liquid, gas and others truly become a time bomb threatening individual salvation as well as the survival of this earth. Therefore, through The Kyoto Protocol Treaty and UN Climate Change Conference, all countries are encouraged to take significant steps by tightening industry regulations and in the development of green energy and green home living in order to reduce global emission.

Solar energy seems to be the most promising solution in helping the environment and the fight against climate change. Solar energy is the cheapest source of energy that there is and it can be a very good source of renewable electricity. By knowing the basic methods and steps, people can integrate solar power panels into your home. Of course it is a good start for a green living. Even in the United States, Canada and Australia, both residential and commercial consumers can buy green energy from their standard local utility providers that specialize in green energy. Then followed by China with the launching of its first solar energy village project in Xingtai City, Hebei province. more…

Tuesday, April 05th, 2011 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Every house and building needs air conditioning and heating system. In this way, people can feel comfortable despite the weather outside is extreme enough. They can feel cool during the hot summer and warm during the bad winter. However, traditional air conditioning and heating system consumes large amount of energy and the residue is bad for the environment. Therefore, an energy-efficient and friendly environmentally air conditioning system becomes very crucial to apply these days.

The use of geothermal systems can be the best solution for those thinking of building green homes. Unlike the traditional ones, geothermal heating and air conditioning is very safe to the environment that use no gas and propane but utilize steady ground and water temperatures to transfer heat called geothermal hybrid system. more…

Monday, February 21st, 2011 | Author: Ananda Perwira

In the moving and relocation industry, vehicle tracking systems can mean a lot in the safety of vehicles and items when handling relocation tasks. Various moving and relocation companies have implemented these systems for their business fleets and vehicles to take maximum advantage of GPS technology. It’s a high-end technology where the company can monitor their transport vehicles from various problems such as theft, misuse by the drivers, etc. This system also allows the driver to find the best driving route to a long distance destination, using a navigation system linked to the mapping.

With this navigation system, you will easily find the main roads, important places such as gas stations, police stations, and hospitals. Some useful features may also be incorporated into the tracking device such as an emergency button, fuel and temperature monitoring, driver ID systems and others. You can choose the tracking device features in accordance with your requirements, whether for business or personal interests. more…

Sunday, January 09th, 2011 | Author: Ananda Perwira

In this modern world the internet technology has been so much important. With internet technology we can gain a lot more information and get connected to a lot more people in the world.  When we want to get connected into the internet world it’s very important to always consider about the reliability of the internet connectivity.  Besides the speed of the internet access is also critical since the faster the internet access we have and the more chances we can safe our valuable time.

If you’re a person who is looking for the best wireless internet connection services to support your mobile internet connectivity then you’re advised to visit Clearwirelessinternet4g.com. This website represents Clear an authorized online company that offers you a high speed mobile internet services which are reliable to keep you always connected to the virtual world. With clear wireless internet 4g you will be able to experience faster wireless internet connectivity with wider coverage areas so whenever you go you’ll be able to always stay in touch with internet world. more…

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Nowadays, almost all companies use high technology machinery in their production processes. The use of those machines can make the process more effective and efficient. The machines have eased the process of making the products. The machine has several advantages. First, the machines can do better job that human. Second, they are faster that human. Third, they can do more works at the same time. Fourth, they never get tired. Seeing those advantages and many other advantages, it is clear that the use of machines in your production processes can cut the production cost. If you can cut the production cost, it means that you can gain more profits. To buy the machinery that you need, you can make order to dwfritz.com. This website is a specialist in high technology machinery. They can make almost all kinds of machine.

The experts and also the engineer from Dwfritz are able to make the most difficult machinery that has high precision automation for MEMS (Micro Electromechanical Systems) industry and manufacturing. It is a machine that can do several complicated job at the same time. This machine has high precision to make the product free from damages and errors (often uses in television and electronic manufacturer companies). more…

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | Author: Ananda Perwira

In the era of cloud computing today, SaaS will increasingly be used by companies, non-profit organizations, and even personnel because of the needs of anywhere, anytime. People don’t have to bring a device (such as laptop, mobile phone) with a lot of processing applications installed and extra storage for that. With SaaS, People only need a small enough device (thin client) with all processing and storage of data is done in the cloud server/data center via internet connections.

The web-based delivery of business software, Software as a Service (SaaS), is the continuation of hosted business services that evidently more successful in providing business solutions than its predecessors such as application service providers (ASPs). SaaS is cost effective where you don’t have to buy license of the software but just rent its use according to the contract. And you also don’t have to spend investment for installation, maintenance, and upgrading of the software as the service providers will do it for you and back up you with daily technical operation and support.

Phase 2’s Hosted Lotus Notes SaaS offers integrated web-based business applications for any market segment including home consumers, small business, medium and even large business. Hosted Lotus Notes make data or file management in each department more…

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | Author: Ananda Perwira

Right on 27-29 October, a number of world’s solution providers, consultants, board & system level vendors, equipment manufacturers, standardization bodies, analysts, software companies, computer OEMs, other companies, and partners (more than 100 participants) will meet together at AdvancedTCA Summit 2009 in Santa Clara, California. Some of participants such as Intel Corp, Cisco Systems, Kontron , Emerson Network Power, Sun Microsystems, Crystal Cube Consulting, etc. The Summit is about the use of AdvancedTCA as well as AdvancedMC and MicroTCA as the standard of choice for system designers and architects in developing the next generation networks with wireless-based systems implementation.

It is interesting that the AdvancedTCA standard-based implementation is successfully applied not only in telecom networks, but also in lab research operation, central office applications, medical services integration, and even for military infrastructure. Open standards-based AdvancedTCA is surely reliable to optimize packet-based telecom applications with its very small design, high scalability and flexibility more…

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Author: Ananda Perwira

It is available for any vendors or companies that want to migrate and improve their proprietary telecommunication network or central office application server to open standard one. Introducing, Kontron Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC, or PICMG AdvancedMC) Modules and Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture Boards (ATCA).

AMC (AdvancedMC) is the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group’s specification (PICMG AMC.0, AMC.1, AMC.2, AMC.3 and AMC.4 respectively) for hot-swappable FRUs (field replaceable units) and field-replaceable mezzanine cards, enabling them to be replaced individually in the field. It is more attractive by enhancing its scalability, flexibility, and upgradeability. By combining a general-purpose AdvancedTCA board with application-specific AdvancedMC modules, designers can create versatile telecom blades whose functionality and capacity can be upgraded without replacing the entire blade. more…