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Comcast’s machineQ Enterprise IoT Service Announces Next Wave of Customers | Business Wire
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Comcast’s machineQ Enterprise IoT Service Announces Next Wave of Customers
IoT Connectivity and Service Platform Continues to Make Progress Adding Multiple new IoT Industry Solution Providers
Comcast’s enterprise IoT service, machineQ™, announced new customers spanning a broad range of industries. (Photo: Business Wire)
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Building on the momentum from its March customer announcement, Comcast’s enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) service, machineQ™, today announced the addition of several customers spanning a broad range of industries and use cases – including asset tracking, utility and water metering, facilities management, and agriculture. MachineQ is a scalable, B2B IoT platform that uses Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology to offer enterprise-grade solutions for businesses and municipal organizations. The service is deployed using the globally adopted LoRaWAN™ protocol.
“There is clearly demand for connecting people and equipment assets across large, open environments like golf courses, sports venues, universities, municipalities and resorts using a more reliable and less costly network than cell-based networks”
“There is clearly demand for connecting people and equipment assets across large, open environments like golf courses, sports venues, universities, municipalities and resorts using a more reliable and less costly network than cell-based networks,” said David Vanslette, CEO, FAIRWAYiQ. “The value of FAIRWAYiQ’s golf course management solution is being demonstrated across private golf courses like Sharon Heights in Silicon Valley, public courses like Potomac Shores, multi-course operators and the PGA TOUR. With machineQ’s ability to deliver localized connectivity and cloud-based network and device on-boarding and monitoring software, we can scale our business to meet the needs of our customers in a very short period of time.”
The following IoT providers are a sampling of the growing list of customers leveraging machineQ’s network and platform:
FAIRWAYiQ (Asset Tracking)
Massachusetts-based FAIRWAYiQ provides real-time monitoring and management for golf courses and adjacent organizations, like sports stadiums, municipalities, universities, and resorts that are reliant upon small, motorized equipment and labor productivity. The company is leveraging machineQ’s network platform to wirelessly deliver data to managers about common golf course issues like pace of play, employee scheduling and task benchmarking, and the performance and location of maintenance equipment. Using that data, managers are empowered to make more informed decisions about how to more effectively allocate budget and deploy resources.
H2O Degree (Utility Metering)
For over a decade, H2O Degree has manufactured a broad line of wireless utility sub-metering products for multi-family dwelling and commercial facilities. The systems are ideal for tenant billing, water leak detection and energy analytics. The integration of the LoRaWAN based sub-metering system with the expansive and secure machineQ™ IoT platform provides a scalable enterprise-grade network for H2O Degree to expand its customer base.
Seco Sys (Water Metering)
The Seco Sys HydraCommunity is a platform used by mining operations, campuses, and utilities to manage water. Beyond automatic meter reading, the company’s IoT platform reads sensors measuring water quality, temperature, pressure, and tank levels. All sensor data is transmitted through its HydraLink Edge Computing Devices that leverage the Comcast machineQ™ IoT network.
SteamIQ (Facilities Management)
Steam energy is a major part of modern businesses and used to power wide range of things including; radiators, water heaters, industrial kettles, refineries, sterilizers and turbines. A steam trap is an integral device that removes condensate moisture (water) from a steam system without losing any significant steam energy. Massachusetts-based SteamIQ provides facilities with real-time data on steam trap performance and by leveraging the machineQ LoRaWAN network, can now wirelessly transmit data from deep indoor and underground locations.
Vinduino (Agriculture)
California-based Vinduino helps agriculture communities, specifically in the vineyard and wine-making industry, more effectively manage water usage through open source technologies. The company’s LoRaWAN irrigation valve controller and mobile app, operating on the machineQ IoT network, allows growers to remotely operate irrigation systems and autonomously adapt crop management to changing climate conditions; ultimately optimizing their fruit quality yield and saving money by using water more efficiently.
“We’re helping break down barriers to entry for B2B-focused IoT solution providers because our cloud-based, scalable and secure IoT hardware and software solutions have the ability to extract device data from hard to reach locations with low power requirements – that traditional wireless connectivity options can’t offer,” said Alex Khorram, General Manager of machineQ. “These qualities, are opening up a whole new world of use cases and vertical industries for our customers, leading to new market opportunities and helping them to quickly scale their business to meet their customers’ demands.”
In addition to these new customers, machineQ is providing LoRaWAN based IoT hardware and software for solution providers that serve a wide range of industries, including; energy, healthcare, life sciences, retail, pest control, smart cities, and more. For more information, visit www.machineQ.com.
About machineQ
MachineQ™ is a scalable, B2B IoT platform that uses Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology to offer enterprise-grade solutions for businesses and municipal organizations. The service is deployed using the globally adopted LoRaWAN™ protocol.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to businesses under the Comcast Business brand. It also provides wireless and security and automation services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand. NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.
Americans are conserving water like never before, according to the latest federal data – The Washington Post
Americans are conserving water like never before, according to the latest federal data
Americans are conserving water in their homes like never before, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report released this month.
In per capita terms, domestic water use has plummeted from 112 gallons per day in 1980 to just 82 gallons in 2015, a 27 percent decrease. Take 30 gallon-sized milk jugs, fill them up with water and set them aside — that’s how much water you’re saving, every day, relative to the average American in 1980. For a typical family of four that means about a half-ton of water saved, or eight cubic feet, every single day relative to 1980.
For the purposes of the USGS data, domestic water use encompasses everything we do with water at home. “Common indoor water uses are drinking, food preparation, washing clothes and dishes, bathing, and flushing toilets,” the report explains. “Common outdoor uses are watering lawns and gardens or maintaining pools, ponds, or other landscape features in a domestic environment.”
The report credits a number of federal policy interventions with reducing home water use. The National Energy Policy Act of 1992 is a big one. It established efficiency standards for toilets (the now ubiquitous 1.6 gallons per flush), bathroom faucets (2.2 gallons per minute at 60 psi) and shower heads (2.5 gallons per minute at 80 psi). The legislation passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. Further amendments to the bill, passed in 2005, improved efficiencies for water-using appliances, such as dishwashers and washing machines.
The EPA estimates that 70 percent of our total home water consumption happens indoors, with the remainder going to outdoor uses. But these numbers vary considerably by region, with households in arid Western states devoting 50 percent or more of their annual water budget to maintaining lawns and landscaping. As a result, per capita domestic water use varies greatly at the state level, ranging from 35 gallons per day in Connecticut to 184 gallons in Idaho.
It’s worth pointing out that domestic water use accounts for just a tiny fraction of overall American water consumption, on the order of about 1 percent. Thermoelectric power (e.g., steam-driven electric turbines) accounts for 41 percent of all water use, while irrigation for crops eats up another 37 percent.
As part of its report, the USGS published this nifty map, breaking down the different water use categories at the county level.
USGS
Blue Zone – Living Longer and Better . . . an interesting method to bring in UNAgenda 21 policies . . .
Blue Zone – Living Longer and Better . . . an interesting method to bring in UNAgenda 21 policies . . .
Definition of a “Blue Zone”
Blue Zones are places with high concentrations of 100-year-olds along with clusters of people who have grown old without diseases like heart problems, obesity, cancer or diabetes (non- communicable diseases measured with objective health measures). People living in Blue Zones not only live longer lives, but live better lives filled with good health, meaning and love (Buettner, 2015).
National Geographic Fellow and freelance writer, Dan Buettner, coined the term after a decade-long study of these longevity hotspots across the globe. The Blue Zone team consisted of leading medical researchers, anthropologists, dietitians, demographers, and epidemiologists. His findings were documented in The Blue Zones Solution, which is analyzed in this paper.
The 5 Blue Zones include:
1. Ikaria, Greece
2. Okinawa, Japan
3. Ogliastra Region, Sardinia, Italy 4. Loma Linda, California
5. Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Definitions of Health and Livability Terms
Primarily due to the interdisciplinary nature of this research, I found it important to first focus on getting a clear understanding of key health and livability terms that were common in most of the public health readings. There is a disconnect between the jargon used in healthcare, planning and design with expectations from the author that these terms are just understood. It became necessary to understand these definitions and their relationships to each other before attempting to understand the larger research itself. These were the definitions found to be most useful for this particular research.
Human well-being and GDP:
Human well-being is generally the state of being comfortable, happy and healthy, but is a broad term that includes access to basic services, livelihoods, safety, security from disasters, “feeling well”, etc. In the conceptual framework, the constituents of well-being are materials, security, health, good social relations and enhancing human capabilities. GDP is the total value of the goods and services produced by the people of a nation during a year not including the value of income earned
7 Blue Zones
in foreign countries (Merriam-Webster). Both terms are connected because they measure the “health” of a certain sector of life, but GDP does not take into account the objective and subjective measures of human well-being and whether the people living in each country are healthy and happy with their lives. There is an interesting link between well-being and GDP shown in the Cantril Self Anchoring Survey (Cantril, 1965) in the World Happiness Report showing that often poor areas are categorized as low on life evaluation (suffering), while rich areas are often categorized as high (thriving) (Gallup, 2009). Some of the Blue Zones research shows otherwise and often middle income is the healthiest of all.
Objective and Subjective measures of Health and Well Being
Objective measures of health are direct measures of an individual or population such as blood pressure, life span or infant mortality rates. Subjective measures of well-being directly survey people on their assessment of their life and well-being typically through three types of surveys: life evaluation (think), emotional well-being (feel) or life satisfaction.
WATER: Solar Pumping 101: the what, why, and the how | The Water Blog – The World Bank/Rothschild
https://blogs.worldbank.org/water/solar-pumping-101-what-why-and-how
Interested in learning about Solar Pumping in French? Let us know in the comments if you’d like to see the toolkit translated!
Image credit: Energy & Development Group.
Access to a safe, sustainable water supply is a growing concern in every region of the world. In many communities, groundwater is being pumped by diesel fueled systems, which are both expensive and can be difficult to maintain. In communities where electricity is scarce, solar can be a part of the solution.
The highest demand for solar pumps is among rural off-grid areas, currently underserved, or served by costly fuel-driven pumps. Solar pumping is most competitive in regions with high solar insolation, which include most of Africa, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia; but the technology can operate successfully in almost any region of the world.
“Things are changing; new technologies are coming up. You can’t resist good technology that offers you cheaper costs for what you need.” said Jackson Mutazamba, assistant director of operational planning in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation in Tanzania, when asked about the use of solar pumps for water supply.
Echoed by Mamun from the Sohagpur village in Dhamrai, Bangladesh, “With the solar pump installed, we are getting sufficient water with lower monthly bills than we spent on buying diesel to run the generator”, he said.
In order for solar to be successful, however, this technology needs to be understood and appreciated by water practitioners around the world.
To provide a clear and concise introduction to solar water pumping, my colleagues and I have developed a handbook – Solar Pumping: The Basics, which offers an overview of the various aspects of solar water pumping.
Let’s take a deeper look.
Over the last 7 years, things have changed dramatically. Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, which power the pumps, have dropped significantly in price, while the technology has improved and is now able to pump higher volumes of water and reach even deeper sources of groundwater.
While the initial acquisition of equipment is more costly than other pumping alternatives, the operation and maintenance costs are low. Particularly compared with diesel pumping, solar is not only more energy efficient, but with a lifespan of over 20 years, the financial benefits vastly outweigh the costs.
A solar pumping system is simple and includes the solar panel itself, the pump, and a power conditioner. The new systems are flexible and can work in tandem with a back-up generator and the electrical grid.
Considerations for designing a solar pumping system include various parameters including: water demand (volume), water storage, water depth (head), location of PV panels, and solar irradiance among others. Fortunately, modern software provides a free and user-friendly tool that enables engineers to easily design and size solar pumping system.
Finally, once the system is up, running, and secured, long-term maintenance is critical. This includes warrantees on equipment and maintenance contracts to ensure the water keeps flowing clean.
This handbook is part of a larger package on solar pumping produced by the World Bank Water Global Practice, which includes a comprehensive knowledge base, video tutorials, case studies, and more. While solar pumping may not be the silver bullet for every community, it is important that this technology is made accessible and available as an option for those who wish to benefit from it.
Download the handbook or visit the webpage to learn more about solar water pumping. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at kwelsien@worldbank.org.
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5G: Human chain pictures; 5G standard released
Note: There is no government oversight or regulation whatsoever. Private corporations have overtaken the earth.
On Thursday, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project released the long-awaited specifications for 5G, including 5G satellites. This gives the go-ahead for commercial deployment of 5G on Earth and in Space.Mobile Industry Works Together to Deliver Complete 5G System Standard on Time
3GPP TSG #80 Plenary Meeting has approved the completion of the standalone (SA) Release 15 5G specifications. After the release of the 5G NR specifications for non-standalone (NSA) operation in Dec. 2017, another essential step of standardization of 5G has been successfully completed. Now, the whole industry is taking the final sprint towards 5G commercialization. The completion of SA specifications which complements the NSA specifications, not only gives 5G NR the ability of independent deployment, but also brings a brand new end-to-end network architecture, making 5G a facilitator and an accelerator during the intelligent information and communications technology improvement process of enterprise customers and vertical industries. New business models will be enabled and a new era where everything is interconnected will be opened up for both mobile operators and industrial partners.
More than 600 delegates from the world’s major telecom operators, network, terminals and chipset vendors, internet companies and other vertical industry companies have witnessed this historic moment for 5G.
Mobile Industry Works Together to Deliver Complete 5G System Standard on Time – Samsung Global Newsroom
Options for Increased Private Sector Participation in Resilience Investment Focus on Agriculture
Options for Increased Private Sector Participation in Resilience Investment
Acknowledgements
This report is part of an overall effort to identify innovative financing solutions for climate finance. Financial support for this study was provided by the Government of Japan through the Japan-World Bank Program for Mainstreaming DRM in Developing Countries, managed by the World Bank’s DRM Hub in Tokyo. The report was undertaken
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These ‘Big Four’ Companies Control the World, Yet You’ve Probably Never Heard of Them — Steemit
These ‘Big Four’ Companies Control the World, Yet You’ve Probably Never Heard of Them
Some people have started realizing that there are large financial groups that dominate the world. Forget the political intrigues, conflicts, revolutions and wars. It is not pure chance. Everything has been planned for a long time.
Some call it “conspiracy theories” or New World Order. Anyway, the key to understanding the current political and economic events is a restricted core of families who have accumulated more wealth and power.
We are speaking of 6, 8 or maybe 12 families who truly dominate the world. Know that it is a mystery difficult to unravel.
We will not be far from the truth by citing Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Loebs Kuh and Lehmans in New York, the Rothschilds of Paris and London, the Warburgs of Hamburg, Paris and Lazards Israel Moses Seifs Rome.
Many people have heard of the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission. But what are the names of the families who run the world and have control of states and international organizations like the UN, NATO or the IMF?
To try to answer this question, we can start with the easiest: inventory, the world’s largest banks, and see who the shareholders are and who make the decisions.
The world’s largest companies are now: Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.Let us now review who their shareholders are.
Bank of America:
State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.
JP Morgan:
State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.
Citigroup:
State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.
Wells Fargo:
Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.
We can see that now there appears to be a nucleus present in all banks: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock and FMR (Fidelity). To avoid repeating them, we will now call them the “big four.”
Goldman Sachs:
“The big four,” Wellington, Capital World Investors, AXA, Massachusetts Financial Service and T. Rowe.
Morgan Stanley:
“The big four,” Mitsubishi UFJ, Franklin Resources, AXA, T. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon e Jennison Associates. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon and Jennison Associates.
We can just about always verify the names of major shareholders. To go further, we can now try to find out the shareholders of these companies and shareholders of major banks worldwide.
Bank of NY Mellon:
Davis Selected, Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Dodge, Cox, Southeatern Asset Mgmt. and … “The big four.”
State Street Corporation (one of the “big four”):
Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Barrow Hanley, GE, Putnam Investment and … The “big four” (shareholders themselves!).
BlackRock (another of the “big four”):
PNC, Barclays e CIC.
Who is behind the PNC? FMR (Fidelity), BlackRock, State Street, etc.
And behind Barclays? BlackRock.
And we could go on for hours, passing by tax havens in the Cayman Islands, Monaco or the legal domicile of Shell companies in Liechtenstein. A network where companies are always the same, but never a name of a family.
In short: the eight largest U.S. financial companies (JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of New York Mellon and Morgan Stanley) are 100% controlled by ten shareholders and we have four companies always present in all decisions: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity.
In addition, the Federal Reserve is comprised of 12 banks, represented by a board of seven people, which comprises representatives of the “big four,” which in turn are present in all other entities.
In short, the Federal Reserve is controlled by four large private companies: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity. These companies control U.S. monetary policy (and world) without any control or “democratic” choice.
These companies launched and participated in the current worldwide economic crisis and managed to become even more enriched.
To finish, a look at some of the companies controlled by this “big four” group
Alcoa Inc.
Altria Group Inc.
American International Group Inc.
AT&T Inc.
Boeing Co.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coca-Cola Co.
DuPont & Co.
Exxon Mobil Corp.
General Electric Co.
General Motors Corporation
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Home Depot Inc.
Honeywell International Inc.
Intel Corp.
International Business Machines Corp
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
McDonald’s Corp.
Merck & Co. Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
3M Co.
Pfizer Inc.
Procter & Gamble Co.
United Technologies Corp.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Time Warner
Walt Disney
Viacom
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.,
CBS Corporation
NBC Universal
The same “big four” control the vast majority of European companies counted on the stock exchange.
In addition, all these people run the large financial institutions, such as the IMF, the European Central Bank or the World Bank, and were “trained” and remain “employees” of the “big four” that formed them.
The names of the families that control the “big four”, never appear.
Russia, Too, Is Building a Giant War Cloud – Defense One (with Insider Comment)
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/06/russia-too-building-giant-war-cloud/148822/
Insider Comment:
This article contains numerous lies and propaganda. But yes, the Russian Federation is arming to attain parity with the USA in total defense capability and has already passed it in certain aircraft and electronic warfare systems.. Russia did not annex Crimea, the Crimeans were Russian and voted to join Russia by a vast majority. The Ukraine revolt was run by Vicky Nuland of the US Dept of State (a hard core zio dual citizen traitors) who got 5 Billion dollars to set up a color revolution. Many innocent Crimean women and children on the border were sniped at her direction. She set up Porenchencko as dictator (he is called Porky Pig, a really evil man). Because Israel will be broken apart within the next 8 years according to Heinz Kissinger, the Israelis (Khazarians and non-blood line Hebrews) decided to “liberate the Ukraine so they could move back to their original homeland. This is where Khazaria used to be. This is rest of the story not included in the news.
Russia, Too, Is Building a Giant War Cloud
“Russia is investing in military high-tech development, and especially in domestically produced software and hardware. The data centers working with this cloud are all made with ‘Russian components.’ Such an approach is key to Moscow ensuring that its key components like data are shielded from potential Western interference,” said Sam Bendett, an associate research analyst at CNA and a fellow in Russia studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. “Until recently, many IT components in the military and civilian sectors were Western—that is starting to change.”
The Russian military has determined that big data will be a “significant part in its ongoing modernization drive, with various digital technologies and approaches getting incorporated and used by the Russian forces,” says Bendett. Of course, having a backup internet of sorts would decrease the risks attacking the larger global internet.
Russia is also making moves to bring its trading partners along with it on its journey into Internet exile.
Last fall, Russia said that it was creating an independent directory naming system, or DNS — in essence the massive database that connects your browser to a web server across the world — for use by Russia, Brazil, India, South Africa, and China — the BRIC countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently said that Russia was pursuing an information security agreement with its BRIC counterparts for formally adoption at their July summit in Johannesburg.