By Steve Hill
IT is great to see more and more organisations begin to realise the importance of modern technology and the service it can provide.
Often the staid world of rambling is portrayed as tweed coats, stout boots, walking sticks and sad unfashionable people who are more akin to Luddites than us technophiles.
By Steve Hill
I have been looking at the Apple iPad and think how useful it would be to buy in to the latest sensation from Jobs and co.
I have many blogs to write and have daily news feeds to write - this would free me up from carting around a laptop, giving me greater freedom.
I use Macs and PCs, and I will not get into an argument about which is best as they both have their strengths and weaknesses believe me, I have an iPhone and love it, I have had iPods since they first arrived, but I am not an Apple maniac (like some are within the Enigin fold).
It has been overload time recently for geeks, full on geeks and those who have a tendency to geekiness, which covers the majority of Enigin’s staff, as we get upgrades on so many products, particularly Apple.
Apple have been on overload recently, with the long awaited sales of the i{ad and now the announcement about the iPhone 4 - and just after I got my upgrade to the 3Gs!!
I like Apple products, they are well designed and generally work, I use Macs, iPods and an iPhone and have an eye on the iPad but I do find the religious fervor of many Apple devotees a bit much.
I have been looking at some gadgets of late - there are so many now that it is difficult to filter through them all.
A part form gadgets of course we have the heavy weights like Apple’s iPad and all the gizmos that Google seem to be producing.
On one trawl across the web I kept on seeing predictive technology, what we are supposed to have in the future - all these amazing things that we look at in wonder but are often forgotten about or laughed at in the future.
ENIGIN is Apple friendly - in fact that is an understatement, Enigin are Apple evangelists.
When I first started working with Enigin there were just one or two Macs, in the shape of Mac Books within the company.
Gradually others started to acquire Mac Books, then Apple iPhones. Soon developers and designers started to use Macs and now they saeem to outnumber PCs.
As incredible as it sounds, Chinese farmers, from the remote islands to the Himalayas, actually have access to wireless networks to consult prices for agricultural products in real-time!
This example, along with many others, proves that information and communication technology has a global reach and is in fact essential to us, and to the economic recovery.
Telecom operators in China have started to make 3G networks available earlier this year, thereby promoting the growth of telecom equipment and terminal manufacture, in turn creating new job opportunities.
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Most, if not all, of what we use and have around us has been made using an alternating current induction motor.
This barbaric name is just the name given to an electric motoring unit that works like this: inside an electric motor, attracting and repelling forces (like magnets) create rotational motion. The process converts electrical energy into mechanical power, to allow the rotor to turn the machine it is attached to.
These motors are everywhere, in most businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, offices and even in our houses. Not to mention factories.
Despite being used everywhere and by everyone, in direct or indirect ways, motors have a big flaw - they waste a lot of energy! Half of the world’s energy production is consumed by motors!
During the conversion from electrical energy to mechanical movement, losses occur in the system. These losses are transformed into heat, noise an vibrations, and they happen because the motor is sourcing more energy than it needs to do its job.
For instance, when engineers create a machine, they design it with an over-sized motor so as it can handle the worst case scenario, just in case: an escalator going upwards will be conceived so that it can be functional even if two heavy men stand on each of its steps.
Although this scenario almost never happens in real life, the motor powering the escalator is designed to produce enough energy to cater for this eventuality ALL THE TIME. It does not know how to adapt to the load on the escalator, hence sourcing the adequate amount of energy to make the escalator operate. It will therefore always use more energy than it needs, which is how energy is wasted.
Enigin PLC have a clever solution to this energy wasting problem. They have the iMEC - Intelligent Motor Energy Controllers. The iMEC gives a motor an ‘intelligence’, enabling it to analyse the amount of energy that is needed for the machine to perform, adapting to the variations in requirements. Enigin PLC’s iMEC is the most logical way to combat energy inefficiency due to over-working motors, and to save businesses a lot of money at the same time, through a reduction of energy bills (at least 40% savings in costs).
Consuming less energy also means reducing carbon emissions and increasing the life span of a business’ appliances, through eradicating heat, noise and vibrations associated to excess ‘lost’ energy.
Enigin provide businesses with an offer they can’t refuse, as energy bills seriously dent most businesses’ profitability. Implementing Enigin PLC’s high-tech devices is the evident choice for anyone who thinks hard-earned money should not be wasted on ridiculously high energy bills.
Proffessional Geek for Hire! Currently employed by Enigin, but I’ll hack for the highest bidder!