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“We are successfully offering these protocols in their European version since 2015 and checking its viability for environment, pollution, water quality and smart parking applications. We strongly believe that making them available in their American version will speed up market adoption in the 900 MHz markets” states Alicia Asín, Libelium’s CEO.
Customers can make their choice of LPWAN preferred protocol for Waspmote Plug & Sense! in 900MHz or 868MHz bands -depending on geographic destination- when ordering except for Smart Parking model, where both radios (LoRaWAN / Sigfox) are always included. “We have managed to offer a dual radio in our Smart Parking node at a very competitive price, which increases our customers’ options, one of our design principles. They can compare the performance of both technologies in one installation, work in hybrid networks or change from one to another easily from the Cloud. We consider this kind of features crucial to keep a healthy and competitive IoT landscape” explains Asín.
With this update, Libelium IoT Sensor Platform is ready to use the 900-930 MHz band forthe U.S., Canada, Mexico, Singapore, etc. The platform currently includes FCC and IC certifications for the US and Canada.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged IoT, Libelium, LoRa, LoRaWAN, San Francisco, Semtech, Sigfox, smart cities, waspmote on November 17, 2016 by Tim Cosgrove.
In t the Netherlands there are many waterways, small inland harbors and canals that are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with high-density shipping traffic. For municipalities, provinces and other potential canal authorities such us Ministry of Infraestructure, it is essential to provide a system able to control the amount of boats that sails in an area an also automate the opening and closing systems of the bridges.
Vicrea is a dutch company specialized in Smart Integrated Information and Geographic Systems and Smart City solutions. The company has developed a wireless sensor network with Libelium technology to manage canals traffic in the Netherlands by controlling the flow of boats.
This solution arises with the objective to know the amount of ships that sails in the canals and also their direction to plan the water infrastructure. It has been already deployed in some of the most touristic and well-known cities from the Netherlands: Delft, The Hague, Leiden, Alphen aan den Rijn and Gouda.
There is a wide range of boats that sails on the canals: cargoboats, commercial passenger ships and recreational ones. Although it was known by public authorities and citizens that in specific times there was heavy traffic, there was not any knowledge and neither control to solve this problem. “Libelium helped us in an innovative and professional way to help our project to become a success”, affirms Erkan Efek, Business consultant & Architect GIS of Vicrea.
Vicrea and Libelium have worked in developing a new and innovative laser solution that is able to monitor direction, distance and speed. This sensor allows to detect any ship that is crossing by a concrete point and also to know the direction towards the ship is sailing.
The shipping traffic data monitored by the sensors added to Waspmote Sensor Platformsis sent out through Zigbee to Meshlium. 868 Mhz wireless technology is used to connect the gateway with Vicrea Cloud Platform based on Microsoft Azure SQL Database. From there, data can be further distributed to a live monitor or can be stored for later analysis and prediction.
The solution developed between Libelium and Vicrea will help public institutions to manage the water infrastructure and also control other issues. With this deployment, there will be possible to know if the maintenance level of canals is at par with traffic density in a canal. Bridge opening and closing will be automated to improve cars and ships experiences and also to reduce waiting times. The platform will control if a boat is entering in a private or prohibit area.
This monitoring system will be working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to give public authorities a holistic view about what is happening in their water infrastructures. Erkan Efek, Business consultant & Architect GIS of Vicrea, has highlighted that “the solution incorporates cost-effective elements and eco-friendly parts. We use solar panels for our power supply and send data wirelessly”.
Sensors can be placed anywhere so each government can choose depending on the needs and the urban planning of each city. Knowing in real-time information about traffic congestion or predicting maintenance for bridges are just some of the improvements that councils can apply in their strategies for water infrastructures management.
The deployment has reached the goals that the companies settled since the beginning. Data related with passing ships and also frequency will be monitored with high accuracy, costs will be drastically reduced, about 80.000 euros each year per bridge, and the system will be working with no interruption.
This entry was posted in Transport and tagged Libelium, Meshlium, Vicrea, Wireless Sensors, zigbee on October 3, 2016 by Tim Cosgrove.
Councils and governments are conscious about the significance of improving public areas. Not only to reduce costs, but also to show their commitment with inhabitants and tourists that visit their cities. This is one of the main reasons why Smart Cities are more than a phenomena, actually they are a reality and the trend that every public institution wants to follow.
Barcelona is a great example in the Smart Cities field. With different projects to ease citizens lives, it has became one of the worldwide references of innovative and technological developments. With Barcelona Council and Starlab, Libelium has worked in a smart water project to control the irrigation system in Poblenou Park Centre.
Starlab, together with other companies, has deployed a remote control irrigation system for Barcelona that will help to reinforce its Smart City status. Starlab’s contribution to the service is by soil moisture monitoring with in situ probes that use Libelium technology . The deployment is based on sensors technology and consists in allowing remote control of the irrigation system to facilitate the management of the water network.
Before starting the project, each zone of the park was studied and analyzed in order to know their specific needs. TheSmartIrrigation system is controlled and monitored thanks to different soil moisture sensors which measure humidity and water flow in strategic points of the area.
The deployed probes datalogger is based on Waspmote Sensor Platform with sensors probes from a third party. This fact gives an impression of the versatility of this device. It enables connection with a wide range of sensor probes that does not have to be from the same manufacturer.
In SmartIrrigation project soil moisture probes are located underground together with Waspmote Sensor Platform, which are put inside waterproof boxes that ensure highly durability. Besides, these devices are powered by a long-life battery with one year autonomy.
Data gathered by Waspmote Sensor Platform can be sent to a gateway or directly to the cloud. It can be done through several communication protocols, such us GPRS, 3G, 4G, LoRaWAN, LoRa, Sigfox, 868 MHz, 900MHz, ZigBee, 802.15.4, WiFi, RFID, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0. In this project, data is sent through ZigBee to Meshlium Gateway, also provided by Libelium, and from there to the cloud using 3G. All the Meshlium installed are located in the garderner huts to facilitate the communications.
The information collected in the Meshlium Gateway can be visualized in a platformwhich concentrates and allows knowing the state in each zone. Two departments of Barcelona Council, Urban Services and Computing, have worked with Wonderware to carry out the application which can be controlled with computers, smartphones and also tablets.
If your are enjoying nature, sitting on a bench or walking through Poblenou Park Centre, you will probably see some members of Barcelona Parks staff and Gardeners using tablets. This is not the way how they spend their break times, the tablets are their new work tools. The new irrigation management system allows an automatic control of the electronic valves that close or open the water flow.
The Council of Barcelona led this project which is part of Barcelona Smart City project. Cristina Vila, Former General Manager of Water Cycle in the council, considered the deployment as a great success because “the system optimizes water consumption because it irrigates with the proper amount according to weather conditions and the plants’ needs“.
Thanks to this new management system the municipal water bill has been cut down near a 25% in the city. Moreover, this reduction is not just about money, the water usage has been reduced too. Barcelona is saving resources such us water with Internet of Things technology and contributing to enhance the environment too. For gardeners, their daily work tasks has been eased too. Controlling the irrigation system and detecting any incidents that may have occurred can nowadays be checked in real-time.
This entry was posted in Smart Cities and tagged Barcelona, Libelium, smart cities, smart irrigation, Starlab, waspmote sensor on August 30, 2016 by Tim Cosgrove.
New Smart Parking by Libelium includes Double Radio with LoRaWAN and Sigfox.
New surface parking device-with LoRaWAN and Sigfox- features smaller size, higher accuracy and faster time of detection facilitating lower installation costs.
Today at Intertraffic, Libelium has presented the new version of Waspmote Plug&Sense! Smart Parking, the solution for Smart Cities that allows citizens to detect available parking spots.
The new device is easier and cheaper to deploy as it is mounted on the road surface. Unlike most market versions, it does not need to dig a hole in the ground for installation reducing installation time from 30 to 5 minutes and allowing to be replaced by another unit in case of maintenance in just 10 minutes.
The new device has a smaller size -reduced over 50%-, higher accuracy and reliability, and faster time of detection. Besides, temperature does not affect the behaviour of readings.
New sensor system is fully compatible with LPWAN radio technologies –LoRaWANand Sigfox– to enable long range and low power consumption. It can be connected with both radios for the European 868 MHz band and for the 900-930 MHz band (US/Canada). One unique feature of the system is that it allows to use both radio technologies at the same time or change from one to another easily from the Cloud.
With the new sensor system, one base station can give service to thousands of devices around a range of several kilometers in urban environment. This fact provides lower costs of installation since the number of base stations can be dramatically reduced. Besides, the new sensor model has been optimized for really low-power operation, so the battery lifetime is extended up to 10 years easily.
The new parking node has been certified with the CE/FCC/IC marks and provides a robust software which works out-of-the-box. Developers do not need to programme the nodes but specify the values of key parameters in the firmware such as working cycle or night mode to be ready to work. Remote management and bidirectional communication allows to change several parameters of the nodes from the Cloud. This means that thousands of nodes can be reprogrammed just setting the right values from our web browser in the management platform.
With Smart Parking, Libelium global Smart Cities solution covers gas and noise pollution levels, water quality control and waste management.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Connected Cars, intertraffic, Libelium, LoRaWAN, LPWAN, Sigfox, smart parking on April 5, 2016 by Tim Cosgrove.
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In a relatively short amount of time, renewable energy technologies have matured from high-cost novelty to being least-cost energy provider, from attracting only high-risk capital to representing a low-risk investment for pension funds. This short course attempts to give an understanding and appreciation for the strides made in the renewable energy field to date and how these technologies might change the way energy is produced in the future. Discussion includes the wide range of opportunities the renewable energy industry offers those interested in getting involved in the field.
It seems like everyone knows Hawk Harrelson needs to ride off into the sunset except him.
The bloviating announcer for the White Sox reduced his schedule by half last year when he only did road games and heir apparent Jason Benetti took care of home games. His extended farewell tour will go into this season when he's reportedly only going to do "about 20 games."
I don't have a problem with the two year good-bye (it is a bit indulgent) I just have a problem with what comes out of ol' Hawk-a-roo's mouth. It's usually not a salient baseball thought.
When Hawk says something like "you couldn't pay me to set foot into Wrigley," there are a number of things wrong with it. One, no one really cares anymore. His schtick has gotten REALLY old. Two, and I think more importantly is that real White Sox fans want to do away with this blind rivalry with the Cubs. They want to be their own team, and not judged against what's going on on the North Side. Cub fans have moved on. Sure the crosstown rivalry is fun once a year but after that, the focus is on the season.
Hopefully, this is one of the last times Hawk says something dumb to the media. I'll honestly miss him. It's good to have a fool in the spotlight to ridicule.
Spectacular is the first word that comes to mind when you see 2121 Cresta Road. This true ski in ski out luxury home is perched atop Arrowhead Mountain. From the time you set foot into this home you realize what opulence means. This home has 6 bedroom suites each with it's own bathroom. 5 of the bedrooms have king size beds and the 6th bedroom has a fabulous built in bunk arrangement that can sleep 4. There are two bedrooms on each floor to ensure privacy. The main floor has a dining room that can fit 10, a large living area, chef's kitchen, hearth room, ski room and two bedrooms. Down stairs this home had two bedrooms, large living area with wonderful fireplace, pool table and a wet bar. Upstairs are two bedroom suites. There is also an elevator to help carry things from floor to floor. Outside, your private hot tub awaits relaxation while the ski slope beckons for another day.
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HAMMOND and FISHERS, July 30, 2015 – Worley Claims Services (“Worley”), a recognized leader in insurance claims services in the United States, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire NCA Group, Inc. (“NCA”), a national provider of daily and catastrophe residential and commercial property claims services throughout North America.
The transaction creates a market-leading diversified claims services company, differentiated by its unparalleled ability to mobilize one of the largest adjuster networks in the United States for both daily and catastrophe claims events and provide an extensive range of claims-related services for its customers in all personal, commercial, environmental, and government markets. Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, acquired a majority stake in Worley last October.
NCA will maintain its independent operations within Worley and the senior management teams will actively collaborate to maximize the advantages of the combined platform for the entire client, adjuster, and employee bases. Michael Worley will remain Chief Executive Officer of the combined company, and Allen Carpenter and Jim Pearl will run day-to-day operations as Co-Presidents.
StoneRidge Advisors, LLC acted as financial advisor to NCA.
Worley, based in Hammond, Louisiana, is one of the largest independent providers of insurance-adjustment management and services in the United States. Since 1976, Worley has consistently aided in balancing claims, recovering costs and overseeing public relations following natural and man-made environmental events. Worley provides property, auto, personal lines, and casualty claims adjustment and related services to national and regional insurance companies as well as commercial clients and clients in the federal/state government sector.
(l-r) Ne-Yo, Jennifer Lopez, Jenna Dewan Tatum and Derek Hough of WORLD OF DANCE. ©NBCUniversal. CR: Trae Patton/NBC.
HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Lopez is back in the judge’s seat. This time, she is one of the judges on NBC’s “World of Dance, “a weekly competition series, that premieres Tuesday May 30 at 10 p.m.
Judging the competition alongside the actress and former Fly Girl are dance pro Derek Hough and music artist Ne-Yo. The show is hosted by actress and dancer Jenna Dewan Tatum, who also serves as the contestants’ mentor. “World of Dance” has brought together some of the world’s best dancers to compete in epic battles of artistry, precision and athleticism. Besides bragging rights and broad television exposure, more than 40 acts also are vying for a $1 million prize.
Prior to the show’s premiere, Lopez, who previously served as a judge on the singing competition show “American Idol,” spoke about getting back in the judge’s seat and how judging this competition, which is all about dance, is near and dear to her heart.
Q: Is this the ultimate show for you? Because you started as a dancer, it’s almost like the ultimate show you could produce and be a part of.
Lopez: It’s like a dream come true and the perfect job for me. In a sense, we created literally the perfect show for me to be a part of. “World of Dance” is a competition that’s been around, and I’ve known about them for years. I’ve actually poached choreographers from dancers that I’ve seen and innovative things. They’re known for that, so to bring that to television and then for NBC and all of us get together and decide to create an opportunity for dancers where they can be the stars, where they can create their own brand, where they can make a name for themselves, and then where they can make that type of money—nowhere (else) in the world as a dancer can you make a million dollars—was for me the best thing that I could have ever done, starting as a dancer myself.
Q: Do you think the personalities and chemistry of the judges will be a key factor in the success?
Lopez: It always is on these shows. Having done (“American Idol”), I know that that is key, that you have judges that are knowledgeable about what they are judging on and that they have a lot to offer, but they also have their own great personalities but also have a chemistry together. That’s the most important thing, and there has to be respect for one another and also just a joy to be around each other. We definitely have that. We were lucky.
I’ve been so fortunate in the projects that I’ve been doing over the past couple of years to be able to pull together my dream team for these projects and then everybody to be awesome and nice and smart and amazing. These were, like, three first choices. It wasn’t like, “Oh, well, maybe we can get, or maybe we can get.” It was like, “Can we get Ne-Yo? Can we get Derek Hough? Can we get Jenna Dewan Tatum?” That’s what it was. It didn’t feel like a new show. Our discussions went long sometimes.
Q: How have the dancers inspired you?
Lopez: There were some people that we knew who are in the competition. We know their names. We know them from the dance world. And then there were some people, some juniors that we had or groups that came from New Zealand or whatever, where we were, like, “What the ****. Who are these people? Where did they come from?” They blew our mind. We even had questions about how does a junior compete against a group of adults? How is this all going to work? Honestly, it just comes down to performances that blow you away.
It could be one person. It could be a group of 25. It doesn’t matter. It was very inspiring, super-inspiring. I love dance such at a core level. I always consider myself a dancer kind of first because I became a singer and an actress after I was a dancer. That was the first thing my mom put me in when I was five years old. That was my first form of artistic expression, and so, for me, it’s so part of who I am that to watch it now and to be able to see kids who are 9, 10, 11, or 12 years old, and then to see people who have been doing it for so long and are a seasoned couple dancing together, it just reminded me of all of the reasons why I love dancing, why I wanted to do this in the first place.
Q: Are we going to see you dance, and will performers get extra points for performing to J Lo classics?
Lopez: We danced in the promo. We were, like, “Well, let’s just try to put something in the promo.” We had a great time doing it.
Q: What actually makes a good dancer? Is it coordination? Movement? What are the skill sets to actually being a good dancer?
Lopez: It’s the same thing with singing in a sense. I learned that when I did “American Idol.” So many people in the world can sing, carry a note, carry a tune, sing on the beat, but not everybody can make you get up and dance or sing or feel something or cry. It’s just a different thing. That makes you an artist.
Q: Are there any worries that your show and “Dancing With the Stars” might split an audience for dance?
Q: How did your judge experience on “American Idol” help prepare you for this? And what, from that experience, do you bring into this?
Lopez: When I came onto “American Idol,” it was such a well‑oiled machine. I really got to see how the top No. 1 show in American, reality show, competition show ran. So that really helped us and, of course, Matilda with all of her experience and all of us. Derek said when he came in, it felt like this was something we had been doing a long time. We all really had enough experience to make this kind of fly right away. It wasn’t like a trial and error. “What are we doing? How do we do this?” Everybody knew how to do it and wanted to push the envelope and wanted to do different things. And how do we make is fresher? And how do we make it newer? And how does it look production‑wise different? Everything. When we produce things, we are always trying to take them to the next level.
Q: When you were starting out as a dancer, were there times when you thought, “This was too much?” Can you relate to how these dancers feel?
Lopez: You really feel what it is to be a dancer and that kind of passion, which is what makes it compelling. It makes it compelling for us to watch as judges, to see that hunger and that kind of passion and all of those things.
Is The Oklahoma Government Blocking My Disability Benefits?
Is The Oklahoma Government Blocking Your Disability Benefits?
Have you ever heard of the Medicaid coverage gap? It’s a relatively new social issue that has been popping up in states that rejected the Medicaid expansion that was written into the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The gap causes problems for low-income individuals who want to get insurance to pay for their healthcare, but it also has side effects that can cause problems for thousands of people with disabilities. Despite knowing this, the government of Oklahoma is continuing to block the expansion of Medicaid in our state, and now Oklahomans with disabilities are starting to feel the sting of the state’s mistakes.
The ACA Medicaid expansion includes nonelderly adults that make 138 percent of the federal poverty level or lower. The ACA established the Health Insurance Marketplaces where people can purchase insurance, and people who make between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level can get federal tax credits to help pay for that insurance. People below the federal poverty rate cannot receive these marketplace subsidies. The ACA Medicaid expansion covers people below the poverty line by qualifying them for Medicaid instead of ACA insurance, but Oklahoma rejected this expansion.
How Does Blocking The Medicaid Expansion Hurt Your Benefits?
Due to various political reasons, our government has rejected the ACA expansion of Medicaid, which means that anyone under the federal poverty line who can’t get Medicaid in Oklahoma also won’t be able to get a Marketplace health plan. That means your only hope for medical coverage is to get automatic Medicaid approval through obtaining Social Security disability benefits, but getting those benefits without medical records on your disability is almost impossible.
Without ACA coverage or Medicaid, people can’t get the medical records they need to get Social Security benefits, which leaves Oklahomans with disabilities in a catch-22 scenario. When you consider that our state has also cut disability programs due to budget shortfalls, then many of our friends and neighbors just won’t have the resources to survive.
The situation for Oklahomans with disabilities is only getting worse, and our politicians don’t seem to care. Speak up for you neighbors, family and friends who may be suffering from this miscarriage of justice.
Contact your local government official, and let your voice be heard—A reminder from your Tulsa disability attorneys at Troutman & Troutman.
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Our ship overnighted in Venice, Italy which gave us the opportunity to explore the city of canals at night. Taking a water taxi from the ship, we made our way to St. Mark's Square where we began our self-guided walking tour.
Here are just a few of the sights we saw that night. Click on images to enlarge them.
The Piazza San Marco may be more famous, but the Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge) is the true heart of Venice. As we approached the Rialto Bridge, there were many people checking out the local shops. It was just starting to get dark.
If you plan to walk through Venice, be sure you have good walking shoes and are able to climb stairs. This is especially challenging if you have luggage and are heading to the train station (which was our main objective for the evening). We wanted to figure out where we'd be going in the morning to catch the train back to Rome.
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list.
Our first glimpse of this amazing city was from the ship's deck as we sailed past the canals to our dock. Next we saw the city from a water taxi and then explored during the day by foot and finally gondola before returning to our ship for dinner. The most amazing view was walking through the narrow streets and over canals at night. The lights cast a glow that really changed the mood of the city.
Along the Grand Canal, the restaurants were filled with visitors and local patrons enjoying an evening meal with a view. The moon was almost full and shone brightly on the city below.
What a beautiful sight as we concluded our nighttime exploration of Venice via water taxi back to our ship.
We hope that you enjoyed this brief visit to Venice at night. Check out our Diary of our 12-Night Mediterranean & Greek Isles Cruise for more stories about Venice and our other ports as well as links to our photo albums.
This week #FriFotos theme is #NIGHT. It is being repeated by popular demand. When thinking about images that could represent the theme, the first thing that came to mind was our unforgettable night aboard Disney Dream for our National Conference a couple years ago when we were entertained by the Disney Cast and their Pirates in the Caribbean deck party.
The highlight of the event is when Disney lights up the sky with fireworks which can be seen from your balcony or on the open decks.
Due to technical difficulties caused by weather, it was actually postponed a day during our cruise, which made the anticipation even greater.
All the guests gather on the open deck for a high-energy show as the highlight of Pirate in the Caribbean night. If you want a different perspective of the show, why not include a ride on the AquaDuck which is awesome at night.