Monday, September 20th, 2010
The National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) has released ALERT2™, a new standard for transmitting data designed to significantly improve accuracy and performance in systems and software used for early detection of floods and other water hazards around the world. ALERT, which stands for Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time, uses remote sensors to transmit environmental data via
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Siemens is simplifying the introduction of home automation by provid-ing its Synco living system with a user-friendly expansion, which al-lows users to operate the home automation system conveniently over the Internet from any PC. In addition, Siemens recently began offering an inexpensive basis set featuring a room unit and up to six radiator controllers, thus
Monday, September 20th, 2010
The Center for Spatial Research is glad to announce that it has developed the methodology of creating boundary files of postal codes in Russia. Previously the company has created the database of all postal codes in Russia which includes the number of postal code, name of the city or settlement located in postal code and
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
The Deputy Director of the Town and Country Planning, Mr. Lawrence Dakurah, explained that it has come as a responsibility of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) under the Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST) charged with the mandate of planning and managing the growth and development of cities, town and villages in Ghana. The
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Program GEOsurf is a powerful system to calculate the digital terrain model (DTM), generation of contours and their further processing in AutoCAD. It consists of a custom calculation program (TRI.EXE) and LISPovského interface for AutoCAD. Transferring functions to the maximum use of AutoCAD and its interactive graphic function is achieved by very simple control of the entire system. GEOsurf
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Two major Autodesk partners in the Czech Republic, XANADU and Dagis, today announced a merger of their CAD activities. The new company will be called CAD Studio a.s., and takes over all CAD and GIS activities of the companies Dagis and XANADU, becoming the largest specialised provider of CAD, GIS and PLM solutions in Central
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
The Brazilian government plans to accept bids this year for licenses to build 10 hydroelectric power stations with a combined generating capacity of close to 4,000 MW, officials said. The president of the EPE energy research company, Mauricio Tolmasquim, said Friday the government already has submitted plans for three large hydroelectric projects to the Court of
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
By opening up its DLC communications protocol Siemens is setting a milestone in the direction of open communication with smart meters and takes the first step toward establishing a new standard in high-efficiency metering communications via power line. Siemens Energy offers holistic smart metering solutions based on its automated metering and information system AMIS as
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Bing Maps has added another nice feature, adding public transportation routes to 11 major U.S. cities. It’s a good first step for Bing, though there’s certainly a lot of work left to do to catch up to Google Maps — which covers more than twice that many in California alone and a total of 446 cities
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
New ”Strategic Research Centre on Zero Energy Buildings” at Aalborg University last Wednesday received the ALECTIA-Foundation’s prize of 250,000 DKK for their cross-disciplinary research activities to develop future-proof, zero energy concepts for the building industry.
