emtech primer: May 2007 Archives

Networked Embedded and Control Systems

May 23, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

Spoke at ICT Call 2 Information Day - Hotel Carrefour de l'Europe 110, Rue Marché aux Herbes 1000 Brussels, Presentations have been uploaded to the agenda webpage.

Flights

May 15, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

Nice example of time lapse photo. Posted on Flickr but saw via everyoneforever - amazing photograph currently showing at the Seoul City Museum in South Korea.

Sound Business - Julian Treasure

May 10, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

The Economist report that retail at Glasgow airport increased by 10% when they tested a soundscape installation of generative music, birdsong and crashing waves. I recently heard an example of the generative birdsong at the Box at LSE (designed by DEGW) which was really impressive - would love to try this in our offices. Julian Treasures book on sound looks promising...

Wattson 105 - measuring electrical usage

May 05, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

Received the Wattson from DIYKyoto last week and had a quick install at home to see how it works. It has been running for 10 days and no problems so far but have not downloaded any data yet - software is to be delivered. Install was extremely simple, just clamp the current transducer (or is it a transformer?) around one of the two wires between the house electricity meter and fuse box and then turn on the wattson. Was very interesting when we first turned it on to see how many *hidden* appliances were running. Managed to get from 600 watts down to 80 watts by turning things off standby, however notice that it seems to average 700-800 watts in the evening. Max to date has been about 2500 watts when the dishwasher was on... Next step is to install it in Arup to monitor office appliance use...

Haringey interactive heat loss map

May 04, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

Nice project for Haringey Council by Hot Mapping and Horton Levi. The aerial survey measured heat loss from every property by taking thermal images. The council claim this piece of work was completed for under 21k GBP. My house is shown circled below - not bad considering our poor level of insulation - but i did not live here (in 2000) and cannot be sure if, for example, any heating was on when Horton-Levi conducted the aerial thermal survey of the whole of London. More info.

RealCosts - visualising flight CO2 costs

May 03, 2007 by Duncan | permalink

Plugin for firefox that allows you to see the C02 impact of your journey WHILST you search for flights using you favorite website (US focus at mo so i had to use expedia.com) soon to come is a version for car directions... The calculations they are using are available on the project wiki