M2M Industrial wifi router in trains, connectivity on rails

One of M2M’s main revolutions is referred to moving things. Vehicles like cars are now taking a new route that will change the way in which we interact with them. However, trains have already gone down this road and they offer a vast amount of services which are made possible thanks to machine-to-machine technology.

Wagon monitorization, control of air conditioning, engine maintenance or provision of information about the trip to travelers are some of the connected features that many railway companies already include.

Switzerland, one of the countries where the train is implanted most, is one of the leaders in M2M deployment in this field. Jan Richard, Technology Manager at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB),explains that the operator is using M2M innovations on 3,039 km of lines across its network. “And with the railway aiming to make cost savings of up to 15% from more efficient technologies by 2017-2018, there are significant plans in place to introduce further M2M solutions that will improve performance and efficiency over the next few years”, he assures.

Richard highlights a more efficient maintenance system as the main advancement that M2M brings to this field: “One example of where M2M is helping to improve operations is in point maintenance. If a point starts to become worn or faulty we can see that happening and can schedule maintenance to address the fault before it becomes a problem.”

However, customer service is also an interesting issue to develop. Deutsche Bahn launched a new passenger information system last year, which gives connectivity to distribute real-time train travel updates on the train platforms. This solution is being deployed in more than 4,000 railway stations with 3,000 display units and another 3,500 expected by 2015.

Furthermore, there is another very obvious M2M use in trains, which is the possibility to connect to Wi-Fi on the train. A machine-to-machine network is the one that delivers connection to the train, where passengers can connect their devices. It is the same system which is used to provide information about the route on the screens in wagons.

Recommend: Four-Faith Industrial wifi router Widely used in the train,

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What is behind a smart city?

A smart city brings many advantages to both citizens and the environment. However, to make them possible, it is necessary to have an an infrastructure which supports all technological deployments. This is one of the topics that will be discussed this week in the 3rd ITU Green Standards Week.

One of the challenges of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to achieve some technological standards for smart cities. These are rules to make all these innovations compatible and easily manageable. This enables us to unify criteria for the study, development and implementation of new services, as well as for the measurement and continuous improvement of the already implemented services.

London, Málaga and Manchester are just some of the cities that will discuss their experiences and needs in the event. There will also be interventions from UN representatives, institutions such as ISOand Gartner and some of the most important companies in the smart city field: Nokia, Huawei and Fujitsu, for instance. Furthermore, the event will have an area with display stands to showcase the latest innovations of theses companies and others, such as Smart Taxi and Green Momit, which belong to Wayra, Four-Faith’s start-up accelerator program. 

These actors play an important role in smart cities: the city council coordinates and boosts the technological development; institutions contribute toward making the most accurate decisions in the city; and companies have the expertise to deploy all the infrastructure. Four-Faith, for instance, has developed an M2M Industrial 4G router that will certainly be very useful for the progression of smart cities.

Above all these actors, we mustn’t forget about the citizens, who benefit from the comfort and savings that a smart city brings: 30% in the electricity bill, up to 50% with smart lighting, and between 30% and 50% thanks to the smart irrigation systems are just a few examples. 
You can access more information about the 3rd ITU Green Standards Week here.

Five amazing things that M2M technology has made reality

There will come a day when new connected inventions will cease to surprise us. But people who work in the M2M industry are not willing to let this day come soon. Our new delivery of ‘Five Amazing things that M2M technology has made reality’ proves it.

A connected mirror

This could fit perfectly in any sci-fi motion picture: imagine waking up and starting to get ready in the morning in front of the mirror, which then reflects back all sorts of information such as your friends’ activity on social media or alerts you on the weather. This is just what the Cybertecture mirror does when connected to a mobile device. But it goes even further. The mirror can help  women with their make up or prepare a fitness program.

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A beer that cancels any kind of cellular signal

The team behind Polar beer defends that bars are places to enjoy with the people around you and a good drink in your hand. They are not places for mobile phones to be the sole focus of people’s attention. To achieve this, they have created a crafty device that eradicates any mobile signal, be it 3G, 4G or Wifi,  in a given place. Just put a bottle of Polar inside the device and people will lose their coverage. 

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Something happens in your home

Canary is a little sensor that measures acceleration, motion and sound. It also has an HD camera that records what happens around it. So, if you put the device in your home, it will alert you when something happens, whenever a normal parameter is altered.

Don’t lose your objects

There are many things that we tend to lose on a daily basis: keys, wallet, handbag, glasses… Tile is a small label that you can fix on to any of these objects in order to have it located.

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Smart socks

We have talked about smart sleepers, smart diapers… smart this and smart that. Well, believe it or not they have now come up with smart socks! It is actually a device attached to them that records stats like calories burned or distance traveled.

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the application of Four-Faith industrial router based on lottery machine wireless network solution

In recent years, China’s various sports and welfare are concerned and valued by more and more people, in order to raise social funds and promote the development of public utilities, sports and welfare lottery has emerged. Lottery network growing, distribution means increasingly rich, raised a lot of money, and played a more and more important role in all kinds of social activities.

Currently the business center of lottery and the operating points use DDN or telephone line to transmit data. Lottery business single data flow is very small, the monthly fee for DDN or IDSL special line is too high, and the telephone line to transmit data billing by time, it’s very inconvenient, the cost is not cheap.According to the above problems, Four-Faith proposed the lottery wireless network solution based on industrial router.

System components:

  （1）terminal betting machine: provide betting, lottery, query and other functions

 （2）wireless communication terminal device: the requirement for terminal betting machine interface, choose Four-Faith F3X25 wireless router, it has the advantages of small volume, low power consumption, simple configuration, plug and play

 （3）lottery center system: handle a variety of data uploaded by eachter minal betting machine, provide a service platform for the terminal betting machine

     

     System terminal betting machine is connected with Four-Faith industrial router F3X25 through Ethernet interface, lottery center system can adopt special line as the network access mode. Industrial router F3X25 access Internet through wireless network, and there are two kinds of network mode to realize the connection between terminal betting machine and lottery center: first, using VPDN special network or ANP special network; second, through VPN mode. After the terminal betting machine is connected with center system, can directly exchange data with lottery center system server.Terminal betting machine will directly exchange data with center server through Four-Faith  industrial wireless router F3X25.

ShareOxford finally makes The Internet of Things ‘official’

It isn’t necessary to be in a dictionary for a word to exist, but somehow it makes it more official. One of the most prestigious dictionaries in the world, The Oxford English Dictionary has recently included the term Internet of Things, which establishes the importance that it has gained in recent years.

Although the Internet of Things is a very common expression among tech people, the inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary makes it symbolically accessible to everybody. Furthermore, it reflects the aim of the dictionary of being updated with the buzzwords of the moment.

The editors have chosen this definition: “A proposed development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data”. They also include this example: “If one thing can prevent the Internet of things from transforming the way we live and work, it will be a breakdown in security”.

This definition, of course, is a simplification of what the Internet of Things really entails as we explained in our post about the difference between the IoT and M2M industrial router. Time will tell when ‘Machine to machine’ is included in the dictionary to give echo to commonly used technological terms.

Alongside the Internet of Things, The Oxford English Dictionary has also included other terms of the same field, such as ‘bitcoin’, ‘click and collect’, ‘hackerspace’, ‘selfie’, ‘emoji’, ‘digital detox’,‘MOOC’ (Massive Open Online Course), ‘space tourism’, ‘twerk’, ‘squee’ and ‘unlike’, among others.

The Oxford English Dictionary will continue to include all the relevant terms that revolve around technology. Which ones do you think will be included?

Four-Faith industrial 3G router successfully applied in Guangzhou vehicle intelligent video surveill

Recently, in Guangzhou more than 160 vehiclesusing the vehicle intelligent video surveillance based on Four-Faith industrial3G router. To ensure thenormal communication of data, audio, video during transportation, realize thedynamic information collection of vehicle, achieve real-time remote monitoringin a short time.

Guangzhou vehicle video monitoring project is thehighlight application of intelligent transportation, supports “wireless city”construction in Guangzhou. In this project, Four-Faith provides industrialrouter terminal, and ensure management, installation, maintenance and all othersoftware and hardware that is required for the normal operation of the system,also realize interface integration of management software and the existingmonitoring platform.

　　Vehicleintelligent video monitoring system using 3G network to realize real-time online of networkcamera, the backstage can be very convenient for video browsing and front-endcontrol, and using the newly developed video analysis module, the front cameracan be provided with a plurality of prefabricated bit, and adopt solar energyand battery power to supply.

    According to the plan,every car front camera is installed a Four-Faith 3G router, the system transmits the image in the frontcamera to the video server, then transmitted to the operator’s network throughFour-Faith industrial 3Grouter, finally arrives at the monitoring center platform, to realize the datainteraction, sending, receiving, link control maintenance function. In thesystem, the images from the scene and other statistical information in vehicleterminal, all data is transmitted through VPN tunnel, safety is the powerfulguarantee.

10 features that the city of the (near) future will have

The city of the future will provide citizens with a more comfortable life thanks to M2M technology ( 3G Industrial Router ). Some advances are already making their way into our urban environments and many others will come soon. We have highlighted ten features that the city of the future will have. You can see many others in our web-section about Smart Cities.

Smart parking. There will be systems that will alert drivers when there is a free parking spot. Citizens will no longer waste their time looking for a place to park and the city will be less polluted. Did you know that by reducing the average time required to park a vehicle from 15 to 12 minutes can reduce CO2 emissions by 400 tonnes in a city such as Barcelona?

Intelligent transport system. You probably won’t have to wait to take advantage of this feature. Many public transport systems are already interconnected. This allows for different public transports to be coordinated and to provide information in real time.

Tele-care. Some medical consultations will no longer be necessary. There are monitorization systems for patients which keep their doctor up to date when something such as a rise in blood pressure or sugar occurs. 

Traffic management. Monitoring road systems will inform drivers about which route is best at any given time. Also, it will automatically manage the traffic lights in order to reduce congestion to the minimum taking into account the traffic volume at certain times of the day.

Smart grids. They will provide the necessary amount of electricity depending on the demand. This way the power efficiency will be maximized. There are some cities that are testing these systems, as Málaga, for instance.

Smart urban lighting. Why waste energy if nobody is on the street? Smart urban lighting will adjust the intensity of the light depending on the people who are around.

Waste management. Not all places generate the same kind or the same amount of waste. With smart containers and a good fleet management system, the routes can be tailored to any situation. Thanks to this kind of solution, the efforts in waste collection will be much more efficient.

Smart city maintenance. Citizens will now be able to rely on systems to notify the City Council of any damages in the urban elements through their smartphones. This way things will be repaired faster.

Smart taxi. Taxi fleet will be connected and customers will be able to book a taxi with an application. The localization system will notify the closest one without the need of human interaction. There are already some mobile applications for taxis, such as My Taxi.

Digital-signage. Urban ads will be tailored to each citizen and advertising will provide services. Whereas now we see many concert posters around the city, in the future the customer will have the chance to actually buy the ticket via the billboard.