Why was this article not published in "US military journal of applied physics" (surely there must be something like this)?
No there isn't, because the US is not about government the way much of the old world is. While in an Old World country, such a journal would have extra oomph, here a military reasearcher would feel dispapinted if he couldn't publish in a real journal.
Possible Exception: NASA does run some lightweight journals more akin to a hard core Popular Mechanics than to scientific journals. But then, there goal is to disseminate technology rather than to publish science.
Too bad that the dynamics of the merger dictated that SVG had to die.
Prior to the merger, Adobe was a strong supported of this truly excellent graphical development environment, one with all the behaviors of flash, one much more open to adaptive re-use of existing components, and one whose spec was truly open.
Now with all efforts thrown behind the "just OK" flash, SVG is being left to wither. I won't be able to warm to Flash until I am done mourning
Grant Writing 101. Make sure that, in the final paragraph, you claim the research is "potentially" related to whatever the fundingg agency is funding this month.
Let's see - boys are less socially driven, to the extent that they are drugged to act like girls in the grammar and middle school. Boys have more trouble in social situations, including a much higher percentage classified as Ausbergers. Engineering schools have an unusually high percentage of high-performing Ausbergers - which includes an ability to obsess on problems like algorithm design.
The complement is an disability in reading the social scene, in interpreting emotions from looking at faces that maleffects performance in social scenarios. Many high-performing ausbergers have trouble perforing many social scenarios. In extreme cases, their symptoms sound an awful lot like...the overwight bearded nerd living in Mom's basement described above.
But don't worry, by medicalizing the character attributes that lead to sucess in professions that require obsession, the schol psychatrists should be able, in a generation, with apropriate early and agressive use of drugs, entirely to eliminate the tendency of men to go into these professions. We will then acheive balance, and be able to out-source the rest of this troubling profession abroad.
Or perhaps, instead of treating the boys, society can agressively drug the girls until they get Ausbergers [male brains]...but I'm not holding my breath.
You keep the low voltage protocols off the internet. You use a gateway. Cllearly, obviously, you do not want the internet in the middle of a process control loop.
One should think of a process control system (HVAC for the 3rd floor) as similar to a RAID sub-system. Multiple moving parts. Different devices computing their own sectors, timing, etc. Servo motors have their own control logic that manages spin up, spin down, head stepping. A supervisory RAID system manages striping, adding hot-spares, etc. All present a common simple model to the OS that hides the physical muck underneath.
In most cases, putting an IP address on each coil or actuator in a building makes about as much sense as putting an IP address on each stepper motor on each drive in the RAID set. What you want to do is box the functionality, lets the system defend its internal mission and imperatives, and provide an external interface.
The ComputerWorld article is talking about IT managing that interface, not the internal control porcesses. TheJeffer is right; IT guys have not been trained in this demanding discipline. I have not been trained in auto mechanics. Even though there are a dozen computers in my car, I have nothing useful to say to them.
My car has an interface. The pedal on the right makes it go faster. The round thing makes it go side to side. There is a UI called a dashboard which is a rough interface to the digitial dashboard you may have in your business system.
LONWORKS, BACnet, NIAGRA, (in the HVAC world) DALI (n lighting), other local protocols, even proprietary protocols belong inside the sandbox.
Other vertical markets with other protocols include Access Control, Intrusion Detection, Life Safety, and AV/Event Management systems. All of them scale badly across buildings and between systems today because they try to preserve the control protocols/connection orientation evan as they move to IP for the transport layer.
Anyone who tries to let the new IT hire from Accounting work control systems is looney.
but
There is nothing wrong with that accounting IT guy scheduling conference room 3 to be occupied tomorrow night (and let the HVAC deal with it. and let the lighting system deal with it). It is not a bad thing to let that accounting IT guy schedule the electric meter to be read before and after the meeting automatically.
Position these protocols for orchestration not control. Position a Gridwise-aware application (www.gridwise.org)that knows that the power grid is offering incentives for load shedding and also knows that the sales force is all at a new product roll-out to turn off the 3rd floor. Or becuase you can turn off any office space for 15 minutes w/o anyone noticing, get that power rebate for an hour by rotating "low Power mode" commands between 6 offices in the same metro area. What is low power mode? Well, that was set up by the controls engineers.
Security, and by that I mean grown up Directory aware security, must,of course, be in place.
is what you want for lighting controls.
And as mentioned by someone, maybe you want a tenant interaction with the control system so you can work late w/o contacting a security guard first.
However many times the BACNET guys say HVAC, and ASHRAE
standards, the building is more complicated than that.
If you wanted to build (and sell many times, not just as a custom app) an
application sitting astride the embedded control systems, you clearly could
build a HVAC application on top of BACNET, or you could talk to other systems
via LON. Of course, of you had ever heard of objects, you might want those
functions (Loop Tuning? millisecond response time? SNVT discovery?) safely
embedded,encapsulated, and abstracted.
If you are talking interaction with Security systems you could get one of the
lowest commond denominator systems made by the HVAC guys, or you could get
something from the security specialists. These systems do not tend to
speak BACNET or LON, and (being security systems) the members of the SIA (note -
not ASHRAE)do not like their products to take direction from the
HVAC systems. As a note in passing on the complexity of integrating the
controls world, within the SIA, there are at least 3 vertical markets (Access
Control, Intrusion Detection, Alarm Management) that each have their own
protocol wars.
So, my plan is to shut down the 4th floor, and not let any more people in to
earn the large rebate offfered by the Electric Grid. Then I dim the lights
-what, they aren't just incandescents, and I want to turn every
otherfixture entirely, so I don't get strobing? Well, maybe its time to
lean DALI for lighting control. Except for that big lobby. That lobby has
big lights that need controlled power to warm up or to cool down over a 25
minute cycle -with associated cooling behaviors. Now that lobby has an A/V
event managemnt control system running - what protocol does that use?
Yeah I could write binary feeds to everything. Yeah I could parse the
internal protocols for every control system on the planet. but so far, we are
just on Load Shedding - and not very intelligent load shedding, either. If
I want to make those decisions based upon known Foot Traffic, or intersect with
the Elevators, or any number of other controls whem making this decision, I've
got still more protocols.
All of this is complicated by systems that are mantained for decades rather
than swapped out every three years. Who here remembers how to talk RSTS/E
sys calls? Do you want to revive that knowlege this month?
Maybe this same enterprise application also wants to quzz the electrical
meters about the instantaneous usage, or whether power consumption is currently
grouped on one phase or another -oops now we have to figure out what SCADA
protocol they are using. Hmmm, maybe for this rebate, its worthwhile
taking some of the electrical load off the grid and firing up the internal
generators or fuel cells. Add in a few more incompatible binary
protocols.
Quickly one realizes that every building agent is a custom from scratch
application every time (except perhaps if a single hotel chain builds 10 of the
same buildings based on the same design - but even there, there may be
differences based on local code, and local contractors, and local
inspectors).
Oh, and by the way, sometimes two or more of these function
will be combined in the same control system. That might
actually be one of the local changes described above.
This is why some of us want a an abstract self-describing interface on the
gateway between each control system and the network. That system will
encapsulate and abstracte this stuff up to some standard that the Buildign Agent
will talk to.
And that is why the verbosity of XML is the last concern.
Dead on. Today's power grid is all consumtion oriented. Take all the power you want. If we run out, everyone will get a brown out.
I might want a cool house, but I could tell it "When price gets more than. ..When I'm spending more than $/hour, I'm willing for you to"
- shut off the hot tub - adjust the AC - turn off the circuits the Kid's stereo
The reason we all feel powerless before the powergrid, is we only find out what our behavior cost us a month later.
Today, only the most pig-stupid approches apply, i.e. I give the power company carte-blanch righ tto turn off my hot-water heater in the afternoon whenever *they* want to. This instead lets the building/house (and presumeably its residents) be in charge.
As someone who has gotten a lot of college guys their first job, a temp stint on the help desk tells me
- if they have any clue that this is a business or if they just want to bore secretaries w/ talk about PERL scripts
- whether they are focussed on delivering business value (a system that the cusatomer knows theey can use) oe jsut get [l]Users of the phone so they can get basck to reading/.
- whether they can handle figuring out ystmes they have not yet been certified for with grace.
- useful intelligence.
I would rahter hire someone with smarts, commitment to customer value, and afocus on the customer than experience and a bad attitude any day.
DOM-compliant XML-based scaleable images mean that images become part of the data fabric that SOAP is enabling.
Sunday, there was discussion of DIY HVAC wherein hacking the building controls of your own house was discussed. I mentioned numerous cross-industry efforts wherein SOAP (which means XML) was being built into all sorts of embedded systems.
Now self-describing data from the embedded system is nice, but how about an embedded schematic as well? The schematic should have all the characteristics of Openned / Standards based / XML based, . . and be rescaleable for use on PDAs and home PC's. Ideally, it should have an embedded means to link back to the SOAP data on current operating state of the embedded systems.
Hmmm. . . Where can we find a format that meets those characteristics. . .
[Hint: it's not Flash]
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Begining to change - a number of these industries are moving into SOAP, with such niche languages as CSML (Control System ML) and legacy-extenders such as Bacnet/XML and LON/XML creeping into the market
Check out the Continental Automated Building Association (CABA) a consortium of companies now working on OBIX, (Open Building Information eXchange) whose mission is to expose the API's or Building Automation Systems (HVAC, Access Control, Security, even X10 is on board) under a common XML schema.
Somewhere out there is a White Box ML, for interfaces to Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Dryers, etc. This effort is an extension of the earlier UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) work done earlier than SOAP was around for interfaces to consumer electronics, computing, home automation, home security, appliances, printing, photography, computer networking, and mobile products.
SOAP is also creeping onto electric meters (see Power Measurement's ION line, some of the GE product lines) although these are still priced more for the industrial solution. Eaton Electric's Cutler-Hammer is even selling a SOAP-enabled Power Panel (you know, the grey box with circuit breakers in your back room)
The IAI, the engineering standards group, is working the issue from the other end, developping top-down standards drilling down to meet OBIX coming up, most notably in Green Building XML (GBXML) which has a lovely schema. Major CADD companies such as Autodesk, Bentley, and Intergraph have committed to support GBXML in their tools when modelling is used for design.
There is going to be a lot more of this in the future, and SOAP is going to be the ticket.
The hallmark of the Celtic monk, source of many of those manuscripts was a bound, locked book hanging from the belt. Hiking across europe, reading each night, always the Bible, oftne two or three other books, like as not quite secular.
Interesting to arrogate the emotion "detest" to Tolkien in re. Narnia, as Lewis and Tolkien were drinking buddies, were very much aware of each other's work, and were supportive of each other.
Now it may well be true that Tolkien disaproved of many allef gorical works, ones that seemd more navel gazing, no matter how intense. I can easily imagine him loathing the epic "Titus Groan", also produced by an English writer during this period.
A current project that is related, but putting the space around us into the same pervasive fabric. . .
Vision Statement for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its use of SOAP in Embedded Enterprise Systems
Summary
The Facilities groups (Facilities Operations, Facilities Planning & Construction, & Energy Services) are committing toward SOAP-based integration of diverse data sources, including integration of non-traditional point data sources such as control systems and data loggers.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is the emerging open standard for requesting and receiving self-describing data from point-sources of information on an as-needed basis in the same way one can find and request documents from the World Wide Web on an as-needed basis. By its nature SOAP is uniquely appropriate for building systems as no two are alike, and there are many users who would benefit from access to data from each one. SOAP also provides us with a high-level standard for interoperability between building control systems, now isolated in individual control silos.
Current trends in hardware, software, and building automation systems make this emerging vision both doable and affordable. The Facilities groups are committed encouraging the timely growth and full acceptance of these standards to meet the timelines of current campus construction.
Background
Traditional infrastructures systems (Building Automation Systems, Fume Hood Control, Access Control, Alarm Management) operate within silos of control, locking up access to system operating data in the same way the must lock up access to system control. Even integration within a control silo (Heating and Cooling) can be a daunting task, as different vendors or even revisions within a single product line can prevent interoperability of systems.
Energy Distribution systems (Power Grid Management, Steam Distribution, Chilled Water Production and Storage) are similarly locked up within their own silos. Even Enterprise Accounting can have a difficult time getting simplified net use information from these systems. Because of their system diversity, anything other than a simplified view of their operation will not fit into an Accounting view of their operation.
Many customers of the Facilities group have long-standing requests for access to operating data from the above systems. Such customers include Housing, Laboratory Animal Medicine, the ATN Operations Center, and tenants such as Carolina Dining Service. Other groups on campus manage their own distributed ad-hoc sensor networks on lab equipment, on space conditions (Environmental Health & Safety), et al. These groups need to share data with and get operating data from the systems managed by the Facilities group. Student groups regularly request operating data, now provided too little, too late, in support of such activities as the annual Green Games.
New initiatives will only increase the number of sensors and the opportunities to fruitfully use data across ownership and control silos. Green Buildings are sensor intense. Construction projects need local weather stations able to archive environmental data; such information would be very useful to several academic and research activities. The sustainable dorm initiative will require a panoply of sensors; if open standards are used, we can turn over interface development to view this information over to the residents.
We often take too little advantage of the campus, and the campus of us. When students wish to study our operations, our current closed system makes providing them with data too burdensome, a lost opportunity for both us and them. When we propose student projects, proprietary interfaces and obscure protocols make such projects unattractive to students.
A commitment to direct standards-based access to appropriate operating data gives us and our customers many opportunities. It will improve the design and operation of both our new and existing buildings. It will strengthen the links between the institutional and academic sides of ca
And there are all sorts of interesting things you can do with an XML-based standard rather than a FLASH-based one. As the controls, sensors, and data-logging worlds are turning into a froth of SOAP bubbles, SVG is uniquely pre-adpted to be part of the suds, a JIT-able discovery mechanism for say including state diagrams and schematics with live data from sensors and building controls
This enables the physical world to become a full visualized player in the semantic web we want, rather than the eye candy of the past (and today).
Ahh
THe old question of Heredity vs Environment.
Don't you know that if the kid looks like you it Heredity, and if the Kidd looks like the Pool Guy,its Environment?
Greenspan, however, argued that the problem has accounted for a large amount of unsolicited e-mail. He estimates that at least 100,000 messages spammers in China sent went through his client's server before he stopped the problem. He added that the issue is causing headaches for Exchange administrators.
"It is really inexcusable for a company that claims security is its top priority," he said.
Perhaps it instead evidence that it is inexcusable to use some undergrad with a glib delivery line, even if he does go to Harvard, who refuses to take actual responsibility for securely configuring his own servers.
I hope all the cleints of this kid read this article, see how he ducks responsibility for his mosconfiguration, and consider whether they want Greenspan's varitey of "Consulting Services"
Failing to end Table Delimiters.
leaving out a whackTD
leaving out a whackTR
Even though it is followed by a new TD or TR.
Mozilla leaves a black page. I renders. Sure its sloppy/incorrect
but moa and pa web-poster, who just want to it too work, not to have a rasberry blown at them by some self-important dweeb
nyah nyah you didn't say it right!
For harder pages, where more sensitive stuff is being done strict standards are not really required, any more than a strict grammar check on postings to SlashDot should be required
These guys at least have a plausible argument (although I think an incorrect one)
Schneider Electric claimed the rights to the entire idea of embedded web servers, despite not having even implemented *a single thing* when the patent was granted. Their now troll the planet, looking for small elctrnics and sensor companies to beat into submission, settling with anyone who withstandas their multi-lillion-dollar suits to make sure that the patent never actually gets adjdicated.
If the future is written w/o a pervasive data fabric of embedded sensors, you can blaim those guys, who make MS and others look like great philanthropists or patent.
was a failure to use ECC in big memory machines in the data center. DOn't know what they use today - no longer relevant to me, but more than several big financial houses found that a Call Phone was enough to cause undetected data errors on their big financial/trading servers. Sun would grudgingly correct, perhaps confess only under NDA, and financial guys, who thought numbers were kind of important, would think about Wintel for the next upgrade.
During late 90's Sun did not seem to think this was a structural problem. . .
Well, Bill, let me describe a father's perspecive based upon what multiple teenage girls in the house do with music and downloads.
- Become interested in a name/artist style
- Download a CD-s worth of random tunes that fits their search
- Make copies of that sample CD t for thr gang.
Listen for a week - until the girls dcide that one or two artists on the sampler are cool.
- All buy the CDs from thiose artists.
- Repeat
They used to compete to find hot sounds before the radio did. Now its too hard and they don't bother.
What has been the effect of tightening up on on-line music in the last two years? My teen-age daughters make fewer sample CDs. They also buy fewer commercial CDs. Without the thrill of getting their first, they listen to less radiop, too.
Was this the effect you (and the RMAA) were hoping to aschieve?
Slashdot Mirror
No there isn't, because the US is not about government the way much of the old world is. While in an Old World country, such a journal would have extra oomph, here a military reasearcher would feel dispapinted if he couldn't publish in a real journal.
Possible Exception: NASA does run some lightweight journals more akin to a hard core Popular Mechanics than to scientific journals. But then, there goal is to disseminate technology rather than to publish science.
Too bad that the dynamics of the merger dictated that SVG had to die.
Prior to the merger, Adobe was a strong supported of this truly excellent graphical development environment, one with all the behaviors of flash, one much more open to adaptive re-use of existing components, and one whose spec was truly open.
Now with all efforts thrown behind the "just OK" flash, SVG is being left to wither. I won't be able to warm to Flash until I am done mourning
Grant Writing 101. Make sure that, in the final paragraph, you claim the research is "potentially" related to whatever the fundingg agency is funding this month.
Let's see - boys are less socially driven, to the extent that they are drugged to act like girls in the grammar and middle school. Boys have more trouble in social situations, including a much higher percentage classified as Ausbergers. Engineering schools have an unusually high percentage of high-performing Ausbergers - which includes an ability to obsess on problems like algorithm design. The complement is an disability in reading the social scene, in interpreting emotions from looking at faces that maleffects performance in social scenarios. Many high-performing ausbergers have trouble perforing many social scenarios. In extreme cases, their symptoms sound an awful lot like...the overwight bearded nerd living in Mom's basement described above. But don't worry, by medicalizing the character attributes that lead to sucess in professions that require obsession, the schol psychatrists should be able, in a generation, with apropriate early and agressive use of drugs, entirely to eliminate the tendency of men to go into these professions. We will then acheive balance, and be able to out-source the rest of this troubling profession abroad. Or perhaps, instead of treating the boys, society can agressively drug the girls until they get Ausbergers [male brains]...but I'm not holding my breath.
One should think of a process control system (HVAC for the 3rd floor) as similar to a RAID sub-system. Multiple moving parts. Different devices computing their own sectors, timing, etc. Servo motors have their own control logic that manages spin up, spin down, head stepping. A supervisory RAID system manages striping, adding hot-spares, etc. All present a common simple model to the OS that hides the physical muck underneath.
In most cases, putting an IP address on each coil or actuator in a building makes about as much sense as putting an IP address on each stepper motor on each drive in the RAID set. What you want to do is box the functionality, lets the system defend its internal mission and imperatives, and provide an external interface.
The ComputerWorld article is talking about IT managing that interface, not the internal control porcesses. TheJeffer is right; IT guys have not been trained in this demanding discipline. I have not been trained in auto mechanics. Even though there are a dozen computers in my car, I have nothing useful to say to them.
My car has an interface. The pedal on the right makes it go faster. The round thing makes it go side to side. There is a UI called a dashboard which is a rough interface to the digitial dashboard you may have in your business system.
LONWORKS, BACnet, NIAGRA, (in the HVAC world) DALI (n lighting), other local protocols, even proprietary protocols belong inside the sandbox. Other vertical markets with other protocols include Access Control, Intrusion Detection, Life Safety, and AV/Event Management systems. All of them scale badly across buildings and between systems today because they try to preserve the control protocols/connection orientation evan as they move to IP for the transport layer.
Anyone who tries to let the new IT hire from Accounting work control systems is looney.
but
There is nothing wrong with that accounting IT guy scheduling conference room 3 to be occupied tomorrow night (and let the HVAC deal with it. and let the lighting system deal with it). It is not a bad thing to let that accounting IT guy schedule the electric meter to be read before and after the meeting automatically.
Position these protocols for orchestration not control. Position a Gridwise-aware application (www.gridwise.org)that knows that the power grid is offering incentives for load shedding and also knows that the sales force is all at a new product roll-out to turn off the 3rd floor. Or becuase you can turn off any office space for 15 minutes w/o anyone noticing, get that power rebate for an hour by rotating "low Power mode" commands between 6 offices in the same metro area. What is low power mode? Well, that was set up by the controls engineers.
Security, and by that I mean grown up Directory aware security, must,of course, be in place.
is what you want for lighting controls. And as mentioned by someone, maybe you want a tenant interaction with the control system so you can work late w/o contacting a security guard first.
However many times the BACNET guys say HVAC, and ASHRAE standards, the building is more complicated than that.
If you wanted to build (and sell many times, not just as a custom app) an application sitting astride the embedded control systems, you clearly could build a HVAC application on top of BACNET, or you could talk to other systems via LON. Of course, of you had ever heard of objects, you might want those functions (Loop Tuning? millisecond response time? SNVT discovery?) safely embedded,encapsulated, and abstracted.
If you are talking interaction with Security systems you could get one of the lowest commond denominator systems made by the HVAC guys, or you could get something from the security specialists. These systems do not tend to speak BACNET or LON, and (being security systems) the members of the SIA (note - not ASHRAE)do not like their products to take direction from the HVAC systems. As a note in passing on the complexity of integrating the controls world, within the SIA, there are at least 3 vertical markets (Access Control, Intrusion Detection, Alarm Management) that each have their own protocol wars.
So, my plan is to shut down the 4th floor, and not let any more people in to earn the large rebate offfered by the Electric Grid. Then I dim the lights -what, they aren't just incandescents, and I want to turn every otherfixture entirely, so I don't get strobing? Well, maybe its time to lean DALI for lighting control. Except for that big lobby. That lobby has big lights that need controlled power to warm up or to cool down over a 25 minute cycle -with associated cooling behaviors. Now that lobby has an A/V event managemnt control system running - what protocol does that use?
Yeah I could write binary feeds to everything. Yeah I could parse the internal protocols for every control system on the planet. but so far, we are just on Load Shedding - and not very intelligent load shedding, either. If I want to make those decisions based upon known Foot Traffic, or intersect with the Elevators, or any number of other controls whem making this decision, I've got still more protocols.
All of this is complicated by systems that are mantained for decades rather than swapped out every three years. Who here remembers how to talk RSTS/E sys calls? Do you want to revive that knowlege this month?
Maybe this same enterprise application also wants to quzz the electrical meters about the instantaneous usage, or whether power consumption is currently grouped on one phase or another -oops now we have to figure out what SCADA protocol they are using. Hmmm, maybe for this rebate, its worthwhile taking some of the electrical load off the grid and firing up the internal generators or fuel cells. Add in a few more incompatible binary protocols.
Quickly one realizes that every building agent is a custom from scratch application every time (except perhaps if a single hotel chain builds 10 of the same buildings based on the same design - but even there, there may be differences based on local code, and local contractors, and local inspectors).
Oh, and by the way, sometimes two or more of these function will be combined in the same control system. That might actually be one of the local changes described above.
This is why some of us want a an abstract self-describing interface on the gateway between each control system and the network. That system will encapsulate and abstracte this stuff up to some standard that the Buildign Agent will talk to.
And that is why the verbosity of XML is the last concern.
oBIX. on Oasis. www.oasis-open.org
or you can check out GRIDWISE. www.gridwise.org.
Dead on. Today's power grid is all consumtion oriented. Take all the power you want. If we run out, everyone will get a brown out.
.When I'm spending more than $/hour, I'm willing for you to"
I might want a cool house, but I could tell it "When price gets more than. .
- shut off the hot tub
- adjust the AC
- turn off the circuits the Kid's stereo
The reason we all feel powerless before the powergrid, is we only find out what our behavior cost us a month later.
Today, only the most pig-stupid approches apply, i.e. I give the power company carte-blanch righ tto turn off my hot-water heater in the afternoon whenever *they* want to. This instead lets the building/house (and presumeably its residents) be in charge.
Check out oBIX on OASIS
As someone who has gotten a lot of college guys their first job, a temp stint on the help desk tells me - if they have any clue that this is a business or if they just want to bore secretaries w/ talk about PERL scripts - whether they are focussed on delivering business value (a system that the cusatomer knows theey can use) oe jsut get [l]Users of the phone so they can get basck to reading /.
- whether they can handle figuring out ystmes they have not yet been certified for with grace.
- useful intelligence.
I would rahter hire someone with smarts, commitment to customer value, and afocus on the customer than experience and a bad attitude any day.
Yeah, like your dad would be able to find the certificate in the box one year later. . .
DOM-compliant XML-based scaleable images mean that images become part of the data fabric that SOAP is enabling.
Sunday, there was discussion of DIY HVAC wherein hacking the building controls of your own house was discussed. I mentioned numerous cross-industry efforts wherein SOAP (which means XML) was being built into all sorts of embedded systems.
Now self-describing data from the embedded system is nice, but how about an embedded schematic as well? The schematic should have all the characteristics of Openned / Standards based / XML based, . . and be rescaleable for use on PDAs and home PC's. Ideally, it should have an embedded means to link back to the SOAP data on current operating state of the embedded systems.
Hmmm. . . Where can we find a format that meets those characteristics. . .
[Hint: it's not Flash]
Begining to change - a number of these industries are moving into SOAP, with such niche languages as CSML (Control System ML) and legacy-extenders such as Bacnet/XML and LON/XML creeping into the market
Check out the Continental Automated Building Association (CABA) a consortium of companies now working on OBIX, (Open Building Information eXchange) whose mission is to expose the API's or Building Automation Systems (HVAC, Access Control, Security, even X10 is on board) under a common XML schema.
Somewhere out there is a White Box ML, for interfaces to Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Dryers, etc. This effort is an extension of the earlier UPNP (Universal Plug and Play) work done earlier than SOAP was around for interfaces to consumer electronics, computing, home automation, home security, appliances, printing, photography, computer networking, and mobile products.
SOAP is also creeping onto electric meters (see Power Measurement's ION line, some of the GE product lines) although these are still priced more for the industrial solution. Eaton Electric's Cutler-Hammer is even selling a SOAP-enabled Power Panel (you know, the grey box with circuit breakers in your back room)
The IAI, the engineering standards group, is working the issue from the other end, developping top-down standards drilling down to meet OBIX coming up, most notably in Green Building XML (GBXML) which has a lovely schema. Major CADD companies such as Autodesk, Bentley, and Intergraph have committed to support GBXML in their tools when modelling is used for design.
There is going to be a lot more of this in the future, and SOAP is going to be the ticket.
Just don't send us the AVI
The hallmark of the Celtic monk, source of many of those manuscripts was a bound, locked book hanging from the belt. Hiking across europe, reading each night, always the Bible, oftne two or three other books, like as not quite secular.
Interesting to arrogate the emotion "detest" to Tolkien in re. Narnia, as Lewis and Tolkien were drinking buddies, were very much aware of each other's work, and were supportive of each other.
Now it may well be true that Tolkien disaproved of many allef gorical works, ones that seemd more navel gazing, no matter how intense. I can easily imagine him loathing the epic "Titus Groan", also produced by an English writer during this period.
A current project that is related, but putting the space around us into the same pervasive fabric. . . Vision Statement for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its use of SOAP in Embedded Enterprise Systems Summary The Facilities groups (Facilities Operations, Facilities Planning & Construction, & Energy Services) are committing toward SOAP-based integration of diverse data sources, including integration of non-traditional point data sources such as control systems and data loggers. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is the emerging open standard for requesting and receiving self-describing data from point-sources of information on an as-needed basis in the same way one can find and request documents from the World Wide Web on an as-needed basis. By its nature SOAP is uniquely appropriate for building systems as no two are alike, and there are many users who would benefit from access to data from each one. SOAP also provides us with a high-level standard for interoperability between building control systems, now isolated in individual control silos. Current trends in hardware, software, and building automation systems make this emerging vision both doable and affordable. The Facilities groups are committed encouraging the timely growth and full acceptance of these standards to meet the timelines of current campus construction. Background Traditional infrastructures systems (Building Automation Systems, Fume Hood Control, Access Control, Alarm Management) operate within silos of control, locking up access to system operating data in the same way the must lock up access to system control. Even integration within a control silo (Heating and Cooling) can be a daunting task, as different vendors or even revisions within a single product line can prevent interoperability of systems. Energy Distribution systems (Power Grid Management, Steam Distribution, Chilled Water Production and Storage) are similarly locked up within their own silos. Even Enterprise Accounting can have a difficult time getting simplified net use information from these systems. Because of their system diversity, anything other than a simplified view of their operation will not fit into an Accounting view of their operation. Many customers of the Facilities group have long-standing requests for access to operating data from the above systems. Such customers include Housing, Laboratory Animal Medicine, the ATN Operations Center, and tenants such as Carolina Dining Service. Other groups on campus manage their own distributed ad-hoc sensor networks on lab equipment, on space conditions (Environmental Health & Safety), et al. These groups need to share data with and get operating data from the systems managed by the Facilities group. Student groups regularly request operating data, now provided too little, too late, in support of such activities as the annual Green Games. New initiatives will only increase the number of sensors and the opportunities to fruitfully use data across ownership and control silos. Green Buildings are sensor intense. Construction projects need local weather stations able to archive environmental data; such information would be very useful to several academic and research activities. The sustainable dorm initiative will require a panoply of sensors; if open standards are used, we can turn over interface development to view this information over to the residents. We often take too little advantage of the campus, and the campus of us. When students wish to study our operations, our current closed system makes providing them with data too burdensome, a lost opportunity for both us and them. When we propose student projects, proprietary interfaces and obscure protocols make such projects unattractive to students. A commitment to direct standards-based access to appropriate operating data gives us and our customers many opportunities. It will improve the design and operation of both our new and existing buildings. It will strengthen the links between the institutional and academic sides of ca
And there are all sorts of interesting things you can do with an XML-based standard rather than a FLASH-based one. As the controls, sensors, and data-logging worlds are turning into a froth of SOAP bubbles, SVG is uniquely pre-adpted to be part of the suds, a JIT-able discovery mechanism for say including state diagrams and schematics with live data from sensors and building controls
This enables the physical world to become a full visualized player in the semantic web we want, rather than the eye candy of the past (and today).
Ahh THe old question of Heredity vs Environment. Don't you know that if the kid looks like you it Heredity, and if the Kidd looks like the Pool Guy,its Environment?
Greenspan, however, argued that the problem has accounted for a large amount of unsolicited e-mail. He estimates that at least 100,000 messages spammers in China sent went through his client's server before he stopped the problem. He added that the issue is causing headaches for Exchange administrators. "It is really inexcusable for a company that claims security is its top priority," he said. Perhaps it instead evidence that it is inexcusable to use some undergrad with a glib delivery line, even if he does go to Harvard, who refuses to take actual responsibility for securely configuring his own servers. I hope all the cleints of this kid read this article, see how he ducks responsibility for his mosconfiguration, and consider whether they want Greenspan's varitey of "Consulting Services"
Failing to end Table Delimiters. leaving out a whackTD leaving out a whackTR Even though it is followed by a new TD or TR. Mozilla leaves a black page. I renders. Sure its sloppy/incorrect but moa and pa web-poster, who just want to it too work, not to have a rasberry blown at them by some self-important dweeb nyah nyah you didn't say it right! For harder pages, where more sensitive stuff is being done strict standards are not really required, any more than a strict grammar check on postings to SlashDot should be required
These guys at least have a plausible argument (although I think an incorrect one) Schneider Electric claimed the rights to the entire idea of embedded web servers, despite not having even implemented *a single thing* when the patent was granted. Their now troll the planet, looking for small elctrnics and sensor companies to beat into submission, settling with anyone who withstandas their multi-lillion-dollar suits to make sure that the patent never actually gets adjdicated. If the future is written w/o a pervasive data fabric of embedded sensors, you can blaim those guys, who make MS and others look like great philanthropists or patent.
was a failure to use ECC in big memory machines in the data center. DOn't know what they use today - no longer relevant to me, but more than several big financial houses found that a Call Phone was enough to cause undetected data errors on their big financial/trading servers. Sun would grudgingly correct, perhaps confess only under NDA, and financial guys, who thought numbers were kind of important, would think about Wintel for the next upgrade. During late 90's Sun did not seem to think this was a structural problem. . .
Well, Bill, let me describe a father's perspecive based upon what multiple teenage girls in the house do with music and downloads. - Become interested in a name/artist style - Download a CD-s worth of random tunes that fits their search - Make copies of that sample CD t for thr gang. Listen for a week - until the girls dcide that one or two artists on the sampler are cool. - All buy the CDs from thiose artists. - Repeat They used to compete to find hot sounds before the radio did. Now its too hard and they don't bother. What has been the effect of tightening up on on-line music in the last two years? My teen-age daughters make fewer sample CDs. They also buy fewer commercial CDs. Without the thrill of getting their first, they listen to less radiop, too. Was this the effect you (and the RMAA) were hoping to aschieve?
And do you also beleive that Air Force one has only standard shielding and ancient avionics?