PE technology enables temperature and humidity control of … – Globo.com

The Santo Amaro cemetery in Recife, will get new spaces for burial. Glass fiber made from PET bottle resin, the new drawers will also have a monitoring system that controls temperature and humidity, ensuring the safety and sealing the burial site. The agreement between the company responsible for the technology and the Archdiocese of Recife and Olinda was signed on Friday (30).

The resin drawers are mounted on metal structures and has superior durability to 50 years. The finish is made of synthetic granite, made from bagasse, sand and calcium carbonate, which can be made of various colors. Because the system is completely sealed when closed, it gets oxygen through a computer system, which controls temperature, pressure and humidity.

The system is the result of more than eight years of research and already works in the Cemetery Abode of Peace, in São Paulo, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. “The standard of CONAMA, the ordinance 335, says that every cemetery has to be hermetically sealed, free air passage and fluid. Traditional drawers are made of porous materials that trincam and allow the passage of gases, “explains Guilherme Lithing, managing partner of Vilatec, responsible for technology.

With control of the conditions, it can ensure that there is no manure and contamination of soil, and prevent insects from invading the place. Furthermore, the system makes the treatment of the gases released during decomposition which prevents bad smell. All this is monitored through a central mounted to the side.

Currently, the drawers of Santo Amaro cemetery has sewer pipes that are connected to the place of burial. Thus, the gases generated by the decomposition will not run for covers and cracks, out through these tubes. The new system, despite being monitored by computer, has solar battery.

quick construction
In Santo Amaro, the assembly should last about 90 days . The burial will also occur more quickly. “A burial in that system, it takes 10 minutes while the conventional system takes around 55 minutes,” explains Lithing.

The space will be renovated to receive the new drawers for burial monitored belonged to Catholic brotherhoods and for over a year, they are under the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife administration. The aim is to give more dignity and have an ecological solution for burial.

They will be built 232 drawers and a space to accommodate 1,204 ossuaries. “Some of the extinct fellowships were awarded this project so that we will offer a decent space to bury the brothers still attached to these brotherhoods and others,” said the archbishop, Dom Fernando Saburido.

“Technology and mobility are essential for cities,” says … – UOL

Sao Paulo 30 out (EFE) .- “The debate over intelligent use of integrated technologies with urban mobility to define intelligent cities in the world is also the challenge of Brazilian cities, that to achieve this level need as well as infrastructure and investment, more creativity, change of habit and transport systems facilitators of everyday life, “said Efe, the engineer Raul Colcher.

” Urban mobility is one of the most important vectors, especially in large cities, as the displacement of people and charges is a very serious problem in Brazil, “he said.

According to the senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, people take about 1h30 average daily shift, “an assault on quality of life.”

Currently, the average time to shift in nine metropolitan areas in Brazil is 82 minutes, which, converted to hours of work, would represent approximately R $ 300 billion / year, or 7.3% of the GDP, according to the Institute Akatu.

To Colcher an alternative to optimize the functioning of a city, for example, is to integrate information and communication technologies as Big Data, virtual servers, cloud computing to reduce people handling needs in the urban environment.

Thinking about these daily problems, especially involving transport systems, is the entity and Colcher debated for these challenges at Futurecom, which ended on Thursday in Sao Paulo.

According to Colcher, information and communication technologies, integrated applications and systems are ways to improve “security, performance in shifts and reduce investment massive. “

For him, the bike path is a global alternative, but need to have an integrated program to promote the action and the cultural habit of using bicycles on short and medium distances, which can be supported with use applications for rental of means of transport.

“Cities need to become more friendly with accurate information about public transport, for example, in addition to priority be pedestrian,” he said.

According to the engineer, information technology solutions are relevant, but alone do not solve the problem and that in every city there are regional needs that will serve to adapt and create their own solutions.

“A smart city is one that contributes to the well being of citizens and to use technology resources to promote this environment, good urban mobility, sustainability, resources, feel good about living in the city,” he reiterated Efe.

The connectivity and access to online network in urban areas are “essential elements” to provide traffic information, and connect the user with basic control centers for urban management, according Colcher.

Tools that can help in the issue mobility are associated with the phenomenon of the internet of things – when the most common objects can be connected to the internet and being aid of tools on a daily basis -., which represents a transformation of traditional user experiences-citizen

Colcher highlights the use of georeferenced urban traffic real-time visualization to facilitate the person’s decision to go, change path, and become “more efficient planning and infrastructure asset management, services, security . public, real estate and urban planning in general “

The engineer also cited apps like Waze, by which users collaborate and use real-time information on traffic; signaling equipment at bus stops or stations, and / or apps to inform the waiting time until the next vehicle in addition to intelligent systems for the collection of passages.

He adds that there is need of intelligent cities be adapted for people with physical needs to encourage the use of comfortably transport systems.

According to Colcher, the challenge is great, but the IT solutions can also provide opportunities for reduction expenditure of energy and environmental impacts generated by the emission of pollutants and fuel, which helps improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of these “cities of the future.”

“Technology and mobility are essential for cities,” says … – UOL

Sao Paulo 30 out (EFE) .- “The debate over intelligent use of integrated technologies with urban mobility to define intelligent cities in the world is also the challenge of Brazilian cities, that to achieve this level need as well as infrastructure and investment, more creativity, change of habit and transport systems facilitators of everyday life, “said Efe, the engineer Raul Colcher.

” Urban mobility is one of the most important vectors, especially in large cities, as the displacement of people and charges is a very serious problem in Brazil, “he said.

According to the senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, people take about 1h30 average daily shift, “an assault on quality of life.”

Currently, the average time to shift in nine metropolitan areas in Brazil is 82 minutes, which, converted to hours of work, would represent approximately R $ 300 billion / year, or 7.3% of the GDP, according to the Institute Akatu.

To Colcher an alternative to optimize the functioning of a city, for example, is to integrate information and communication technologies as Big Data, virtual servers, cloud computing to reduce people handling needs in the urban environment.

Thinking about these daily problems, especially involving transport systems, is the entity and Colcher debated for these challenges at Futurecom, which ended on Thursday in Sao Paulo.

According to Colcher, information and communication technologies, integrated applications and systems are ways to improve “security, performance in shifts and reduce investment massive. “

For him, the bike path is a global alternative, but need to have an integrated program to promote the action and the cultural habit of using bicycles on short and medium distances, which can be supported with use applications for rental of means of transport.

“Cities need to become more friendly with accurate information about public transport, for example, in addition to priority be pedestrian,” he said.

According to the engineer, information technology solutions are relevant, but alone do not solve the problem and that in every city there are regional needs that will serve to adapt and create their own solutions.

“A smart city is one that contributes to the well being of citizens and to use technology resources to promote this environment, good urban mobility, sustainability, resources, feel good about living in the city,” he reiterated Efe.

The connectivity and access to online network in urban areas are “essential elements” to provide traffic information, and connect the user with basic control centers for urban management, according Colcher.

Tools that can help in the issue mobility are associated with the phenomenon of the internet of things – when the most common objects can be connected to the internet and being aid of tools on a daily basis -., which represents a transformation of traditional user experiences-citizen

Colcher highlights the use of georeferenced urban traffic real-time visualization to facilitate the person’s decision to go, change path, and become “more efficient planning and infrastructure asset management, services, security . public, real estate and urban planning in general “

The engineer also cited apps like Waze, by which users collaborate and use real-time information on traffic; signaling equipment at bus stops or stations, and / or apps to inform the waiting time until the next vehicle in addition to intelligent systems for the collection of passages.

He adds that there is need of intelligent cities be adapted for people with physical needs to encourage the use of comfortably transport systems.

According to Colcher, the challenge is great, but the IT solutions can also provide opportunities for reduction expenditure of energy and environmental impacts generated by the emission of pollutants and fuel, which helps improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of these “cities of the future.”

MasterCard technology replaces physical cards for mobile … – Bitmag

According to MasterCard , the tool will revolutionize the means of payment aware , causing the consumer need carry only your phone to go shopping, eliminating the physical card

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MIT creates technology that allows people to see through walls – Pplware

The fear of invasion of private data is growing. The feeling “I have nothing to hide” is pure utopia, because no one likes to see their life exposed in public.

Now imagine what will live with the technology to identify people even being among walls inside a house? MIT already have this technology!

RF-Capture “see” through the wall of your home

If all goes to plan, the MIT will release a product to be marketed as early as 2016 that, through walls, captures the waves reflections of the human body to play your way. The technology allows even distinguish two side by side, and note that these move.

Now it starts to get uncomfortable, right? Well, imagine that you are someone outside of your home and know what you’re doing in-house, you know where it is, how many people are indoors and where these people are, all without sensors or camera in his comfortable.

Where you can use the RF-Capture?

Researchers from MIT, specifically a team from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, have a wide range of possible scenarios for apply this technology. In day-to-day can be used to apply to the games segment , security, emergency medical aid to other more technology and even film set.

In the case of cinema, present the movies industry to capture the movement of the players have to wear these markers and move in a room full of cameras. With a new RF-Capture device, the actors could be traced even if they were behind a wall.

In a smart home, the systems could adjust the heating, lighting and other housing characteristics based on within doors in the position where people could follow because the through walls. With regard to health and well-being, with this system, engaging an emergency line, the means of relief could be triggered when a person fell or was unconscious, prompting the family, inclusive.

There are many scenarios but researchers have already put this operation in technology, created for this purpose a spinoff and launched a product. The Emerald is a system that is designed to detect, predict and prevent falls among the elderly. This innovative idea and its highly technological system were presented last August to US President Barack Obama during the Demo Day, an innovation forum hosted at the White House.

How the RF- system works Capture?

The RF-capture system emits a low-power radio signal that passes through walls and surrounds the body on the other side. The reflections are captured by a device that combines information from multiple reflected signals, putting it all together in one piece, this piece that builds a person’s silhouette.

Of course it can look more sinister technology that something useful. Of course it can be used by criminals who may determine whether someone is inside a housing choosing the best time for assault, of course can be used by the police to find out if certain elements that are in place are in places that do not can or should not … but this is all part of the development, where there are still many “ifs”.

Security is certainly a “thorn in the side” of this technology

researchers themselves are concerned that this technology could fall into the wrong hands and that are also developing blockers that will prevent the system tracks people if they do not, can only be to their own devices. Another aspect that has to be worked is the regulation itself, should be well defined when it can be used the mechanism keeping always well explains the law of privacy.

The persons responsible for the project indicate that the RF-Capture system still has a year to develop but that will come to market before the end of 2016.

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Cai share of producer who wants to invest in technology, says Fiesp – Globo.com

The quarterly survey Agribusiness Confidence Index, measured by the Federation of São Paulo State Industries (FIESP) and the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB), showed on Thursday (29) fall in the share . of agricultural and agricultural producers intending to invest in technology

Among the farmers, the percentage dropped from 68% in the first quarter of 2015 to 52% in the last quarter; considering the agricultural producers, the fall was 73% in the first three months of the year to 66% in the third quarter.

According to the survey, only 14% of farmers have shown willingness to expand investment in the acquisition and modernization of machinery and equipment, stable results in the first quarter 2015.

Of these, 41% say they will direct resources for the purchase of tractors, against 47% recorded from January to March. The portion of farmers who plan to invest in precision agriculture grew from 5% to 11% between the 1st and 3rd quarter 2015.

It has also increased the proportion of farmers who plan to apply more resources in qualifying personnel, from 21% to 26%. The main focus of the respondents, according to the survey, is to improve the training and management of staff training, followed by technical training of machine and equipment operators.

There was no change between the first and third quarter of this year in the proportion of farmers intending to invest in infrastructure (13%).

Technology fair brings together Brazil and abroad research in southern … – Globo.com

Students and technology lovers meet until Friday (30) in Santa Rita do Sapucai (MG). The meeting of the reason is the 34th edition of the Technology Fair Inatel (Fetin), which this year highlights 85 research projects focusing on quality of life. The opening ceremony took place on the afternoon of Wednesday (28). Among the highlights, the exchange of knowledge promoted among the exhibitors.

The German Frederik Sommerfeld traveled to the South of Minas Gerais with Professor Jens Werner just to participate in the fair. He worked for months on a free software project, a computer program that can be used for free, able to replace the traditional radio communication. “We use a modulation scheme, which requires no radio” he said.

But the Bolivian Mauricio Marcelo Peredo Claros bet on a robot that can be operated only by the gesture recognition to be in contact researched other Electronics Engineering area. “My project is to control a robotic arm via a camera that captures the movement of my arms,” ​​shows.

experience exchange and knowledge
Sommerfeld knew the fair through the teacher, the Jade University in Germany. Clear student at Univalle, Bolivia, and had a friend who was at the fair in 2014. Both, like the other 22 students foreign participants of the meeting, took an interest in exposing projects as an opportunity to exchange experiences.

“We expose here and we exchange culture, other languages, other knowledge,” says Claros. To Sommerfeld, it is a great opportunity. “You know other cultures and people with whom you can work in the future,” predicts the German.

At the fair
The visit at the fair is free. And who goes through the stands is not only a chance to check the direction they are taking the studies in technology. Much of what is there, presented by students, can become the new sensation of the market in the coming years.

“Inside the Fetin, there are projects that are already hatched,” says Professor Wanderson Saldanha, coordinator event. “There are already existing companies within the institution and must follow the path of several others that were on the market. Our focus is the professional development of it, but we see in the projects, rather than a market issue, the focus is on being human, improving quality of life, “he says.

Prostheses, systems that assist in the rehabilitation of physical therapy patients, better use of water resources, energy efficiency. Among the projects developed voluntarily since February for about 300 students for applications and multiple-use equipment.

Making Life Easier
The Neuro Carpet Test can facilitate the diagnosis of a type of dementia that treated may be reversible. The Fisioglove is a glove with electrodes that helps in electrotherapy sessions. These are some of the local projects which now form part of the knowledge exported by Brazil.

“Today the technology is global. You will hardly find a type of technology that is restricted to a part of the world. But the we just spreading is a different way of thinking to solve the same problem, “explains the coordinator of the Center for Internships and Professional Services Inatel, Bruno de Oliveira Monteiro.

The Fetin continues on Thursday (29 ) at the headquarters of Inatel, from 15h to 22h. On Friday, the meeting will from 15h to 21h.

MIT develops technology to “see” people through walls – the Minute News (press release)

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An MIT research group has developed software that allows recognizing people through walls , a possibility that arises through the Wi-Fi signal variations.

According to Gizmodo the software had to right to its own device, the RF-Capture, which transmits wireless signals and analyzes the reflections these same signs to recognize human silhouettes.

The project is old but at this point it is already able to recognize subtle differences, body types with 90% accuracy. Above you see a video with this software running

MIT scientists develop technology that lets you “see” behind … – Techworld

RF Capture Technology uses radio frequencies to see people on the other side of the wall. Solution could be applied in film and computer graphics

Researchers at the Computer Science Laboratory and MIT Artificial Intelligence are working on a technology called RF Capture, which uses radio frequencies to see people on the other side of the wall.

The team behind the RF Capture has been working on a similar technology since 2013. They used to track subtle movements of human bodies behind walls, like breathing, but the new system is already able to see details further refined.

In fact, the RF Capture is so precise that it can identify individuals within certain limits, tracking small hand gestures and even see silhouettes of people on the other side of the wall.

The PhD student Fadel Adib is the lead author of the study describing the technology that will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia Computing Conference next month. He indicated that the technology could be applied in the film and video game industry.

“Today actors need to use markers on their bodies and move in a specific room full of cameras,” said MIT by means of a notice.

“The RF Capture allow motion capture without the sensors and could even track movements behind furniture and walls,” he added.

Other than that, the team has already begun work on a product that uses the RF Capture to help predict and prevent falls for older people. Called the Emerald, the system is designed to identify patterns of movements like falling and analyze your trigger to find out whether or not there is an imminent risk of falling

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Students put their hands dirty technology in dispute … – Globo.com

For many students, one of the most anticipated activities of the year is the intercourse (or interclass) in order to demonstrate their sports skills. In Toledo University Center, located in Furquim Park in Presidente Prudente, this week is a robotic intercourse, called “Robogame”. In this case, the sport is to wage a battle between robots and catapults, as it comes out winning the one that wins more points. Students of the second term of Information and Production Engineering Systems courses are in the duel.

“Robogame” is in its third edition and the novelty this year is the entrance to the course of Production Engineering in contention . Before, only the course of Information Systems participated. Students Information Systems developed four robots Arduino and Production Engineering four catapults. According to the robotics project coordinator, Raphael Garcia, the battle is a contest of the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age.

Teachers of the two courses form the jury, which will record the dots and define the winner. To score, each team must burst balloons that are scattered across the battlefield, but mainly bladders that form the basis of catapults and also about robots. To burst these balloons, and get more points than the others in the field, the competitor “destroy” his opponent, leaving the enemy team with one member less.

The winning team will be awarded a trophy (made by the students themselves) and medals. In addition, each student won notes during the development of robots and catapults in their respective courses in the disciplines integrated into the project.

The field where there is this dispute is five meters long and was set up in area coexistence of the University Center.

The theory in practice
Raphael Garcia also explains how robots work. “The members of the Information Systems team control their robots by their own mobile phones, using Bluetooth technology. It’s cool they could have that practical application of all the theory learned in the classroom, it expands the line of thought and the ability of students” says Garcia.

One of the students participating in the contest defending team of Information Systems, Rodrigo Lima says that the novelty is adding a lot of knowledge to students. “Even though simple, is something different. In the future, Robots will do many things everyday and have an initial contact with this type of technology arouses our interest to create and launch things involving robots, “says Lima.

But the coordinator of the Production Engineering, Carlos Eduardo Turin, says the education system through dynamic and practical work has become common for the results obtained. “It is a dynamic, is a joke, but always remembering the application of what they learned in the classroom. Make them put their hands dirty makes them feel engineers right now, “points Turin.

The student of Industrial Engineering Maria Eduarda Chrysostom affirms the importance of teamwork. “In addition to learning the application of materials with a lot of theory, like physics and mechanics, can enhance teamwork,” he says.

The event, which began on Monday (26), is free and open to the public. On Tuesday (27), when it ends, the “Robogame” takes place from 20.30, in the living area of ​​Toledo University Center in Presidente Prudente.

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How to transform technology into an ally – MODERN LOGISTICS

Fernando Lopes, CEO Abacus Consultants

27 October 2015

In a world working increasingly with new technologies, the faster the change, the technology should be regarded as . ally and not as an adversary

What will I write applies to various business sectors: industry, retail, services in general. It applies to people but especially to businesses. Applies in Portugal because we are already lagging behind Europe, Japan, India and the United States. Applies internal processes but also, and above all, the processes that connect customers, suppliers and other partners.

But if there is a sector in which it applies in a structural way, is the logistics management industry . Because it is one sector in which it is easier to transform technology and information into concrete results, numbers that lower costs dramatically increase the speed and quality of information generated and help increase business competitiveness.
When it comes to competitiveness, frightens us because it reminds us the buzzword often quoted by politicians who usually make only an idea of ​​what they are talking about. It is fashionable and their advisers so instruct them.
I write here about the true meaning of “competitiveness”. To a Portuguese company of the Transport and Logistics Management sector, for example, it means “survival.” And after surviving the next step is to grow and eventually dominate.
But how does a Portuguese company in this sector is in a state of enormous difficulties to a dominant position? The answer is not written in a few lines and there are no immediate answers, but we can discuss some variables that are fundamental.
First, each company that wants to go through this process has to be known accurately and deeply, and make a introspection of what is and where it is, and what it wants to be and where you want to reach. Can again use buzzwords to define: SWOT, design thinking, analysis AS-IS and TO-BE, you name it. You can choose to do so internally or with the support of an external consultant. May want to just involve the Directors or all members of the company. Read a book by a management guru or try to find new ways. There are no magic formulas or unique processes.
But it has to be done. And part of the “Know thyself” has to be sustained in the real and effective numbers of current business. Read “rigorous information systems”.
Second, the company needs to define, to get where you want the paths to get there. Like when we established a route, there are several alternative ways: will the highway, saving time but increasing the cost of tolls, or rather go by national roads? And just remember the following: 10 years ago this decision was made looking at the map. Today, we view the GPS. An information system is like a GPS, as a source, a map and a destination, suggests a route. It may not be the best because our expectations or priorities are different, but the suggested route has enormous merit, is concise, reliable, safe. Unless you use a GPS for 5 years. Modernize your GPS! Therefore modernize their systems.
Third, the business needs of the organization. For organizational read “Processes”. A company can only be reliable, then conceivably be consistently profitable, have quality (good products and good services) consistently, when there are processes. No need to complicate too much, the process can be a checklist to go when it makes a proposal or a visual check when making a discharge of a consignment. But there needs to be, so that consistency is a key word in your new company. Nothing better to put a company to operate on processes rather than impose (and even that word is “imposing”) an information system that requires the whole company to work according to the processes that the company defines. And attention, the process must be criticized and regularly adjusted. But they must exist.
Room, Planning and Controlling. That serves everything else is not set goals (five-year, annual, quarterly, monthly, daily, no matter!), And if not check if these goals are achieved. We should be partially satisfied when we set goals that failed. It means that we define and that we measure and we were ambitious enough to set difficult goals to reach (or else incompetent to achieve them). But either way, know it. We measure. We can rethink. We can try to understand where we fail, correct. Even if it fails again. But as we set goals and measure? Please do not talk to me about Excel. Excel is the easiest way to create chaos because we think we are tracking the events and it really does not. Once again a concise information system is needed.
One of the great mistakes of Portuguese managers, especially the second and third generation, is to believe that the repetition of the same processes and ways of working will succeed forever. And it’s the easiest mistake to make. What may have been a great deal in the past with huge margins, allowing tremendous growth and disguising errors and inefficiencies, will surely leave one day of work. We all know that companies have ways to work unbelievably bad and we wonder “how this company has profits of these and this success in the market?”. This one day will end, and the company has no way to measure it, will not even notice what happened to him. Suddenly goes through a “bad cycle” begins to fall into the trap of bank financing and others (poor vendors also will not realize what happened to them, then that company has always been as solid and as good payer, people so serious …) and suddenly has a PER. A victorious cycle 20, 40 or 60 years ends ingloriously.
Realizing, whatever the way decides to organize your business, whatever your strategy, whatever its economic strength and the strength of its brand, can not be consistently good if you do not (I) deep knowledge of their business, (II) defined strategy, even if it is wrong, (III) and processes (IV) Planning and Control.
As consultant information system, I believe, of course, that companies base their business on best practices supported in better information systems (Sections I, III and IV) and who have the right strategy (Section II), they can achieve I wrote the first paragraphs. And I repeat: in logistics management sector, whether the providers (shipping companies, logistics operation) as manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers (generally, companies that need to know when to buy to store and find the right balance between storage costs and the cost of losing customers by failing to stocks), the return of every Euro invested in information systems have an immediate return, tangible and measurable. It is not a cost but an investment equivalent to the best equipment and best people available. An investment with a return, with meaning, scalable and multipliable.
In addition to reading and focused when it comes to buying and storage-transportation-sales logistics industry, I recommend the study which you can download on the link “Trends and Strategies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management “. Good reading!

5 Brazilian technologies that transform agribusiness – EXAME.com

São Paulo – EXAM Forum Agribusiness, which took place on Monday (26) in São Paulo, had focused on the development of technology in the agribusiness . The speakers spoke of using drones , cloud computing and biotechnology to increase productivity.

“The avenue of technology and bioefficacy will still grow a lot in Brazil. The enormity of data, computing power and 24-hour monitoring will help increase production, “said Roger Ingold, chairman of Accenture, a consulting firm in management and technology services.

Paul Herrmann, president of John Deere Brazil, shares the same point of Ingold. He said biotechnology for agribusiness advanced significantly and companies are not exploiting the full potential of what already exists.

“We should not do technology for technology. We need to manage what we have to increase agricultural production, “adds Herrmann.

But what are these technologies? Who answered that question during the event were startup Brazilian offering products and services that facilitate the work of farmers and agribusiness owners.

Meat Tracking

One of the startups that presented in EXAM Forum was the Safe Trace. With the motto “from pasture to plate”, the company created a meat tracking application.

The accompanying product is made from the identification of cattle on the farm, when he receives an electronic tag. After that, when the animal reaches seven months, a chip is placed on it. Thus, the genetic background, toilet and handling of animals is stored and updated by a software .

After the reduction, the beef to get a company stamp and bar code. “With the seal of the Safe Trace and the code, the consumer has full access to the process by which the meat has gone,” said Vasco Picchi, founding partner of Safe Trace.

According Picchi, the advantage of using the software is that production becomes more efficient and the client feels safer.

Friendly Tablet

Another startup that has developed an application for agribusiness is the Strider. The product offered by the company is basically an tablet with a program that can be used offline. With it, the producer can handle pest control applications and monitor fertility and moisture indicators.

“We want to be the missing piece in the agribusiness ecosystem, which is the information technology,” said Luiz Tangari , founder and president of Strider

According Tangari, there are four factors that make technology a major undertaking:. it is cheap and focused on second-generation farmers. “Our applications are meant for the children of farmers, who are the owners of farms in the future. Therefore, our platform is friendly and like WhatsApp and Facebook. “

Drones against pests

The tracking agricultural areas is the focus of XMobots, a startup specializing in development, manufacturing and drone operations. According to Giovani Amianti, founder and president of the company, the focus of XMobots is in precision agriculture.

“With our products, the farmer can learn more about the topography of their land lines planting and also detect pests and make the cattle count, “he said. He also says that it is possible to control deforestation in protected areas.

Vehicles in XMobots already have certified by ANAC and provide their services to agronomy companies and large cooperatives. “Our idea is to internationalize the company and go public in 2016 or 2017,” he added Amianti.

Biological agents

The BUG bet in the biotechnology market to help in the development of agribusiness Brazilian. The company was established in 2001 and produces agents such as wasps, eggs and parasitoids for biological pest control.

According to Alexandre Pinto, a partner at BUG, ​​biological control is advantageous for companies, for It aims to sustainability . With the use of agents, the farmer does not need to use insecticides, which reduces the chances of the ecosystem pollution and poisoning of employees.

The wasps and other pests are created in the startup labs. But they are also introduced wild insects in creation, so that the genetic variability increases.

Online Platform

The Osalim is a site for doing business in the agricultural sector. From the platform, farmers and customers promote the purchase and sale of consumer grains, seeds and agricultural inputs.

According to Antonio Carlos Bentin, founding partner of Osalim, negotiations and business transactions made through the site They are quick and secure. So far, four companies using the online platform.

His © cia can be the first administrative district to end notes and coins – Daily News – Lisbon (press release) (Registration) (Blog)

Mobile App revolutionized payments in Sweden, which has been among the first to implement technological developments

Smartphones are revolutionizing society and now they are contributing to that Sweden is likely to become the first country where banknotes and coins will cease to exist. The increase in payments through an application on the phone is influencing the decrease in “live” circulation of money and being the Swedes a people clearly adept new technologies, by 2030 or 2040 is possible that payments or other operations are all done electronically.

Niklas Arvidsson, the Royal Institute investigator of Technology in Stockholm, pointed out, quoted by The Independent that the use of banknotes and coins in Sweden “is rapidly decreasing.” This Nordic country was among the first to install ATMs, implementing card payments … and in the meantime has started to withdraw cash machines. Arvidsson himself says that Sweden has a “tradition to give a warm welcome to electronic payments.

The application Swish call (similar to MB Way recently created by SIBS in Portugal) is responsible for revolutionizing payments via smartphone. This form of pay will help fight organized crime, tax evasion and also robberies.

However, Arvidsson warned of the need to consider that not everyone has a smartphone, so It is necessary to maintain active forms of alternative payment. Still, points out that the younger generations grow already educated for new systems, while the use of notes and coins remains among the older population.

Another issue is that of privacy. Arvidsson said that the possibility of a government to control the electronic movement of money can cause problems if it is found abuse by, for example, “corrupt regimes”.

Although probably only in 15 or 25 years there is no “live” money in circulation, still in Sweden the banknotes and coins will be virtually out of circulation within a decade.

Centec offer free workshops on technology in Fortaleza – Globo.com

The Institute of Technology of Ceará Education Center (Centec) offer from this Tuesday (27) to Thursday (29) a series of workshops, panels and exhibitions free in the Legislative Assembly of Ceará. The actions are part of the National Week programming Science and Technology (SNCT 2015) and its science communication issues, environmental education, entrepreneurship in science, sustainability, building drones and Arduino applications, among others.

Among the prominent workshops are “Knowing the Arduino”, “Building drones” and “adobe brick with Making use of the aquatic macrophyte Eichhornia crassipes”, the latter taught by Professor Koch Jeanete. According to the professor, the ecological bricks are a mixture of water, clay and a common seaweed in Ceara dams. Entries can be made at the event.

Also according to the Centec, the program will also part of InfoBrasil 2015 information technology event sponsored by the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Secitece ) and the Legislative Assembly. Technical education students from Beberibe, Juazeiro, Maracanaú and São Gonçalo do Amarante also present in stands where will expose projects developed in units

Check the schedule:.
October 27th
STAND – Exposure Sustainable House (CENTEC / Fatec Cariri)
STAND – Adobe bricks with macrophyte (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
STAND – Biology Experiments (CENTEC / CVT Maranguape)
ROOM – Workshop adobe brick with Making use of macrophyte aguática Eichornia crassipes. (14h to 15h) Prof. Janet Koch. (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
ROOM – Recoveries Workshop of degraded areas. (15h to 16h) Prof. . Dr. Denise Ursuline (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
ROOM – Workshop Climate Change (16h to 17h) Prof. . Dr. Edenise Puerari (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)

October 28th
STAND – Exposure Sustainable House (CENTEC / Fatec Cariri)
STAND – Presentation cultural musicalizando with biology (CENTEC / CVT Beberibe)
STAND – Math Experiments (CENTEC / CVT Beberibe)
AUDITORIUM – Panel on Science Communication (9am)
Panelists: Prof. Marcus Vale (Seara of Science), Prof. Hugo Fernandes (Channel Zoa), Flaminio Araripe (Journalist). Mediation: Giselle Soares (Unicamp)
ROOM – Workshop “Knowing the Arduino.” (14h to 15h) Prof. Ailton Achievement (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
ROOM – Workshop “Building drones” (15h to 16h) Prof. Ailton Achievement (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
ROOM – Workshop Embedded systems in automation: sustainability and water saving (16h to 17h). Prof. Sebastian Erailson (CENTEC / Fatec Cariri)

October 29th
STAND – Exposure Sustainable House (CENTEC / Fatec Cariri)
STAND – Biology Experiments ( CENTEC / CVT Maranguape)
STAND – educational games in environmental education (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
AUDITORIUM – Panel on Science and Entrepreneurship (9am)
Panelists: Andrew Smith (Piscis), Roberto Caracas (Bioclone), Roberto Campos (Autoterm). Mediation: Sueli Vasconcelos (CENTEC / INTECE)
ROOM – Workshop Environmental education in schools (CVTEC São Gonçalo) (14h to 15h) Prof. Solange Lopes Nogueira (CENTEC / CVTEC São Gonçalo)
ROOM – Workshop Entrepreneurship and ideation. Sueli Vasconcelos (CENTEC / INTECE) (15h to 17h).

MU-MIMO – Your router already supports this technology? – Pplware

The technologies associated with wireless communications (wireless) have evolved significantly in recent years. The constant width needs, mobility and stability are becoming more and in that sense, you need the best technologies associated … especially because the frequency range is “tight” and is increasingly saturated, given the number of devices communicating in frequencies of 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz.

One of the latest technologies adopted in wireless routers is the MU-MIMO! You know what it is?

Three times faster the previous standard N and greater energy efficiency and robust security, 802.11ac is the perfect way to accelerate a multimedia home network and solve the congestion caused by various network-connected devices. But this is if we are talking about the standard 802.11ac Wave 1. And if we talk in 802.11ac Wave 2, which supports speeds up to 3.6 Gbps?

For those not on top of wireless technologies certainly MU-MIMO It means very little. However, this new technology promises to revolutionize the world of wireless communications

What the hell is the MU MIMO?

Before we talk about the MU-MIMO is necessary to understand how it works now a wireless router. Wireless routers, probably what we have at home, are devices that well fulfill their function to send and receive data … but only in one direction! In other words, routers that do not support MIMO technology just can “communicate” with a given device in a given time. That is, if my PC is receiving content via streaming (which pass through the router), the router does not have the ability to spread other streaming to other equipment! (eg. In the PC the user is watching a series on Netflix while the smartphone user is viewing videos on Youtube).

Stop! After explaining everything now seems more confused, because I have several devices connected to the wireless network and no “complains” … you can see it all! Yes, it is true, however, the “trick” used for older routers is the speed of distribution of such information to each device. Although at times the transmission “empancar” everything is transparent to the end user.

In short, older routers can only “pay attention” to a single machine in a given time period. But with the MU-MIMO everything changes!

MU-MIMO (multiuser, multiple input, multiple output) is a standard that is based on the SU-MIMO (Single MIMO) and SDMA (Space Division Multiple Access). With MU-MIMO router can maintain simultaneously up to 4 connections with equipment which significantly improves the performance of the entire network.

SU-MIMO vs MU-MIMO

As we can see in the following image, using the SU-MIMO streams of communication are maintained with only one device at any time. However, with the MU-MIMO router can communicate simultaneously over a given period of time with more than one device. It is like a competitive communication!

What routers support the MU-MIMO technology?

At present, there are still many home routers that support this technology. The Pplware already made known some of which stand out the Asus RT-AC87U and the TP-LINK Archer C2600.