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~ Microsoft

Microsoft
»Windows BLOGS

Windows 10 IoT Core
a version of Windows 10 targeted towards small, embedded devices
the web-based device management interface discovered to be important with customers
new functionality developed to change the device name, password and the ability to start processes
IoT security goal is to bring Windows’ enterprise grade security to IoT, devices
to come secure boot and bitlocker encryption

Windows 10 IoT Core promoted to be part of the Windows family
offering Universal Windows Platform’s (UWP) rich programming model and language support
Node.js found to be popular for IoT projects,
MS investing to improve the experience on IoT Core with a single installer for all Node.js components,
support for the Node.js ‘Serial’ and ‘Cylon’ robotics framework libraries, and
even a ‘Cylon’ project template for Visual Studio

Windows 10 IoT Core is available through Windows Insider Program
which will also give access to all the Windows Insider releases of Windows, not just IoT Core, and

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~ Ballard Technology

»Ballard Technology
ξ an intuitive, graphical software program
ξ allows to easily monitor, record, replay, analyze, and simulate avionics bus data
ξ you can interact directly with data on multiple buses using Ballard interface hardware or
ξ work with previously recorded data
ξ tools for development, testing, troubleshooting and maintenance of avionics equipment and systems
ξ protocols include MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, ARINC 664/AFDX®, ARINC 708, ARINC 717

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~ Meshfire

»Meshfire
ξ social media management platform powered by artificial intelligence
ξ offers less time managing social media and more time building valuable relationships and communities

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~ Amazon

Amazon's robot army fuels expansion
million-square-foot order-filling warehouse
building the size of 28 football fields
four miles of conveyor belts
15 million items awaiting customer orders from Northern California and beyond
Amazon's 30,000-strong robot army

Seattle-based Amazon has pushed itself to the forefront of the robotics revolution
deploying robots in 15 U.S. fulfillment centers
has leased a fleet of 20 jumbo jets to further speed deliveries
an estimated 54 million Americans have flocked to its two-day-delivery Prime service

machines grow increasingly sophisticated

It's all about efficiency.
It's all about getting the boxes out to customers as quickly as we can.
In a building without robotics it can take hours to fulfill an order.
In this building it can take minutes.
been able to build workforce because the robots have allowed to fulfill more customer demand
It allows to keep growing and growing.

Amazon is actively supporting robotic technology that would eliminate many warehouse jobs.
Amazon's readies for blastoff:
Advances in the past few years in artificial intelligence (AI) and engineering
let robots "see," "hear" and "feel" via lasers, lenses and other sensors.
Machines can be fed data and simulations to "learn" far faster than humans,
"think" via evolving algorithms, and
outperform people in growing areas of reasoning and decision-making.
And machines are becoming increasingly dexterous, using multi-jointed arms and
even robotic hands to transform industrial processes.

Many of those advances spring from Silicon Valley,
where more than 100 robotics firms raked in $1 billion in funding in 2015,
equal to the amount received over the previous five years combined,
according to Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group.

The artificial intelligence and big-data processing behind Google's AlphaGo
which beat the 18-time world champion in the world's hardest board game, Go
have turbo-charged robotics.

Google's self-driving cars further highlight the pace of change:
The project began in 2009 and now the vehicles have driven themselves on more than 1.5 million miles of public road.

Robots reduce the need to walk long distances in the colossal warehouse.

Amazon's workers need to handle fragile items and watch for irregularities.

Robots act as the perfect solution for the confusion, stress, chaos, misconception and misalignment
which were regular in Amazon's fulfillment centers before robotics implementation.
After the robots arrived the company witnessed a drastic decline in customer complaints
regarding wrong/mistaken delivery, delay and damaged product delivery.

Retail e-commerce is expected to grow 13 percent by 2020 from 2015 levels as robotics advances, and
many companies in the sector will add or increase automation for materials handling,
potentially starting to cut warehouse-job recruitment in three years.

In a threat to the firm's web-commerce dominance, the world's biggest retailer, Walmart,
with its 6,000 big-rig trucks, announced it would invest $2 billion in e-commerce and
pilot two-day delivery, putting its service right on the heels of Amazon's expedited one- and two-day delivery.

At Amazon, more sophisticated machines may be coming.
The company held the first "Amazon Picking Challenge,"
attracting 30 robotics companies and research groups battling to deploy the best robots for taking items from shelves and putting them in bins.

Amazon ORder-fulfillment CENTERS
U.S. fulfillment centers: 50
Roboticized fulfillment centers in U.S.: 15
Roboticized fulfillment centers in California: 3
Human workers: 90,000
Robots: 30,000
Fulfillment centers, global: 123

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~ Streambox

»streambox.com

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