From the perspective of a computer scientist, a city is also an information-processing entity. And so when IT talks about “smart cities” they usually talk about a system of many data sources and actuators distributed in the city, and the infrastructure to use them meaningfully. Data sources are things like a sensor temperature sensor, or …
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Smart City – one term, many concepts
The term “smart city” is en vogue. Every city that is proud of itself would like to be like a city smart. But most citizen con not connect a clear idea with this term. Sure, there are definitions of the term. Just for new terms it is crucially how they are used. Where there is …
Third price at the Speedup Europe Bootcamp!
Third price at the Speedup Europe Bootcamp! The task was to develop and present a business idea, which utilizes the cloud based services of FIWARE. Our team demonstrated how to improve quality assurance for offshore wind power plants. FIWARE is sponsored by the European Union.
How does the NFC-Hunt App from Google works?
Google organized a kind of scavenger hunt for the developers conference IO 2013 to demonstrate the practical use of NFC. Participants needed an NFC-enabled Android and then installed an app called “NFC Hunt”. The app gives clues where to find specific NFC tags in the real world. The user has to find and scan these …
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Reversed sound volume controls
Sometimes when I want to adjust the volume on my electronic devices, I push the loud button instead of on the quiet button. Why do I get confused? Let’s look at the assignment of the volume buttons to the volume control for a Android tablet nexus 7, second version: When I press the left button, …
Video about Handylearn Counter
Just created a new video and uploaded it to YouTube, it shows the Android port of Handylearn Counter. I especially like how the pie chart dynamically changes with presses of the buttons. The original J2ME version has now six-digit download numbers and is particularly popular in India, Mexico and Argentina. The android version let you …
New features for enterprise users of Android
Google announced new features for Android specifically aimed at improving the usage in companies. The next version of Android-L Android 5 will contain these improvements. When employees access corporate data with the smartphone, you want a strict separation of corporate data from private data and a foreclosure of privately used services. Even if you trust …
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Android in the Enterprise
Two lectures at Droidcon Companies with mobile workers can optimize their business processes with mobile devices. At the conference droidcon 2014 in Berlin, I was able to listen to a practice report and a manufacturer lecture. Android devices have been designed by Google as personal devices. So they offer a wide range of entertainment and …
CoObeya
CoObeya is a network of experts for innovations. I am a member, and now our website is online. The Co stands for Co-Operation, Co-Laboration, Co-Creation, Obeya is a culture of innovation used in the Japanese high-tech industry, where the development of new products happens in a large room and intersects departments and even company borders.
Speed up the Android Emulator
Intel provides a software package to significantly speed up the Android emulator on processors with Hyper-V: the Intel® Hardware Eccelerated Execution Manager (HAXM).