HVAC:
“THE
BRILLIANT AIR VENTS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED”
The following article discusses smart vents, and how it’s
related to energy efficiency. In addition, increasing HVAC efficiency through
controlling airflow of a room or zone based on occupancy. The control of
airflow is based on closing vents when a room is unoccupied to achieve overall efficiency
in terms of energy and HVAC systems.
Smart Vents are great for office use as well as home owners,
where smart vents can be programmed based on known occupancies and manually adjusted
when needed through a Keen mobile app. In addition, the keen mobile app allows thermostat
adjustment and adjustment of room temperature individually. The feature of
manual adjustment makes it convenient for a homeowner as a home doesn’t have
fixed hours of occupancy as an office. According to the article, studies show
that the use of smart vents reduces the run time with an average of 22%, while
the control of air vents based on occupancy “can make a 3,500-square-foot
home as efficient as a 2,000-square-foot home.”
SENSOR:
“Sense”
The following is a website for a sensor called “Sense” which
is installed in electric panels of homes to monitor energy consumption and
provides real time monitoring. The great advantage of such a technology is allowing
a homeowner to understand what electric appliance within a home has the highest
energy consumption and what are the amount of energy consumption for each
appliance. Also, the sensor may be used to provide notifications for electric
appliances, such as when a garage door is being open which makes it convenient
for a homeowner to track their home activity while their being away or know
when the kids have safely reached home as the company advertises its product.
AI:
“Robot
automation will 'take 800 million jobs by 2030' – report”
The following is an article which discusses how robot
automation will occupy up to 800 occupations for 46 countries around the world
leading to job loss of 800 million jobs around the world by 2030. According to
the article, the study of 46 countries and 800 occupations shows that jobs or professions
that require human interaction are less prone to automation, “such as doctors,
lawyers, teachers, bartenders, gardening, plumbing and care work”.
Despite the fact that robot automation may be a threat to 800 occupations,
according to the article it will produce new types of jobs just as the world
saw transition and new jobs produced when “the global industry has switched
from farming to factory work”.
The article also includes a hyperlink for “Will a robot take
your Job”, which provides an insight of how likely the profession you have entered
as your job will be prone to automation. So according to this a Civil Engineering
is quite unlikely to be replaced with automation, and compared to other jobs it
is the 337th of 366 jobs to face automation risk.
DATABASE:
“kohezion”
Kohezion is an online database software which allows sorting
data and creating applications with out requiring coding. After review kohezion
I would say it is similar to google drive in terms of its idea, where online
editing can be made just as a google docs.
“Access 2016: Basic Database Introduction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8pZwu7NTO4
The following
video provides an introduction of what is Microsoft Access 2016. As some of us
know or may not know, Access is a database, where a database is a software
program where one can organize and store data.
FUTURE:
“GM Says Car With No
Steering Wheel Or Pedals Ready For Streets In 2019”
The following article discusses self-drive cars that will
have “no steering wheel, pedals, or any other manual controls” should be available
on market by 2019. According to the article General Motors is trying to have
some laws waived as they are responsible for programing the car to comply with
federal laws, and they would like to have some laws waived such as air bags as
they are not required since there are no drivers driving the car. Self-drive drive
cars are still being tested, but according to the article some have become
available in parts of phoenix and are produced by Waymo.
The future
now relates to vast amounts of improved technology, which focusses on achieving
and producing within shorter and shorter spans of time because “Time is Money”.
Therefore I believe everything we use nowadays will furthermore be computerized,
such as the books we once read on paper have become PDFs, the vents that were
once manual have become automated and equipped with sensors, the cars that are
human operate will operated through being programmed, and artificial intelligence
which is used to make robots and machines replace humans, but nothing can
totally replace humans.
Comments:
Zac Arnold
“The Robots are Coming and Sweden is Fine” article is
interesting because it’s scary to know how automations such as robots are not
only being created to replace jobs and achieve time efficiency for production,
but to function as spies and weapons for military, which makes one think how it
can be harmful more than useful even though it may produce new types of jobs
just as it will be ending many.
I have to agree the title “Busting the Myths about A.I. Invading Our
Lives.” is attracting, because the idea of having robot replacing us is
scary and as you mentioned reading such an article is refreshing, because it
leaves me wondering what would happen if automation would take over within the
next few years when there is already a high percentage of people who didn’t
have their education go beyond high school and their skills are dependent of
the jobs they want to replace first such as call centers, retail stocking, etc.
Sarah Hollis
In terms of the 3D printing
prediction of structures, I believe it would take some time to be achieved
properly, because so far all the 3D printers for building are designed to build
stuff with a small scale and even though I agree with you about how over the past
30 years buildings have changed dramatically, I think this would take some time
to replace labors, while I believe it would be easy to use 3D printer in spaces
that doesn’t have other buildings closely occupying as these machines will
require space to work. So, the challenges that will come with 3D printing for
building will be more than having it take over soon.
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