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A passenger on the Front Range Express commuter bus traveling from Colorado Springs to Denver, Colo., connects to a Wi-Fi network inside the bus, allowing him to access the Internet and check e-mails while on his way to work. Wireless
ExpressWi-Fi gives commuters free, uninterrupted Internet access on the road.
HE FRONT RANGE EXPRESS (FREX) Connection Sharing to access and distribute the Each bus carries a Linux-based vehicle-track- commuter bus with service from Colo- Internet connection. Th e agency obtained surplus ing unit, which includes a GPS receiver and a T rado Springs, Colo., to Denver continues laptop computers from a local utility company, wireless Sprint cellular modem for data commu- to improve its Wi-Fi access for customers, all on purchased the wireless routers for about $75 nications. Th e vehicle-tracking unit is connected a shoestring budget. apiece, and began paying approximately $50 per to a wireless access point that shares an Internet month for the wireless data service. connection with bus riders. Then Th e AVL unit is hard-wired into the bus’ elec- In the Wi-Fi system’s fi rst version, the Colo- Now trical system and is automatically activated, along rado Springs Transit Services Division placed a In January 2005, the agency switched to a with the Wi-Fi capability, when the engine starts laptop and a wireless router on each FREX bus. system that is integrated with the automatic up. Th e AVL tracking data is so low-bandwidth Th e laptops contained an AT&T Wireless Edge vehicle loation (AVL) unit installed on the that the system still has plenty of room to provide modem card, and used Windows 2000 Internet FREX fl eet by Verotrak. Internet service to bus riders.
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The bus carries a Linux-based vehicle tracking unit, which includes a GPS receiver and a wireless cellular modem.
A wireless access point is connected to the vehicle track- By building upon the existing AVL system ing unit and shares in each bus, the agency upgraded its Wi-Fi Internet access with access for travelers at little cost. Verotrak and bus riders. the Transit Services Division are now looking to improve the AVL and Wi-Fi service by using satellite communications, possibly with cellular backup, and Verotrak soft ware that will maintain link integrity in a mobile environment.
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Sex Offender Database New database MySpace and Senti- crimes against children, technology was donated nel Safe. The national, locating registered sex to the National Center searchable sex-offender offenders and potentially for Missing and Exploited database contains data identifying fugitives, Children (NCMEC) by on an estimated 600,000 among others. registered sex offenders The database receives in the United States. It updates from state sex Ready gives the NCMEC an offender registries and for additional resource to is currently used by a assist federal, state and MySpace safety team to Take-Off local law enforcement monitor the MySpace A B-52 Stratofortess powered by a with investigations community for convicted mix of synthetic fuel touched down regarding missing child sex offenders. at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force cases, Internet-facilitated — MISSINGKIDS.COM Base Jan. 17 to begin cold-weather testing, the last step in the testing and certifi cation process to help Conversion Cost reduce the Air Force’s dependence The Geospatial Information and Technology Association’s 2006 Geospatial on imported fuel. Technology Report — an independent survey of government IT users — found Th e aircraft , permanently that conversion of older services, such as paper to digital, has consumed a large assigned to the base’s 5th Bomb share of funding dollars, shown here as percentages of monies spent overall. Wing, underwent ground testing to determine how well the synthetic CAD to GIS GIS version Paper to Digital 22% migration fuel, made from a 50-50 blend 30% 29% of traditional crude oil-based fuel and a fuel derived from Database natural gas, performs in extreme to GIS weather conditions. 19 % Th e fi rst B-52 fl ight using synthetic fuel occurred Sept. 19, 2006, at Edwards Air Force Base in California — an aviation fi rst. Since then, the aircraft has been tested extensively, and has made fl ights with synthetic fuel in all eight engines. — Minot Air Force Base Public Aff airs Offi ce Send spectrum Online Heist ideas In what’s being e-mails. The bank said details on the real Nordea to associate users were redirected to Web site to take money editor Shane Peterson Open called Sweden’s “biggest
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wireless networks, but rado cities joined to pursue the goal of aff ordable governments must collaborate. wireless broadband for the region encompassing the cities. Th e cloud will improve government effi ciency, promote digital inclusion and stimu- late economic development. Fast forward to January 2007; the CWC released an RFP for a “ universal, aff ordable wire- less broadband network” to serve an expanded CWC membership of 10 cities sprawling over an area of 197 square miles and playing home to approximately 620,000 people. Over the course of 2006, the CWC retained Civitium — a consulting fi rm that specializes in local governments and wireless technolo- gies, especially Wi-Fi zones and clouds — to study the viability of a regional Wi-Fi cloud. Th e company arranged focus group meetings with 236 participants representing 11 groups of stakeholders from government and outside entities to judge interest and support. Forty-seven percent of the participants were CWC city employees representing four catego- ries of city agencies; the remaining 57 percent came from 151 community groups, including universities, economic-development entities, the private and nonprofi t sectors, health-care organizations, federal agencies and residents. Th ornton, Colo., acted on behalf of the CWC to issue the RFP, said Mark Bennett, Th ornton’s IT director, adding that fi ve communities assumed lead roles in the CWC project. “One took charge of the Web site,” he said. “One took charge of putting together a lot of the statistical information Cloudy and demographics that went into the RFP; one took care of the mapping and so forth; and our role was to facilitate putting the RFP out onto the street.” Th e “founding fi ve” CWC communities approached a dozen other communities in the region, fi ve of which agreed to join, Bennett said, Forecast adding that the others expressed doubts about ities and towns have recently gotten or tourist destinations — to target specifi c having the necessary resources to participate or plenty of practice in striking creative crowds. Th ese zones covered areas from a whether their respective city councils considered deals with the private sector to get couple of blocks to perhaps a square mile. a Wi-Fi network a high political priority. Ccitywide wireless networks off the Now when launching the regional clouds, Th e CWC’s genesis was a series of informal, ground. Th e most recent estimates suggest that cities and counties can use their aptitude for grass-roots talks in mid-2005 between CIOs of 300 municipal wireless projects were under compromise in craft ing agreements with each the fi ve founding cities, who discussed the fea- way as of August 2006. other — but these deals might prove more sibility of a wireless cloud covering the cities. A Th at practice should come in handy as complex as governments negotiate access to year later, and aft er recruiting fi ve more cities, communities turn to regional wireless clouds infrastructure assets and intergovernmental the CWC was formally launched. that will cover hundreds of square miles and agreements’ structure and language. “Th at was when we had the 10 communi- provide wireless Internet access to hundreds ties sign a memorandum of understanding of thousands of people. Regional clouds rep- Colorado Cloud [MOU], and that MOU loosely bound us all to resent the next step in municipal wireless Ten Colorado communities have already the project,” Bennett said. Th e MOU created networks’ evolution. made signifi cant progress on such a partnership, a framework for the CWC from which the To this point, cities and towns created creating the Colorado Wireless Communities members could issue a joint RFP. In addition, wireless zones in strategic areas — downtown (CWC) in April 2006, which formed when Colo- the MOU set forth details about sharing costs,
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kenridge company about a pole-lease rate, which should help keep the project attractive to vendors Castle Rock replying to the RFP. Ten Colorado cities make up the Colorado Wireless Communities: County Wi-Fi Arvada, Boulder, Broomfi eld, Golden, A couple thousand miles away, two New Lakewood, Louisville, Northglenn, Jersey counties, Camden and Glouces- Superior, Thornton and Wheat Ridge. ter, announced plans in December 2006 to begin work on a joint Wi-Fi network that would cover their combined 550 square such as legal and consulting fees, associated miles, and off er free or low-cost service to with issuing the RFP. 800,000 residents. It’s early in the process, said Steve Sweeney, director of the Gloucester County Board of Assets in Play Chosen Freeholders, and the counties began Th e CWC is now taking the next step. 2007 by putting the RFP together and search- See everything. “We’re going through a formal intergov- ing for a fi rm to perform a feasibility study of ernmental agreement [IGA] process with the the proposed Wi-Fi cloud. When surveillance is 10 communities,” Bennett said. Such an agree- Th e RFP was slated for release in March. critical, call TESSCO. ment is needed to give the CWC legal standing At the end of the 90-day response period, as a government entity operating as a nonprofi t Sweeney said, the counties will consider their TESSCO introduces wireless surveillance — assuming the 10 communities can come to options, including what proposed business solutions with reliable components from terms on the IGA’s structure and language. model would work best for the Wi-Fi cloud. Airstream and Sony. Complete point-to- “Whoever is awarded the bid will actually Sweeney said the counties became interested in point and point-to-multipoint Ethernet be in contract negotiations with the CWC, collaborating on a Wi-Fi cloud because alone they 4.9 GHz solutions are available for not with 10 individual communities,” he said. were at a disadvantage with respect to economic immediate delivery. “Th at was really what we were trying to achieve. development opportunities, and they didn’t We felt if we could come up with a single entity already have countywide broadband to speak of. that a private-sector carrier would have to “If we can come up with a Wi-Fi network, it will negotiate with, it would be a lot more attractive make our region much more competitive,” he than having to deal with multiple entities that said. “My county has roughly 275,000 residents. have diff erent needs and agendas.” Camden County has 500,000 residents. Individu- Even with the RFP’s release, the CWC must ally we’re not a big enough market for someone determine how to clear several hurdles — to be really attracted to. Together, we feel we’re perhaps the most signifi cant of which involves more attractive.” member cities’ infrastructure assets. “Assets Sweeney, who’s also a state senator, said some are still going to be one challenge of the project towns in his legislative district, which covers because each city has its own constraints as southern New Jersey, are so small that residents to what it can or can’t off er up,” Bennett said. don’t even have cable TV — a harsh economic “Th ere are some legal mechanisms we’re trying reality that he said he understands. “For the cable to get off to the attorneys to fi gure out how to companies and the Verizons of the world, it’s not deal with some of these constraints.” profi table to run their technology down there,” Th e problem stems from the diff erence he said. “Th ere aren’t enough customers. A Wi- between city charters and which permits a Fi cloud will give these communities the potential private-sector company must obtain from a to have Internet access at a very aff ordable price, city to gain access to infrastructure assets, such whether it be free or low cost.” -Reliable, full-featured 108 Mbps OFDM radios as rights of way, traffi c light poles or street sign Neither county assumed a “lead” role, -Easy installation, configuration and maintenance poles, he said. Th e 10 CWC communities will according Sweeney. Both counties’ IT depart- discuss asset issues as part of craft ing the IGA. ments pitch in where necessary, and both -Remote monitoring and management Another asset issue concerns how a com- counties kicked in $125,000 each to fund the -Also available in 5.8 GHz for commercial applications mercial vendor could access the region’s power feasibility study. If the cloud gets built, the poles, which are owned by Xcel Energy. “Th is counties would encourage other, surround- Your Total Source For Wireless creates a fairly large challenge,” Bennett said. ing counties to join the network. And there “In some other initiatives around the country, is precedent for county and municipal col- 800.472.7373 the cities themselves own the power poles, laboration. In 1999, Sweeney said, Gloucester, www.tessco.com/go/security which make it a lot easier.” Camden, Salem and Cumberland counties —
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In Glouces- the Sacramento region’s metropolitan and ter County alone, 17 municipalities and school rural areas, said John Ramos, president districts belong to the cooperative. and CEO of the Smart Capitol Venture (SCV) Network. light located and owned by a town or village, The SCV Network manages the WiSac the global agreement would defi ne the permit- Outdoor Wi-Fi project, Ramos said, and the WiSac net- ting process and ultimately eliminate the need In New York, Suff olk and Nassau counties work, which was officially announced in to negotiate on an individual basis,” she said. have launched WiFi Long Island with the goal of September 2006, could ultimately provide “We don’t know if the towns and villages are providing Wi-Fi access to all 900 square miles of wireless services to nine counties and 30 going to accept it, but we do plan to recom- Suff olk County and 300 square miles of Nassau municipalities. mend this method of operation.” County. Th e push for the Wi-Fi network came Since then, Ramos said he’s met rep- Th e two counties expect a good crop of from Steve Levy, county executive of Suff olk resentatives from cities in Placer County vendors to vie for the right to build the network, County, who created a 15-member Suff olk — Loomis, Lincoln and Roseville — and given the level of response to the initial RFI County Wireless Commission (SCWC) in Feb- Woodland, located in Yolo County. Colusa released in July 2006. ruary 2006 to orchestrate the WiFi Long Island County has also expressed interest in Heavyweights such as IBM, Motorola, initiative. Th e SCWC includes representatives WiSac. “I’ve also presented WiSac to Solano Verizon and Cablevision replied to the 2006 from the private and public sectors, higher edu- County, Vacaville, Benicia and Fairfield.” RFI, as did National Grid Wireless, a U.S.- cation and other entities. WiSac is using the RFP from Wireless based subsidiary of National Grid. Th e parent WiFi Long Island diff ers from other munic- Silicon Valley as a template because of company delivers electricity and natural gas to ipal Wi-Fi initiatives because the goal isn’t that RFP’s inclusive nature. “Needs should the Northeastern United States, and National to provide service inside every home in the be determined that are common to all Grid Wireless provides telecommunications two counties, said Sharon Cates-Williams, of the individual stakeholders,” he said. infrastructure and wireless services. CIO and commissioner of Suff olk County’s “And there are unique things that need Th e SCWC’s inclusion of representatives Department of Information Technology. Cates- to be accomplished through the RFP pro- from higher education — specifi cally from the Williams also serves as co-chair of the SCWC, cess that are unique to each community Center for Excellence in Wireless and Informa- along with legislator Wayne Horsley. — whether a municipality or a county.” tion Technology (CEWIT), one of Stony Brook If the WiSac network is built, he said, University’s three research and development Just south of Seattle, it could link to the Wireless Silicon Valley incubators — also sets WiFi Long Island apart the Pierce County cloud, though not directly. “Conceivably once from other municipal Wi-Fi initiatives. Wi-Fi network will cover Wireless Silicon Valley is operational and When Suff olk’s Levy fi rst considered WiFi roughly 1,500 square deployed, and the WiSac regional project Long Island, he met with the CEWIT’s CEO, miles. And in mid-2006, has been implemented and deployed, the who’s also the dean of Stony Brook’s College of the Rainier Communi- Capitol Corridor project could bridge the two Engineering and Applied Sciences, to discuss cations Commission, a regions and provide seamless mobility capa- the merits of the idea, Cates-Williams said. countywide consortium bilities,” he said. “If you put those two regions “We think the educational institutions on the of municipalities, voted together, tied with the Capitol Corridor, you’re island are really going to benefi t from this wire- to give the contract to looking at a very large area.” less initiative,” she said, adding that CEWIT is CenturyTel, which contributing to WiFi Long Island by committing will provide Wi-Fi Th e two counties issued an RFP in January staff expertise to the initiative. “CEWIT is doing service to Pierce 2007, and set a deadline of March 19, 2007, some amazing things. It’s a new facility. Th ey’re County’s 754,000 for interested vendors to submit proposals. going to have incubators, and will be doing all residents. Suff olk and Nassau formed a nonprofi t entity kinds of research. Th e wireless project fi ts in with PHOTO BY LYLE KRANNICHFELD PHOTO BY LYLE
j known as the Wireless Suff olk County Local their whole mission.” “We’re talking about an outdoor network,” Development Corporation (LDC) in late 2006 Cates-Williams said. “It’s another level of to negotiate with local governments inside the service, because we recognize that, in the counties for access to assets owned by towns, future, more work is going to be done outside villages and utility companies. the home. Th ere’s going to be more of a need “Th e local development corporation would for a mobile work force. We already have a do all the legwork so the responder [to the RFP] mobile work force out there, and we want to won’t have to go to every town and village,” help them operate more effi ciently.” Cates-Williams said, adding that WiFi Long Th e wireless network would provide a back- Island leaders may create a global agreement bone for service providers that, in turn, would between the Wireless Suff olk County LDC and off er tiers of wireless connectivity to residential the 107 municipalities on Long Island. customers. Th e counties themselves will not “For example, should the provider need to own or operate the network. install a wireless node on a facility or street-
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the whole network in these two communities,” Moura continued. “But they’re also testing all of the other processes — how you get a permit or what other cooperative agreement you need.” Th e two cities’ one-square-mile test zones incorporate a mix of customers — small busi- nesses, schools, residences and parks — to test the load that a diverse blend of wireless users will put on the network, he explained. Interoperability Silicon Cloud Getting to this stage required some creative With a roster including more than 40 city and thinking by the winning vendor team and the made simple. county local governments, California’s Wireless participating local governments, Moura said. Silicon Valley is the biggest public-sector part- Since September 2006, the Wireless Silicon When communication is nership created to form a regional wireless cloud. Valley task force has been negotiating three critical, turn to TESSCO. When completed, the Wireless Silicon Valley agreement documents with the Metro Connect initiative will create a wireless network covering a team, and both sides have made signifi cant TESSCO offers a cost-effective solution 1,500-square-mile region that’s home to approxi- progress. Two of the agreements cover service to public safety communications with the mately 2.4 million residents. levels, and the governing body of each par- speed and simplicity of deployment that Two member cities, Palo Alto and San ticipating city or county will have to approve is essential in any emergency. Whether Carlos, played guinea pig in early February. the model agreements so Metro Connect can utilized to facilitate everyday Th eir respective city councils became the fi rst begin installing the necessary equipment. communications between radio users to approve two model agreements — one Th e other document is a joint powers agree- setting the terms of general wireless services ment to defi ne the governance structure for and iDEN users or for emergency for communities and the other stipulating the network, and how that governing entity deployment only, the Raytheon JPS enhanced services that meet public-sector will work with Metro Connect. “We’re in the ACU-M is an affordable way to stay agencies’ needs. process of creating a new entity called the connected. Th e agreements serve as templates for other Wireless Silicon Valley Authority,” Moura local governments’ use, and will make it simpler said. “Th at was an interesting decision. Th ere for Metro Connect — a coalition including were mixed feelings about it. We’re also think- Cisco Systems, IBM, Azulstar and SeaKay — to ing we might set up a steering committee to negotiate with the cities and counties consti- work across the two groups to coordinate the tuting Wireless Silicon Valley. Metro Connect whole project.” won the RFP in September 2006 to build the Wireless Silicon Valley is more than just a wireless network. wireless broadband network, he said. In fact, By approving the agreements, the two cities Wi-Fi compatibility is secondary to what the became testing grounds for the Metro Connect network is designed to accomplish. technology behind Wireless Silicon Valley, Th e network will be designed to test public said Brian Moura, assistant city manager of safety applications that ride on specifi ed San Carlos and co-chair of the Wireless Silicon network frequencies; backhaul technologies, The Raytheon ACU-M Valley task force. “[Th e Metro Connect coali- whether fi ber, microwave or optical fi ber; provides interoperability between multiple radio systems tion] wanted to get one city in each of the and services for the private sector on higher operating on different frequencies as well as VoIP two main counties,” Moura said. “Th ey also network frequencies. channels. Interconnect radios in any band, including wanted diff erent cities. Palo Alto has its own “Really the purpose of this is to provide not HF, VHF, UHF, P25, 800 MHz and Nextel iDEN phones. electric utility so it’s a diff erent animal than only regional broadband wireless coverage, say, San Carlos. While we own the streetlights but also to provide a technology platform for Your Total Source For Wireless in San Carlos, our power comes from PG&E [a not only the cities and counties but also for private utility company]. residents, small businesses and venture capital- 800.472.7373 “In one respect, Metro Connect is deploy- ists,” Moura said. “We’re trying to address a lot www.tessco.com/go/interop ing the technology that they envision using for of diff erent markets here.”
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trict bought a separate license for each desktop “It’s totally impervious to things like for the Windows operating system, as well as viruses, because you can’t put anything in it,” Microsoft Word. Dukker said. “I’m not sure if we absolutely had to do it,” Do plans to show the technology to offi cials Do said, noting that licenses for other appli- at some of the other schools in the Galt Joint cations allow them to run across the district’s Elementary School District to see if they’re entire network. interested in using it. He said he hasn’t heard Orangeburg’s agreement with Microsoft of any other school districts near Galt, which allowed the district to buy remote-station is about 30 miles south of Sacramento, Calif., access-licenses for Windows for the dumb ter- using NComputing’s technology. minals, Johnson said. For most of the district’s Technology directors in several districts applications, licenses are based on the number near Orangeburg plan to evaluate the Xtenda of user seats, rather than the number of CPUs, units, Johnson said. so it doesn’t matter whether students are sitting “Some want to visit our site and see what at terminals or PCs. we’re doing with them,” he said. “It’s a bold Site Maintenance Kit Besides saving money on the hardware, move, and not everyone is comfortable trying 62 vital tools housed in a molded, wheeled case. Johnson and Do said the Xtenda units reduce to make such a move. I think a number of them Visit TESSCO.com to see the complete offering labor since only the host computer needs tech- are probably going to at least try some this year of preconfigured tool kits or design your own. nical attention — the dumb terminals require and see how they function for them, and then no maintenance. In Orangeburg, four techni- move to a larger number.” Your Total Source For Wireless cians work on computer and telecommunica- tions technology across the district. 800.472.7373 CONTRIBUTING WRITER MERRILL DOUGLAS
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and gauges its speed. Radar uses electromag- netic waves, or radio waves, to locate moving or fi ing the speed of motor vehicles is typically 12 feet wide and 100 feet long. sures frequency change. Th a microwave frequency that bounces off intended quarry. But both have their places in law enforcement, and neither can replace the other. than adequate results, and lidar has come onto the scene in recent years as a viable companion to radar. ranging — sprays a web of high-frequency radio waves in a cone shape, fi vehicle and returns to the initiator. Th cle’s speed is calculated by measuring the dif- ference between the frequency that reached the vehicle and the frequency that returned. shape and reaches outward until it is refl
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and we’ve defi nitely gotten the message out “At least with laser you can get the most fl a- by using those instruments. It’s been a really grant off enders.” good tool.” But Newark, primarily an urban area, has About two years ago, the Newark, Del., found that there are also disadvantages to lidar. Police Department had grant money to spend “In an urban setting it’s absolutely horrible, and considered either lidar units or radar units. because if a telephone pole gets into the way of
CONTINUED FROM PAGE “The Colorado State Patrol found that lidar works extremely well in heavy most frequently where traffi c is heavy. Lidar is a handheld device that has no moving mode. traffic conditions. The reason for this For patrol offi cers who have other beat respon- is the laser beam allows the officer to sibilities, radar usually works better because it is always on and ready as they are driving around. individually pick out a violator’s vehicle “If the offi cer spots a possible violation, he can consult the dash-mounted radar and get even while in a group of cars.” instant results regarding speed of a vehicle Sgt. Kevin Ratzell, Colorado State Patrol coming toward him while moving,” Solomon continued. “Th is is really the key diff erence and “Th e decision was to give lidar a chance,” your laser — between you and the car — or a the reason a municipal law enforcement agency said Master Cpl. Curtis Davis. “It wasn’t a new branch or a sign or anything that interrupts the would want both.” technology, but it was technology that was just stream, you have nothing,” Davis said. “Radar hitting the mainstream at that time.” will go around that sort of thing.” Capt. Lisa Solomon of the Paso Robles, You’ve Come a Long Way Calif., Police Department said her department Lidar has come a long way since the Colo- Pros and Cons found both radar and lidar to be valuable. rado State Police fi rst toyed with it in the early Newark bought two units then later added “We use lidar on a daily basis. Th e primary 1990s. Th e units then were clumsy and costly, fi ve more. Lidar has its place in Newark, but benefi t is the small bandwidth of the beam as even more expensive than the $4,000 cost of will not replace radar, Davis said. “In rural environments, open roadways and limited-access roadways, lidar is absolutely fab- “People don’t think [tailgating] is ulous. Th e range is incredible, and you can zero dangerous in on a specifi c car so that you’re not getting ; they don’t understand the slower vehicle.” why it’s illegal, and we’ve definitely Th e advantage, Davis said, is that if a group of cars is approaching and one is clearly going gotten the message out by using faster than the others, the offi cer can target that car. those instruments.” With radar, any of the cars that come into Tom Mason, public information officer, Arizona Department of Public Safety the stream can trigger a response. “Laser is diff erent from radar because you’re opposed to radar,” she said. “Th is makes it the today’s unit — radar units sell for about half used to throwing it out there, and whoever best choice for speed-enforcement tools on the price. is going too fast gets stopped,” Davis said. congested roadways. Our motor offi cers use it New lidar units are much smaller and easier to handle, and have been likened to a pair of Let There be Light binoculars. Lidar providers are also beginning Lidar shoots a laser to produce more options, including digital beam at a target to photo evidence. When the lidar captures a measure its distance speed violation, it also records a digital picture and speed. Unlike for evidence. Th e image shows the vehicle, its radar, lidar allows speed, the lidar target and a time stamp. police to target Even with the new options, experts say lidar individual vehicles. won’t replace radar, but it will be a handy com- j panion that fi lls a niche, as it does for Ratzell and the Colorado State Patrol. “We feel lidar will help our eff orts to control speed, following too closely, and with the safety of offi cers at an accident scene,” he said.
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5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 ______Production ______OK to go NANOTECHNOLOGY IS ON THE VERGE OF CHANGING EVERYTHING — FROM HOW WE TREAT CANCER TO HOW WE DESALINATE WATER. WONSMALL j DER It’s Sunday around 8 a.m. A regular guy in a typical neigh- borhood wakes up gently as the bedroom walls — or more specifi cally, the wall paint — change from a deep blue to a pleasant lemon yellow. Th e previous night’s festivities have taken their toll, so as he goes to pour himself a cup of coff ee, he grabs a small device that resembles a blood-glucose meter. He feeds the machine a blood sample and con- nects it to the USB port on his computer, which immediately presents a report on his current health. As the man’s pounding head foretold, his blood-alcohol level hovers around 0.05 percent. He also fi nds his body is creating antibodies to fi ght off a cold virus. And, as always, he checks to see if his cancer is still in remission — which it is. If nanotechnology research blossoms the way its advocates promise, such a scenario may be only a few years away, and 2017 might make 2007 look like a technological stone age. Researchers teeter on the edge of breakthroughs that could change virtually every aspect of our existence. Nanotechnology — complicated, fascinating and essentially invisible — is poised to make the frontiers of imagination become
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WEIRD SCIENCE So what exactly is nanotechnology? Th e term refers to the engineering of materials at remark- ably small sizes. One nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, and things that fi t on the “nanoscale” include anything smaller than 100 nanometers. For comparison, a human hair is about 75,000 Human Cellular Pinhead Micro- Human Red blood Nano- Carbon Silicon ~1.7m Phone 1-2 mm electro- hair cells particles nanotube atom nanometers wide. ~1 dm mechanical 10-15 µm 2-5 µm 50 nm tip spacing John Miller, vice president of business devel- systems 2-5 nm ~0.5 nm opment at Pasadena, Calif.-based Arrowhead 10-100 µm Research, is an authority on nanotechnology and co-author of Th e Handbook of Nanotechnology: 1 m 1 dm 1 cm 1 mm 100 µm 10 µm1 µm 100 nm 10 nm 1 nm Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law. On the nanoscale, regular elements behave Nanotechnology focuses on elements smaller than 100 nanometers. This scale in highly irregular ways, Miller said, which shows nanotechnology in relation to other common items — at one end of the leads to intriguing and useful possibilities. spectrum, a human is approximately 1.7 meters (m), or 5 feet 6 inches tall. At the Take gold, for example. Everyone is famil- opposite end of the spectrum, silicon atom spacing is 0.5 nanometers (nm). One iar with its properties at the macro scale. But nanometer consists of about fi ve to 10 atoms placed side by side. nanoparticles of gold look and act completely diff erent. Vanga Reddy, who fi nished his Ph.D. have whole new properties because there are carbon atom sheets or multiple sheet layers thesis in 2006 at the University of Bern in Swit- quantum eff ects. You get whole new materi- “rolled” into seamless tubes. Two Russian sci- zerland, noted in his paper Gold Nanoparticles: als and you make completely new devices.” entists found larger 50-nanometer nanotubes Synthesis and Applications that gold nanopar- By far the most celebrated example of such in 1952. Although their work was published, it ticles show colors like ruby red, blue, green and unusual behavior was found in the element was largely ignored and eventually forgotten. orange, depending on the size and shape. Th e carbon, one of the most abundant elements In 1985, these carbon structures were again gold nanoparticles, he wrote, also show remark- in the universe. Diamonds, graphite — even observed, only this time as spheres. Th en in able catalytic activity, whereas bulk gold is known people — wouldn’t exist without carbon. But 1991, the cylinders — or tubes — were redis- to be catalytically inert. deep inside its structure, at the atomic scale, covered. Since then, research into nanotech- Th ings at the macro or micro scale have the material held a secret fi rst discovered in nology has grown exponentially. certain properties, and you can do specifi c, the 1950s — the carbon nanotube. When carbon atoms are arranged in this known things with them, Miller said. “When A carbon nanotube is a cylinder one nano- cylindrical structure, they become the stron- you work with them at the nanoscale, they meter in diameter made of either individual gest materials that will ever be made, Miller SPECK OF DUST ANOTHER MAJOR PLAYER in the nanotechnology it. Stealing cars, furniture, stereos or other world is Smart Dust — a network of tiny, wire- valuables will be unusual because any of less microelectromechanical systems of sensors, your valuables that leave your house will robots or devices, installed with wireless commu- check in on their way out the door, and nications that can detect light, temperature and scream like a troll’s magic purse if removed vibrations, among other things. without permission (they may scream at 2.4 Smart Dust inventor Kris Pister, president GHz rather than in audio). and CEO of Dust Networks, said in a past issue • Your house and office will be aware of your of Mobile Government that with Smart Dust, you presence, and even orientation, in a given can monitor when people or vehicles go by. “You room. Lighting, heating and other comforts can track things, whether they’re enemy combat- will be adjusted accordingly. If you and a col- ants or civilians — there are all sorts of great The Smart Dust network didn’t affect the league are looking for a conference room, things you can do if you’ve got the sensors to do environment. you will know which is the nearest available. it,” he said. “It’s all stuff you can do today if you These networks have now made their way into If you’re in an unfamiliar building, lighting spent the time and money to wire it all up, but you buildings — BP put the Dust Networks system will guide you with a ribbon of arrows on don’t have that luxury in a battle or in a foreign in a Washington state refinery. 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But not start coordinating government funding and cally, a more effi cient membrane. nanotechnology only are they incredibly strong and light- research of nanotechnology. Indeed, nano- Th at’s where nanotechnology and Erik companies weight, carbon nanotubes also are perhaps technology has at least as much appeal to Hoek come in. worldwide from the most conductive material ever discovered. the government — be it NASA, the National Hoek, assistant professor at the Uni- 1995 to 2006. And in Some estimates suggest properly confi gured Science Foundation, the U.S. Department versity of California, Los Angeles, Henry 2001, the National carbon nanotubes might be 1,000 times more of Defense or any number of other agencies Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Nanotechnology conductive than copper. — as it does to the private sector. Science, developed a nano-engineered Initiative was launched If that weren’t enough, numerous research- “Th e government has been investing in membrane that could potentially slash the to coordinate ers are convinced that carbon nanotubes one nanotechnology research formally since cost of desalination. government funding day will be used to target the delivery of drugs around 2000,” said Celia Merzbacher, assis- “As the water moves from the feed side and research of used to treat various illnesses — including the tant director of technology research and of the membrane, right up to the mem- nanotechnology. extraordinary process of seeking and destroy- development at the U.S. Offi ce of Science and brane and passes through it, it brings with ing cancer cells. Technology Policy. “Our approach has been it everything else that’s in the water — salt, to sort of, as they say, let a thousand fl owers bacteria, organics,” Hoek explained. “And all bloom, to be very broad in the range and that stuff , because it doesn’t pass through the ONLY THE BEGINNING types of research that are funded.” membrane, a lot of sticks to the membrane. Although Miller is excited about the possi- Like Miller, Merzbacher said medicine It’s like any kind of fi lter. It eventually gets bilities of nanotechnology, he urged a temper- and electronics generate a lot of excitement, clogged. You’ve got to clean it out somehow. ing of expectations. “You can do this amazing but she too is cautiously optimistic about So the two [aspects] you can really try to target stuff , but it’s really complicated and we’re just nanotechnology’s future. Th e nanotechnol- are the resistance by the membrane and the at the beginning,” he said. “We are now where ogy buzz is spreading and tends to generate fouling layer build-up — how quickly the electronics probably was 50, 60 years ago. exaggerated expectations. membrane gets clogged.” Scaling up to mass production at the right cost “When people say there should be a grand Hoek said the key to building a better is no easy task. So far, no one has really been challenge, nanotechnology is not really ready membrane was studying the relationship able to come to market with nanotubes that for that,” Merzbacher said. “Th ose kinds of between the membrane material properties are cheap and work well.” grand challenges are usually more of an engi- and the speed at which bacteria, organics and Currently there are two established pro- neering challenge once the science is known. cesses for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, We’re not there yet. We’re still learning a lot but neither can cost-eff ectively produce large about nanotechnology and what happens at amounts of the material. the nanoscale.” One method involves growing nanotubes But given what is known — and what is through chemical reaction. Called “arc dis- being developed — it is easy to get caught up charge,” this method requires the heating in the tide of nanotech anticipation. What of certain gases to a point where two carbon follows is a look at four extraordinary ways electrodes discharge an electrical arc. Th is arc nanotechnology is being applied, from practi- reacts with the gas vapors, causing nanotubes cal applications to downright science fi ction. to self-assemble. Th e second process for creating nanotubes, known as “laser ablation,” is akin to ultra STUFF OF LIFE high-tech whittling, and involves using high- Water is one of our most basic and fun- powered laser lithography tools to reduce damentally important elements. Like carbon, large chunks of carbon down to nanotubes. none of us would exist without it. Yet most Th ese lithography tools currently are used to of the water on Earth is very nearly poison- etch integrated circuits on semiconductors. ous if ingested. For decades, scientists and Private venture capital is pouring into fi rms, engineers have struggled to create an effi cient which continue working on these and other process to strip water of impurities — making methods that may result in the mass produc- dirty water clean and seawater fresh. A carbon nanotube is a cylinder one nano- tion of carbon nanotubes at an agreeable market Th e most common way to desalinize water meter — one-billionth of a meter — in diameter price. Lux Research, a technology-consulting today is by reverse osmosis, which is, very made of either individual carbon atom sheets fi rm, produced a widely circulated report called simply, forcing a solution through a fi lter or multiple sheet layers rolled into tubes. When Th e Lux Report that analyzed just how much is to remove undesirable particles. In reverse carbon atoms are arranged in this cylindrical being invested in nanotechnology. osmosis desalinization, seawater or waste- structure, they become the strongest materials According to the report, from 1995 to 2006, water is forced through a membrane fi lter, ever made. Researchers are convinced they will approximately $3.08 billion was invested in which collects pure water on one side while someday target the delivery of drugs used to treat 171 nanotechnology companies worldwide. trapping impurities — like salt and bacteria a variety of illnesses, as well as send people to Electronics and IT garnered the most invest- — on the other side. space in an elevator. IMAGE COURTESY OF MICHAEL STROCKS IMAGE
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Even if 30 percent of structure very quickly — but still it needs to [cancer] cells are left behind, you can still have be fi eld tested,” he said. “Th e goal is to do this a better quality of life than using chemother- PHOTO COURTESY OF DON LIEBIG, UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA A kind of fi eld testing in the next year or two.” apy, because chemotherapy kills 80 percent or Erik Hoek, assistant professor at the University of Califor- 90 percent of the [healthy] cells and only kills nia, Los Angeles, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and around 10 percent of the cancer cells. I think Applied Science, shows a vial of nanoparticles in one hand, CANCER BOMB in about fi ve years, the pace of cancer therapy and his nano-engineered membrane used in water desalina- Current chemotherapy is an imprecise way will change completely.” tion in the other. Hoek estimates this membrane may reduce to destroy cancer cells — it kills at least as many, the cost of seawater desalination by 10 percent to 20 percent. and oft en more, healthy cells as it does cancer- ous ones. And patients typically suff er from SOLDIER OF FORTUNE various harsh side eff ects. However, Balaji Pan- Being a soldier today means access to chapakesan, assistant professor in the Depart- incredible technology, advanced medicine other particles built up on the surface. Hoek ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and devastating weaponry. But today’s sol- and fellow researchers engineered a mem- at the University of Delaware, is trying to raise diers must still carry heavy loads and an array brane made of plastic polymers and specially an army that will wage a new kind of war on of equipment, and they are vulnerable to all designed nanoparticles, whose material prop- cancer, where collateral damage is nonexistent manner of bullets and bombs. erties are a closely guarded secret, and actually and cancer cells meet a violent, explosive end. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- repel the impurities in water. Panchapakesan’s strategy involves a battal- ogy’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies “Th ey change the surface properties such that ion of carbon nanotubes armed with cancer- (ISN), the goal is to design and build a battle- organics and bacteria have a harder time sticking detecting radar and a propensity to detonate. suit for 21st-century combat — a single piece of to the surface,” Hoek said. “So when the mem- According to Panchapakesan, by identifying equipment that not only protects its wearer but brane is operating, fi ltering forward, instead of all proteins and the over-expression of certain enhances his strength, monitors his health, helps these things being slammed up against the mem- molecules in a blood sample, cancer cells can him recover from injury, allows seamless com- brane and having them stick, they simply get be identifi ed and isolated as they intermingle munication, and is no heavier or bulkier than a washed away with the water that’s also fl owing with healthy cells. Once identifi ed, the cancer regular uniform. Although it sounds like science across the surface of the membrane.” cells can be hunted down by Panchapakesan’s fi ction, the U.S. Army already has invested $50 Furthermore, each nanoparticle is created specially trained carbon nanotubes. million to make the battlesuit a reality. with tunnels or pores in its structure. When “We coat the nanotube with a specifi c anti- “Current technology as it relates to soldier body,” Panchapakesan said. equipment requires that desired capabili- Nanomedicine “Th ese antibodies actually ties be provided by various, distinct pieces of offers potential for the attach to the receptors in the gear,” said Franklin Hadley, ISN director of treatment of human cancer cells. Th en the carbon outreach. “Ballistic protection, for instance, diseases and augmenta- nanotubes are also attached to is provided by the SAPI [small arms protec- tion of human biological the cancer cells. Th en we shine tive insert] plate enclosed in body armor, systems. Shown here light onto the nanotubes and while radio communications are provided by is a nanorobot in the the nanotubes start heating up, a separate radio unit. As such, the soldier of bloodstream, which and they can explode, killing today is encumbered by a great deal of equip- may someday provide the cancer cells.” ment and weight. Th e concept of the battlesuit cell surgery and extreme Th e obvious advantage is the antithesis of this. Rather than a multi- life prolongation. of carbon nanotubes attach- tude of disparate parts providing a variety of ing themselves to, and then functionalities, we envision integrating their IMAGE COURTESY OF NANOTECHNOLOGY NEWS NETWORK/SVIDINENKO YURIY detonating, cancer cells is that functions into a single, sleek uniform.” healthy cells are unaff ected. If Th e ISN research is divided among placed in water, these tunnels, combined with the cancer cells are near the skin, Panchapak- seven teams, and each contributes to a the nanoparticle’s secret material properties, esan said fuse-like light can be shone from particular battlesuit element. Th ese teams actually attract water. Th is attraction makes outside the body, making a minimally invasive are attempting to develop materials that water “want” to pass through the tunnels while procedure. Even cancer cells hidden deep in possess a number of fantastic properties. repelling impurities. Th e result is a membrane the body could be eliminated relatively easily. For example, such a battlesuit will consist that is many times more effi cient, but can be Using an angioscope — a fi ber-optic device that of energy-absorbing nanomaterials that will manufactured and operated at virtually the can be inserted into blood vessels — a surgeon defend against ballistics. Th ese nanomate- same cost as current membranes. could follow the carbon nanotubes to the cancer rials will form mechanically active devices
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Only now, thanks to carbon nano- “climbers” would be brought to the platform to act as casting material for broken bones. tubes, the material exists to actually build it. where they would scale the ribbon. Th ese “In addition to incorporating materials that “Th e elevator has been around in research climbers, powered by a platform-based laser will help protect a soldier from ballistic threats, and papers for more than 100 years,” said targeting a climber’s solar panels, would carry we expect that the battlesuit of the future will Michael Laine, president and founder of payloads with them, and once at the top, include mechanisms to protect from chemical Bremerton, Wash.-based Lift port Inc., a would simply let go and the payload would be and biological weapons, as well as to minimize company actively trying to build a space eleva- in space. Th e space elevator would, once built, the risk of injury due to blast waves,” Hadley tor. “Th e father of the Russian space program, make space access far more inexpensive and said. “While the goal is certainly to keep a Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, envisioned the eleva- safer than rocket launches. soldier healthy in all circumstances, there tor right at the beginning of the space age.” Even though the proper materials exist, is always the risk of illness or injury given, if Laine is serious about building an elevator building a space elevator is an enormous chal- nothing else, the potentially dangerous envi- to space. Th e idea was popularized in science lenge. Lift port has made progress already, ronments in which he or she may be fi ction, but never approached anything close however, and has run successful tests of scaled- The Massachusetts asked to operate. As such, we expect to reality because no material existed that down versions of the elevator. Institute of that the battlesuit will include tech- could be used to build such a thing. “We’ve built a robot that climbs up and Technology’s nologies to not only monitor health, Th e basic concept for the elevator goes down a string,” said Laine. “We’ve actually Institute for Soldier but also devices to provide emer- something like this: A paper-thin ribbon built a bunch of them. We’ve built platforms Nanotechnologies gency medical treatment should an of carbon nanotubes — maybe 3 feet wide that have hung as high as a mile in the sky off is working to build injury occur.” — would be created at a length of more than balloon-based systems. We’ve had a robot that a battlesuit, shown Sensing and counteraction abilities 60,000 miles. Th e ribbon, attached to a coun- has climbed 1,500 feet.” above, that not only are also in development. As Hadley terweight, would be taken into a geosyn- Th eir next test is far more ambitious. protects its wearer, mentioned, researchers are engineer- chronous orbit directly above an equatorial “We’re working on a system that will be but also enhances his ing nanoparticles that will provide platform somewhere in the ocean. 30,000 feet,” Laine said. “We’re probably strength, monitors soldiers with advanced biological and With everything in position, the ribbon going to fail.” his health, helps him chemical threat detection without would be lowered from the counterweight But like most nanotech projects, the recover from injury having to rely on separate equip- down to the platform. Once connected to the dream of a space elevator suff ers from the and allows seamless ment. In addition, the ISN is trying to platform, the ribbon would be kept taut by critical limitation Miller mentioned — no communication. develop biodevices and nanomateri- the orbiting geosynchronous counterweight. one has been able to mass-produce nano- The U.S. Army has als that will act as automatic fi rst aid tubes. Laine himself readily admits that already invested for wounded soldiers, doing every- Lift port’s objective is utter fantasy until $50 million to make thing from stopping blood loss to mass-production is possible. Th at’s why this suit a reality. cauterizing wounds. Lift port operates a laboratory in New Jersey. Such a battlesuit may sound like It is working feverishly to develop an aff ord- fantasy, but researchers and the mili- able process to manufacture suffi ciently tary are serious about it. Hadley said one of the large quantities of carbon nanotubes. project’s primary goals is to engineer nanoma- “Until you can start getting these things terials to create a suit that does more to keep traded on the Chicago Board of Exchange as a soldiers alive while reducing bulk and weight. commodity, all these wonderful visions of the “A number of benefi ts to nanotechnology future are not going to happen,” Laine warned. make it ideal for developing the battlesuit,” he “[Globally people are] only making 100 pounds said. “Among them is the potential for dramati- of this stuff a day. Until you can mass-produce cally reducing soldier load. A soldier’s … load this stuff , it’s just science fi ction. So our space can average between 60 and 140 pounds. While in New Jersey is not about being a research soldiers are extraordinarily fi t, it is logical to lab, what we’re trying to do is commercialize expect that such weight could make operations somebody else’s stuff . So we’re working with a much more diffi cult. By reducing weight, we couple of diff erent labs that look like they have make soldiers both more eff ective and safer.” processes that lend themselves to being mass- producible.” Despite the incredible challenges, Laine is OUT OF THIS WORLD optimistic he will build a space elevator. In Medicine and materials are probably the fact, the company Web site has a counter that most practical applications for nanotechnol- Thanks to carbon nanotubes shows just how long it will be until the space ogy. But many consider the holy grail of nano- the material exists to build an elevator is open for business. At press time, tech to be an elevator. elevator that runs from earth up there were only 24 years, 239 days, 1 hour, 60,000 miles into space. Shown An elevator and nanotechnology might here is the “ground fl oor” in the 21 minutes and 28 seconds to go. seem like an odd pairing, and at the very middle of the ocean.
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Harris said, explaining that the mapping will help the city set priorities when it targets
buildings for demolition or renovation. “We GretnaGre a want to go into a neighborhood and make an immediate impact. You take two or three properties closely located, and it can turn around an entire neighborhood.”
Although Gretna didn’t suff er the fl ood- ing that overwhelmed neighboring cities aft er Hurricane Katrina, storm winds caused major damage, and some residents who left their Applications came from cities with as homes apparently aren’t coming back. Mean- many as 350,000 residents and as few as 7,000, while, an infl ux of people from more devas- and from several regional planning agen- tated communities has created a huge demand cies, Ospina said. Although the program was for real estate in a city with virtually no unde- promoted mainly to planning and economic veloped land. development departments, submissions also Harris doesn’t know how many properties came from redevelopment, public works, in Gretna fell vacant because of Katrina, but the engineering and environment management new technology will help the city fi nd out, he departments, and mayors’ offi ces, he said. said. City offi cials can try to persuade owners to One mayor whose application rose to the Gretna started working on this kind of either sell their properties or turn them over to top was Ronnie Harris of Gretna, La. With the blight removal in the mid- to late 1990s, and the the community so someone else can use them. grant money, Gretna — a city of 3.5 square program has been very successful, Harris said. “Aff ordable housing is extremely tight in miles and 17,500 residents just across the Mis- “When we tear down a dilapidated house, the New Orleans market,” Harris said. sissippi from New Orleans — will use a single we fi nd that the neighborhood immediately As new residents in Gretna become active Magellan Mobile Mapper unit and the ArcPad picks up in appearance as well as pride,” he said, community members, he said, the dynamic of soft ware to collect the exact location of its adding that private owners are oft en inspired the whole metropolitan area has changed, and vacant properties. by the city’s actions to fi x up or demolish their city offi cials feel that change can become an Whoever conducts the survey will also own decaying properties. asset for the city. capture the location of each building’s water and sewer lines and other relevant informa- tion, and then transfer that data into the city’s “When we tear down a dilapidated existing ESRI ArcView GIS system to create a comprehensive map of vacant properties. house, we find that the neighborhood immediately picks up in appearance Change is Good as well as pride.” “Th e fi rst thing we’re going to do is iden- Ronnie Harris, mayor, Gretna, La. tify all of the vacant properties on the map so we can see where the concentration is,” Harris also expects to use the Mobile “We want to be 100 percent occupied and Mapping Mapper and ArcPad for projects outside the 100 percent fully functional,” Harris said, vacant properties grant’s scope — for example, to map the public “and with this blighted housing we’re not will help Gretna, utilities infrastructure for better management there yet.” La., set priorities of repairs. when targeting “Th at will help us in development of various buildings for neighborhoods, to bring them up a notch,” he CONTRIBUTING WRITER MERRILL DOUGLAS
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A Hoff vote counts and committee actions, but it’s quite something else to make those data points relate meaningfully to one another. A year ago, Hoff form of XQuery. guage produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards devel- opment body — is designed to query and organize XML data. ibility in representing many diff of information from diverse sources, accord- ing to the W3C. To make the best use of this fl retrieve and interpret information from these diverse sources. trum of XML information sources, according to the W3C, including both databases and documents. “You can do some very power- ful things with just a very few lines of code,” Hoff
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tal questions about the management of data, Shipping labels Robie explained. “How do you fi nd stuff in with SLP-SRL XML? How do you combine stuff from dif- or SLP-SRLC ferent sources? How do you create new results DAT labeling and new structures? Th ose are all primitives in with SLP-35L XQuery — things XQuery does naturally.” or SLP-27210 Th is could be good news for government IT workers, many of whom have come to rely on XML-driven data systems, which tend to off er easier and more legible access to information than their relational predecessors. For those IT professionals, XQuery is a labor-saving mechanism. “It processes XML effi ciently, by which I mean effi ciently for the Publication and programmer, because the programmer doesn’t binder labeling with SLP-FN or SLP-FW have to spend all his time explaining things to the system,” Robie said. “Th e system already understands what XML is, so the programmer writes a lot less code.” Manage and track property, evidence, fi les and records, Th is is a big step forward from the relational archives, IT equipment, and other assets. Whether you are model. “If you are a programmer working in SQL, and someone has a new data source for a large agency or small municipality, when the demands of asset you,” Robie said, “you are going to crack open management, UID, and Real ID Act compliance require labeling, some manuals and start studying.”
In XQuery, the language assumes every- the Smart Label Printer® from Seiko Instruments has the answer. Temporary visitor ID thing is XML and leaps forward to execute. badges or parking Easily create custom labels with 1-D and 2-D bar coding, such as Users say it’s relatively easy to acquire a passes using high- density symbology fl uency in XQuery basics. Harvey turned to DoD and GSA recognized Code 39, Codabar, Code 128, highly with adhesive the language to develop an interactive diction- SLP-NB and SLP-NR, secure PDF417 or Data Matrix using our bundled Smart Label ary, and recalls boarding a train not knowing a or non-adhesive SLP-ENT and SLP-ENTL thing about it. “By the time I took the train to software. Simply plug the SLP into your PC or Mac®, via the built-in New York, had a meeting and took the train USB or Serial port, and print labels quickly, as fast as one label per back,” she said, “I had a working product that I could give to my client. If you are familiar with second, in clear, legible, machine-scannable 300 dpi. The SLP is XML and XML technologies, it is not that hard ideal for government with no ink, noise or hassle thanks to our to work with.” But even those programmers with signifi - clean and quiet thermal printing technology. cant XML deployments already in place will need to proceed with some caution, as the worlds of SQL and XQuery still overlap. “You Choose from three great SLP models and our expanding line still need the right tool for the right job,” said of SmartLabels™. See all the Smart Label Printer products at Oracle’s Hardie. “Th ere may be very clear cases for one and very clear cases for the other, but www.siibusinessproducts.com or at our authorized resellers. that will never stop some people from trying to drive a screw with a hammer.” Th ough XML and XQuery technologies are Government on the rise, the relational database world is far and Education from over. “We have at least a decade ahead of us,” Robie said. “You’ve got so much expertise, so many people who know what to do with relational databases — and relational databases still are very effi cient at what they do.”
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5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 ______Production ______OK to go signal: BY PAUL W. TAYLOR CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER noise CENTER FOR DIGITAL GOVERNMENT indexJurisdictions/Agencies: j Camden County, N.J...... 18 Colorado...... 18, 28 Colorado Springs, Colo...... 14 Denver ...... 14 Galt, Calif...... 22 Geospatial Information and Technology Association 16 Gloucester County, N.J...... 18 Gretna, La...... 40 The Linux Foundation ...... 16 The Traf-O-Matic Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs Office ...... 16 NASA ...... 10 Nassau County, N.Y...... 18 he democratization of geospatial data Th at said, the distinction among video, data Newark, Del...... 28 and ubiquitous connectivity may be and mapping may become moot if nascent Orangeburg County, S.C...... 22 Palo Alto, Calif...... 18 the convergence point in redeeming off erings to turn cars into Wi-Fi hotspots Paso Robles, Calif...... 28 T our love affair with the automobile on wheels reach critical mass — bringing Sacramento, Calif...... 18 by helping us navigate through the increasingly e-mail, instant messaging, streaming video San Carlos, Calif...... 18 congested arteries of America’s aging roadways. and audio, real-time data, live mapping and Suffolk County, N.Y...... 18 Th e change is perhaps most easily seen online gaming to a car. University of California, Los Angeles ...... 32 on the dash of your car. If the vehicle didn’t Th is intersection of a useful service and unde- University of Delaware ...... 32 ship with an onboard navigation system, it niably cool consumer devices holds the promise U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy ...... 32 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...... 10 may have an aft ermarket version. Th ere is a of delivering on an interesting idea that people growing number of aft ermarket GPS systems have been working toward for at least three Vendors: vying for the coveted spot just right of the decades. Departments of transportation deserve Arrowhead Research ...... 32 steering wheel. much credit here, as do public-sector GIS shops AT&T ...... 14 Most look like variations of a pregnant in building expert systems that have since been Cablevision ...... 18 PDA, but each brings diff erent degrees of smart opened to a much larger universe of users that Civitium ...... 18 Cutter Consortium ...... 16 mapping to the mundane task of driving. includes all the rest of us. DataDirect Technologies ...... 44 One such unit received positive notice Computer scientist Jim Gray, best remem- Dust Networks ...... 32 at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. bered as the father of the online transaction, ESRI ...... 40 Gateway...... 46 Genius ...... 48 IBM ...... 18 The distinction among video, data and Lanier...... 48 Liftport Inc...... 32 mapping may become moot if nascent Magellan ...... 32 Motorola ...... 18 offerings to turn cars into Wi-Fi hotspots on Metro Connect ...... 18 wheels reach critical mass. National Grid Wireless ...... 18 Ncomputing ...... 22 Oracle ...... 44 Touted as the “smartest, most Internet- engineered a massive and freely available data Toshiba ...... 48 Verizon ...... 18 connected navigation system on the road,” it store of maps and aerial photographs of the Verotrak ...... 14 provides the choice of three routes to any des- United States called TerraServer-USA during ViewSonic ...... 48 tination, and it may be the next step in getting his tenure at Microsoft . Subsequent innova- real real-time traffi c information to where it tions in tying events and things to their geog- Advertisers Index is needed the most — the car — while giving raphy owe him a debt of gratitude. Accenture ...... 5 drivers the option of searching gas station fuel Th en there were a couple of teenagers Alcatel ...... 13 CDW•G ...... 26, 27 prices en route. If there is a better way to fi nd who, armed with traffi c-counting boxes and Gateway ...... 2, 3 gas stations, restaurants and theaters, why not some soft ware they wrote themselves, set out Hewlett-Packard ...... 17, 37, 43 use the tool for fi nding at least a short list of to inventory traffi c fl ows in the city in which Microsoft ...... 7 government services on the fl y? they lived. It was 1972, and their company Motorola ...... 51 While traffi c camera video feeds operated was called Traf-O-Data — their names were NIC ...... 30, 31 by state and city departments of transporta- Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Th e company later RIM/Cingular ...... 9 tion have been a boon to traffi c reporters, failed aft er their home state began off ering free Seiko ...... 45 Sprint ...... 39 XML-based feeds of incident, volume, occu- traffi c processing services — which freed them SunGard ...... 29 pancy, speed and fl ow data are automatically up to do other things. Symantec ...... 52 putting the smart in smart mapping services. TESSCO ...... 19, 21, 23, 25 Twinhead ...... 49
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