DarkHorse Wire and Cable Inc.

02/22/2020

Smart City Technology social issues of Housing, Unemployment & Long-term health care.

Perhaps the largest potential benefit from smart cities will come from enhancing residents’ QOL (Quality of Life) The opportunities cover a broad range of issues, including transportation, happiness and optimism, educational services, environmental conditions & community relationships.

The Chicago has begun implementing an “AOT” (Array of Things initiative by installing boxes on municipal light poles with sensors and cameras that can capture air quality, sound levels, temperature, water levels on streets and gutters, and traffic.
The data collected are expected to serve as a “City fitness tracker,” by identifying ways to save energy, to address urban flooding and improve living conditions.

Efforts along this line can include tracking and mapping residents’ health, using data to fight neighborhood blight, identifying instances of discrimination and deploying autonomous vehicles to increase residents’ safety and mobility.

In my fair hometown of Philadelphia, a program intended to provide the city’s low-income, underemployed residents with job training on their smartphones didn’t address widespread socioeconomic inequality. As one researcher put it, the program was “Empty policy rhetoric” designed to attract businesses. Still I dream will be fixed. TTYL 😊

@ West Philly Baby

02/22/2020

The Benefits of Smart City Technology for 2020 & beyond.
By 2030, 60% the world's population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people will live, what their lives are like, will depend on important choices leaders make today. Technology has the power to help people live in communities that are more responsive to their needs & that can actually improve their lives.

Testing grounds for smart cities like Beijing, who's notorious known for its air pollution, is testing a 23 foot air purifier that vacuums up smog, filters the bad particles and releases clear air.
It’s real urban communities responding 2 real-time changing weather, times of day and citizen needs.

Another example, Smart cities can improve the efficiency of city services by eliminating redundancies, finding ways to save money and streamlining workers’ responsibilities. The results can provide higher-quality services at lower cost. Unfortunately 😔 a lost of employment in many industries will be affected. There are still many issues like that which would need to be addressed. Another conversation.. Another post! @ Temple University

11/13/2019

Enterprise IT landscape for 2022
One only need look at what's on the mind of CIOs these days (60% believe they should be directly driving growth and productivity) versus what they're well known for delivering on. Or perhaps more problematically, what their IT organizations are able to deliver on. Never in my two decades of experience in the IT world have I seen such a disparity between where the world is heading as a whole and the technology approach that many companies are using to run their businesses.

The issues are legion: There are at least five major "generational scale" changes to the computing landscape happening at about the same time: Delivery platforms are shifting (mobility, cloud, social), communication and collaboration channels are being reinvented (Web, mobile, social etc) @ Philadelphia Zoo

11/13/2019

Looking atIOT Next generation technologies & it cost. Today the next generation of technologies will reshape trade flows and global value chains again. But unlike the previous ICT revolution, these innovations will have a more varied and complex effect on trade in the years ahead. Some advances, like digital platforms, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, will continue to reduce transaction and logistics costs, thereby fuelling trade (WTO 2018). But other technologies may reduce trade flows by changing the economics and location of production, and transforming the actual content of what is bought and sold across borders. @ Parkside, Philadelphia

10/31/2019

Understanding the complexities of cybersecurity 2020

Proliferation of mobility combined with faster internet has increased the scope of connected systems. What was once on-premise applications, with access restricted to corporate-approved devices, are now ‘Appified’ and ‘Cloudified’ for anywhere, anytime and any device access. This transformation has reduced the enterprise boundary and moved users, data and device out from within the enterprise perimeter.

The threat landscape, as a result, has changed. Fraudsters have developed sophisticated skills and capabilities, and the lack of cybersecurity professionals-with the requisite skills and knowledge to counteract cyber-attacks-poses a challenge.

10/31/2019

In the past, an application may be running a data center, with firewalls looking at traffic east & west, as well as north and south. Application protection might include database security & encryption. However, with applications moving to the cloud, the ways in which you secure your workload must change.
Cloud environments, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), are so different from old environments that a new breed of services is needed to more capably secure workloads. Two examples of these new services are Web Application Firewalls that can provide specialized security for these new environments

The acquisition of Duo Security in October 2018 signaled a major shift toward Cisco’s adoption of identity security across our entire portfolio of security products. Stolen or weak passwords are an overwhelming (81 percent) reason for hacking-related breaches.
New examples of cybersecurity for 2020!

04/03/2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.networkworld.com/article/3239677/the-osi-model-explained-how-to-understand-and-remember-the-7-layer-network-model.amp.html

A tutorial on the Open Systems Interconnection networking reference model and tips on and how to memorize the seven layers

02/21/2019

https://youtu.be/PClWlZ9EuKA
NextGen Green Tech

Here are The 5 New Inventions You NEED To See If you enjoyed; Like, Comment, Subscribe! 1 - LightSaver Max https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lightsaver-max-...

02/21/2019

https://youtu.be/ZdZN2IUPTmU
NextGen Technology

Trend 1 of the 2019 Tech Vision report is ‘DARQ’: the emerging technologies which will allow companies to compete and differentiate themselves in a world whe...

02/20/2019

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/new-emerging-technologies-darq?c=acn_glb_technologyvisiotwitter_10869954&n=smc_0219

Distributed ledgers, AI, Extended Reality and quantum computing, combined, provide a powerful catalyst for reimagining entire industries.

10/23/2018

10/23/2018

Gettin back into the IOT!