RFID  is a means of identifying a person or object using a radio frequency transmission.

How it works :

You put a Tag (or electronic label) composed of a Miniature Radio Antenna and a Chip on a person or object .When this tag approach a reader up to 10 meters even at a speed of 100k/H , it sends its information by Radio Frequence, which can be read on a Computer 

It has been extensively used in applications such as toll collection, access control, ticketing, and car immobilization devices .

 Some examples of use in France: Navigo replacing  la Carte Orange from RATP , Telepeage System  Liber-T on Motorways.

Logistics companies are using it more and more frequently as well as the health and pharmacy industry, Indentity Control ( ID , Pasports), Food Industry (to ensure the origin and tracability of what you eat).. Luxury Industry (Perfums, Bags , Clothes start marking their products to stop  fakes )

The tags that were originally too expensive to be used  widely , are now  decreasing in price . More and more companies are looking at it.

Very soon you will go at your supermarket and will not need to queue at the cashier, all your articles will be  read at once  in a second .

What about RFID on people?

A company Allied Digital Solutions has developped a tag that can be directly intsalled under your Skin. the American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has validated this product , already in use on animals and some american hospital would already  have ordered the system for their patients. The tag has a size of a rice grain.

A Disco in Barcelona the Baja Beach Club has proposed and tested implants on volunteer clients.  

So are you ready to be Tagged ??? Look at 33 Amazing RFID applications on:

 http://www.rfidlowdown.com/2006/09/33_ways_rfid_ha.html

Emmanuel Facovi

Did an aircraft lost its engine ?

We will need to rethink how  a windmill looks like in the near future . Aerodynamics is at full potential

Forget the big propellers and get use to see "jet engine" floating in our windy country areas.

A bench of benefits:

This new windmill called  Stormblade Turbine, designed by  par Victor Jovanovic,is much more efficient than current designs an can operate for wind speeds ranging from 11 to 193 km/h  (7mph to >120mph) .An efficiency of conversion of wind into electricity of 70 % versus 40 %. 

The generated power is also much higher compared the size of the blades. The noise much lower, the cost too.

Five years backwards I visited the windmill fields of Palm Springs in California, , an impressive alignment of thousands windmills.

lets now figure out how the turbine would fit the landscape. 

This Turbine represents a major step forward in the clean green energy, both in the design and the technology. It shoulb be industrialized by the end of 2007

anyway my favourite design definitly keeps this                                 traditional ones,

a real flavour from Holland and Greece

Happy Wind !!!

Emmanuel Facovi

 The stratospheric Vehicle

you know what is a satellite, but do you know what is a STRATELLITE

A Trade Mark from SANSWIRE company an airship and communications technology manufacturer .

 What is a Stratellite?

It is a 75m long high tech air vehicle (balloon type) designed to fly in the stratosphere , 21 km above earth , and to manage communications (broadband, mobile phones..) in a area of 770 000 sq km. It is robot piloted, and powered by solar cells.

Stratellite has an autonomy of 18 months. The first exemplary is to be launched over Lima , Peru and will handle all communications such as Voice , VoIP, video, and WIFI services.

Sanswire plan to manufacture hundreds to thousands of those "flying wales " that will populate our sky, primarily the states of South America, at a much lower cost than satellites (only 10 %).

Except Telecommunications the stratellite can respond a very large scheme of applications like security ,environment or defense missions.

 Emmanuel Facovi