Let’s be realistic. Electricity has never been free. Initially, it was sold as a service, and then electricity meters were introduced so that people would be charged for what they used. Well, actually, a facility charge, and a charge for …
The Energy Consumption or Power Usage of Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps is difficult to determine without detailed investigations. There are so many things that change how much energy a unit will consume: Temperature and Humidity – Indoor and Outside …
I have just signed the contract for continued development of the server software. This had stalled when the programmer that was working on this had some issues which meant he was unable to continue. After a few days work on …
Redshift Wireless hit a minor speed bump yesterday where we came to the conclusion that we needed to change the programmer working on our back end. This was not because they did not do good work, but because the circumstances …
If you look at today’s Sydney Morning Herald you may find an interesting article about Buildings on the Internet. Actually, this is only one in a series of articles over the last few days about how various Australian buildings are …
So, I have now learned my lesson. Whilst postage from China might be cheap, even with tracking, paying extra is often really worth it. A case in point is the delivery from a supplier of PCB’s in China. They offer …
One of the things that I love about my job is coming up with great new ideas for products, and new ways to use our existing software, but by adding software and hardware. If you are now reading this hoping …
So, I have been working on our product, working to get WiFi running. We were working with provisional WiFi hardware, and have just received the stock of the final WiFi hardware. This was an OURLINK WiFi USB WiFi Adapter. The …
I don’t think I have talked about this already – I had a major issue with doing the initial design of our flagship product. You see, each of the devices we were interfacing to had different capabilities, and it seemed …
One of the tasks today was to update this website so that it is maintainable over the longer term. When we got the web site design done, the designers gave us the look that we wanted. However, they modified the …