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Viodi View- 10/17/17

Who should be the ultimate arbiter of rights-of-ways in a municipality? This wonky question is one that average people wouldn’t want to spend precious moments pondering, but, the answer to this question could have a very visible impact, whether through aesthetics, the availability of competitive broadband and even public safety.


If a Cable Falls in the Street, Does Anyone Care How It Happened?

The caution tape prevented cars from driving over the downed cable.
Cables Down!

Yes, the above title is a play on words about the philosophical question about the tree falling in a forest and whether it makes noise. A little more than a week ago, telecommunications’ cables fell to the ground and no one really heard or saw what happened. Fortunately, no one was injured and service was apparently not lost, but it is a mystery as to why it happened. This failure points to a bigger battle playing out in Washington and Sacramento over some pretty arcane telecom rules.

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Set-Top Be Gone

C Spire TV user interface at The Independent Show., 2017.
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Jared Baumann, Manager of Market Development and Deployment for C Spire, provides an update of their journey towards the elimination of the set-top box. To be more precise, this is about C Spire’s goal of allowing customers to access content on the device or screen of their choosing without having to rent a set-top box from C Spire. Baumann reports that the early results are phenomenal, as customers love not having set-top fees and they love the new C Spire TV user interface.

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Living Through a Hardware Renaissance

The Arrow booth at CES17 is depicted in this image.
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“Reaching another generation of entrepreneurs” is how Nick Langston, Market Development Manager for TE Connectivity, describes Arrow’s Incubation and Certification programs. Speaking at International CES2017, Langston explains how Arrow’s programs help entrepreneurs transform an idea into a proof-of-concept, raise financing through crowd-funding (e.g. their partnership with Indigogo) and bring in partners to ensure the end-product is designed for manufacture.

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Rethinking Cities Through Personal Transport #CES2017

An example of a neighborhood electric vehicle.
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As pointed out in an article in a recent Wall Street Journal article, thanks to mandates and its size as the largest vehicle market, the Chinese market is driving the demand for electric cars. Eli Electric Vehicles, a Beijing-based, electric vehicle start-up is driven beyond mandates, however and has a vision to create mobility at a human-scale.

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A Force Multiplier – An Autonomous Mobile Sensing Device

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“The K3 and the K5 we have been operating now over 180,000 hours and over 100,000 hours all across the country helping security guards and security professionals do their jobs more effectively,” said William Santana Li, CEO and Chairman of Knightscope, Inc. These mobile, autonomous data gathering machines, with sensors to measure and record things such as video, audio and thermal, are helping Knightscope’s 32 clients cost-effectively secure their facilities across 8 states.

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Mr. Roboto Ready for Business

A fun edited image of Jackrabbot as an interviewer for ViodiTV. The real interview is done by Ken Pyle.
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Robots as a tool to help humans be more productive was a common theme of the 2017 ROBOBusiness Conference held in Santa Clara. Steve Crowe, Managing Editor for Robotic Trends, discusses the panel he moderated, which featured leaders from DHL, GE, Intel and NASA, and how machine and deep learning are helping robots to act autonomously by seeing and reacting to their respective environments. Reinforcing Crowe’s comment was one of the speakers from one of the breakout sessions who suggested that the addition of natural language interfaces, combined with machine learning, allow quality inspection engineers to “train” robots by talking to them to help identify good and bad parts.

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Author Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

By Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

Ken Pyle is Marketing Director for the Broadband Forum. The mission of this 25+-year-old non-profit “is to unlock the potential for new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies and standards in the home, intelligent small business, and multi-user infrastructure of the broadband network.”

He is also co-founder of Viodi, LLC and Managing Editor of the Viodi View, a publication focused on the rural broadband ecosystem, autonomous vehicles, and electric aviation. He has edited and produced numerous multimedia projects for NTCA, US Telecom and Viodi. Pyle is the producer of Viodi’s Local Content Workshop, the Video Production Crash Course at NAB, as well as ViodiTV. He has been intimately involved in Viodi’s consulting projects and has created processes for clients to use for their PPV and VOD operations, as well authored reports on the independent telco market.

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