Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • What’s the Vision for the Smart Driving Future?

    What’s the Vision for the Smart Driving Future?

    Start with the end in mind, to parrot Stephen Covey, was a recurring theme of the inaugural panel of the 4th annual Smart Driving Car Summit. Led by moderator Jim Atkinson, CEO of Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, Inc., and the president of SmartETFs and the Guinness Atkinson Funds, the panelists repeatedly discussed an overarching vision…

  • Viodi View – 01/02/21

    Viodi View – 01/02/21

    Let us zoom back to the January 2020 issue of the Viodi View and a reference to an academic study (PDF) on the positive impact of air filtration on students’ test scores. In short, the author examined a real-world situation where air filtration was added to schools because of a methane leak. As it turns…

  • Unplugged on the Carefree Highway in a Lightyear One

    Unplugged on the Carefree Highway in a Lightyear One

    Up to 11,000 miles per year of driving from just sunlight is what Lightyear promises with its teardrop-shaped, five-passenger car, the Lightyear One. With five square meters of solar panels integrated into the roof and hood, Lightyear estimates the Lightyear One will receive up to 50 miles of charge from a day of sunshine. Plugging…

  • Viodi View – 12/13/20

    Viodi View – 12/13/20

    Telecommunications is fundamentally about connecting people. Despite the amazing things that broadband and the associated video conferencing ecosystem have done to keep us connected in 2020, it isn’t the same as face-to-face for capturing non-verbal communications. An anecdote from Brent Christensen’s eulogy about his late father, Everett, and the non-verbal communication he would use to…

  • Unlikely Silicon Valley RDOF Winners

    Unlikely Silicon Valley RDOF Winners

    Updated 07/29/21 – FCC “Letters Sent” Potentially Previously Supported Blocks CNS continues to do great work by taking FCC data and putting it into easy-to-use interactive maps. The screen capture below from their map indicates that the FCC seems to have received and acted on the message that many of the Silicon Valley RDOF locations…

  • C-Band 5G’s Threat to Aviation

    C-Band 5G’s Threat to Aviation

    Note: The above explainer video from Alex Scerri was added on 12/2/20 Is the impeccable safety record of aviation threatened by the use of C-Band frequencies (specifically 3.7-3.98 GHz in the U.S.) for 5G? Yes, would be the conclusion one could draw from RTCA’s November 30th, 2020 webinar, Interference Risk to Radar Altimeters from Planned…