But it’s not all China can offer to the 125 countries that state-run news outlet Xinhua has reported have signed cooperative agreements under Belt and Road.

Any initiative to drive economies-of-scale for key technology components in satellite IoT terminals must be embraced by smallsat operators, since low-cost terminals are a missing catalyst required to accelerate service adoption. Ask any participating company what they’d like to see happen inside their ecosystem today and one of the top responses is access to a low-cost satellite communications module for IoT.

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The Belt and Road Initiative is President Xi Jinping’s signature program, and this week he’s hosting a forum in Beijing attended by nearly 40 heads of state, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Since its inception in 2013, the initiative has funded projects in 152 countries, to the tune of $200 billion.

ICON built the first permitted, 3D-printed home in America with nonprofit New Story using the Vulcan I mobile 3D printer. The gantry-style printer will be printing the first community of 100 homes in an underserved population in 2019 with the goal of printing each home for $4,000 at about 650 square feet.

There are environments that require protection from liquids for safe operation — in food manufacturing and parking areas, for example, which although milder than the hazardous explosive environments of offshore rigs, still require design considerations for safe lighting.

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As reported by online publication FastCompany.com, luxury cannabis company Canndescent out in Desert Hot Springs, California, recently had a 282.6-kilowatt solar system installed that could power up to half of its grow operations. Per Canndescent, this is the first on-site solar installation for a large-scale cannabis farm in the United States.

“The country is suffering from inadequate power generation capacity by Eskom because of the rife copper cable theft. The reason for that is because there are thousands of kilometres of underground cable which are unguarded.”

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Where it remains to be seen if cellular and satellite heavyweights can find a way to play together nicely to drive forward true economies of scale for satellite IoT with common technology components, a universally adopted set of air interface standards is arguably long overdue from within the satellite industry. If ESA and 3GPP proponents really do have their hearts and minds set upon building a fully integrated “network of networks” for the next generation of global communications, their efforts should be applauded.

Since then a lot of things have changed. Gas-fired lamps were replaced by durable and energy conserving electrical lamps, and the process of turning on and off the lights has become automated. Without any doubts, street lighting is a benefit for all of us today – it offers safety and comfort during the dark hours. However the lighting networks put some serious problems in front of its owners, but also in front of the society in whole. In this article, we’ll try to analyse these problems and suggest a solution for them.