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AtHoc Highlights Work Related to Network-Based Emergency Notification Systems for the Army, Air Force and Throughout the Department of Defense.

Burlingame, CA (PRWEB) July 14, 2006 –AtHoc, Inc., provider of net-centric emergency notification systems and an AFCEA corporate member, sponsored and exhibited at the AFCEA Army IT Day 2006, July 11, 2006, in Tysons Corner, VA, and will present at the Ramstein Air Base Technology Exposition on July 17-19 in Ramstein, Germany. These premier events will draw together top leadership from the Army and Air Force to discuss the progress made in incorporating information technology in support of their mass notification systems strategic missions.

AtHoc has successfully deployed the AtHoc installation emergency notification systems (AtHoc IWSAlerts) in the Army and the Air Force, and will showcase its market-leading mass notification system products for installation protection and command and control. AtHoc will demonstrate its proven, enterprise-class alerting software for warning systems, emergency operations centers and critical communications.

AtHoc IWSAlerts provides bases with the ability to send alerts to a computer screen, cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA) whenever a threat is identified. Threats can range from terror warnings to an approaching tornado. The alerts, in the form of pop-up windows, describe the potential threat, categorize the threat level and include instructions for action. An audio alert also automatically sounds over the computers speakers. AtHoc IWSAlerts emergency notification systems can guarantee connected users will see and hear the alerts within an average of one minute after the alert is sent.

“Numerous bases are already up-and-running with AtHocs offering, and interest continues to grow,” said Guy Miasnik, president and CEO of AtHoc. “AFCEAs expositions provides the opportunity to talk to Army and Air Force leadership about the real-world successes achieved by existing clients in speeding effective emergency information delivery through mass notification systems.”

About AtHoc, Inc.

AtHoc provides enterprise-class, network-centric mass notification systems for emergency notifications, force protection readiness, anti-terror warnings and critical communications. AtHoc offers a broad set of alerting solutions for the government/defense agencies and commercial enterprises, including IWSAlerts” for Network-Centric Emergency Notifications; C2Alerts” for Targeted User Alerts in Command & Control / C4I Operations Center; KMAlerts” for Knowledge and Intelligence Dissemination; and EmployeeAlerts” for Corporate Emergency Communications. AtHoc has partnered with Microsoft, Northrop Grumman and IBM to bring these mass notification systems solutions to the enterprise market. The U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Air Force, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boeing, eBay and Juniper Networks are some of the world-class organizations that have selected and deployed AtHoc for their critical enterprise notifications needs.

Delos Aerospace has Invented an In-Wheel Electric Motor/Generator System and Method That Will Provide for Safer Landing and Ground Maneuvers of Aircraft and Eliminates the use of Jet Engines for Taxiing or Other Ground Maneuvers.

Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) March 17, 2007 — Delos Aerospace, L.L.C. Announces Technology to reduce aircraft fuel burn reducing greenhouse gas production and increase airport and aircraft capacity utilization.

The issue of aircraft ground maneuvering efficiency is associated with managing trajectories “block-to-block” which is the portion of the aircraft trajectory that is accomplished on the ground; from “the blocks to rotation” and from “touchdown to the blocks”. In todays system, these trajectory components are not efficiently conducted or managed, even though they may constitute 20-33% of the time of the average airline flight (which is 60-90 minutes).

Thus there is a need for an efficient means of conducting such block-to-block aircraft trajectories.

Our technology provides for the optimal efficiency in aircraft ground maneuvering by incorporating the use of in-wheel electric motor/generators that are capable of producing sufficient power density to effectively maneuver aircraft of any weight on the ground, and provide for safer and more effective braking of the landing gear wheels.

This revolutionary technology is a total systems integration of a fully electric landing gear and maneuvering system wherein axial flux disk motor/generators replace the old friction disk technology providing increased braking and maneuvering capability to the aircraft wherein there are many engineering benefits to eliminating the heat generated within friction based braking systems.

This fully integrated electric braking and maneuvering system and method allows for higher levels of effective braking and maneuvering capability to be applied to aircraft without the use of jet engines which is a safer and more effective braking and maneuvering system (forward, reverse and steering) than current systems used at a reduced overall weight that can also assist in takeoff thus allowing for reduced thrust levels required by the jet engines wherein these applications reduces the required fuel weight by 1200 lbs for average airline flight times of 60-90 minutes and over 4,000 lbs for larger airliners that might fly out of LaGuardia Airport for example thus directly impacting payload and range capacity.

Currently jet and turbofan aircraft require tow motors or tugs to push the aircraft backward into the designated taxiway. This is an added operational cost in ground support material and personnel for the airline or cargo operator. By eliminating the need to wait for, attach, and detach tow motors or tugs aircraft can enter and exit gates faster thus reducing between-flight turnaround times which directly impacts Airport capacity utilization and airline operators revenue. This means that on many routes, total trip times can be reduced, enabling an aircraft to make more flights per day thus increasing an airlines capital-asset utilization rate.

Our technology can provide for increases in airline operators revenue by eliminating fuel burn during ground maneuvers, reduce fuel burn at takeoff, reduce gate charges, reduce turnaround cost, and provide for reductions in MRO costs due to brake system overhauls and reduced maintenance frequency of the jet engines thus ensuring that airplanes spend more time serving passengers.

There is the added benefit of reduced air and noise pollution in and around airports thus significantly impacting the environment that is of a growing concern among many.

Overall operating cost savings from incorporating our technology are expected to total 2.6 to 2.8 million USD a year per commercial airliner aircraft.

Principal benefits of our technology include:

. Fuel savings. With our technology the primary engines need be turned on only at the end of the runway, immediately before takeoff, and can be turned off immediately after landing. Our technology will brake the aircraft upon landing by converting the kinetic energy of the aircraft into electrical power and store that electrical power onboard the aircraft using lightweight nano enhanced ultra-capacitors. The stored energy is later used to motor the aircraft wheels in the taxiways and runways. For many short-haul routes (60-90 minutes), taxiing and takeoff-waiting times can be a large fraction of total trip time 20-33%, and the fuel savings on these routes can be substantial for large commercial airline operators.

. Faster flight turnarounds. By eliminating the need to wait for, attach, and detach tow motors or tugs, aircraft can enter and exit gates faster, reducing between-flight turnaround times. This means that on many routes, total trip times can be reduced, enabling an aircraft to make more flights per day and increasing an airlines capital-asset utilization rate.

Swedish defence and aerospace group Saab said on Monday (17 October) that its unit Saab Aerostructures had received a contract to design and manufacture cargo doors for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The contract, valued at an initial approximately USD100m, covers the design, development and manufacture of large cargo doors, bulk cargo doors and access doors.

Scientists at the Jade Control System Research Centre of the North China Electrical Power University (NCEPU) have adopted McObject’s eXtremeDB™ in-memory embedded database for a mission-critical, real-time control application to be used in Chinese power generation plants and relay stations.

(PRWEB) June 22, 2005 — eXtremeDB is integrated with a distributed control system (DCS) being developed at the university as a universal industrial control software platform, planned for deployment at energy plants and related facilities in China, said Jersey Wang, president of Beijing Leadingtek Realtime Technology, McObject’s distributor.

Within the DCS application, eXtremeDB manages data to support real-time operations as well as environmental, alarm and system configuration information. Historical data is fed from eXtremeDB to enterprise-class databases such as Oracle and SQL Server.

NCEPU’s developers compared eXtremeDB with competing data management solutions, and chose McObject’s product for its stability, ease of development, and real-time performance.

“For a real-time control system, software stability is directly concerned with process safety. Thus we were impressed with eXtremeDB’s track record and with the stability advantage of using a proven, off-the-shelf database management system over a self-developed solution,” Mr. Pu Han, chief scientist and director of the centre, said.

The DCS is hosted on Windows and also on a commercial real-time operating system (RTOS). When managing real-time data, extremely high performance is required. But the database must be able to log transaction-related “checkpoints” to persistent storage, to ensure recoverability in the event of system failure. When deployed, the application needs to be configurable via a Web client.

“With eXtremeDB’s Transaction Logging, we have been able to ensure the required level of transaction durability in our application. McObject’s eXtremeWS embedded Web server, which is tightly integrated with eXtremeDB, supports our configuration needs by providing convenient access to the database via any Web browser,” said Mr. Yongjie Zhai, senior architect and project leader.

“Most importantly, eXtremeDB is intuitive and very easy to use. Its API remains the same across different operating systems and compilers, which is a great benefit for our platform-independent application,” Mr. Zhai said.

About eXtremeDB

With eXtremeDB, McObject offers a highly portable database management system that meets the unique performance requirements and resource constraints of intelligent, connected devices. eXtremeDB provides critical data management features—including transactions, concurrent access, High Availability and a high-level data definition language—while maintaining a tiny code footprint (as little as 50K). As an in-memory database system (IMDS), eXtremeDB delivers the real-time responsiveness demanded by consumer electronics, network infrastructure gear, industrial control, military/aerospace and other embedded systems.

eXtremeDB also provides sophisticated development capabilities, such as support for complex data and varied query methods, a powerful debugging environment including a self-diagnostic API that catches a wide range of common programming errors before they slip into runtime code, and an optional SQL programming interface.

About Beijing Leadingtek Realtime Technology