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Core to any food manufacturing operation is the need to guarantee the reliability and security of data feeds to and from in-plant manufacturing execution systems to its field force. Diagnostic insights gained help optimize manufacturing efficiencies and legislative requirements are adhered by monitoring cold storage refrigeration trucks transporting food ingredients and products. Read how Asavie enables Glanbia optimize its food supply chain processing.
Enernoc, leverages Asavie, to securely scale energy demand response services across 1000s of industrial sites
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Retail outlets are racing to implement a “connected store” IoT strategy in order to reduce maintenance costs and increase the efficiencies of its retail operations. Apart from the need to comply with financial regulations for the capture and use of consumers’ financial details, the stores need to also ensure that their machines are protected from potential DDoS attacks.
Solo Energy is a new ‘energy- storage-as-a-service’ utility business. FlexiGrid is a cloud- based software platform, that controls and aggregates battery storage systems, including both static batteries and Electric Vehicles, to create a distributed energy storage network operating as a centrally controllable Virtual Power Plant, delivering savings to consumers and valuable services to the power system operators and electricity suppliers alike.
The amalgamation of Information Technology and Operation Technology, promises significant advantages in terms of productivity and predictive maintenance for IIoT. However, the challenge for many is how to seamlessly connect and reliably aggregate data from these unique systems to a single data store for analytics which will be used for operational efficiencies.
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Many financial institutions are embracing the Internet of Things to enable service differentiation of product offerings to the connected consumer. A key challenge faced in the financial sector is the reliability and security of the data being collected and stored in the cloud.
The global automotive industry has revolutionized the in-car experience through bundled services of infotainment and telemetry. A key challenge for the automotive maker is the ability to deliver global connectivity, that can segregate infotainment streams from telemetry data. This helps to reduce costs but more importantly prevent churn on the telemetry services. Find out how Asavie connects the automotive industry.
Leeds City Council program, “100% Digital Leeds”, is creating an innovative social movement for digital inclusion, mobilizing support in communities across the city to reach the people who need the most help to develop digital confidence and skills: whether older people, those seeking employment, or those suffering from poor health. Leeds Library service are leading this digital inclusion program and offer a tablet lending service built on Asavie Moda and IBM MaaS360 for customers who are not currently digitally included.
Safe Haven is the second largest dealer for ADT in the US employing 1,500 staff in 50 satellite offices. They use Asavie Moda to gain visibility and control of mobile device usage across their workforce. The company has re-defined what it means to use the mobile device as a work tool and has gained the buy-in from employees who understand the benefits of this approach. Additionally, they are seeing significant savings in their mobile data bills on the back of the reduced data consumption already achieved.
Globeleq is a UK-based company, powering Africa’s growth through the development and operation of utility scale power plants. The company currently owns and operates nearly 1,300 MW across 8 different power plants in Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Tanzania, South Africa and Kenya.
Since URG deployed Asavie Moda to 500 of its mobile workforce, the company is successfully protecting against malware attacks and has reduced the potentially damaging exposure from theft and loss of field-force devices. Furthermore URG has seen a decrease in mobile data consumption from 2.5TB of data to an average of 400GB per month.
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Airlines are deploying electronic flight bags (EFBs) for its pilots as part of a “paperless cockpit” initiative. These EFBs help flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper. Using these devices, some staff unwittingly access malicious and unsecure sites and inappropriate content. This results in large overages especially whilst roaming from the mobile devices.
Law firms must ensure their lawyers have access to the relevant information while meeting stringent privacy and security requirements. Lawyers need access to time management billing systems, but also standard confidential communication from any device. And there needs to be a failsafe way to ensure all data on a device cannot be stolen. With this increased use of mobile data from client sites, law firms are experiencing large overages.
Healthcare professionals need access to patient records, hospital reports, and billing systems- from anywhere on any device. Furthermore, they must comply with regulatory and compliance requirements to ensure all patient data is secure and nothing malicious can control what it accesses or accesses it.
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Writer Ellie Dyer and photographer Anna Clare Spelman get introduced to yoga and meditation at the Hariharalaya Retreat Centre in Siem Reap.
As the early morning sun lights up emerald paddies and ancient temples, a gong reverberates through a small community centred around a two-storey house in Rolous village, Siem Reap province.
While roosters crow in the distance, the site rustles into life. Peace reigns as people silently pad around the complex before entering the central hall for a two-hour session of yoga and meditation, all within sight of open fields dotted with tall sugar palms.
At 9am, the community moves to the nearby dining room, this time gathering around a table of vegan food, standing in a circle to give thanks for the meal before breaking into quiet conversation and settling into another day of activity.
This is just a taste of life at the tranquil Hariharalaya Retreat Centre in Siem Reap, founded by American Joel Altman around four years ago, which offers integral yoga and conscious living retreats just outside Cambodia’s temple town.
Having never contemplated meditation before, entering Hariharalaya – which recently upgraded its facilities and adapted its format to offer fixed five-day retreats – had been a leap into the unknown.
I couldn’t help but feel nervous when I met up with a diverse group of world citizens in central Siem Reap, before jumping into tuk-tuks and driving off into the countryside. Around 20 minutes later, after rounding past the magnificent ninth-century Prasat Bakong temple, we pulled up outside a peaceful home surrounded by tropical plants and rustic outbuildings.
Soon, my fellow retreat goers and I were sipping herbal tea and learning more about each other. From gap year students to women on a career break, yoga enthusiasts and a few novices like myself, we were to be, for the next few days at least, a community. It’s a concept that is part of the philosophy of Hariharalaya.
“We’ve come so far and it’s a very confusing world and we have lots of responsibility and stresses, but to come back to a very simple, natural way of living – then we can find our joy again, find our energy again,” explains Altman, who was born in the US and journeyed to Cambodia in 2010.
It was meant to be a weeklong trip, but Altman – who had spent many years practising the science of yoga in countries such as India – fell in love with the Kingdom’s traditional music and culture. He made Cambodia his home, and set up Hariharalaya.
“Many people are burnt out in life, for many different reasons,” he says. “Part of it is that we don’t have the support of the community, we don’t have a living connection with our environment, and we don’t have a real connection with ourselves. And that‘s the main thing: to find ways to rediscover ourselves and to nurture ourselves.”
The environment and schedule at Hariharalaya have been set up to offer a space for people to rediscover this “natural way of being”. A programme of compulsory classes, which on my retreat included chanting and body language and communication, introduces visitors to the concept of integral yoga.
“When I say yoga I’m not thinking at all of a gym class and yoga mats,” adds Altman. “I’m thinking of a whole system that leads us into a state of integration and wholeness with ourselves, with our environment, at every level.”
Indeed, the centre is a kind of antidote to the anxieties of modern life. Visitors – around 20 to 25 at a time, staying in both private rooms and the complex’s dorm, all with shared bathrooms – soon fall into a natural rhythm by waking with the sun, taking regular classes and eating at set times, all governed by the Hariharalaya gong.
Cut-off from the constant temptation of social media, due to the lack of WiFi and the use of devices in common areas being frowned upon, our group began to spend more time with nature in both the shady garden, which features an outdoor gym and a cornucopia of wildlife, or by taking a bike ride to the local 150-year-old market or the nearby temples.
Whether stretching into yoga positions under the supervision of the in-house teachers, chatting with fellow visitors around the complex’s small pool, watching nature documentaries in the outdoor cinema or being wowed by a magic show, it soon felt as is life had become simpler. Classes, instead of stress, dictated days.
That’s not to say it was all easy. The centre lacks luxuries such as hot water, while yoga can be physically testing, especially when limbs are sore after days of using previously unknown muscles – though a visit to the centre by blind shiatsu masseuse Liab Chia helped to pummel out any tension.
Meditation sessions, which were built up gradually during the retreat, were also challenging for some. As a newbie, aches and pains developed after sitting up bolt upright for long periods whilst trying, often rather unsuccessfully in my case, to empty the mind.
Yet the challenges were good ones, and it was with a sense of surprise that on the last day I discovered that I could sit in silent meditation without being distracted. It seems that patience, and practise, pays off.
With so many different motivations for visitors to enter the retreat, everyone had a different experience to take home. But personally, I left feeling both mentally and physically invigorated and am continuing to practise yoga regularly. Hariharalaya had given me a well-rounded introduction to the art, as well as some happy memories.
When researching “The Warrior’s Way”, the one and pretty much only thing that got my attention was that the leading man, Jang Dong Gun, would get a kiss from the female opposite, Kate Bosworth. Anything else came secondary, and I had little expectations for this movie.
Where to begin? Jang Dong Gun, who has starred in box-office hits like Chingoo and Tae GukKi, was the attractive, masculine hero, swooping in at the right moments to save the day and the dame. Kate Bosworth played a bright and bubbly country bumpkin with an agenda of her own, which included stealing a kiss from the alpha Asian. There was the most adorable happa baby to ever exist with equally adorable acting skills, and…did I mention it was NINJAS vs. COWBOYS?!
Unfortunately, not many people agreed with me – I was one of five people in the theater on the opening day, and I’m pretty sure none of them enjoyed it quite like I did. Granted, the fight scenes were greeted with awe and the filming was insightful and artistic. I’m sure neither of these things escaped the viewers. What I feel many people missed is the message the director was trying to send: what the races of the actors expressed about this attempt to rewrite Hollywood’s racial roles. These things seem minuscule to a typical movie-goer, but to me, it was one of the most ground-breaking moments in cinematic history.
Take, most obviously, the Asian male lead. While he is from South Korea and not Asian-American, the fact that an Asian was cast as a lead, despite the martial-arts background of the movie, is still very uncommon. Place a non-Asian female lead as his love interest that he actually gets to kiss and we already have something beautiful but very rarely seen. In addition, it is crucial to make note that she kissed him; this portrays that women find Asian men attractive. Let that sentence sink in – women find Asian men as a sex symbol, a love interest, a romantic partner. It was a glorious thing to behold.
Supporting roles and race were also incredibly important. Geoffrey Rush, most recent notable movies include the Pirates of the Caribbean series, was the town drunk with secret sniping skills that aided our hero in ridding the town of evil. And, just as the good guys had an Asian and a White man, evil did too. The sleepy Western town was caught in the grasp of a disfigured White man who loved nothing more than causing chaos and sleeping with women. On the other hand, there was a horde of ninjas, headed by a supporting Asian actor, chasing after our hero for his disobedience, killing everything in sight.
So what did these actors say with their respective races? When Kate Bosworth was in the sinister clutches of the Caucasian villains, about to be raped, Jang Dong Gun, with agility and ease, flew in and swiftly killed her captors. In sum, an alpha Asian saved a woman from an evil White man. It showed that Asian men are powerful and capable, just like White men. But, to show that not all White men are evil and against Asian men, Geoffrey Rush stood in the background, the unsung hero that denied recognition, and helped save the town from certain destruction. It showed that the White man doesn’t always need to be the hero; he has many faces and is capable of sharing the limelight. Finally, Jang Dong Gun faced
his former mentor, head of the ninjas, in a samurai showdown-like standoff, reminding the audience that, just as Asian men need to be shown in a positive light, realistically, they are human, and can be good as well as evil.
The movie truly resonated with me, appealing to my inner nerd in so many different ways. It made me giddy to see some of the coolest fight scenes set to epic, Asian-influenced music, and, of course, that AM/WF kiss. This movie is odd and stylized, but I urge everyone to support it so we see more alpha Asians in cinema in the future.
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