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Is distributed cloud the next cloud model or rather a concept? By Aditya Abeysinghe   The Cloud in “Cloud Computing” refers to the abstraction of the location in which data storage and processing is performed. The customer rarely knows where their data are and what security measures are taken to protect their data. Due to this nature, many companies use on premise data centers or have hybrid clouds, i.e. a combination of public and private clouds to combine the benefits of both architectures. However, a new trend in cloud computing has emerged where the cloud service providers themselves distribute the cloud to known locations and provide services. This trend is called distributed clouds and is now widely being used by many customers as a new method of hosting their data. With distributed cloud the data can be processed closer to the customer in separate smaller clouds, compared to a large ...

Jun 5, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , ,
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The rise of cloud robotics: How the cloud is transforming robotic landscape By Aditya Abeysinghe   Robots come in different forms based on the place, purpose and the level of automation they are used. They have been used both for legitimate and fraudulent activities, for both commercial and government purposes, as hardware and software and as a replacement for humans. However, with new models such as computer vision, computational thinking and processing of large data, i.e. big data, have been coupled with robotic functions, a new question has arisen: How can a robot process all these data and carry out its tasks without losing its “focus”? Several solutions have been proposed for this question and a feasible approach for robots of many forms is to use cloud services for heavy computations. Hence, within the past few years “cloud robotics” or use of cloud resources for robotics has been a new ...

May 29, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged ,
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Intelligent Composable Businesses: How COVID-19 is reshaping businesses By Aditya Abeysinghe   Many businesses are facing closures of their operations or are struggling to keep the pace of their trends in processes with the Covid-19 pandemic. Businesses that have been bounded by limits have hard times to adapt to the new way of doing things with the pandemic. Many businesses also cannot adapt to newer technologies due to the type of goods or services they offer. Therefore, an interesting question is highlighted. How to link the uncertainty with the models, businesses have been following? Or in simple words: How can businesses adapt their way of selling goods/ services to an uncertain future? The key word here is “adapt”. If a business is adaptable or transient and resilient with the change then its chances of progressing amidst the pandemic are high. Hence, to survive a business should be “composable” and “adaptable” ...

May 22, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , ,
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The rise of Personal Delivery Devices: Will a robot deliver my items? By Aditya Abeysinghe   Ever since 1920s, drones have gained popularity for their lightweight, remote controllable freight delivery nature. They have been used for military activities, logistics, agriculture and for recreational activities too. Drones are aerial, terrestrial or aquatic in nature, although, aerial and terrestrial drones are mostly used today. Aerial drones are used mostly for lightweight, fast transport and terrestrial drones are used mostly for heavyweight transport. Of these two types, a new class of drones have emerged in the past few years for transport of goods or rather packages, between sellers and clients requesting items from them. They are collectively called Personal Delivery Devices (PDD) s and are classified in metropolitan areas as a class of pedestrians. Companies such as Google and Amazon have developed aerial drones for package delivery and high priority supply delivery. Hence, ...

May 15, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , , ,
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Sydney Metro: The new driverless hype? By Aditya Abeysinghe   Sydney metro is a fully automated (driverless) train network which started its operations on 26th May 2019. It is currently composed of one line and covers 13 stations from Tallawong to Chatswood covering 36 km. The network is a rapid transmit metro system and is currently operated by Metro Trains Sydney. More than four million customers have travelled in this train service as of now and the overall impression of the service has been overwhelmingly positive.  This metro service is the first of its kind in Australia. Earlier, only countries like Singapore and UAE boasted driverless metros and their experiences. Assembled by Alstom, the French-based manufacturer, each metro is composed of six compartments with newer technologies, accessibility features such as two wheelchair spaces per compartment as well as dedicated spacing for people with mobility needs.  Metro stations also add a ...

May 7, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , , ,
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Robots in Supermarkets: A self-assistant culture or invasion of consumer privacy? By Aditya Abeysinghe     As retail giants soar with customers and aims to keep the balance between supply and demand a vital requirement of supermarket management has been to monitor and assist workers in their daily routines. Many surveillance equipment is widely used in supermarkets worldwide to assist monitoring processes but few have begun a new culture where robots are used not only as surveillance devices but also as assistants to both staff and customers.  Robots are currently used as assistants to look for occurrences of spills, uncleaned floors and direct customers around supermarkets. These robots go up and down store’s aisles and perform these tasks and alert staff members if any occurrences are found. Supermarket chains believe that this will increase the productivity of their daily functions by directing many supervisory tasks to robots.  Robots are used ...

May 1, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , , ,
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Cable Bridge over Kelani River – major engineering feat By Aditya Abeysinghe   Sri Lanka’s first Cable Bridge, a great engineering achievement is planned to be opened to public in July, 2021. Funding for the project is provided as a loan by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with a financial assistance of 35,020 million Japanese Yen. Due to the high volume of traffic entering Colombo City, the need for a new link bridge to reduce the traffic over the current bridge and its urban surroundings were planned over a long period. Hence, the Government of Sri Lanka began constructing a new elevated road project in 2014 running parallel to the current bridge (above *Kelani River) and extending to urban areas in Colombo by the river such as *Dematagoda and *Baseline road. The new bridge is built as a cable suspension bridge to withstand harsh environmental conditions and wear out ...

Apr 18, 2021 Posted by In Aditya Abeysinghe, Articles Tagged , , ,
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