Month: July 2024
People who install and maintain electric, telecommunication and/or cable lines are known as line workers. Most of these personnel are properly trained and skilled in pole-climbing and working from a bucket truck with power lines, exposing themselves to electrocution and other aerial hazards. For example, if a line worker is jolted with electricity and subsequently collapses inside a bucket truck, then foremen, supervisors and other ground crews must have enough knowledge to safely lower that person to the ground in order to administer first aid.
Safety Training
Most personnel working on such lines today use aerial lifts to accomplish power line tasks much faster and more safely. It is very important for them to individually understand the proper safety procedures so that rescue procedures can be administered to save co-workers lives if necessary. There are various rescue procedures that can be utilized in the event of an emergency involving the bucket truck.
Overriding the Upper Control – Superseding the upper control using the lower control is the safest way to lower the bucket and rescue an unconscious employee who has been electrocuted. In cases where lowering the boom cannot be accomplished in this way, the ground crew can use the auxiliary system or bleed the pressure valves in order to lower the boom safely and revive the unconscious worker as quickly as possible.
Quick Release Device – Extricating an unconscious worker safely from the bucket may require the platform to be lowered to the ground. The bucket quick release device can be activated in order to detach the platform from the boom. When the platform is placed safely on the ground, extricating and administering first aid to the injured person can be better accomplished.
Harness and Rope – There are cases where lowering the boom by any normal means is impossible. Workers who are injured but not incapacitated can use their harnesses and rope to lower themselves to the ground. Other employees can climb up the pole near the bucket to help the employee be lowered to the ground.
Annual Basic Training
Utility companies should have annual basic training for their workers so they can practice and refresh safety education. Operation managers should watch and guide their personnel as they undergo this drill. Pole top rescue training can be done using simulation with a dummy, making it as close to real life as possible. Each employee can take turns performing the rescue by using both the pole top and aerial bucket truck. Training for a four-person crew with three workers will usually take a full day.
Encouraging Safety Practices
There are several ways to encourage line workers, crews and service personnel to practice safety and give their best effort. One idea is to have employees participate in competitions hosted in nearby communities that are designed for such rescues. The contest will most likely include situations involving an injured dummy line person on a pole-top; other workers will call dispatch, climb the forty-foot pole, and climb down bringing the injured dummy to the ground. At that time, the personnel take off their climbing gear and administer first aid including CPR within a certain time limit.
Prioritizing safety practices is very important for every utility company. Rescues from aerial bucket trucks should be included in all annual training so workers can be prepared for any emergency scenario. Then these workers will indeed be prepared for any potential aerial bucket truck rescue!
saw a broader adoption of SIP as a phone standard and for good reason. Whether you are based in Michigan or have offices nationally or internationally, cost continues to be a primary driver for change in any enterprise, and SIP offers businesses large and small an opportunity to achieve significant cost savings in their monthly communications bill. These costs savings are a direct result of lowering long-distance, maintenance, support and administrative costs.
Once an IP telephony system is in place, the costs for adds, moves, and changes may also drop.
What is SIP?
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) defined signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). Put slightly differently, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) connection is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that connects a company’s private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via the Internet.
Scalability & Cost Benefits
SIP Trunking has the benefit of easily expanding your network and system as your needs change. For example, with an IP PBX installed at your main office, there is no need to incur additional cost of installing an additional PBX when you open a secondary location. There is also no need for additional wiring and other installation costs. All you need to do is add phones and terminals and you are able to make both internal and external phone calls through the PBX located at the main office.
Additional Benefits
In addition to considerable cost savings and scalability, SIP provides other benefits for the business telephone user, including:
— Simultaneous ringing with a smartphone and your desk set phone
— Transfer of calls between a smartphone and a desk phone
— Smartphone Apps (such as the Bria App for iPhone and SIPDroid for the Android) that lets you do VOIP (no per minute charges)
— Find-me functionality
— Audio messages delivered as a WAV file directly to your email
SIP is quickly becoming recognized as the leading standard for voice and video. Hosted VoIP telephony is a solution favored by companies because it uses a broadband connection at high speed for transmitting voice and data over an IP platform, is cost-effective and is very scalable with little effort required. It also possesses ancillary benefits that improve the business process and makes doing business more efficient.
Current situation
According to the latest report The telecommunications market in Russia 2011. Development forecasts for 2011-2015 published by PMR, a market research company, the value of the telecommunications services market in Russia increased by 17.3% year on year to 27.3bn in 2010, from approximately 23.2bn in 2009. The growth rate measured in local currency was lower and amounted to 10%. It should be noted that PMR last year forecasts concerning the telecoms market value in 2010, excluding exchange rate fluctuations, assumed the growth rate of 4 p.p. lower than the actual result.
Overall economic recovery in the country continue to be one of the main market growth drivers in 2010. The demand for telecommunications services in Russia went up after the crisis which hit the Russian economy end of 2008. In 2010, after a sharp decline in 2009, operators also increased the investments in the construction of new networks and the improvement of service quality.
The Russian telecommunications market has been steadily increasing, starting in 2000 with the development of mobile telephony and internet access. In the last two years, the market was affected by the migration of voice traffic from fixed to mobile networks and also to the internet and, as a result, the segment of fixed-line telephony began to stagnate. The growth of mobile voice services also declined with the increasing maturity of this market. The most dynamic during recent years was the segment of internet access, including both fixed and mobile technologies. This market was an area of business growth for the operators in 2009-2010, and it will continue to play a role of the development driver for the entire telecommunications market in Russia, considering its relatively low maturity.
Mobile telephony is by far the largest segment of the Russian telecommunications market. Based on the revenue reports provided by operators, total sales of mobile voice and non-voice services in Russia in 2010 amounted to RUB 710bn (17.7bn), which is 10.6% more than in the previous year measured in roubles, or 17.9% measured in euros. The mobile telephony market accounted for the largest part of the telecommunications spending in Russia last year. Even if to exclude mobile VAS and to consider only the mobile voice segment, the mobile telephony share would reach the level of almost 50% in 2010, while the total number of registered SIM cards already exceeded 150% of the total population of Russia.
Provision of access to the internet remains the most dynamic and fast growing segment of the telecommunications market in Russia, which increased by 30% year on year in 2010. This growth of the market was driven by quickly increasing penetration of fixed-line broadband but also enhanced by the fast expansion of 3G networks and the operators active promotion of mobile internet.
3G and LTE uptake
With the commercial launch of UMTS networks in 2008, an increasing contribution to the growth of the mobile telephony market in Russia is already coming from non-voice value-added services provided in mobile networks, especially from broadband internet. Development of 3G networks is also changing the landscape of the Russian mobile telephony market. Operators from the Big Three group got a new source of revenue from the development of mobile broadband internet, which became the main 3G application.
Meanwhile, two concepts of the future LTE networks development in Russia have been recently presented. In December 2010, the Russian government proposed to create LTE Consortium which was expected to come up with proposals related to the development of 4G networks in the country. The consortium was created by the leading national telecommunications operators, including Rostelecom, MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon. Smaller regional operators were not invited to join. Mid of 2011, LTE Consortium presented a report which states that the available radio spectrum is feasible to be shared between four operators and each of the operators will need to invest RUB 85.7bn (2.1bn) to install approximately 20,810 base stations covering over 10,400 of locations in the country with more than 1,000 of inhabitants, i.e. to build a federal LTE network. The condition is that the operators will use simultaneously a 690-880 MHz and 2,500-2,700 MHz radio bandwidth having 30 MHz spectrum each. In March 2011, there was also an agreement between MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom, Rostelecom and Skartel, which had already had available a bandwidth for LTE, that Skartel would build LTE networks in 180 cities and towns in Russia and would give each of the operator 20% capacity in this network. Skartel expects to invest approximately RUB 60bn (1.5bn) in the project.
It is not certain yet what kind of strategy for LTE development will be applied in Russia. Either the government will announce a tender for four federal licences or Skartel will build the network. A real barrier for the development of the LTE network in the country is the fact that radio bandwidth is already used by military communication systems and the investments in conversion are considered to be very high. All in all, the most probable scenario now could be the launch of the first LTE networks in Russia not earlier than in 2014 comments Pawel Olszynka, a PMR analyst and one of the report authors.
Short-term forecasts
Macroeconomic development forecasts for Russia for 2011-2012 are positive. GDP is expected to reach 4.5% annually. This remains a good background for the business development and investments in telecommunications services and networks. The growth in the consumers confidence boosts the demand for IT and telecommunications services and facilitates the spending on personal computers, mobile phones and the internet.
The Russian telecommunications market will continue its upward trend over the next two years or so, triggered by the growing internet services market, both in fixed and mobile networks. One strategic advantage of the Russian ISP market over other Central and Eastern European countries is its big size, poor development and territorial coverage, therefore, almost all providers and all wire and wireless technologies will have a chance to get their niche. In a broader perspective, the services connected with the telecommunications market, e.g. digital pay TV, will also play a more important role. The mobile market in Russia will not be driven by simple emission of millions of SIM cards, but rather by attracting customers to actively use new services. Non-voice and more advanced value-added services will continue to gain in significance and an increasing proportion of mobile carrier revenues will come from this source.
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The first ever hoppity hop / retro space hopper was called PON-PON, and was the invention of an Italian who was called Aquilino Cosani. And was based at Ledragomma, Italy.
In 1968 Cosani patented the PON-PON in Italy, and in 1969 was introduced to the United Kingdom through an advert putin the Cambridge Evening News paper. Cosani patented the PON-PON in 1971 in the United States of America. The USA already had a space hopper type toy that people used to bounce on, and this toy was created by the Sun company, and was called Hoppity Hop. All hoppers of this type are called Hoppity Hop or Hippity Hop these days, which was due to the popularity of the earliest hopper distributed and produced by the Sun company.
In the Britain the Space Hopper (UK name) was distributed and produced by Mettoy, which was later to become Mettoy-Corgi. Another company created a different version of the bouncing ball, but this ball had handles that were smooth for the rider to hold, whereas the earliest had opted for ribbed handles for better grip. The other company was called Wembley.
Initially the Space Hoppers were made up of a handle in the shape of a ring on the top of the space hopper type toy which was gripped by the rider for stability, and they were constructed from rubber. These toys were supplied in a choice of just a couple of colors, either red or blue. Sun created themed versions of their Hoppity Hop during the 1970s, which had a hard plastic head fixed to the ball in the shape of some favorite fictional character. A couple of the popular fictional characters used were Micky Mouse and Donald Duck.
The hoppity hop / space hopper was very popular during the 60s and 70s, with a resurgence of interest in the UK during the 1990s, thanks to the rave culture of the time, where the balls were recognised asa neccessary part of the scene. In the United States of America due to an incursion of competition by foreign creators of the toy the Hoppity Hop’s popularity severely faltered and finally the production of the north American version of the bouncy ball came to a halt.
Initially the USA version of the hopper, known as the Hoppity Hop, was aimed at both adults and children, but due to the limited size of the biggest version, it was not really useable by adults except for those close to a kid in size.
Europe of the 1990s brought a version of the bouncy ball went by the name of the Hop, and was created by the Italian company Ledragomma. These were created from a well-liked ball used for exercise at the time called Gymnic exercise balls. These hoppers had a maximum size of 26 inches..
Modern day retro space hoppers – Sizes for adultshave become very popular in later year and can be found in sizes of 120cm, 100cm, and 80cm. They are commonly more robust than the original balls, having much thicker skins
and as a rule built from vinyl rather than rubber.
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