SU and SRC Researchers form Collaboration

Syracuse University has announced that they will be collaborating on a series of projects with research and development company SRC. Together, they will work on projects dealing with counterterrorism, cybersecurity, chemical-biological defense, and alternative energy, while also looking to create new products.

The collaboration is designed to create a form of synergy for each side. Vice President for research development at SU Gina Lee-Glauser states that the different strengths will complement each other, and each side will push each other into new directions.

SRC describes itself as, “a not-for-profit, research and development company that develops unique, creative solutions for nationally significant challenges in defense, environmental and intelligence.”

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SU Researchers Help Create New Communication Technology

Syracuse University’s researchers at the School of Information Studies and its partners at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Tech, MIT, Tufts University, and RIT have developed a technology that lets people communicate with each other using multiple operating systems. They developed a “virtual grid” that allows anyone who has access to the grid to communicate with each other. The grid, entitled The Edgeware, allows any digital device with an IP address (cell phones, computers, radios), to be linked through the software.

This technology was designed in part to help communication in emergency situations. Currently, it can be difficult for firefighters and police to directly communicate with each other during emergencies because each department operates on a different radio frequency. The Edgeware technology will bridge the communication gap.

The Edgeware will be presented at the TEDxHarlem technology exhibit in the spring of 2012.

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Novelis Announces Big Expansion in Oswego, NY

Global aluminum titan Novelis recently announced that it will invest funds of roughly $200 million into its Oswego plant to build a 192,000-square-foot addition. The addition to the 1.4-million-square-foot plant is due to the escalating demand for aluminum sheet in the United States. The project can be seen as Novelis’ ability to capitalize on the growing popularity of going green. Automakers are using more aluminum in their vehicles to make them lighter and more fuel-efficient without reducing size. Novelis states that these lighter weight vehicles are a major part of the solution to the challenge in reducing emissions and improving fuel economy.

Novelis also announced that the increase in production will create approximately 100 new employees at Oswego over the next two years.

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NYS to Implement New Bridge Detection System

The New York Department of Transportation has begun work on a detection system that will use laser technology to warn vehicles that are too tall for the clearance of the CSX railroad bridge over the Onondaga Lake Parkway. This is a direct response to the fatal Megabus crash that occurred on the bridge in September of 2010. The crash resulted from the driver being unaware of the fact that the bus was too tall.

The system will consist of a laser projector and receiver established on opposite sides of the Route 370 road, along with vehicle detectors placed directly in the roadway.

If the vehicle is too tall, it will trigger the laser and roadside detectors. This will activate flashing signs for the vehicle to stop immediately, and notify law enforcement.

The DOT announced that the system is expected to be completed in the fall of 2011.

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Federal Regulators Approve Lockheed Martin's Mining Technology

Federal regulators have approved Lockheed Martin’s MagneLink for use in mines in the United States. MagneLink is a device that uses magnetic waves to send messages to trapped miners, instead of the traditional use of radio waves. This will provide better communication between miners who become trapped deep underground with those on the surface. The device captures voice down to 1,550 feet below the surface, and data down to 1,900 feet.

Lockheed Martin was motivated to develop this advanced technology after the Sago Mine disaster in 2006 that left several miners dead.

The company plans to expand the use of MagneLink and believes that the market for the device could be used in any type of mine globally.

Lockheed Martin is an international company known for its work in defense, radar and sonar technology. It is headquartered in Salina, NY.

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Clarkson University Students Earn Third Place in NASA Competition

Clarkson University and a group of Uruguayan students teamed up to place third in a recent NASA sponsored competition created to invoke space exploration innovation.

The Clarkson team was one of 18 that attended the 2011 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) forum June 6-8 in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

The team pitched a plan for a safe and relatively cost-effective way to launch a manned mission to Mars to a panel of NASA and industry leaders.

Clarkson University Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Pier Marzocca, team co-advisor, said that the competition is designed to give NASA fresh ideas and to spark the imagination and creativity of college students. "They are looking for thinking out of the box," he said. "NASA people have been used to always doing things in a certain way - have flown the Space Shuttle for almost 30 years - and having innovative ideas coming from college students can let them thinking differently - that's what this program is all about."

The students learn about NASA and space exploration while helping NASA brainstorm new technologies to further advance their space exploration program.

This year, Clarkson students collaborated with students from Uruguay. The Clarkson students were primarily in charge of the system engineering analysis and implementation aspects while the team members from Uruguay were in charge of the architectural design, timeline, and business aspects.

Central to the approach is to build a spacecraft that would travel from Earth to Mars and back without landing on either planet. A separate craft would shuttle passengers and cargo from Earth orbit, to the first ship. Those two ships would travel to Mars together, along with a third vessel that would make the actual Mars landing. All three ships would be reusable, helping to make the system cost effective.
 
The students also designed a system for the main spaceship to capture an asteroid and mine it for its resources. These resources could be used to aide travels between the two planets.

The students named their proposal Yvy pita, meaning "red world" in Guarani, a native Uruguay language.

Located in Potsdam, NY, Clarkson University describes itself as a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Clarkson connects discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.

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St. Joseph’s Named One of the ‘Most Wired’ Hospitals

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center was placed among the nation’s Most Wired for the second consecutive year in a survey released today by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. It earned a spot on the list for “making progress toward adopting great health information technology.”

“This reflects the commitment by St. Joseph’s to provide the safest, most cost effective care to our patients,” Marty Mulderig, director of information services at St. Joseph’s, said in a news release. “Our strategic investments in state-of-the-art information technology have provided our employees and physicians with tools to make it easier for them to deliver patient care at St. Joseph’s.”

St. Joseph’s technological achievements include implementing a Computerized Physician Order Entry system in order to improve patient care and information collection. St. Joseph’s is among the first health care providers to use electronic medical records in its primary care centers.

St. Joseph’s Hospital is located on

742 James Street

in Syracuse, NY.

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Zetroz Creates High-Frequency Therapeutic Device

Ithaca, NY based start-up company Zetroz has designed a device that generates high-frequency sound waves for muscle therapy, much like therapeutic ultrasound devices commonly used in physical therapy. The difference is the sound waves would be administered at a lower intensity and for up to several hours at a time and not in a practitioner's office. The intention is that people suffering from chronic muscle pain will be able to treat themselves by wearing the ultrasound device.

While therapeutic devices using ultrasound are not new, Zetroz diversifies itself by size. CEO Bryant Guffey states, "We're special because we're the only company that can build it this small," "The therapy has been around. We're making it really easy."

Zetroz is already selling a veterinary version of the device named Ultroz and is seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a human version now under development.


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MicroGen and Infinite Power Solutions Create New Energy Evaluation Kit

MicroGen Systems, Inc of Ithaca, NY, and Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. of Littleton, CO, recently created a complete Wireless Sensor Network solution powered by a combination of their products.

At the Sensors Expo and Tradeshow 2011, MicroGen’s MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester (PZEH) micro-power generator product called the BOLT™060 combined with the THINERGY® IPS-EVAL-EH-01 Energy Harvesting Evaluation Kit from IPS to power-up a wireless sensor board.

The IPS-EVAL-EH-01 is a universal energy harvesting evaluation kit that accepts energy from a variety of energy harvesting transducers and efficiently stores the energy in a THINERGY® MEC101 solid-state micro-energy cell (MEC), a thin-film battery the size of a postage stamp. The THINERGY MEC101 is a near loss-less energy storage device making it ideal to accept charge currents less than 1 harvesting applications..

MicroGen is developing a MEMS-based PZEH family of products under BOLT™ intended to enable low power electronic devices.

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CXtec CEO Sets Revenue Goal of $100 Million

EXtec, a Salina, NY based technology company is setting an ambitious goal for the future. The company that sells new and used data networking, voice equipment, and its own line of cabling earned $61.7 million in revenue in 2010. While CXtec is on pace to pass this number in 2011, CEO William G. Pomeroy states that the long-term goal is to ultimately reach revenue of $100 million per year. Pomeroy believes that this number is possible due to industry growth and more importantly, CXtec’s expansion into other areas.

EXtec launched Teracai in 2009, a company that focuses on the sales of new and used Cisco products. In 2010, EXtec created LIFECYCLExpress, a company that allows customers to completely dispose of their e-waste.

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