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Friday, June 14, 2013

Autonomous energy-scavenging micro devices will test water quality, monitor bridges, more

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Hand-held instruments for use in the field would employ sophisticated photonics systems powered by unused energy from sunlight, body heat, or other sources

Out in the wilds or anywhere off the grid, sophisticated instruments small enough to fit in a shirt pocket will one day scavenge power from sunlight, body heat, or other sources to monitor water quality or bridge safety, enabling analysis in the field rather than bringing samples and data back to the lab.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario are using optics and photonics in their quest to "bring the lab to the sample," said lead researcher Vassili Karanassios of the Department of Chemistry and of the university's Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). A major aspect of his team's solution, reported in a conference and publication by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is scavenging energy from various sources to power instruments at the sample site.

While energy harvesting utilizes sources such as wind power, energy scavenging involves re-using discarded energy, such as the electric light that runs a calculator, Karanassios said.

The team is incorporating wake-up systems in the devices to support energy autonomy, the ability to be powered as needed without an external source, without losing selectivity, the ability to gather and accurately analyze relevant data.

An important feature of his lab's approach is the integration of several features of full-scale laboratory instruments.

"People have experimented with sensors and with lab-on-a-chip devices for a long time," Karanassios said. "But taking an entire instrument to the field in a hand-held device is new. Not many research groups have the expertise to integrate it all, to go from the sensor level to the micro-instrument level."

The team is also working to reduce the power required for miniature instruments that perform optical emission spectrometry ? using light to generate the spectral patterns that are intrinsically unique to materials ? with very small samples. The resulting spectral "signature" is used to identify what is in the sample, for example, in on-site monitoring of water quality.

Among power source optics, sunlight is one obvious answer, Karanassios said, but limited by clouds and brief daylight in some regions. Additional possible sources and applications for energy scavenging are:

Plugging in to human body heat, unobtrusively scavenging energy in the form of otherwise-wasted heat generated by a person while walking, to power instruments for testing water quality or wearable biomedical monitors.
Harnessing animal body heat, to recharge implanted tracking devices. "When tagging and tracking animals in the wild, you do not want to have to catch the same animal one more time just to replace the battery that powers its sensors," Karanassios noted.
Charging up a bridge sensor using mechanical energy generated in a spring-loaded device in the road, activated by vehicles crossing the bridge.

Because smaller sensors and instruments require less power, Karanassios' lab is working toward "shirt-pocket size" micro-instruments that eventually will deliver performance comparable to full-size lab versions.

They have experimented with a device the size of sugar cube that can be used along with a portable spectrometer for rapid screening of environmental contaminants, using spectral lines generated by wavelengths in the visible light and ultraviolet regions.

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A paper detailing the work by Karanassios and Waterloo colleagues Donghyun Lee and Gurjit Dulai was published 28 May in the SPIE Digital Library, and presented in a conference on Energy Harvesting and Storage at SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2013 last month in Baltimore. Titled "Survey of energy harvesting and energy scavenging approaches for on-site powering of wireless sensor- and microinstrument-networks," the paper is available via open access through 31 August 2013.

Karanassios also described the work in a video interview with the SPIE Newsroom, viewable at http://spie.org/x94092.xml (5:58).

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. The Society serves more than 235,000 constituents from approximately 155 countries, offering conferences, continuing education, books, journals, and a digital library in support of interdisciplinary information exchange, professional networking, and patent precedent. SPIE provided over $3.2 million in support of education and outreach programs in 2012.

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Autonomous energy-scavenging micro devices will test water quality, monitor bridges, more

Public release date: 13-Jun-2013
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Contact: Amy Nelson
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SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics

Hand-held instruments for use in the field would employ sophisticated photonics systems powered by unused energy from sunlight, body heat, or other sources

While energy harvesting utilizes sources such as wind power, energy scavenging involves re-using discarded energy, such as the electric light that runs a calculator, Karanassios said.

An important feature of his lab's approach is the integration of several features of full-scale laboratory instruments.

Plugging in to human body heat, unobtrusively scavenging energy in the form of otherwise-wasted heat generated by a person while walking, to power instruments for testing water quality or wearable biomedical monitors.
Harnessing animal body heat, to recharge implanted tracking devices. "When tagging and tracking animals in the wild, you do not want to have to catch the same animal one more time just to replace the battery that powers its sensors," Karanassios noted.
Charging up a bridge sensor using mechanical energy generated in a spring-loaded device in the road, activated by vehicles crossing the bridge.

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Karanassios also described the work in a video interview with the SPIE Newsroom, viewable at http://spie.org/x94092.xml (5:58).

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Weiser leads way for others to navigate real estate landscape

Michael Weiser

By Orlando Lee Rodriguez

?It?s who you know.? That is the tagline on GFI Realty Services Inc.?s logo.

Anyone with experience as a commercial broker knows that, unlike residential sales, where your first deal could be your mom?s Cape Cod house in Larchmont or your drinking buddy?s ranch in Fort Lee, commercial real estate sales, especially in dense New York City, are an entirely different animal, where getting access to a decision maker is not easy without a guide.

And that is where a senior executive comes in handy as a mentor with a map.

?I manage the brokerage group, but I?m not a broker,? said executive vice president Michael Weiser, at GFI?s lower Manhattan office. ?I don?t work on commission and I don?t sell properties. I?ve seen the chess board from every side and I?m trying to put that all to use helping each part of the company.?

At GFI, Weiser is that confidant with a compass for junior brokers. After 17 years of making his own path through the forest, he has a machete to clear the tall reeds, helping others through the salesmen?s wilderness.

At one time, Weiser was the newbie. Given his first break in 1996, he started out doing equipment financing in?GFI?s finance group was just beginning, ?not property sales. But it was in the course of doing his regular duties where he recognized an opportunity.

?At the time, parts of the limited service hotel industry were redeveloping from the old exterior corridor properties to interior [ones], and developing what came to be known as what ?limited full service,? Weiser said. ?In order to maintain the franchise property, owners were required to upgrade. That new included furniture, new signage, electronics, whatever the property required.

?But a lot of those properties throughout the country had owners who lived on-site and requiring a quarter-million dollars in improvements would be a whole year of profits. So I started helping those guys by financing their Franchiser mandated improvements, helping them improve the properties.?

Then he asked the key question.

?I asked them where they were getting their mortgages from,? he said. ?They were getting them from local banks at 65 percent loan to value. CMBS was fully started at the time and those guys were more than happy to get 75 percent LTV versus what they had before. As I got into that, I got into sales.?

Weiser then started to invest in properties himself, gaining experience in that area as well, which he then started to do for GFI. Today, he specializes in identifying key investments in neighborhoods just before they become ?up and coming?.

GFI, which started in 1983 as a residential mortgage banking organization in Brooklyn, added an ownership and development arm, creating space for Weiser to use his talent for finding value added properties.

?We bought 1186 Broadway. It was that grimy example of the kind of deal that was available and on sale for years,? he said. ?Everybody saw it and nobody was buying. So one day, we said ?There is value here, we got to unlock it?.?

GFI then bought 1186 and put up the Ace Hotel, expanding it to Palm Springs, California. The company also developed 470 Vanderbilt Avenue near the Barclay?s Center in Brooklyn, another commercial property.

?We got in there in 2006, before Atlantic Yards was in the early planning stages,? said Weiser. ?We have the other half of the block where we are building rental housing. We are an early mover into areas because we see it.?

Areas of New York City that Weiser says GFI sees as untapped include the Grand Concourse in The Bronx, where multifamily buildings in the Art Deco and Tudor style are in abundance, yet still largely undervalued.

?For some areas in the Bronx, it?s just a matter of time,? he said. ?People go to those buildings and say, ?Wow.? If you put those buildings on Park Avenue, you would never know, right? A guy would pay you ten-grand-a-month to live [on Park Avenue], but in The Bronx he will pay $1,200 a month for the same building. There are people who are looking for value and want to be in a nice place. I think landlords will have the opportunity to reinvest in those buildings and will get the rent.?

That being said, Weiser also knows that markets are not made by developers, but by tenants who ?discover? neighborhoods first and create value.

So the key is to move first, but not too early.

?It?s the tenants,? he said. ?Look at it. Williamsburg was the tenants. Bed-Stuy is the tenants, Bushwick is the tenants. It?s never led by a radical developer. Usually a radical developer puts something up and says ?if you build it they will come? and usually ends up sucking wind. Eventually they come, but that?s when the tail is wagging the dog.

?Any time you are talking about who are the first people coming to an area that is up and coming, it?s always the artists.?

Regardless of who leads the charge into these new frontier neighborhoods, Weiser feels that GFI?s growth strategy to cover all the bases in a transaction just brings more value and makes things easier for their clients, whether they are investors looking to improve an undervalued property or a family seeking their first mortgage.

?We?re a real estate firm, that?s our first, last and middle name,? he said. ?We recognize that time is money. You can explain a deal to one broker and then to your sales broker and then to your insurance broker. It?s the same explanation, everybody needs the same information. We want to be a one stop shop for our clients.?

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NC protests split on Bible's message to help poor

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ? Over the last two months, hundreds of protesters have walked out of North Carolina's capitol in handcuffs to show their opposition to policies by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

While a broader coalition of supporters is building around the "Moral Mondays" started by the state chapter of the NAACP, the inspiration behind the protests is a throwback to the biblical message of civil rights leaders fighting segregation in the Jim Crow era.

They argue that cutting benefit programs and cutting tax breaks for low- and middle-income families violates Jesus Christ's teaching to care for those with the least. It's running into another school of Christian thought followed by many Southern conservatives: The best way to help the poor is through private charity, providing jobs and promoting self-reliance, rather than government programs.

The NAACP, and other groups that are joining them in larger numbers, oppose a range of Republican policies, from refusing to expand Medicaid to about 500,000 more people to restricting eligibility for the state's pre-kindergarten program. Republicans, who control both chambers of the Legislature for the first time in more than a century, have also cut unemployment benefits and abolished the earned-income tax credit, which serves low to middle-income people.

State bishops and church leaders from five major Christian denominations issued a statement supporting the NAACP's actions ahead of a clergy-led protest on Monday.

Robert Daniels, senior pastor at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, said Monday that he chose to get arrested to let legislators know that disproportionately hurting the poor wouldn't go unnoticed by voters or God.

"I want them to know that justice will win," he said. "God will show his hand that he's for the poor. It's only a matter of time."

Matthew Wilson, a professor at Southern Methodist University who writes about the intersection of religion and politics, said differences in responses to poverty historically come down to denomination. Roman Catholics and black Protestants don't oppose public solutions, but Protestants of evangelical or Baptist leanings often do. And those denominations ? heavily clustered in the South ? emphasize personal responsibility, an individual relationship with God and work ethic, he said.

"A lot of studies show that evangelicals give more money to private anti-poverty groups than any others, so they do take very seriously the biblical imperatives to help the poor, but they differ in that they see the biblical imperative to help the poor as being an individual imperative as opposed to a collective social imperative," Wilson said.

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said he sees Christians as similarly concerned with prosperity for all, but divided over how to bring it about.

"Obviously there will always be those who have no concern for the poor at all, and that's clearly forbidden by Scripture, but usually the differences we have are over unintended consequences," he said. "And so Democrats and Republicans will disagree on what policy objectives will actually help the poor and what will put into place patterns that will, in the long-term, harm poor people.

The protests are dominating local news coverage and attracting national attention, but that doesn't mean they'll be immediately effective. Republicans maintain that they're doing exactly what the public wanted in electing them to veto-proof majorities and the protesters don't represent a clear majority. But the NAACP plans to continue its weekly protests indefinitely.

While some Republicans hesitate to apply biblical lessons to fiscal programs, that hasn't stopped a raft of legislation on private social behavior. In recent years, North Carolina lawmakers have pushed through a constitutional amendment for voters to ban gay marriage and new restrictions on abortion.

Rep. Ruth Samuelson, R-Mecklenburg and a long-practicing Christian, said social legislation as well as economic policy are inevitably driven by worldviews, and among people of faith those perspectives are influenced by their religious beliefs. She said she and her family act charitably in private, but she thinks the best economic policies rein in spending and create a better climate for businesses.

"If we're spending money on this thing, we're taking it from somewhere else, but we can't do it at the cost of the ability of the person paying for the taxes to still have enough to provide for their own families and to create that environment for jobs," she said.

To other Christians, the Bible calls for reforms that more directly address systems of inequality.

Miguel De La Torre, a professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, said he sees the NAACP's efforts akin to the Occupy movement but with more of a moral current. The one-time Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives said the more evangelical strain of Protestantism is tied to the American ideal of individualism, which he believes misses a clear biblical call to address economic strife.

"Having faith without the work of changing the structures is meaningless, which is where I think the NAACP is opposed to the more dominant evangelical view of Christianity," he said.

The state NAACP chapter president, the Rev. William Barber, argues it's impossible to divorce a call for collective social justice from the Bible, given that most of it was written under systems of exploitation and Christ focused so heavily on uplifting the poor.

"The problem with (private initiative) is, if you see a kid floating down the river, you can run in and rescue that one child. But if you see a bunch more, you have to go up that river to see who's throwing them in," he said. "If we didn't apply that moral critique we wouldn't have hospitals, public schools, universities, Medicaid, Medicare, unemployment (benefits), even labor laws."

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