Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic, a lot of educational institutions from schools and universities rushed to get an online solution in order to keep their classes going and their students safe at home, But Lebanon’s problem with e-learning goes way back, before the COVID19 era. As a contributor to the education sector, I’ve […]
In the previous article “The Era of Building Automation” we talked about the origin of building automation and how it all started. In this article, we will dig deeper into the architecture of a building management system and how it works. Building Management System, as the name states, facilitates the management of a building with […]
Electric vehicles (EVs) have become a subject of focus for many leading automobile companies as well as newer, lesser-known start-ups. Be it Tesla, Audi, Citroën, or even recently the Turkish company TOGG, massive efforts are continuously being put into the advancement of electric vehicles to maximize their range, boost their performance, and introduce them to […]
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole………and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able […]
The Big Bang of Building Automation It all started back in 1883, when Warren Johnson, a school teacher from Milwaukee came up with the basic idea of a thermostat. It was a simple device where a light bulb in the janitors’ room is activated whenever the temperature in the served area drops to notify them […]
Hogwarts, from the Harry Potter books and movies, is an institution that takes in people with magical abilities and works on developing them theoretically and practically so that they become skillful wizards in their fields. We were inspired by that concept and thus created a nonfiction version called Hogwarts of Engineers. Just like its fictional […]