Meet another young engineer Eddy Wu

by Noah Kelly, RES Director Alstom

As a child, nothing comes close to the feeling of school getting cancelled due to snow. These snow days were commonplace for Eddy Wu during his time in elementary and middle school. However, as the years went by, the amount of snow, and consequently, snow days significantly dropped until it was almost a foreign concept to the students. In high school, Eddy wanted to understand why something that used to be so common, became more of a distant memory. When looking into global warming, Eddy became very interested in contrails and their major contribution to the global warming issue.

A contrail refers to the trail of clouds formed by aircraft as the water vapor condenses around small dust particles. This phenomenon has been cited to cause global warming to a higher degree than the CO2 emissions from burning fuel! The reason why contrails have become so detrimental to their environment is due to their ability to trap heat that would otherwise be released into space.

For a contrail to form, certain parameters relating to temperature, humidity, and pressure need to be met. If you could predict these variables at any given location, you could potentially avoid traveling through contrail-forming regions. This is exactly what Eddy Wu set out to do. Eddy developed a Contrail Reduction Algorithm and Data Live E-system (CRADLE) to identify the best routes for commercial flights based on contrail reduction.

Through the use of neural networks and vision transformers, Eddy worked towards creating a highly accurate computer vision model for contrail detection. Once a departure and arrival airport was identified, Eddy would supply his models with publicly available live readings of the weather. The model would then compare the given flight path to a contrailmatched map and calculate a series of alternative routes that would avoid contrail producing regions.

Eddy was able to achieve a contraildetection model with an accuracy of over 93%! He was able to utilize this model within his own app called “Contrail Reduction with Deep Learning”. Eddy was able to create CRADLE primarily using the coding language Python. Eddy had entered CRADLE At the Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair. At this fair, Eddy won Highest Honors for his project, as well as the Air Force Engineering Award and the National Geographic Award. He also won promotion to the Genius Olympiad, an international competition focused on the environment, that will be held at RIT in June.

Eddy had no prior schooling on the language, and became self-taught through the use of YouTube videos and online forums. He had said this project helped inspire his career path, and will be continuing to pursue furthering his research in collaboration with MIT’s THINK Scholarship Program!

In the future, Eddy would like to pursue a career in physics and computer science. When touring a physics lab, Eddy was fascinated by the technology being used. He compared the equipment to that used by the Marvel superhero Iron Man. Since then, he has been reading numerous scientific research articles and fell in love with the idea of bringing new knowledge into the world. He compared physics to that of magic, and wishes to utilize this magic to invoke change and better the world. His advice to students considering research: “You’re never too young to start being curious about things”. q res student feature - up & coming engineer

The Next Generation CONETTIX Receiver from Bosch

Making updates to products is nothing new at Bosch. To build and maintain world class intrusion solutions requires continuous innovation to ensure our offerings meet the challenges customers are looking for us to solve. When engineering and product management were tasked to update our currently fielded receiver product family, it became abundantly clear that we needed to do much more than change out some obsolete components; we needed a clean sheet design. After various trade studies, customer interviews, and market evaluations the engineering and product management team embarked on a journey to move to a softwarecentric receiver solution. A software driven solution was going to not only meet today’s challenges, but create the flexibility needed to address tomorrow’s challenges. We needed to build a product that had a modern, intuitive user interface, with the ability to flex to various customer sizes while still maintaining the reliability that customers were accustomed to from Bosch. The B6800-SR is delivering on this vision.

After a long-awaited development, the B6800-SR will be available for sale to customers in July of 2023. We’re excited to get this into the hands of those that have been asking for it!

Intrusion System Components

To understand why Bosch decided to invest in a new receiver, it helps to understand the role the receiver plays along with other intrusion system components.

A basic system consists of a control panel, a user interface, detectors, an alarm output, and a central monitoring station.

• Control Panel – This is the brain of the entire system

• User Interface – This is the means to control and interact with the intrusion system. This could be a key fob, keypads, or applications on a mobile device.

• Detectors – A sensor that to detects events, movements, or changes in its environment

• Alarm Output – Alerts the users of an occurring alarm. This can be a siren, a message to your phone, or a notification to a monitoring station

• Central Monitoring Station – This supervises the control panel from an offsite location.

What is the new B6800-SR?

The B6800-SR is a software-based IP receiving platform that features Bosch’s award winning CONETTIX IP alarm communication technology to receive alarm messages, process the data quickly, and securely pass the information on to your choice of monitoring automation software. Operating on commercial off-the-shelf Windows software, B6800-SR is simple to install, simple to use and simple to maintain.

A browser-based user interface means that there is no special software to install on your operators’ workstations. Multiple operators can maintain your database simultaneously, greatly streamlining operation – especially in large monitoring centers. B6800-SR operates on your computers, so there is no proprietary hardware to buy or maintain. With flexible licensing for up to 10,500 alarm accounts, B6800-SR has the scalability to support small, medium, and large monitoring centers.

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Key Features

When developing the new B6800-SR, our customers we’re looking for a system that was as reliable as our previous generation receivers, but created greater overall value in a flexible, intuitive, and scalable software solution. Some of those key features are part of the initial B6800-SR launch.

� � Simple and modern web browser GUI to easily configure and maintain accounts

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� Dashboard showing real-time status and vital information about the system

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� Multiple simultaneous users can update panel accounts

� � Web based help directly from the GUI

� � Scalable system runs on existing hardware investments

� Software only IP receiving system that runs in Hyper-V as a Virtual Machine

� � System expansion supports from 500 up to 10,500 panel accounts

� Two Receivers per system for flexible deployments

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Number of panel accounts can be expanded as needed

� � Migrate panel accounts from D6x00 receiver systems

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� Fully automated failover solution as required by UL standards

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� Easy setup and software upgrades for system and security enhancements

With the CONETTIX B6800-SR Software Central Station Receiver, you experience state of the art technology to allow you to provide peace of mind. It’s like nothing really happens.

Investments in Software Development & System Integration

Building a state-of-the-art software receiver like the B6800-SR required significant investment not only into the product itself, but also investments in the team and infrastructure necessary to launch and sustain a product of this nature. As part of this project scope, Bosch also invested in a new Systems Integration Lab (SIL) to reduce development risk and increase the fidelity of the features in the initial launch.

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Specifically, on the B6800-SR project, the SIL enabled the product team to better evaluate and replicate system behavior during (and after) the software development process, ensured key capabilities from legacy products were carried forward, but most importantly enabled the team to make data driven decisions around system requirements and system performance.

System Integration Lab Mission & Purpose

The mission of the SIL is simple, it was established to create value for our customers.

Whether focused on the B600-SR, or other Bosch initiatives, it will position Bosch to provide better system integration with key customers, better integration with evolving technology, and increased customer intimacy.

The SIL has established and will continue to establish a new standard of collaboration with customers unlike anything Bosch has ever taken on before.

About Bosch Intrusion in Fairport, NY

Keeping the wrong people out is the goal of every security system. But when your facility is at risk, you want to know that your intrusion system will perform. From our detectors that make the correct decision every time to our highly capable intrusion systems that have the flexibility to meet different building requirements Bosch helps to protect your property, your assets and most importantly, the people.

Fairport, New York is the headquarters for Bosch Security Systems, LLC. in the United States. This location serves as the head office for regional operations and head to the Intrusion Business Unit global team. This Fairport facility is home to leadership teams, engineering, product management, marketing, sales, and customer service.