又放假了啊,呵呵,那么我来了是整一学期了,去年12月份来的时候,学校里面也是这样,没什么人,冷冷清清的,连不该放假的research学生还有staff也开始变的懒散了. 不过当时是夏天,现在是冬天了... 实验室的暖气还开着, 这是个很失败的空调系统, 总是在夏天把温度调的太低,冬天把温度调的太高, 不见得舒适却一直在耗费大量的能源~~ 因为是搞sustainable building的,所以对这个很敏感,也许把我们的这幢楼做sample building去搞个case study, 倒是能做出不少东西, 不过,反正学校有的是钱,谁在乎这点电,还有那么些在电厂多排放的二氧化碳~~ 冰川融化了,气候变暖了,无数的政治家和科学家在预测着全球未来的气候,在这个时候诞生了"生态建筑"这个词, 很多人仗着这个看似很玄乎的术语赚到了很多钱, 可是多久以后的将来才能成为现实呢?~ 很多愚昧的政府为了体现出他们所谓的"透明",喜欢把他们的楼建成全玻璃的维护结构,"透明"实现了么?可是多少能量和金钱正在穿过这些玻璃去加热这个地球呢?...

 

去年刚来时候的那个假期,自己好像还在慢慢适应这个社会, 没有课,没有考试,没有假期,没有太多research background的我傻傻的跟着导师做很无聊的literature review, 一直到第三个月... 后来去了CSIRO,在跟一些scientist的合作中渐渐发觉出到课题的价值和前途,于是毅然改变了自己的research proposal, 去开始一个更加具体和实用的项目...参加了一些招聘会,很欣喜的发现很多建筑行业的大公司都新成立了sustainable building的科研部门...一直到现在, 似乎已经很有方向感的在走了,不要妄图依赖谁,全部都靠自己. 那个时候的literature review的重要性, 也是到最近开始写毕业论文的时候才知道, 但是很多的社会经验, 是在学校里永远也学不到的~

 

这个"假期"对我来说没有什么特别,安静的校园和开始降温的气候是个很舒心的环境. 还是继续努力的学点东西吧, 一年半的research并不长, 用半年的时间定方向和学会research的方法,再用一年的时间去真正的做出点东西~ 成就感经常会有的,因为总是在这个很慢节奏的社会里用自己的速度走的更快些...

Finally the whole week-debug was finished under the endeavour of me and another two senior scientists, and the technical support from Crossbow, which produced a terrible manual providing misleading instructions. Under numerous attempts and assumptions an effective approach finally got close to me and after all, the ex-unstable system turned into an amazing application in our sample building which arose every occupant's applaud. The 26 high-tech wireless sensors and a gateway got their suitable accommodation throughout the typical office building and the reliable data recording started 2:00pm, 15-Jun-2007, GMT+10:00 time zone J (When the database was reset, and all corresponding data seemed reasonable)… What a splendid day! And there will be a tough task placed on the gateway and the new dell desktop in my CSIRO office, which will never be switched off as they are serving now, as servers … My Loyal Servants…!

 

Truly what I’ve found exiting from the technology, is that no wire or wiring is needed and those small sensors, which only use two AA batteries, could last one-year long under proper deployment! And surely an anticipation can be made: In future building automation systems this technology will be dominant, which will replace all the wired controllers, saving huge cost on wires and cables and creating a much more reliable transmission route!

 

But I would hope the debugging never ends, which gives me a good excuse to postpone writing the technical reports … Everything needs a start now: a conference paper, a report, and a chapter of dissertation ~ Nevertheless, the large cost on those hardware deserves that ~

Along as Memory 2.0 is approaching an end after one and a half months revision and test, the old lawyer and politician, who owns an extremely big house, started to worrying about the marketing of Memory 2.0. Who knows his fantasy of making a fortune from this little soft is realistic or ridiculous! Though I would hope so, judging from his wide social connections and, which is the point, I also own the copyright! ~~