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extradition. the russian armed forces the government announces a multi-billion dollar program to upgrade its military equipment to tackle future threats and support of president dmitri medvedev the long term goals to modernize of the country. you can learn about the latest gadgets and high tech developments with. technology update coming your way next. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're embracing the snowy season to bring you some of the latest innovations from the world of winter sports i think things offer here the rosa khutor complex in southern russia where the tracks for

the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics are facing their first steps just a week after the first russian cup stages wrapped up in mid february sixty athletes from twelve countries christened rosa khutor for a stage in the alpine european cup men's downhill rave reviews were won by the brand new track the first of its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however points austrian. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw or version of those of who are already under construction but with a great deal of work along vision resort complex along the i keep the bridge tension is a key part of russia so she twenty fourteen olympics and the complex has come a long way in a short time span the technical backbone of any world class ski area is an extensive and efficient set up which is to make sure that roosevelt had the best no expense was spared with total costs estimated at six hundred fifty million euro the result in two thousand and eleven is stage one completion for the enjoyment of

average ski enthusiasts as well as international stars this season four of the projected. running opening up thirty eight kilometers of. helping fountains of visitors reach rosa hooter's heights is the russian aerialist producer scott. scott his production facilities in the volga river city of samarra are the birthplace of this high tech high altitude hardware along with their world renowned austrian partners double my own they cover over three fourths of the alpine lift market in russia in the c.i.s. cup final scotto is not a newcomer in the industry i myself have been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways but if it was behind virtually all every. lifts in the former soviet elliott like the ski supplied and set up the hot with all of the. variations of the elevated group way have been used for many centuries

with a real boost came with the invention of the steel broke aerial cargo transport was adopted by many industries because of its relatively high speed and low cost particularly for mineral extraction in complex terrain. in the second half of the twentieth century enthusiasm for alpine skiing experienced a worldwide boom in the caucasus mountains in what was then the soviet union were no exception with the unique climate in many of the highest peaks in europe and resorts popped up throughout the region demanding developed infrastructure it is a task tailor made for scotto whose aerialists played a vital supporting role. today scott it was a post soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems could. modern lives require maskil metal working to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails and monumental support our first. time tested welding techniques help ensure

a culture durable string joints will be further inspected with x. ray ultrasound in magnetic tests it's a slow and tedious process but the skilled personnel has to make sure they each part is capable of withstanding not just the cargo load but also the cold the wind and the pressure in nature is sure to find a long. video with visual since ninety ninety seven scott has set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity got as input ranges from one hundred percent in the case of surface lift so you know if it's good chairlifts or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about if it's roadways i mean very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with high a passive. capacity. with human lives literally in the balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolute detail proves a process called condit galvanising is employed on scotus constructions by partner

firms and some are in neighbors probe much this is most in sync not about you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter bondsmen allegedly did to steal and influence a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation the towers and beams that hold up ski lifts are susceptible to failure from rusting corrosion the dangers which are elevated in this case by harsh weather conditions galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to destructors lifespan by resisting these forces of nature. at the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with a manages from double the money feel strain company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of the united ninety seven of the long negotiations we finally agreed to establish a joint enterprise points that we developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce dunkleman as cutting edge ideas in the russian market

would. jump in myer has become a household name not just in the famous austrian alps but around the world today the company has built more than fourteen thousand installations in over countries scott a specialist travel frequently did for training and a partnership has helped the austrians enter the russian market. and also there so our part. in the russia. here are my protocol. check this you check the brakes the second is the pension system for example you have to write for the right to lopes. is. sky. the main effect here in russia. you name. the station. they're.

planning in building mel tillis for ski areas is no overnight study engineering it calls for painstaking geographical and topographical analysis scotto handles the full cycle from site inspection design and planning proposal until the coals are up and the chairs are full of snow seeking sixty years to get there they spend weeks in the field making sure the right group is be selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every lift can be laid along the shortest line from point a to point b. often ski lodges and base areas are located in easy proximity to access roads and parking facilities leaving scotto slips a lot of work to get you to the slopes as practice in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier has shown they're up to the task. when the international olympic committee visited across and i had to decide with a saw she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games of

the aerialist set up by a company where the only technical installations that welcomed running at that time . was showcased to the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the present pollyanna cluster since the 1980's when it first put off for less of that help it is said of his resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one hundred men gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic t. books the newest additions are at rosa khutor the olympic skier hill where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one six man chair lift in addition scott i will help build with the website claims will be the longest try cable people mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. guess prone complex. right outside of lust else nish chrome is the scotto built all season option if you want to hone your skills snowboard skills before the trip down to sochi. maybe

a beginner but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts scott knows list solution for the concave curved enclosed complex was impressive but already the least of my worries as natasha tried to get me started down the slope sliding cautiously i wasn't the fastest learner and despite helpful coaching i was starting to wish for more familiar skis since i seem to be spending the lion's share of my time on my back so. thanks for actually is feel like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow got influences but if i'm going to. need to figure out how to train myself a little bit of going to this. luckily i didn't have to look too far and it seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me common wheel off and u.t. machine and have set up a training center using their one of a kind sky tech interactive carving simulator in a market full of gym equipment for advanced athletes on one end and video games for

casual consumers on the other bynum found a use for me and filled it by combining and improving it to the result is an incredibly realistic training exercise experience to physical interaction mirrored just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape for targets. on the elusive key here was finding and properly controlling my balance over the board. obviously my form leaves much to be desired so let's break down how a properly trained athlete would look on sky tech simulator pushing off of one edge this here or snowboarder has to transfer their weight fluidly from side to side while maintaining a ford center of balance just as they would crossing and then turning on a real slope here's the contours of the. it's slow for imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on grails and is pulled by steel ropes connected to the motors and reduction gears up to like trying to sensors detect both the edge

angle and position of the rider relaying this information through the computer to the motors to simulate a turn and to the software to reproduce realistic motion on the screen. the steel is made in russia the software and power trying to been developed in cooperation with our international partners see the first prototype took a year to make and test is currently with three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have the spare parts for a religious supply the final product within a month to get. back on my simulated board i was starting to get the hang of it in a serious workout in the process before long the failed was able to personalize the experience in crank up the difficulty increasing my speed altering the course and penalize me for mr gates as you're a corrected my form and even cheered me on. to

college he says the ability to control the characteristics of this loop on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the deeds as needed so. these features make the training incredibly fissions. just something you can change anything we say about at if you have already seen logo. absolutely you can edit any objects to your virtual slew this is the most here's the part of the code for it downers so where would you place your logo. that it will show them your channel fourteen no we take the dinner off onto the billboard. that says no it's ready and we go. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increase in. beat the sound of family gates and the feeling that sky tech was making a border at. that and it is a simulated workout and you just hand it wasn't a traditional two g.

four and i think you agreed close and very realistic but you recently we have been testing our system in three d. which he tried out right now with the help of these terrible s.s. . oh men the real thing or chanel is to after this i can't wait to hear the story. while i'm enjoying my newfound snowboarding skills it's easy to forget that not all the winter games are going to be on the slopes innovations are also popping up in preparation for other events on the black sea coast less than fifty kilometers from fresno ca on this mountain cluster the future olympic village park stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology update first covered

the state of the our construction and it's really stages back in the late summer two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way here and from foundations and frames the future venues have begun to take shape the bolshoi ice palace will be the centerpiece of the complex built for the olympic hockey tournament in training it will play home to hockey heroes from around the globe along with hordes of flag waving fans to cheer them. as you see here will host the hockey medal games and can hold up to twelve thousand people. work on the frame of the building made of solid cast reinforced concrete as you can see we've also mentioned the seventeen arched girders of the shape roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction has been complete or two. which means we're right in line with the building schedule. one schedule in this case means not just ready for the feb twenty fourth teen olympiad but even earlier by late twenty's twelve when sochi is slated to host

a stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver show will eventually round out the intended frozen brain drug design leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is passed on meanwhile builders have other big projects on their hands and the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympic skating center builds a slightly bigger dimensions to meet the demands of figure skating in short track racing events this center will also hold twelve thousand people and start hosting international championships in late two thousand and twelve and you kind of didn't know this business but this venue has a unique love span of rooftop structure in terms of middleware talking two thousand times in total i think it was a place well connected to the main front of the building so the space engineering solution will help to meet the highest saws make requirements and is absolutely unique in the russian construction industry. with the. plans call for this getting center to be removable potentially for later use in another russian city it's

a cash conserving design that will give sochi a top notch skating facility for the twenty fourteen games as well as the chance to choose their own future for the site in the years that follow a speed cycling track is already among possible proposed. command center for sochi twenty four team preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company alleged steroid with so much under construction and deadlines approaching its and understandably busy scene special attention has been focused on the sliding center back in the mountain cluster future home to delusion bobsled and skeleton of its track is already approaching completion in two thousand and eleven unlike steam sports like hockey or short track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design. i'm for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this. this particular side has favorable conditions at least in northern slovo for monterey and there's

a lesson to at sun here that the ice will hold for long girl and so will the sports season the birth of the mountain relief conforms to the geometry of the track going to john the word meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so another third for the track of its city contours of the slopes topography of. the russian national sliding center hopes to overcome what many consider design flaws in previous tracks as a lose dead in frighteningly fast being cooper last year reminded us these are dangerous sports and the builders are making for safer competition in sochi. no matter how much we love the beautiful milk not every day on the slopes to be perfectly sunny the same snow that gives us our precious powder can also rolled in really sick and we need special food and prevent a healthy build up from turning into a dead after. ski

areas have a very fragile relationship with snow known is no fun and too much is a ticking time bomb. when the levee breaks it's an earth trembling wall of white waiting thousands of tons moving at hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its path. the front line in the face of just no situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century derek quickly thing creasing the versatile technology for accessing remote mountain areas even in inclement weather monitoring the size of drifts and easing the build up with remotely controlled snow blasts no amount of new gear will replace their vital role in alerting. skiers and running operations with innovative ideas can make their job easier and safer key element in our avalanche defenses is a system of nets designed to hold back the ever growing snow file but how can we

monitor the tension built up behind these barriers without having to dig our way up here all winter long the answer could just be right inside these unassuming little encasements. the basic plastic box design might not have can be in ski or money bitch but they're still made by a st petersburg based firm called ivan guard and they could provide a revolutionary function in the avalanche early warning system. or sensors measure the length of the rope depending on the load of therapy in the future when the rope is subjected to hide something tension it stretches and its dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors in the movie ready with a click modules inciting casement can transmit the information about the strength to a remote computer so that any zero greater than can immediately order of a snow removal operation and to remove headquarters among the monitoring center that keeps a constant eye on the distance southern russia they're not replacing boots on the

ground just yet but they're collecting valuable data to model the snowdrift trends and alert their frontline colleagues to see what the sensors run an autonomous mode sending signals through wireless connection to feel pressure doesn't need to search for information in the twenty first century and data should be coming to us not the other way around into a detention centers or a new concept being tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the fall mountain climbing then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor net set up can best be incorporated into the system the avalanche control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is no she to school but i. tell them in terms of scientific and technical development with a if we collaborate with a number. western companies for example with the technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland france he's going to be participants in international projects and together we develop new promising

products just you know easy. in the mountains of unguarded based products for more than just ski resorts since roads railways and population centers also meet avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them made before morning acceptable for lack of slopes and lifts. production also includes all kinds of microelectronics detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure. monitor the stability of historical buildings to say flow of gas to residential complexes to smooth operation of power stations and the structural integrity of roads and bridges. generates a detail status timeline to help diagnose potential problems among guards technology is pinned on the principle that it's better to take defects in advance then deal with the aftermath of an accident. back in moscow we can check out how

technology is not just making winter sporting safer but also helping a separate winners from losers from rule breakers a system to be used cocky is already in place that this must be al ice arena. in might not be the first thing you focus on we're in the crowd at your favorite sporting event but only important refereeing has a high tech look since the outcome often hinges on close calls to be chartered says companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the kontinental hockey league teams in stadiums to maximize the odds of getting them right while you move for your team to put the result comfortably out of question video referee has its eyes on a game of inches. is adapted their strong background in video replay and multi-channel camera control systems to meet demands for professional hockey for a person. nice officiating assistant based on the client's budget in stadium infrastructure. up to eleven channels of high definition video monitoring with all these angles at their fingertips from making any number of tough calls to judges

are most concerned with the versatile comprehensible interface when the pressure's on and time is of the essence unlike many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms hockey has fast paced close confines ascensions intros and the russian league is actually out in front of the american end in tackling the situation with technology to improve the no haruhi a referee system does not simply meet the international standards we sent them and they ensure it meets higher requirements than those defined in the regulations of the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation or a good thing so it's a very advanced tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of goalline cases and upwards of. a dismissal in moscow homesite animal had a better record coming in and look strong in early play but the visitors from the visitors' were not about to be bullied in the last match of the regular season five

sure enough just six and a half minutes into the first period no suggest mounted a charge that had the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the refs making the call upstairs to the video referee down on the ice it looked like a near miss off the tight but slow and tv's equipment was needed for a closer look noble where any often suppliers in a trace after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number was stayed with no gloss around. this until it was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in just used incidents on their own and very often fans in teams management question the ruling saying it was biased since last year we decided to stop this practice and introduce the position of video referee to the who discuss it for example in the course of the light in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it was. before or after the clock runs activity we asked the developers to display the time on the screen a couple of salute the video referee could decide we had five or six such moments last season and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call you

come on the public and show the teams look if you don't believe us we can always play back the tape though so the video referee system works well for the cage shell confirming that the number would enter the playoffs coming off a two one overtime win. what about all the hockey action slated for sochi twenty four teams sloan would see these products would be in the bolshoi ice palace where goals could translate to a limpid goal but is still will. be proud of first because it provides the functionality we need second because her reliable core car since many russian t.v. stations have used it so we can for many years before multi-cam or shoots of concerts or shows so we can trust and third it's cheaper and them similar products of western companies and most importantly it's much better slimmer t.v. is already attempting to branch out to other sports basketball can come down to disputed close calls. fencing to the slightest touch replays are often required to

verify violations in short track speed skating su more slow move products could still make the sochi games our word for this edition is still in but the sochi twenty four team construction team is still working to make sure we have plenty more updates headed your way join us again next month and while the powder is still fresh enjoy the ride.

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