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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 things off we're here at the rosa khutor complex in southern russia where the tracks for the sochi twenty fourteen olympics are facing their first test just a week after the first russian cup stages wrapped up in mid february sixty athletes from twelve countries christened rosa khutor first stage in the alpine european cup men's downhill rave reviews were won by the brand new track defers to its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however when austrian a slow train. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw or version of rosa khutor already under construction but with a great deal of work ahead a long mission restore complex along the i think the bridge tension is a key part of russia's sochi twenty fourteen olympic bid 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 of wits to make sure the roads of peterhead the best no expense was spared with total costs estimated at six hundred fifty million euro the results 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 of thirty eight kilometers of. helping fountains of visitors reach rosa hooter's heights is the russian aerialist producer scott. scott is production facilities in the volga river city of simyra are the birthplace of this high tech high altitude hardware along with their world renowned austrian partners couple miles they cover over three fourths of the alpine lift market in russia and the c.i.s. . sco is not a newcomer any industry as i think i'm a self have been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways. and virtually all every. lifts in the former

soviet union but the ski supplied and set up the hot with all of the. variations of the elevated group way have been used for many centuries but the 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 resorts popped up throughout the region commanding developed infrastructure to see trask tailor made for scotto whose aerialists played a vital supporting role. today scott it was supposed soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems. modern

lives require maskil metalworking to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails and monumental support terrorists. time tested welding techniques help ensure a culture durable string of joints will be further inspected with x. ray ultrasound in magnetic tests it's a slow and tedious process to distill 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 if this is so since ninety ninety seven should scout it as 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 list so you know if it's good chairlifts seriously or it could be fifty to sixty to say if we're talking about if it's roadways i mean very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with

higher passing. capacity. with human lives literally in the balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolutely sealed proves a process called how did galvanising is employed on scottish constructions by partner firm and some are in neighbors probed much this is most in sync not about you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter this ink bondsmen allegedly did to steal and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation that towers in beams that hold up ski lifts are susceptible to failure from rusting corrosion the dangers of which are elevated in this case by harsh weather conditions positive galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to the structures life span by resisting these forces of nature. since the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with a manages from double monthly fee austrian company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of a nine hundred ninety seven of the long ago we finally agreed to establish

a joint enterprise at that point we had developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce dopamine as cutting edge ideas in the russian mob which was a big. jump of meyer 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 eighty countries scott a specialist travel frequently down for training and the partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also there so. the installation of russia so i have to. here. the trucks this check breaks the. pension system for example you have to write for the right to loads and. is. sky. in manufacture here in

russia. we're made for example. and. they're. going to go through october. planning in building lifts for ski areas there's 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 polls 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 meeting scott those lists a lot of work to get you to disclose his practice in the sochi twenty fourteen

olympic skier he has shown there up to the test. when the international olympic committee visited a cross. 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 was up and running at that time. was showcased to the sea evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the krasnaya polyana cluster since the 1980's when it first put up for lace at that altitude is said of his resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one eight men gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic tea books to use to dish and certain rules of 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 their website claims will be the longest tri cable people mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. to the lower guess

prone complex. right outside of must scotto built all season option if you want to hone your skills snowboard skills before the trip down to sochi. maybe a beginner hill but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts scuttles lift solution for the concave curve the 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 backside. for actually is for like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow they got here 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 this seems nish come complex russian inventers me home and we love and unity 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 dinham 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 here in just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape and gates 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 the ski or snowboard or has to transfer their weight fluidly from side to side while maintaining a ford center balance just as they would crossing and then turning on

a real slope here's the contours of the. it's all over imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on rails and is pulled by steel ropes connected to the motors and reduction gears up to like tronic 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 say the first prototype took a year to make and taste hardly three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have spare parts for a religious applaud the final product within a month here. back on my simulated board i was starting to get the hang of it in a serious workout in the process before long tailed was able to personalize the experience in crank up the difficulty increasing my speed altering the course and

penalize me for mr gates as yuri corrected my form and even cheered me on. to college he says the ability to control the characteristics of the sloop on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the gates as needed so . these features make the training incredibly fissions. to something you can change anything we say to come out at a dinner party logo or. absolutely you can at any objects tour of the virtual slew of this is the most part of the code for it banners so where we can place your logo the better will show the name of your channel our team no we take them down or off onto the billboard. so you know it's ready and we go. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increasing. pete the sound of

family gets and the feeling that sky tech was making a border at. that and there's a simulated workout and you just hand it was in the traditional two g. format i think you'd agree to close very realistic much recently we have been testing our system in three d. which i'm trying to create now with the help of these terrible s.s. . men the real thing or chanel is to the after this i can't wait to. well 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 of the first covered the state of the are construction in its early stages back in late summer two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way in a year and a half from foundations and frames the future venues have begun to take shape the bolshoi ice palace will be the centerpiece of the complex bill 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 joe shape roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction has been

completed. which means we're right in line with the building schedule. and 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 for use in brain drug design leading a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is passed on. while builders have other big projects on their hands and the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympics 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 that this is so but this venue has a unique lud span roof top structure in terms of middleware talking two thousand tons in total and by place will connect this to the main front of the building so

that the space engineering solution will help to meet the highest sause make requirements and this absolutely unique in the russian construction industry would proceed with the. plans call for the skating center to be removable potentially for later use in another russian city is 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 this specifically created construction company. 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 homes delusion bobsled and skeleton evidence the unique track is already approaching completion in two thousand and eleven unless stadium sports like hockey are 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 particular site has favorable conditions school at least in northern slope over monterey and there's less to read sun here the ice will hold for long girls and so will do sports a seasonal at the. edges of the mountain relief conforms to the geometry of the track going to john ward meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of the track of fifths of the 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 green 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 views 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 is no fun and too much is a ticking time bomb. when the levee breaks is an earth trembling wall of white weighing thousands of tons moving it hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its path it's. the front line in the face of just no situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century very quickly thing creasing the versatile technology for accessing remote mountain areas even in comic 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 child easier and safer a key element in our avalanche defenses is a system of nets designed to hold back the ever growing snow pile 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 in case it's. the basic plastic box design might not have all kandinsky or money bitch but they're still made by a st petersburg based firm called evan 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 it bears that using the rope is subjected to heightened tension in stretches and its dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors to be ready with a chronic modules in psyching casements can transmit the information about the

strength to a remote computer so that any zero greater than can immediately order a snow removal operation. to remove headquarters on guard runs a monitoring center they 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 sensor is run an autonomous mode of 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 you and detention centers are a new concept being tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the volatile mountain climate then there's the question of how the data received from the censor news can best be paid for for a good interview fisty havelange control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is no she school but i do. feel them in terms of scientific and technical developments with if we collaborate with

a number. western companies for example with a v t t technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland and france has the. participants in international projects and together we develop new promising products just because you know who is deep. in the mountains of unguarded makes products for more than just ski resorts since roads railways and population centers also meet avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them may be far more inaccessible for lack of slopes and lifts. guards 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. in generated detail status timeline to help diagnose potential

problems among guards technology is pinned on the principle that it's better to detect 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 for sochi olympic hockey 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 new look since the outcome often hinges on close calls the choices companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the kontinental hockey league teams in stadiums to maximize the odds of getting them right while you root 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 and stadium infrastructure. up to eleven channels of high definition video monitoring with all these angles at their fingertips for making any number of tough calls 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 know how to be a referee system does not simply meet the international standards reset the benchmark it meets higher requirements than those you found in the regulations of the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation so it's a very vast tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of goalline cases and upwards. and to smash in moscow one side

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 lot 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 pipe but slow tv's equipment was needed for a closer look. no goal whether any often suppliers and a trace after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number was state which no goal surrender. the clip was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on their own and very often fans in teams management questioned 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 is the for example when the puck crosses the line in the last seconds of again it's not

clear whether it was. before or after the clock runs out so we asked the developers to display the time of the screen a couple of salute the video referee could decide that we have five or six such moments last season and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call you call on the public to show the team's look if you don't believe us we can always play back to take go to the field 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 slimmer t.v.'s products will be in the bolshoi ice palace where it goes to translate to limp a goal but. these slow multiproduct first because it provides do functionality many seconds of the cars are reliable partner since many russian t.v. stations have used it since we can for many years before multi-cam are shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third it's cheaper and them similar products

of western companies and most importantly it's much better soon 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 more products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is still on 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 still fresh enjoy the ride.

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