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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 offer here the rosa khutor complex in southern russia where the tracks for the sochi two thousand and 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 the first of its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however when she austrian a slow train. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw our version of rosa foods are already under construction but with a great deal of work ahead along vision restored complex along the i had coverage tension is a key part of russia so she twenty fourteen olympic bid and a 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 which to make sure the rosa khutor 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 enthusiasm as well as international stars this season four of the projected eighteen lives up and running opening up thirty kilometers of new run 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 dopamine they cover over three fourths of the alpine which market in russia and the c.i.s. . scotto is not a newcomer in the industry that the company and myself have been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways. and virtually every. beliefs in the former

soviet enemy and like the skiff which is supplied and set out the hardware full of the. variations of the elevated group way have been used for many centuries with the real boost came with the invention of the steel broke the 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 is a task tailor made for scotto who's a realist played a vital supporting role. today scott it was a post soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems.

modern lifts require mass scale metal working to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails and monumental support towers. time tested welding techniques help ensure a culture durable strip 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 smile on. video if this is the since ninety nine he said it should scott it 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 will fix chairlifts or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about a stroke was running very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with

high a pass. capacity. with human lives literally in the balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolutely fail proof a process called haunted galvanising is employed on scotus constructions by partner firms and some are in neighbors prove much this is molten seek not a bad you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter visit bondsmen allegedly to the steel and forms 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 positive galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to the structures lifespan by resisting these forces of nature. the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with the managers from the austrian company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of the united ninety seven of the long ago we

finally agreed to establish a joint enterprise point we had developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce dopamine as cutting edge ideas in the russian model it was a bit. jumpy 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 overheat countries scott a specialist travel frequently did come up for training and a partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also so our partner. in the russia so i have. here all my protocol. check the praxis you check. the second is the conscience system for example you have to write for the right to loads the first strike is convey

a sky. the manufacture here in russia. we're made for example is. there. together. training in building no lifts 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 planning proposal until the poles are up and the chairs are full of snow seeking skiers 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 in base areas are located in easy proximity to access roads and parking facilities meeting scotto slips a lot of work to get used to slopes as practiced in the sochi twenty fourteen

olympic skier has shown up to the test. when the international olympic committee visited across napoleon to decide with a saw she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games of the aerial lift set up by a company where the only technical installations that well up and running at that time. was showcased to the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the krasnaya polyana cluster since the one nine hundred eighty s. when you first put up for less of that help because citrus resort at the nearby gas prone complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one eight made gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic tea books newest additions are at rosa khutor the olympic skier hill where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one six minute chair lift in addition scott i will help build with the website claims will be the longest try cable keep a mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the

future train station. to the guest program complex. right outside of lust is a scotto built all season option if you want to hone your skier snowboard skills before the trip down to sochi. it may be a beginner hill but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts sky news list 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. chillies feel like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow they've got influences but i'm going to. need to figure out how to train myself a little bit going to this. luckily i didn't have to look too far and this seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me filemon 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 the tin i'm down to use from the show and field by combining and improving it to the result is an incredibly realistic training exercise experience the physical interaction mirrored just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape for targets. as u.t. coached me 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 skier 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 imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on rails and is pulled by steel ropes connected to the motors and reduction gears i'll tell it trying to sensors detect both the edge angle and position of the rider relaying this information through the computer to the motors to simulate it turning into the software to reproduce realistic motion on the screen. the steel is made in russia software and power trying to think developed in cooperation with our international partners say the first prototype took a year to make and test currently we need three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have a spare college for the one we are ready to supply the final product with you must get. back on my simulated board i was starting to get the hang of it and a serious workout in the process before long ok i was able to personalize the experience and 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. acknowledged he says the ability to control the characteristics of the slope on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the piece as needed so that these features make the training any credibility fissions from the. system for me you can change anything we say come out at a yard sale logo or. absolutely you can at any objects to your virtual sloop and 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 the name of your channel fourteen no we take and then are off onto the billboard right so you know it's really an we go. about. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increasing. beat the sound of the

aggregate score and the feeling that sky was making a boarder at a. simulated workout he just had it was in the traditional format of i think you'd agree to listen very realistic but to recently we have been testing our system in three d. we can try it out right now with the help of these stereo whistles. oh man the real thing in the railway station 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 because nobody 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 earth 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 in the 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 built for the olympic hockey turnitin in training it will play home to hockey heroes from around the globe along with hordes of flag waving fans to cheer them on. the way i spell as you see here will host the hockey medal games and get hold of 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 toe shaped roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction has

been completely original 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 team to libya but even earlier by late twenty's well when sochi is slated to host this stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver shell will eventually round out the intended for losing brain drug sign leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is. asked i mean while builders have other big projects on their hands in 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 change in shifts in late two thousand and twelve. kind of the good of this business but this venue has a unique large span roof top structure in terms of middleware told me two thousand times in total linked by flexible connectors to the mine from the building through

to the city's engineering solution will help to meet the highest sause 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 proposals. the command center for sochi twenty four team preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a limb store with so much under construction and deadlines approaching it's an understandably busy scene special attention has been focused on the sliding center back in the mountain cluster future home to delusion bobsled and skeleton evidence the unique track is already approaching completion in two thousand and eleven on life stadium sports like hockey or short track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design for

a sliding center based on the natural setting. this. particular side has favorable conditions at least in northern slope over. and there's a less direct sun here the ice will hold for long girls and so will do sports a seasonal. and the monsoon a relief conforms to the cheap. i'm intrigued all the traffic going to john we're meeting there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of the traffic fits in the contours of this loops topography of. the russian national sliding center hopes to overcome what many consider design flaws in previous tracks as a lose dead end frighteningly festering 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 to use 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 equipment to prevent a healthy buildup 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 thousands of tons moving at hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its past. the front line in the face of the snow situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century they're equipped with increasingly versatile technology for accessing remote mountain areas even in commit 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 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 can be in ski 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. nurse sensors measure the length of the rope depending on the load at therapy and it usually with a rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches just dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors in a modern ready with a click modules inciting casements 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 to. remove headquarters on guard runs a monitoring center day keeps a constant eye on the distant 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 of sending signals through wireless connections at the fuel pressure doesn't need to search for information we need 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 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 news center can best be incorporated into existing avalanche control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is notion to slow but i think. in terms of scientific and technical developments with

the theory we collaborate with a number of western companies for example with the d t t technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland and france he's going to be participants in international projects and together we develop a new promising products just because you know who is deep. in the mountains and loads of unguarded based products for more than just ski resorts since roads railways. population centers also need avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them may be far more inaccessible for lack of slopes and lifts. production also includes all kinds of microelectronic detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure. monitor the stability of historical buildings to see flow of gas to residential complexes to smooth operation of vital power stations and the structural integrity of roads and bridges the clinton generates a detail status timeline to help diagnose potential problems having 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 the separate winners from losers from rule breakers a system to be used for sochi olympic hockey is already in place at this moscow ice arena. in might not be the first thing you focus on when you'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 to the churches 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 is multi-channel camera control systems to meet demands for professional hockey for

precise officiating a system 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 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 like many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms. he has fast paced close confines decisions. and the russian league is actually out in front of the american and. new situation technology to improve the . referee system does not simply meet the international standards we set the benchmark meets higher requirements than those defined in the regulations of the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation are a good thing so it's a very dense tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of the goal and pieces of the. it does mention must go home so

i dunno man had a better record coming in and look strong in early play but the visitors from the vesuvius were not about to be bullied in the last match of the regular season by sure enough just six and a half minutes into the first period no suggest mounted a charge they had the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the rest making the call upstairs to the video referee down on the ice it looked like a near miss off the pike but slow tv's equipment was needed for a closer look goal no goal whether any often suppliers in the crease after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number mistake with no goal surrender. the call it was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on the road and very often fans and 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 that would do the same for example when the book crosses the line in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it

was before or after the clock runs actually put in so we asked the developers to display the time on the screen about it so that the video referee could decide if we had five or six such moments last season and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call among the public until the teams look if you don't believe us here we can always play back to take them to the field referee system works well for the cage shell confirming that the number would enter the playoffs. off a two one overtime win. what about all the hockey action slated for sochi twenty fourteen slew of t.v.'s products will be in the bolshoi ice palace where it goes could translate to a limping goal but is still true is to slow mo t.v. product first because it provides the functionality we need second because her reliable partner since many russian t.v. stations have used its equipment for many years before monteith camera shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third and it's cheaper and then

a similar product so western companies with them and most importantly it's much better to move 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 soon more slowmo products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is still in but the sochi two thousand and fourteen construction team is still working to make sure we have plenty more updates headed your way join us again next month and all the powder still fresh enjoy the ride. hungry for the full snow we've gotten first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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