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it's. much too. 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 few things are free here at the 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 chris and rosa who took first stage in the alpine european cup men's downhill rave reviews were won by that brand new track the first of its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however went to austrian. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw our version of those who are already under construction but with a great deal of work a long vision resort complex along the ego ridge tension is

a key part of russia so she twenty fourteen olympic bid in 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 up with to make sure the pros 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 and to see this as well as international stars this season four of the projected eighteen lists are up and running opening up thirty kilometers of new. coping sounds of visitors reached 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 double my own they cover over three fourths of the alpine which market in russia in the c.i.s.

by the sco is not a newcomer in the industry itself has been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways. and virtually all every. lefse in the former soviet union but he. supplied and set up the hardware for all of the. variations of it elevated group way have been used for many centuries with 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 trade. 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 demanding developed infrastructure using task tailor made for scotto using aerialists played

a vital supporting role. today scott it was a post soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems. modern lives require mass scale metal working to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails in 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 distilled 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 nature is sure to file on. video with visual since ninety nine he said it should scuttle is set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity as input ranges from one hundred percent in the case of surface lifts

chairlifts seriously or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about a stroke was this 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 fail proof a process called how did galvanising is employed on scotus constructions by partner firm and some are and neighbors probe much this is multan seek not about you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter bondsmen allegedly did to steal and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation the towers and beams that hold up ski lifts are susceptible to feel you are 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 like me and 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 the australian 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 point we developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce dopamine as cutting edge ideas in the russian market with . john meyer has become a household name not just in the famous austrian alps but around the world today the company is billboard then fourteen thousand installations in overheat countries scott a specialist travel frequently ditto for training and the partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also so our part of the installation in the russia. here. the praxis. i think is

the pension system for example you have to write for the right to loads the third is. sky. in manufacture here in russia and also your mates for example as they should and. their. other groups work together. 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 explaining 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 being selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every lead 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 used to slopes as practiced in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier he has shown there up to the test. when the international olympic committee visited krasnaya polyana 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 for the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the krasnaya polyana cluster since the 1980's when it first put up for lists of the aisle to consider this resort and the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one gate made gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and today sixty books the newest additions are at rosa who thought the olympic skill

where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one six man chair lift in addition scotto 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. to the complex. right outside of los. gatos built all season option if you want to hone your skills snowboard skills before the trip down. to maybe a beginner but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts scotto as lift 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 backside. like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow i think that influences but if i'm going to. need to

figure out how to train myself a little bit. luckily i didn't have to look too far and this seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me common wheel off and uni machine and have set up a training center using their one of a kind of sky tech interactive carving simulator in a market full of gym equipment for advanced efforts on one end and video games for casual consumers on the other the g.m. found a use for me sj and fielded by combining and improving into 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 in gates for targets. as you to coach 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 ski or snowboard or 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. imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on the rails and is pulled by still ropes connected to the motors and reduction of years until i tried extensors 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. still is made in russia software and power trying to develop in cooperation with our international partners see the first prototype took a year to make and test hardly wait for the months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have the spare parts for we are really to supply the final product you must get. back on my simulated board i

was starting to get the hang of it and it's serious work out in the process before long i was able to personalize the experience in crank up the difficulty increasing my speed entering the course and penalize me for mr gates as yuri corrected my form and even cheer me on. it's acknowledged he gives us the ability to control the characteristics of this loop on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the gates as needed so. these features make the training incredibly fissions from the. system you can change anything we say come out at a dinner party logo or. absolutely you can at any objects to your virtual slope and this is the most here's the part of the code for it to downers so we can place your logo. that it will show the name of your channel our team no we take and then are

off on to 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 increase in. beat the sound of hitting the gates and the feeling that sky tech was making a border at. that and it is a simulated workout he just hand it was in the traditional g. form i think you should read listen very realistic to recently we have been testing our system in three d. we can try it out right now with the help of the stereo whistles. the real thing or from the illustration of the after this i can't wait say i'm sorry for it .

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 kuznetsov down this mountain cluster the future olympic village parks stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology of the first covered the studio construction and its burly 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 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 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 on. those joyous palace you see here will host the hockey medal games 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 measured the seventeen arched girders of the dome shaped roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction has become pleasers. 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 twelve when so she is slated to host this stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver show will eventually round out the intended for use in brain drug zine leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is passed. 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 built 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. because of the good

this is but this venue has a unique love span of roof top structure in terms of middleware talking two thousand times in total i think it was place will connect this to the main front of the building for 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 the skating 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 seven preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a lame 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 the aleutian bobsled and skeleton

events the unique track is already approaching from the police in in two thousand and eleven unlike stadiums sports like hockey or track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design. and for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this. this particular site has favorable conditions school at least in northern slope over monterey and there is a less direct sun here but the ice will hold for a long girl and so will the sports seasonal for. the monsoon a relief conforms to the geometry of the track going to its own word and meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of the track if it's in 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 festering hoover 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 mountain 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 thick and we need special food and prevent a healthy buildup from turning into a dead after. ski areas have a very fragile relationship with snow known as no fun and too much is a teaching time bomb. when the levee breaks it's an earth trembling wall of white weighing thousands of tons moving it 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 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 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 encasements. the basic plastic box design might not evoke 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 fair that using

the rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches and it's dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors you electronic modules inside the case which can transmit the information about destroying to a remote computer so that any operators can immediately older a snow removal operation for their remote headquarters runs a 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 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 fall mountain climbing then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor net set up can best be

incorporated into existing families control efforts eventually reducing required manpower. notion. of them in terms of scientific and technical developments with the theater we collaborate with a number. western companies for example with the v g t technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland and france he spoke to the participants in international projects and together we developed new promising products just a few in the museum. 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 microelectronic 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 the clinton generated details 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 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 the choices companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the continental 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. t.v. is adapted their strong background in video replay in 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 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 hockey has fast paced close confines decisions in droves and the russian league is actually out in front of the american embassy in tackling the situation with technology to improve the media referee system does not simply meet the international standards we set the benchmark it meets higher requirements than those defined 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 of the board. and dismissing must go home sydenham had the 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 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 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 and a crease after careful review the replay confirmed the call and the number was state with no goal surrender. the philip was up while his lead to several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on the road and very often fans

of the 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 go to the for example when the puck crosses the line in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it. before or after the clock runs actually we asked the developers to display the time of the screen about where to look the video referee could decide if we had five or six such moments not seen 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 so 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 goals could translate to a big goal is. to slow mo to beat product first because it provides the functionality we need to become so reliable partner since many russian t.v.

stations have used its equipment for many years before monteith camera shoots of concerts or shows so we can trust and third it's cheaper and them similar products of western companies and most importantly you so much better. when the 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 so more slowmo products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is done 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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