hello my name is kevin irwin this is our team from moscow and these are our top stories of the week and today the most significant poll for decades in syria is over as people voted on a new constitution which could put an end to fifty years of single party rule there was reportedly a high turnout and the results are expected on monday. thousands of people joined in a chain of protests calling for fair elections here in russia the activists form the sixteen kilometer human ring around the moscow city center a week before the country chooses its next president. and students and teachers

again marched in anger over education cuts in spain as the euro crisis tightens its grip around the med but greece has breathed a sigh of relief as eve leaders finally approved an eleventh hour bailout to stave off default. one thirty one am now if you think your home is got all the latest gadgets think again is our t. shows you a window into the future of the next thirty minutes this month technology update is on the air. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're taking a look at a topic that hits well close to home in russia many innovations in terms of new building materials have come from the country's tiny. exhibition in moscow recently the company showed off its latest offerings from its aptly named nano house. here

you can find many of the newest developments all containing you guessed it the prefix nano the state owned company has selected a number of projects that things have the best potential to revolutionize code in the future you know all of the ideas to make we reside more livable but the overriding he definitely seems to be energy efficiency. not only the individual homeowners but the whole earth as well you know this is just a simple exhibition consulting firm e-com has planned a full scale model complete with all the high tech developments. get built in russia public some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow may not grab all the headlines construction materials made from will create the base for everything else in the house. is

nothing new to russian scientists the volcanic rock that comes from the heart. of the earth. is on the planet as a result. for more than fifty years. specialists. began at the end of the ninety. his research is that the glass fiber institute got the first positive results at the beginning of the one nine hundred fifty s. on the basis of which they wrote the first reports. in one thousand nine hundred fifty four that was the first magazine go on the topic its appears in the gloss and magazine. specialist recognize the role of the soviet union in this research looking at every relevant characteristic based five or perform steel is significantly stronger and more flexible which is obvious advantages in construction it's also lighter so transporting it is easier and more economical

additionally it doesn't degrade when exposed to the elements taken together it's no wonder the production of these fibers is on the rise to start with. crushed. into. five hundred degrees as the. agent is applied and the filaments are stretched out and eventually due to the fact that are made from a single raw material they're significantly easier to produce than others. different. so. you can make a lot of stuff. more energy. but to get

those compound. the fibers have to be reworked or treated first. starts with. the racks. can be combined with additional mixtures they give the fiber desired properties like enhanced. and fire resistance even though the resin makes up only a small fraction of the composition particles can increase. they were sold. the only. real production of it. to make concrete structures a. futuristic

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to get. according to its parameters in terms of. water retention and vapor permeability design of the same or even superior to similar insulation made from. a big loss. but at the same time constraints in terms of ella's to city. dust formation and. anything else on the market today. now what's responsible for the improved

performance is what you see. by something called the crazing. burrow into the. text to give their insulation additional properties depending on what they choose they can embed a whole host of different characteristics at a fraction of the price at which other competitors the able to do. these made from plastic are non irritating to work with. insulation isn't the only thing the company's been working on under development but they could soon come out with an insulating material from plastic bottles that can transmit electric signals which could totally revolutionize the way. moving from the stuff that's behind the walls to what's inside them another project that's found its place in the nano house gives you more freedom than ever before now you can take your favorite painting or picture and apply it to just about any surface you can imagine the

company behind this. you may recall from a previous technology program over the. time we caught up with them at their headquarters. to. breakthrough from the tireless innovators their new and improved. printers. pretty. much as. we were the first in the world to use light emitting diodes to solidify ink. technology saves energy prevents materials from overheating and there is no ozone in the process. printers are really only one part of the story. from their competitors massive improvements like instant drying. to practically

anything in your home and here and there are. a wide range of other. they can be used to print circuit boards and. panels. and most importantly even the first. infusion of particles as well as a new type of fluorescent dye they can help in the fight against counterfeiters. our company had developed all the electronic equipment for it so we're constantly modifying it grading it making it even. as a result of the. innovation. hybrid in the race to be the quickest. of the company.

a really extra boost. printer. and high speed and that's giving these innovators something to brag about. this will be the first printer which will be able to print with such high speed using l e d's first presented at the group of print media fair in dusseldorf which will be held in may the third through sixteen this exhibit takes place every four years it gathers everyone from the printing world and will be presenting them. so just how fast is fast you might be asking the cording to the time trials the latest from sun innovations killing around one hundred twenty square meters of every hour on average but it's not just the speed that this russian company apart it's a versatility unlike others there hybrid can handle anything up to two hundred

millimeters thick that means it can put your desired image on any surface around your home. but now isn't the only word on people's lips these days there's another high profile project highlighting that the latest building trends have arrived in russia the brainchild of a danish company fell looks this so-called active house is only one of a handful in the world its goal is to balance between energy savings and healthy indoor climate are some of the technologies incorporated have yet to be tested in an environment like russia so with a mind to monitoring just how everything holds up a young family moved in last december to act as the homes guinea pigs. building stats will be closely measured you can even check them online to see just how much energy things like the solar panels are collecting. we try to draw on the long history of wood construction and took maximum advantage of the new possibilities

offered by the latest technologies. so the whole house is made out of wood the frame for saw the sand roof. one of the objectives was to let as much sunlight as possible so every broom is ten times more than it is generally required. even now with all this snow outside if you go inside you will see there's a lot of light. given the extreme cold of russian winters and the plus thirty degree celsius weather the summer especially construction has to be found. here at their design bureau in moscow architects and engineers work together to find a way to minimize heat losses from the building itself sometimes overlooked in the hunt for increasing energy efficiency so-called thermal bridges can result in serious heat loss. they came up with

a new interesting solution. most be energy efficient we calculated that the walls had to be very thick and required a lot of insulation. layers are arranged in crisscross pattern. you can see here on the blueprint that none of the pieces lined up therefore no direct thermal bridges can form so the wall is impermeable. this but it. is an actual size sample of the wall. we can see how the house was built thanks to this specific wall construction the house is three times more energy efficient than our technical standards require that the board in terms of insulation we were able to make more homogeneous.

thermal bridges are a lot now if you. try to travel from the cold exterior to the warm. it has to overcome a lot of obstacles on its way because of the design of the frame. with these walls in the wind say you can keep the whole house warm enough with just a fireplace even. in minus thirty degree weather. but this is more than just a passive house it takes the. right to the environment itself with the help of a host of intelligent components it automatically regulates several systems to maximize energy savings. and by using the earth as a heat source in the winter and a heat sink in the summer homes geothermal pumps generate all the heating that's needed. a few meters below the temperature stable. pumps can harness this free source of potential energy to cover the majority of our

needs the heart of the system is a ground source heat pump. which turns it into a vapor. and further he. is used to power and hot water systems as it loses its latent heat. at this point the process starts all over again. the principles of car no cycle which describes the maximum official seat of a thermodynamics system this principle has been around for more than a century but thanks to modern advances it can be applied to our everyday needs. house we are testing the newest technologies to see how they will work in. specially interested in testing this heat real world conditions we also want to find out how much. the house will consume compare the results to the hypothetical

figures that came up with during the planning phase we'll see. good news is that despite a pretty bitter cold snap in february the test family made it through completely unscathed in addition to the generally good atmosphere the house has created the ground source pumps provided heat to keep them and all the little ones nice and toasty and there's certainly no. small feat considering the spacious interior and high high ceilings of the building. it's always woman and if the temperature does drop one can adjust it manually they seat pompeian it is powerful enough to keep the space all the rooms and. just everywhere up stairs and downstairs. and as far as i understand it in county weather the solar panel doesn't produce energy but this power connector still takes care of by stating and conditioning it feels just like summer time. but all this hasn't come

cheap especially given the complex engineering decisions required during the planning process but beyond that directs construction costs ate up the lion's share of the budget coming in at well over half a million throw in electricity the very latest in home automation as well as the finishing touches both inside and out and the total cost of the loops is active house talked of cool one million dollars however as more of these homes get built the price should fall making them more affordable for the average home buyer where you don't have to build a fancy house out in the suburbs or take advantage of the latest breakers or home optimization even the humblest of settings you can turn your simple abode in through a high tech habitat. welcome. light and electronic have to be three. eight. while in the past such so-called smart homes were nothing more than

a fantasy for everyone other than the super rich but on the back of advances in microelectronics and computing capabilities homeowners with a little spare cash can turn their nest into an automated sanctuary but it's not just increased comfort that home automation offers thanks to systems integrators like luxury systems here and russia an optimized house can save homeowners hundreds of dollars a month on the electricity heating and water alone. well there are plenty of software options out there on the market this integrator has found one russian company. whose product is way ahead of the competition the advantage over similar products made in the west is that this program can be integrated was virtually any automation system it is flexible enough to support all of them and it also gives the installers the tools to customize the user interface to conveniently control all sorts of equipment from one page. this eliminates the task of having to map to different systems. another advantage is that this program can be installed in

virtually any mobile device as well as on p.c.'s featuring the traditional windows software. and is also compatible with mac products such as the i pad an i phone as well as the android platform. in other words there are practically no limits for its. interfaces and. pleasing on the eye they'd be useless without this of wires here's a russian made controller system gives the owner peace of mind no matter what happens. because unlike other home automation systems this one developed and produced by a company called has a foolproof plan they give additional protection in the case of any kind of power outage or emergency situation such backups are necessary for industrial customers who form the backbone of the company's clients large scale manufacturers have been exploiting know how for decades as home automation has caught on in russia they

started adapting their products to work on small scale projects like in an individual house or apartment in doing so they've been able to transfer their treasure trove of knowledge and experience in the industrial sphere and apply it to the little guy because their hardware was originally designed to handle massive highly complex tasks the controllers they make for homes have significant spare capacity and keep. ability fortunately for the developers and tweaking the dispatch controllers for the home doesn't require all that much additional work. since we already have experience in just real applications we simply take advantage of what we can already do and just use it in completing orders for private homes naturally all equipment passes all the same relevant checks since testing is a mandatory part of the production process another important factor is ensuring that the required quality standards are at her to throughout the process which are also monitored and maintained by the means of tests but to make their products

ideal for home automation additional threats have to be considered here oh and technicians are making sure their adapted products won't be negatively affected by electromagnetic fields which are far more likely to cause some kind of problem that home than at a big factory such detailed considerations make life for system integrators a whole lot easier. but steak for example but in this control made by zero one four it is designed for automating moderately complex units but what i find convenient about it is that whenever it's necessary to replace this controller we do not have to detach all these while it's simply not to remove the top and bottom panels and replace the. features a preens told imbedded linux. which gives us a more up to date programming environment that allows one to create multi

controller projects. that. we can assemble the target controller from just the modules that will eventually be required for this system so we simply extend the main one was all the additional dates will meet with. the programming level this enables us to cluster the modules. which means the old functions of any failed control awkward can be taken over by another still oprah one well that'll do for this edition of technology uptake hopefully some of the innovations you see will help make your home truly your castle we'll see you next time and until then enjoy the ride. away from a database. and electronics hobby for. a long time to make a. good buy. the the.

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