Know your Mobile Network : TRAI

Now a days in era of 3G / 4G & upcoming 5G , everyone is feeling well connected via internet. It seem like we can do anything with the mobile in our hand. Just losing connectivity for some minutes also , we feel helpless. It really becoming one of the basic needs after Roti, Kapada & Makan. This connectivity issues which we face time to time though our mobile network service provider can affect our productivity. Losing our precious time on solving the connectivity issue or running behind the mobile range may seems normal but indirectly we are stopping our own growth. Many mobile service provider still not able to deliver expected standards in their services may be due to poor infrastructure, not maintaining redundancies  etc. but after crossing our frustration threshold we always think about changing the provider. It is really necessary to get good continues service for our own growth & India’s growth too.

According to economic times  “Now that India is emerging as one of the fastest digitalise in countries and the digital economy is projected to touch $1 trillion, we estimate that it is already around $350 to $370 billion so the fundamental platform on which digital India will grow is telecom. So, telecom is going to be one of the major trust sectors, going forward.
We had a recent ICRIER study, which said that while generally a 10 per cent increase in Internet penetration leads to 1.3 per cent incremental increase in GDP. For India this study was particularly noteworthy because it said that increase of mobile usage by 10 per cent actually lead to a 3.3 per cent increase in GDP. Since this is almost three times the global average, it shows that mobile is emerging as a major economic engine.”

Now think about , this major economic engine suffering the problems such as low quality of service , backed by poor infrastructure etc.  To overcome this TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has provided a great analytical tool for Exploring  the Mobile Data experience of consumers across India & enabling them to choose the best service provider in your area. This provides interactive map based analytical data of all mobile data service provider in india.

http://www.analytics.trai.gov.in/

TRAI Analytics Portal has 3 sections focusing on different aspects as follows :

1. My Speed Portal : Focusing on Speed of 3G, 4G data service providers in your area.
2. QoS Analytics Portal : focusing on Quality of service of mobile operators in area of interest , user can check operator wiser / service provider tower wise call droping rates etc.
3. Drive Test Portal : As most of the user face call drop / call block problems while driving inter  or intra city this portal focusing on network range issue detected for all service provider in different city roads / highways.

Consumer can check 3G/4G data service experience from all the service provider across india , it will give the best speedy mobile internet provider in your area

User can choose the Operator , 3G / 4G & enter location on map to check the best choices & performance for selected operator

Enter the location for which you want to check the data speed

eg. Dahanukar Colony , Pune. It will show top 3 operator & coverage of your selected operator in that area with speed range in Mbps

Select All operator option for comparison data upload, download speed & coverage in area of interest

 

• QoS Analytics Portal : focusing on Quality of service of mobile operators in area of interest , user can check operator wiser / service provider tower wise call droping rates etc.

It focuses on quality of service provided by different service provider in your area of interest.

Enter the location of interest

Select the Operator : it will provide the details of tower near to you for selected operator & call drop rates on it. (in %)

Also it will give you details of call drop rates across all service providers in your area for last 2 months

 

• Drive Test Portal : As most of the user face call drop / call block problems while driving inter  or intra city this portal focusing on network range issue detected for all service provider in different city roads / highways.

Network coverage on selected highways & city roads

Selected Mumbai city for example.

It will provide details of all the roads & operator wise call drop incident details.

User can set the criteria & select the data for any specific area for detailed analysis.

I hope it will be really helpful while deciding on best suitable mobile service provider for you, thank to TRAI.

courtesy: http://trai.gov.in/

 

Earthquakes of 21st Century

This interesting animation shows every recorded earthquake in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2015, at a rate of 30 days per second. The earthquake hypocenters first appear as flashes then remain as colored circles before shrinking with time so as not to obscure subsequent earthquakes. The size of the circle represents the earthquake magnitude while the color represents its depth within the earth. At the end of the animation it will first show all quakes in this 15-year period. Next, it will show only those earthquakes greater than magnitude 6.5, the smallest earthquake size known to make a tsunami. Finally it will only show those earthquakes with magnitudes of magnitude 8.0 or larger, the “great” earthquakes most likely to pose a tsunami threat when they occur under the ocean or near a coastline and when they are shallow within the earth (less than 100 km or 60 mi. deep).

This time period includes some remarkable events. Several large earthquakes caused devastating tsunamis, including 9.1 magnitude in Sumatra (26 December 2004), 8.1 magnitude in Samoa (29 September 2009), 8.8 magnitude in Chile (27 February 2010), and 9.0 magnitude off of Japan (11 March 2011). Like most earthquakes these events occurred at plate boundaries, and truly large events like these tend to occur at subduction zones where tectonic plates collide. Other, much smaller earthquakes also occur away from plate boundaries such as those related to volcanic activity in Hawaii or those related to wastewater injection wells in Oklahoma.

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7Eczs-nTI

courtesy : https://sos.noaa.gov/

Solar : Power to you !

After a long time , I am here with another interesting topic on renewable energy. Solar energy  is an important source of renewable energy and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power.

Lets see about global efforts towards harnessing this solar energy. In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that “the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating global warming, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise. These advantages are global. Hence the additional costs of the incentives for early deployment should be considered learning investments; they must be wisely spent and need to be widely shared”

By considering this, many countries had set their renewable energy goals & started working towards the same. as per 2015 readings.

#	Nation	Total Capacity	Added Capacity
–	European Union	94,570	7,230
1	China	43,530	15,150
2	Germany	39,700	1,450
3	Japan	34,410	11,000
4	United States	25,620	7,300
5	Italy	18,920	300
6	United Kingdom	8,780	3,510
7	France	6,580	879
8	Spain	5,400	56
9	Australia	5,070	935
10	India	5,050	2,000
11	South Korea	3,430	1,010
12	Belgium	3,250	95
13	Greece	2,613	10
14	Canada	2,500	600
15	Czech Republic	2,083	16
16	Netherlands	1,570	450
17	Thailand	1,420	121
18	Switzerland	1,360	300
19	Romania	1,325	102
20	South Africa	1,120	200
21	Bulgaria	1,021	1
22	Taiwan	1,010	400
23	Pakistan	1,000	600
24	Austria	937	150
25	Israel	881	200
26	Chile	848	446
27	Denmark	789	183
28	Slovakia	591	1
29	Portugal	454	63
30	Honduras	389	389
31	Algeria	300	270
32	Mexico	282	103
33	Turkey	266	208
34	Slovenia	257	1
35	Malaysia	231	63
36	Philippines	155	122
37	Hungary	138	60
38	Sweden	130	51
39	Luxembourg	125	15
40	Poland	87	57
41	Malta	73	19
42	Lithuania	73	5
43	Cyprus	70	5
44	Croatia	45	11
45	Finland	20	5
46	Norway	15	2
47	Estonia	4	4
48	Ireland	2	1
49	Latvia	2	0
World Total PV Capacity[8]		256,000	59,000

This adaptations are for our future energy demands & controlling global warming, which are positively supported by governments of this countries. Private organisations are also jumped in this global initiative. The success of this massive transformation of energy sources lies in the reach up to grass root level that is why Global Company like Google also come up with their innovative idea called “Project Sunroof” currently available for USA only. I hope Google soon expand this area of interest to other countries too.

Mapping of solar radiation plays important role in overall utilization of this energy.  many countries now started working in this direction by collaboration with each other.

Now, lets focus on India.

In india, The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched on the 11^th January, 2010 by the Prime Minister. The Mission has set the ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 is aimed at reducing the cost of solar power generation in the country through (i) long term policy; (ii) large scale deployment goals; (iii) aggressive R&D; and (iv) domestic production of critical raw materials, components and products, as a result to achieve grid tariff parity by 2022.

Year-wise Targets (in MW)

Category	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	Total
Rooftop Solar	200	4,800	5,000	6,000	7,000	8,000	9,000	40,000
Ground Mounted Solar projects	1,800	7,200	10,000	10,000	10,000	9,500	8,500	57,000
Total	2,000	12,000	15,000	16,000	17,000	17,500	17,500	97,000

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India (MNRE) working along with NREL under Indo-US Energy Dialogue providing up to date National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB). include monthly GIS data as follows :  (March 2016 data)

Solar Radiation Maps

 Direct Normal Irradiance

	Annual average (JPG 1.6 MB)
	Monthly average (ZIP 9.3 MB)

 Global Horizontal Irradiance

	Annual average (JPG 1.6 MB)
	Monthly average (ZIP 8.9 MB)

 GIS Data Layers

	Direct Normal Irradiance (ZIP 2.7 MB)
	Global Horizontal Irradiance (ZIP 2.7 MB)
	State & District Boundary of India (ZIP 3.6 MB)
	Important Locations including State Capitals (ZIP 13 KB)

Solar Radiation Data (Monthly average, Lat/Long basis)

	Direct Normal Irradiance (EXCEL 8.9 MB)
	Global Horizontal Irradiance (EXCEL 8.9 MB)

 Currently , MNRE (http://www.mnre.gov.in/ ) making really good initiative to increase the public participation for achieving this national goals. through initiatives such as

SPIN : (http://www.solarrooftop.gov.in/login) for Rooftop Solar calculator , you can follow the link by clicking on following image. Application form for participation available on website. Also mobile app is available : (http://mnre.gov.in/file-manager/UserFiles/arun-web.pdf , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nicmnre.nicspvapplication&hl=en)

• how net metering work ?
• How I can use my own solar power & get incentives from govt. in my electricity billing ?

All this quetions can be answer on respective electricity board websites in your region. for eg. for Maharashtra : http://www.mahadiscom.in/SolarRoofTopNetMetering.shtm

I hope this post was informative & let start working towards the clean solar energy . For any queries , suggestions do comment.

Real-Time Worldwide Air Traffic on Map

This is really good application of map based Air traffic monitoring for users. Real time flight info can be track through flight ID or simply click on flight. It also provide real time weather updates through WeatherBug.

Ref : http://www.radarvirtuel.com/?lat=47.30903424774781&lng=7.2509765625&zoom=5

 

 

World at Protest

A simple map viewer shows all latest & historical protest through out the world.

This site aims to collect articles from loads of sources, searching for ones that are talking about people protesting around the world. You can use the slider below map to select your date ranges, and search through the articles in the past. On the map, the darker the red, the more articles have been published about that country relative to the other countries. Below the map, you can see some general stats about the map your currently seeing.

as per James Clark-author of this site, “articles may be misplaced as my search algorithms arn’t perfect, but this is a work in progress to provide an historical mapping of protests around the world. ”

Overall add to know Map.

World at Protest

Geoghraphic Revolution – 4444+ Visitors

RailRadar – A new Indian way to track your Train.

After such a long time, most needed solution for techno freak young Indians who likes to travel by Trains arrived called as RailRadar.
The Centre for Railway Information Service (CRIS) has announced this new web application, which allows users to access location of a train on Map and track movements of trains on a real-time basis. The new RailRadar service is considered to be an improved version of the earlier tracking system ‘Spot Your Train’.

RailRadar

The RailRadar application has been jointly developed by CRIS and RailYatri team (Stelling Technologies) and users can access it at railradar.trainenquiry.com The app will help users find the exact geographical location of 6,500 passenger trains of the Indian Railways on Google Maps on a real time basis. Users can also access RailRadar service from their mobile phones, via the device’s browser.
“Please be aware that the, location, and status of trains shown on the map are typically 5 and more mins delayed from the real time. Please refer to main portal page for the latest train running status. Please note that RailRadar, using all different types of tracking mechanisms and the software that supports it, while highly reliable, is also complex,” explains the website.
The opening screen of Rail Radar features India’s map with the details of the trains running. On the top right, there’s a display that shows the number of trains tracked at that point of time, and percentage of trains that are on their schedule. Trains that are on time are shown in blue, while the late ones are shown in red. On clicking the train, users can also see the route, including all the stoppages, and the current location of the train on real-time basis.

Train Tracking with Details

RailRadar Legends

Mapping the London 2012 Olympic Medals

Click on Map for checking current stats of medals.

Missile Range Map

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads). Most modern designs support multiple independently target able reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target.

In the last few years, missiles and launch systems have become the new bargaining chip in international diplomacy.
Unfortunately, some can actually deliver nuclear weapons straight to your door.To find out range of different missiles in the world Carlos Labs developed a interesting Google map based tool.

Missile Range Tool

Click on Image below for missile range tool & Select a weapon from the list and the map will be updated to show the potential launch location.

You can also select a weapon and enter an address, if you want to see a map of the range from the new location. Additional weapon ranges can be clicked on the map -very handy to see how far can North Korea or Iran threaten other countries. For new search use clear map.

Classifications of Ballistic Missiles		Range
BSRBM	Battlefield Short Range Ballistic Missile.	less than 150 km
SRBM	Short Range Ballistic Missile.	150 km to 1,000 km.
MRBM	Medium Range Ballistic Missile.	1,000 km to 2,750 km
IRBM	Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile.	2,750 km to 5,000 km.
ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.	in excess of 5,000 km
SLBM	Submarine Launched Ballistic missiles.	irrespective of range, although usually over 5000km.

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Shiva Crater – India Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs ?

The Shiva crater is a geologic structure, which is hypothesized by Dr. Sankar Chatterjee and colleagues to be a 500 km in diameter impact structure. This geologic structure consists of the Bombay High and Surat Depression. They lie beneath the Indian continental shelf and the Indian Ocean west of Mumbai, India. Chatterjee named this structure after Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and renewal.

Shiva Crater

Dr Chatterjee presented his latest findings on Shiva to the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, on October 18th. He makes a compelling case, identifying an underwater mountain called Bombay High, off the coast of Mumbai, that formed right at the time of the dinosaur extinction. This mountain measures five kilometers from sea bed to peak, and is surrounded by Shiva’s crater rim. Dr Chatterjee’s analysis shows that it formed from a sudden upwelling of magma that destroyed the Earth’s crust in the area and pushed the mountain upwards in a hurry. He argues that no force other than the rebound from an impact could have produced this kind of vertical uplift so quickly. And the blow that caused it would surely have been powerful enough to smash ecosystems around the world.

Shiva and mass extinction

The proposed Shiva crater and other possible impact craters along with the Chicxulub has led to the hypothesis that multiple impacts caused the massive extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. Chatterjee is confident that Shiva was one of many impacts, stating that “the K-T extinction was definitely a multiple-impact scenario.However, other scientists remain unconvinced that the extinction event was caused by multiple impacts, or that the Shiva feature is even in fact a crater.Other theories have argued that since the Chicxulub impact is believed by some researchers to have occurred earlier than the extinction of the dinosaurs, Shiva’s impact was enough to cause the mass extinction.

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Reference : http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/publications/opapers/specpubs/SP50.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_crater