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Who does it warn and what does it warn them of?It's all over todays newspapers after yesterday's CBD blackout - Sydney's
emergency warning system doesn't have a battery backup. So if the power
fails, the system fails.
What doofus(es) speced, designed, and signed off on such a system?
Dave.
What does Sydneys emergency warning system actually do?
Apparently no-one and nothing!It's all over todays newspapers after yesterday's CBD blackout - Sydney's
emergency warning system doesn't have a battery backup. So if the power
fails, the system fails.
What does Sydneys emergency warning system actually do?
Who does it warn and what does it warn them of?
It's a public address loudspeaker and signage system for the Sydney CBD.On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:37:01 +1100, "David L. Jones"
altzone@gmail.com> wrote:
It's all over todays newspapers after yesterday's CBD blackout - Sydney's
emergency warning system doesn't have a battery backup. So if the power
fails, the system fails.
What doofus(es) speced, designed, and signed off on such a system?
Dave.
What does Sydneys emergency warning system actually do?
It was put in for the APEC summit in 2007 amid fanfare, and has beenWho does it warn and what does it warn them of?
"The building you are currently situated in, went under a blackout conditionInstead of using what speakers were still working, they decided to use the
SMS alert system instead, but that took them 40 minutes before they sent
something. The SMS system is primarily to inform building managers etc.
Drunken Boganswhat does it warn them of?
I guess you never had a contract for government/public service and tried communicate with their engineers...It's all over todays newspapers after yesterday's CBD blackout - Sydney's
emergency warning system doesn't have a battery backup. So if the power
fails, the system fails.
What doofus(es) speced, designed, and signed off on such a system?
wow, that is really bad. I always found the engineers to be clueie, butI guess you never had a contract for government/public service and tried
communicate with their engineers...
The same sort of govt that has a security force at airports that cannotIt's all over todays newspapers after yesterday's CBD blackout - Sydney's
emergency warning system doesn't have a battery backup. So if the power
fails, the system fails.
What doofus(es) speced, designed, and signed off on such a system?
Dave.
The 'engineers' don't work for the goverment, they might work in thewow, that is really bad. I always found the engineers to be clueie, but
the managers/accountants/legalites out of it.
wow, that is really bad. I always found the engineers to be clueie, but
the managers/accountants/legalites out of it.
The 'engineers' don't work for the goverment, they might work in the
engineering department, and there job title might be 'design engineer' but
they aren't engineers. The government comes up with ideas by itself without
consulting engineers etc. and then outsources the projects. Which is why so
much stuff is unbelievably useless, and anything that isn't is because its
run be a seperate goverment 'company'.
I don't know who they are... spoke to one PLC "expert" who never heard of RS-485. Department of Commerce, apparently they doing technical work for small organizations without technical expertise, like councils. Anyway, after a while we have received a spec for the project. Same day a phone call from another company involved in the project, they proposed to get together and work out between us what we'll do so we can up with something that works. Apparently they don't understand much from the spec, nor do we but at least we both know what the government wants to achieve.
Many government departments employ a number of people with EngineeringThe 'engineers' don't work for the goverment, they might work in the
engineering department, and there job title might be 'design engineer' but
they aren't engineers.
Yep.Many government departments employ a number of people with Engineering
degrees, some with great experience. Unfortunately these people are
rarely listened to by the people in charge.
Don't look too closely at your local council.(And many so called "engineers" who work for private industry have no
real qualifications and even less ability in some cases.)