The Current and Future State of PC's In Marine Automation and How Windows Media Center will close that GAP - A 6 Part Series
Welcome to my new Blog on how Windows Media Center will radically change the landscape of how PC Centric systems will be used aboard planes, trains and automobiles within the CABIN space (OK, maybe not the "train" but I had to use that line).. I have to specify the “cabin” as this is a hot topic if you are talking about instrumentation and critical control and navigation systems in the cockpit or canopy. We will NOT be talking about Windows Media Center in that space as I will be opening myself to all kinds of attacks from the “black box”, ASIC “Application-Specific Integrated Circuit” engineers out there that will school me on how Windows is not an appropriate for that job. (Though that may include future conversations about Windows Embedded ;)
Over the course of the next several months I will be presenting a 6 part series on the current state of Marine Automation and then will counter with what I think should be the future state. Accompanying each release of an article about the "Future State" of an Automation system, I will write and publish a "Usage Scenario" as to how that solution will be used in the day of a life of a user. In that posting I will enumerate the requirements, assumptions, outline a bill of material for the components and then briefly discuss the overall proposed solution architecture (the "prescriptive solution”). I will then walk you through the day of the life of a user role or two to demonstrate how the solution meets the requirements and how to actually use the proposed solutions.
This series of blogs is aimed at educating integrators, engineers, developers and solutions architects (yes people that do Home/Marine/Aviation deployments are "solution architects") about the "Art of the possible" when using Microsoft Media Center in all different types of Marine Automation scenarios - from cabin entertainment all they way to boat to shore video communications.
This approach is based upon IT best practices and in addition to educating readers on the "Art of the Possible" and "Future State potential" of Microsoft Media Center in marine automation, this Blog also is goaled to educate Media Center integrators on the best practices and methodologies used to deploy Microsoft technologies at and in some of the largest corporations in the corporate world. This ain't your grandfathers world of A/V anymore people, so pay attention as we will teach ya all how to sell, design, develop, deploy and maintain systems like the BEST OF BREED of consultants in the world of enterprise consulting (Like Avanade or IBM Global Services).
Here is the outline of stories for this series on Microsoft Media Center in Marine Automation
- Part 1 - An unsophisticated media system for a very sophisticated boat
- Part 2 - The Art of the possible for a Marine based media center
- Part 3 - The closed networking (satellite, IP, other) on an inter-coastal cruiser
- Part 4 - The art of the possible for inter-coastal networking (entertainment, data and IP TV)
- Part 5 - Real-time weather, tracking and communications via Media Center
- Part 6 - The marriage of canopy and cabin monitoring/communications through media center.
The timeline for this collection of stories will be publish once I get the blessings of this blog's master, Mr. Ian Dixon (He is the one driving all the stories and time lines - ah the life of an editor/publisher)
Stay tuned in and feel free to fire off and questions or comments about the topic that I plan to discuss and/or plans for the release of each topic.
Ray Casey - President Arestar (R*), LLC