On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, thad<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> furtheremore, they need to replace their PCOS' gprs (2G) modem to >> HSDPA (3.5G) modem as this modem have a backward compatibility and >> fallback with gprs, edge and gsm networks... >> > > GPRS should be fine, its widely used and benchmarked in wireless > automatic metering system (AMS) for smartgrid. Though AMS device > needs to send data every 15 mins to collection points but it may not a > be as voluminous like election return data But the specs of smartinc > device is more powerful than the Intel 386+16 MB that I used with > macros for Lotus123 for vote canvassing application way back in the > 90s.
let us compute if they want to send all the 1000 voters' ballot scan document per precinct aside from logs and ER at the end of voting time... according to their website (http://www.smartmatic.com/fileadmin/users/docs/SAES/SAES1800_technicalsheet_v2.0.pdf).. bmp image is around 250kb to 470kb.. using tiff compressed image.. we will assume 100kb (60% of 250kb) as average file size... 1000 voters x 100KB = 100MB upstream speed of GPRS is 40Kbps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs) 100MB x 8 bits per byte / 40Kbps = 20,000 seconds or 5.5 hours fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
