Forwarded to CenPEG. Thanks. //PManalastas
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote: > From: fooler mail <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Code Review & SysAdmin of Election 2010 Computers > To: [email protected], "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical > Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 12:44 PM > 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
