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June 11, 2014

Key Web Monitoring Services

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 9:14 AM

Web monitoring plays a critical role in today’s digital world. It gives a lot to the website owner like online reputation, customer satisfaction, revenue, credibility, etc. In this post you will see key web monitoring services like website, URL, transaction, server monitoring, etc.

monitoring serviceWebsite availability monitoring
It is an essential part to be carried out to know the website performance. When your website is added to the tool of monitoring, HTTP and HTTPS requests are sent to your website to check its performance and availability. This helps you to ensure that your website is up and running at peak performance at all times. And you will get immediate notification of its performance or errors or website downtime via emails, SMS or RSS feeds. These reports are sent daily/ weekly through emails.

  • Benefits of website availability monitoring
    • When once you are notified of site’s downtime or any error, you can analyze and find the root cause of the problem. And you can resolve it quickly before your customer reacts and complaints to you.
    • Every minute of site’s downtime equates to loss of revenue. By instant notification, you can resolve issue to the fastest. Hence, by minimizing downtime, minimizes the risk of loss of revenue to your business.
    • It improves the experience of your website’s end user and thereby enhances your organization’s reputation.
  • website monitor Website performance monitoring
    • It monitors the timings of each element happening in your browser.
    • Each element of the HTML page is monitored with respect to style sheets, images, scripts etc.
    • Monitors maximum size of the single page, including its elements like script, images, styles, etc.
    • Loading speed of the each page of the website.
    • Monitors errors in a web page like missing images.
    • Monitors maximum size of the entire page including all the elements of downloaded page.
  • Transaction monitoring
    • Monitors all the transaction of the end users in your browser.
    • Monitors shopping carts, click paths, log in, registration forms, perform content, etc.
    • Generate all the real transaction from the different locations across the world.
    • Monitors and detects the performance issues.
    • You will receive alerts when transactions are not working or slow.
  • Server monitoring
    • It scans the server on networks to identify issues or errors and fix problems before they affect your end user.site monitoring
    • Monitors the performance of your servers to ensure that your website, server and internet connection devices are up and are running.
    • Monitors your server availability from different locations around the world.
    • It monitors response time of the DNS server to find the domain name. And if this response time is longer, then DNS server should be optimized to make it to respond faster.
    • It monitors different protocols like Microsoft SQL server, Web service HTTP, web service HTTPS , PING, FTP, DNS, etc.

 

June 3, 2014

Types of Airbags and How an Airbag Works

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Winson @ 7:31 AM

An airbag is a safety device that protects the passenger in the event of a collision, by restricting their movement and inducing a slow reduction of the body’s momentum as opposed to coming to an abrupt halt. The greatest thing about an air bag is that along with the seat belt, it can reduce death in a collision by about 30%.

How does an airbag help in safety?
During a collision, the body of the passenger would continue to move forward, even if the vehicle has come to a sudden halt. This is because of the momentum carried by the body. So, in a collision, the upper part of the body hits the steering wheel or the dashboard hard causing fatal injuries or death. In high speeds, the passenger’s head even collides with the wind shield. This is extremely dangerous.

An airbag prevents the passenger from being thrown toward the dashboard. It also slows down the process of the body’s motion coming to zero velocity.

How is an airbag deployed?
There are collision detectors installed along with the airbags. When a collision happens, these sensors detect it, and send the signal to the airbag. In the airbag, this signal triggers a reaction between sodium azide and potassium nitrate. This reaction releases nitrogen gas which inflates the air bag. All of this happens under a fraction of a second and after the deployment, the nitrogen gas escapes through holes in the airbag to cause deflation in order for the passenger to move.

Different types of airbags

Frontal airbag
Frontal air bags are designed to prevent occupants from anything that is at the front portion of the car, like dashboard, steering wheel or wind shield. Since 1998, frontal airbags have been a standard in all the vehicles. Frontal airbags do not eliminate the need for seat belts. And they also do not protect the passenger in rear collision or a rollover. The amount of protection an airbag can offer depends a lot on whether the seat belt is fastened or not. Seat belts keep the passenger in the proper position to ensure protection by the airbag. An important thing to keep in mind is, if the seat belt is not on while in a collision, airbags can cause fatal injuries to the passenger.

Side torso airbag
This protects the passenger from injury to the ribcage and the pelvis. This airbags deploys in between the passenger and the door. Special designs are being included recently and these protect the passenger even in a roll over crash.

Side curtain airbag
The side curtain airbag deploys from the roof and protects the passenger from rollover injuries. Roll sensing side curtain bags are usually used in SUVs and pickup trucks because they are prone to rollovers. But in case the driver in taking the vehicle off road, he can disable the feature.

Knee airbag
This airbag is meant to protect the knees since the knee too is highly exposed while in a collision. These airbags deploy just below the steering wheel. The knee airbag has been increasingly used in cars since 2000.

Seat cushion airbag
The seat cushion airbag prevents the pelvis from diving below the lap belt in a collision.

Center airbag
This is meant to protect the rear passengers from head injuries. It deploys from the rear center seat. In 2012, General Motors introduced a center airbag which deploys from the driver seat.

Seat belt airbag
This is actually a seat belt that can be used like any other seat belt. But in a collision, the seat belt inflates and offers extra protection.

Pedestrian airbag
Pedestrian airbags are different in that they protect the pedestrian as opposed to the passengers. It was introduced in Volvo V40 in 2012 and it deploys from the car bonnet, so that the impact of the car on the pedestrian’s body is reduced.
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May 18, 2014

The Working of a Hydraulic Braking System

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 7:17 AM

A hydraulic brake system is one that uses brake fluid to transfer pressure to the wheels. In this system, when the brake pedal is pressed, force is exerted on the push rod, which in turn pressurizes the brake fluid, which pushes the pads against the rotor disc to stop the vehicle. A hydraulic braking system has the following parts.

  • Master cylinder
    This consists of a cylinder filled with brake fluid, a brake fluid reservoir, one or two pistons, ports from the main cylinder to the brake fluid reservoir and a return spring. The master cylinder receives pressure from the brake lever and conveys it to the hydraulic lines that start from it.
  • Wheel cylinder
    Similar to the master cylinder, the wheel cylinder receives pressure from the brake fluid and pushes the brake caliper pistons against the disc.
  • Brake fluid (or brake oil) pipelines
    These pipelines carry the brake fluid and connect the master cylinder to the wheels cylinder in each wheel.
  • Caliper assembly
    The caliper assembly contains the brake caliper pistons and the rotor disc. The caliper assembly is the component which is actually involved in the process of slowing down the wheel.

Working
When the brake pedal is pressed, the push rod presses the master cylinder’s piston. The piston pressurizes the brake fluid in the cylinder. The fluid moves through the pipelines and reaches the caliper assembly. At the caliper assembly, there are two pistons one on each side of the rotor disc and they are connected to the brake fluid. The brake fluid pressurizes each of the pistons from both the sides, and pushes them towards the rotor disc. Since there is a one way movement of the brake fluid due to the pressure from the brake lever, it is displaced in the brake fluid reservoir. This process leads to a frictional motion between the brake calipers and the rotor disc, and thus braking happens. And when the brake lever is released, the return spring in the master cylinder pushes the master piston to its original position and the displaced brake fluid returns back to the pipelines.

Brake fade
Brake fading is a common disadvantage of the hydraulic braking system. It is caused due to the following reasons:

  • When hydraulic brakes are subjected to heavy work like descending down a steep inclination, they produce a lot of heat. This might, in extreme conditions, vaporize the braking fluid. This causes ineffective or weak pressure in the caliper assembly and thus faded braking.
  • Due to continuous usage, the pads which cause friction over the rotor disc may become soft due to wearing. This also causes ineffective braking. It thus becomes important to check the brake pads regularly, and if necessary, replace it.

May 8, 2014

All That Businesses Need to Know About Inbound Marketing

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 3:13 AM

Inbound marketing deals with attracting warm leads (potential to turn into sales) in contrast to outbound marketing which deals with cold leads. It mainly uses interesting content to acquire customers. Inbound marketing will be advantageous to companies that have tight marketing budgets. It offers a unique combination of more efficiency at a relatively less expenditure.

Inbound marketing comprises various activities like search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, blogging and social media marketing. SEO deals with working out on your website so that you get better rankings in search results, which is likely to increase online visibility. Content marketing involves various activities like creating useful and unique content, providing articles, white papers, blogs etc. Content is used as a sales pitch to a certain extent by providing value to customers.

Process of inbound marketing
There are different stages in inbound marketing which help in giving a structure to your marketing activities. It involves four to five stages. The first stage is to design a strategy that attracts website traffic, the second is to convert website visitors into leads, the third is to convert leads into sales and the final stage is to measure the results and accordingly redesign the strategy or take corrective actions.

Advantages of inbound marketing
Cost effective
Inbound marketing is completely done online, which offers many chances to reduce your marketing costs. In traditional marketing, targeting specific customers is difficult. But in inbound marketing you can easily target a specific section of customers, so you will spend only on those online users who are more likely to become your customers. As you do not depend on mass media for your marketing activities inbound marketing saves a considerable amount.

Availability of measurement tools
Another most likely advantage of inbound marketing is that you can easily measure the effectiveness of marketing campaign. This means, you can get a clear picture on return on investment. You can measure change in the traffic to your website using analytical tools. Doing these measurements and analysis will help in knowing which marketing activities are working and which are not. This will help in designing new strategies which will further improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your marketing activities.

Interactive communication
With the help of articles, you will be able to attract online users to your website. Once the users feel that the information is helpful they start interacting with you by posting comments, sending mails, etc. When the communication becomes interactive, it is likely to lead to customer engagement which is important to make customers interested in your products. You can also use social media to communicate with customers as they get a chance to directly interact with you. This helps in building good relationships with your customers which is very important in any business.

Value to customers through rich content
The rich information you provide through inbound marketing not just prompts customers to buy your products, but gives them valuable information they are looking for and thus adds value to your service. You provide value to customers and in turn you get benefits in the form of quality leads. By providing good content, you can show your expertise which could make your customers trust you as an expert in your niche.

These advantages show the importance of inbound marketing that not only helps businesses reduce their marketing budgets but provides effective results when implemented properly.
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April 25, 2014

New Car Launches by Jeep in USA 2014

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , , — Winson @ 1:16 AM

In this article, we listed out some of new cars that Jeep Motors is launching this year with specifications and Their performance features.
Some of the newly launching/launched cars by Jeep we are discussing in this article are:

  • Jeep Wrangler
  • Jeep Grand Cherokee

Jeep Wrangler 2014
Jeep Wrangler is a convertible SUV manufactured by Jeep motors. The 2014 Jeep Wrangler is only convertible SUV with four-wheel drive.

Specifications of Jeep Wrangler 2014

Gas Mileage 17 mpg City/21 mpg Hwy
Fuel Economy combined 18 mpg
Engine Regular Unleaded V-6, 3.6 L
Driving Type Four Wheel Drive
Passenger Capacity 4
Turning Diameter – Curb to Curb (ft) 34.9
Net Horse Power @ RPM 285 @ 6400
Net Torque @ RPM 260 @ 4800
Steering type Re-Circulating Ball
Displacement 3.6 L/220
Passenger doors 2
Body style Sport Utility
Fuel tank capacity 70.40 Liters (18.6 Gallons)
Transmission system 6-Speed Manual (NSG370)

Features of Jeep Wrangler 2014

  • Automatic climate control system.
  • Fog lamps
  • A device that shows how economically you are driving, and even an outdoor temperature gauge.
  • Blue tooth connectivity
  • MyGIG music storage, Sirius Satellite Radio.
    • Safety Features
  • Air Bag-Frontal-Driver
  • Air Bag-Frontal-Passenger
  • Electronic Stability Control (ESC) And Roll Stability Control.
  • ABS Traction Control
  • Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts.

Performance of Jeep Wrangler 2014

  • A V6-Cylinder engine 285-horsepower 3.6-liter engine, 6-Speed manual transmission system.
  • Fuel efficiency of 17 city/21 hwy
  • The combine rating of this car is 18 mpg.
  • V6-cylinder engine allows the Jeep Wrangler to get 60 mph in just 7.7 seconds.

Jeep Grand Cherokee
Jeep Grand Cherokee is a Mid-size car manufactured by Jeep motors.

Specifications of Jeep Grand Cherokee 2014

Gas Mileage 17 mpg City/25 mpg Hwy
Fuel Economy combined 20 mpg
Engine Regular Unleaded V-6, 3.6 L
Driving Type Rear Wheel Drive
EPA class Standard Sport Utility Vehicles 2WD
Passenger capacity 5
Turning diameter – Curb to Curb (ft) 37.1
Net horse power @ RPM 290 @ 6400
Base curb weight 2061.577 KG
Net torque @ RPM 260 @ 4800
Steering type Rack-Pinion
Displacement 3.6 l/220
Passenger doors 4
Body style Sport utility
Fuel tank capacity 93.12 liters (24.6 Gallons)
Transmission system 8-Speed automatic (845 RE)

Features of Jeep Grand Cherokee 2014

  • Air conditioning
  • A tilt/telescope steering wheel; and keyless entry.
  • An audio system with an AM/FM/CD player and Sirius XM satellite radio.
    • Safety Features
  • Electronic Stability Control (ESC) And Roll Stability Control
  • Anti breaking system traction control
  • Dual stage driver and passenger seat-mounted side airbags
  • Tire specific low tire pressure warning
  • Rear view camera
  • Dual stage driver and passenger front airbags
  • Curtain 1st and 2nd row airbags
  • Airbag Occupancy Sensor
  • Driver knee airbag
  • Rear child safety locks
  • Outboard front lap and shoulder safety belts

Performance of Jeep Wrangler 2014

  • A V6-Cylinder engine 290-horsepower 3.6-liter engine, 8-Speed Automatic Transmission system
  • Fuel efficiency of 17 city/25 hwy
  • The combine rating of this car is 20 mpg
  • V6-cylinder engine allows the Jeep Wrangler to get 60 mph in just five seconds

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