Environment Technologies

Environmental technologies, also called technology or green technology clean, is applied in production processes without causing damage to the environment, or the least possible.

We inhabit a world heavily polluted by different elements that have mostly been generated by human action.

Given the seriousness of the loss of quality of life that a healthy environment could offer us, such as clean water, air, and soil, the man himself has produced technologies that heal the evils that he has caused to the earth.

However talking about environmental technologies that prevent the generation of more damage to the environment in which we live. But they do not stop the productive growth of society but allow its development.

Environmental science use to conserve nature and the resources it provides us

It is applied so that human action does not cause negative impacts on the environment and natural resources

Classification

Environmental technologies have divided as follows

• New materials technologies.
• Information and communication technologies
• Biotechnology and life sciences
• Nanotechnology

Environmental technologies adapt to a variety of sectors and application areas.
Its development affects scientific Research and influence by the needs that are part of environmental technologies.

Four Important Advances of Environmental Technologies

Meanwhile Technological processes can reduce the consumption of raw materials and energy. But Others enable the production of different and new items as novel processes.
About the environment, four main areas of biotechnology are there.
In the first place, we find biomass that, among other utilities, is a substitute for fossil fuels in a wide variety of chemical production processes.

The change of raw materials requires various processes in bio-refineries.

Secondly, we have biotechnologies
They are processes that increase production due to their efficiency compared to their equivalent in chemistry. It can apply in industrial processes such as pharmaceutical, chemical, food processing, pulp, and paper.

The third is an agricultural
biotechnology
In this area, However, technology is of outstanding and fundamental importance. It helps reduce the need for pesticides through the development of resistant crops.

It has great potential to improve the characteristics of crops in a matter of genetic engineering.

And fourth, biotechnology

(e.g., microorganisms) is used to purify contaminated water as well as the atmosphere and soils.

The Reduction of Damage to Nature

Production and application of enzymes. It is important to clarify that the production of enzymes for industrial use originated in Denmark and Japan at the end of the 19th century.

Enzymes are products of cells. They obtain from animal tissues, plant tissues, or fermentation processes.
Fermentation efficiency

• Biopolymers
• Bioethanol
• Bio-based chemicals
• Bio-recovery

For the environment, these biotechnologies are fundamental.

Access to finance, industrial and intellectual property rights, a collaboration of science in industry, public opinion, and barriers to adoption and dissemination.

NFC Technology

New technologies come to simplify our lives, and the NFC technology system is more present in the day to day than one can imagine. In the mobile, the transport subscription, the credit card, and even in the new DNI …

How does it Work?

Near Field Communication – or Field Communication in Spanish – is a wireless technology based on the proximity of two devices to exchange data. The terminals must be almost touched to act. They can send information to each other, or only one of them can send it.

Does My Mobile have it?

To find out if the terminal has this system, you have to look at the mobile’s technical sheet. However, on Android smartphones, if the model not remembers, you can see it by clicking on Settings and then on wireless connections and networks. If it is, it can be activated and deactivated at the user’s pleasure. It can also found in the notification bar.

In the case of the iPhone, Apple equips its phones with this technology. Terminals 6, 6 plus, 6s, and 6s plus it can only use with the application of the own brand, Apple Pay. But later models, which have the iOS 11 operating system, can already use NFC with more apps.
Can I Pay with My Mobile?

Yes, but for these three things are needed: that the terminal has NFC, an application, and a contactless dataphone.

There are multiple applications in Google Play that the user can pay (BBVA Wallet, Santander Wallet, Vodafone Wallet, and CaixaBank Pay).

The DNI 3.0

In 2015, the electronic DNI change to 3.0. This new document includes NFC. And for greater citizen security, a PIN is required, which is given at the same time, to access the archived information.

What data is inside? The same that is in the physical format of the DNI and, voluntarily, you can add an email and a phone to contact in case of emergency.

Also, with an NFC reader connected to the computer (or via mobile), it can carry out administrative procedures related to the State.

Travel Pass

In cities like Valencia or communities like Madrid, cards work with this technology to recharge and ‘chop’ the ticket.

In Malaga, the mobile already uses to pay for the bus, although only for those who have Vodafone. The normal subscription can also recharge with the smartphone, but it will have to bring to an authorized terminal that gives the order to the card.

Contactless Cards

The revolution came with these time-saving cards. Move it closer to the dataphone and, in the event of a purchase over 20 Euros, insert the pin.

Some ATMs have enabled the same function to withdraw money. It seems that this technology is here to stay.

Data Exchange and NFC Tags

This technology allows two mobiles to share photos, songs, and videos.

Thanks to the NFC technology stickers, we can configure actions for the phone and that when the terminal approaches the tag, it is activated. For example, if the sticker is on the nightstand, the mobile would change to silent mode, and the alarm clock would be activated.

The configurations can be of all kinds, including sharing the WI-FI password or our data as a business card. It only takes one app to give the tag the order.

These stickers already sell, and multiple apps will give the orders to each user’s taste. It
will only be to close the mobile to perform the desired action.

Identification in Events

The mobile can open the doors of certain events without showing over and over to see the accreditation. It has already successfully test with those attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Tourism

From airports to museums. NFC technology simplifies life for tourists. Just by moving your mobile closer, the boarding doors open for Air France passengers, or information on the pieces access at the Alhambra Museum.

The volume of calls that a company receives in certain businesses can be very high. Establishing an adequate call forwarding strategy is vital to optimizing processes. This has to do with one person or, much more efficiently, through an Interactive Voice Response or IVR system.

What is IVR or Interactive Voice Response

IVR is a telephony technology that allows those who usually contact a company to interact with the company’s systems and navigate through voice menus until they reach the appropriate destination to resolve their incident or request.

Although it is a voice that has accompanie telephony since, practically, its beginnings, the jump to IP telephony increases its possibilities.

In the analog world, you could go through a series of recordings until you reach a destination. Currently, these IVR systems can integrate with much more complex processes. And deal with elements such as completing complete purchases, customer identification, order consultation in company systems, etc.

Virtually any service within a company, if it does not require human intervention, can manage by phone through this technology.

How do you interact with an IVR system?

In practice, we have all interact with this type of IVR system. They tell us to press a key on our phone to choose a department or to accept or cancel a decision.

This is possible thanks to the tone dialing system, also called a multi-frequency system or DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency). In this way, the system, depending on the keypress’s tone, acts accordingly with the select option.

Other technologies that are implementing together with IVR are TTS (Text to Speech). Which allows transforming text to audio heard by the operator or ASR (Voice Recognition).

Which allows the possibilities of these systems to expands. It allows that not only do they have to stick to a finite number of responses but they “understand” what the user is asking of them?

What is an IVR system used for?

IVR systems apply in companies with high volumes of incoming calls. They allow reducing costs since there are queries that can solve by means of a series of locations, in addition to the possibility of offering 24/7 attention for certain services.

The most basic use is usually to establish an initial, unified and homogeneous interface for all customers. Who call the company, where the needs of the calling user identify or, even, information can obtain from these people.

How can an IVR system be implemented?

At least in the case of Zadarma, it is one of the functions that can implement in your virtual PBX through the API that it offers for those responsible for computer development in companies.

Last April, also, new options add to the API through Webhook notifications. These allow you to modify on the fly the different scenarios of incoming calls, creating IVR at various levels and that adapt, with specific voice greetings, to each situation.

In the same way, it could automatically ask for different data, identify and authorize a caller using DTMF.