Re: the weather challenges that IR devices face in general, that is exactly what I was overing, their challenges, in general terms.
I believe that I gave a well rounded account of my own personal experiences, which should have been useful for others to begin to extrapolate what the factors are in a general sense, when beginning to assess this new model. Am I being too lenient in your opinion, or too forgiving?
Unfortunately, I think your experience is too limited to be of much use as a starting point in assessing the reliability of 0.80 ev photon transmission and detection, and the safety issue regarding these systems. I would much rather rely on first principles in this case.
Forget the safety issue, this is the least of Terabeam's challenges.
Permit me to shed some light on the inclement weather issue, if I may. The tolerance of an infrared system such as the one being discussed here is indirectly proportional to the distance of its end points, AND the bit rate being supported over it.
Since the attenuation of 0.80 ev photons is depended upon weather, the state of the transmission media will change completely - one state highly absorbing (rain) and the other weakly absorbing (sunny day). On a rainy day, the "proportional factor" may be an exponential decay of the signal.
My initial reaction, keeping in mind the absorption data, and other anecdotal evidence, which I am not at liberty to discuss, was to say that this system would simply not work in the rain. I am open to be proved wrong though, and will, over the next several weeks, attempt to test, quantitatively, the effect of rain on 0.80 ev photon transmission and detection. |
