Thejesh GN » Geek-Fun http://thejeshgn.com A Blog, A Website and A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, india, photography, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN. Friends call me Thej Tue, 08 May 2012 11:34:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Time Greenwich Mean Time http://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/25/time-greenwich-mean-time/ http://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/25/time-greenwich-mean-time/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:18:51 +0000 Thejesh GN http://thejeshgn.com/?p=2929 Time has always been of great interest to me. Once I started working with developers around the world, time-zones became much more important. GMT is naturally the reference to any time zone. Like IST is +5.5GMT.

So Greenwich as soon as my friend told me about it. I was all in. Greenwich has the Royal Observatory overlooking river Thames on a hill in Greenwich Park. prime meridian (longitude 0, check the picture below) passes through Royal Observatory. It’s from here ( prime meridian, Greenwich) the time is measured. You can see the clock running GMT above. If you have a smart phone then start plain vanilla GPS app and check UTC time. It’s almost equal to GMT. The difference between UTC and GMT is below 0.9 seconds. GMT is also called as Universal Time (UT).

Prime meridian is a major tourist attraction. There was a long queue to take pictures inside the campus. But we found a place outside which was easily accessible.


I wanted to check accuracy of my phone GPS. It’s fairly accurate :) Its showing 0.00144oW.

Greenwich also has Peter Harrison digital laser planetarium. It’s housed inside a 45-ton bronze-clad truncated cone. Click on the image below to know more about it.


Overall it was a very satisfying geek tour.

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Features
1. It runs on all Windows Machines in background.
2. It keeps track of the software used by the resource
3. It categorizes the software used into productive and non productive software. Using this categorization we can calculate the effort.
4. It monitors the keyboard, mouse and hard disk usage while calculating the productive time.
5. It can distributed (auto installed) on your resources computer using any existing methods.
6. There is an option to Quarantine (
u need admin to unlock) if the RTPI goes below specific level and its real time.
7. It monitors the mails,IM messages, word, excel including your IDE contents. The system includes a centralized server with adequate AI to decide if the message/content is productive/non-productive. Hence the time spent on non productive messages will not be used in RTPI calculation.
8. When monitoring the browsers it can even log up to the level of websites. The centralized server determines if the website productive or non productive.
9. All the monitored data gets uploaded into centralized server for enterprise level calculation.
10. Comes with a powerful reporting engine for any kind of monitoring report you want.
11. It has a centralized server (web service) which has the software category information.

Technical Details:
1. Uses windows API and .Net for client side technologies
2. Uses webservices to communicate with centralized service
3. Server side components are built in Java and Other open source components. It will bring down the deployment costs.

Business Model:
1. License fee for each of the deployment ( $1 for a machine)
2. Access fee to the centralized sever ( similar to Amazon Web Services) $1/1000req
3. Maintenance and support

Next step:
1. Now start coding…
2. Find MBA to write business proposal and to find a VC.
3. Find a KPO or IP lawyer for patenting the algo
4. Find a sales guy to market
5. Find a banker to go IPO
6 Make an Exit plan
7. Sell the company

PP: Patent Pending

Trigger :

Recession. It looks like every company on earth wants to increase the productivity by hook or crook. If products like this can find a market then why not RTPM?

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