#Smart Access Control for Parks

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Streamlining Amusement Park Entry: Modern Solutions for Efficient Visitor Management

Efficient visitor entry management is crucial for amusement parks to enhance guest experiences, ensure safety, and optimize operations. With advancements in technology, parks can now implement systems that facilitate seamless entry processes.

The Importance of Efficient Entry Management

Long queues and manual ticket checks can detract from the visitor experience. Implementing streamlined entry systems not only improves guest satisfaction but also aids in crowd control and security.

Key Components of Modern Entry Management Systems

1. Online Ticketing and Pre-registration

Allowing guests to purchase tickets online and register in advance reduces wait times at entry points. This system can also provide valuable data on expected attendance, aiding in resource planning.

2. Contactless Entry Solutions

Utilizing QR codes or RFID-enabled wristbands enables quick and hygienic access to the park. These methods minimise physical contact and expedite the entry process.

3. Real-time Monitoring and Analytics

Implementing systems that monitor visitor flow in real-time allows for dynamic crowd management. Data analytics can help identify peak times and areas, facilitating better staff allocation and enhancing safety measures.

4. Customisable Access Permissions

Advanced systems can assign different access levels to various visitor categories, such as VIPs or group tours, ensuring a tailored experience and efficient movement within the park.

5. Automated Notifications and Alerts

Integrating alert systems that notify staff of large group arrivals or potential security concerns enables proactive management and swift response to situations.

Benefits of Implementing Advanced Entry Management

Enhanced Guest Experience: Reduced wait times and personalised services lead to higher satisfaction.

Improved Operational Efficiency: Automation reduces manual workload, allowing staff to focus on guest engagement.

Increased Security: Real-time monitoring and controlled access points bolster safety measures.

Data-driven Decisions: Analytics provide insights into visitor behavior, informing marketing and operational strategies.

Adopting modern visitor entry management systems for amusement parks is essential, aiming to provide exceptional guest experiences while maintaining efficient and secure operations. By embracing technological advancements, parks can ensure smooth entry processes, better crowd control, and enhanced overall satisfaction. Upgrade your amusement park with smart entry solutions – Contact Parkomax today for seamless, secure, and data-driven visitor management!

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Smart Parking Solution for Property Owners & Managers: Boost Revenue & Optimize Operations

Managing parking areas is not only about allocating space, it’s also+about maximizing returns, improving tenant satisfaction, and simplifying operations. With smart technology transforming every aspect of real estate, a smart parking solution for property owners and managers has become a critical investment.

In this article, we explore how modern parking systems like LotPilot are empowering property managers to solve long-standing parking challenges, increase revenue, and create seamless experiences for residents and visitors alike.

Why Property Owners Need Smart Parking Solutions

Property owners and managers face multiple challenges in handling parking facilities:

Inefficient space utilization

Manual tracking and enforcement

Unauthorized or overstaying vehicles

Revenue leakage in paid parking zones

Poor tenant or visitor experience

Traditional methods like paper tickets or manual monitoring fall short in today’s fast-paced environments. This is where a smart parking solution designed specifically for property management steps in offering data-driven control and automation.

Key Benefits of a Parking Solution for Property Owners & Managers

1. Maximized Space Utilization

Smart parking platforms like LotPilot use real-time data and occupancy sensors to help managers allocate and monitor parking spaces effectively. This ensures that no space goes underused, especially in high-demand residential, commercial, or mixed-use properties.

2. Automated Access & Entry Control

Smart access systems integrated with License Plate Recognition (LPR) or QR-based entry eliminate the need for manual gates or physical passes. This reduces operational costs and enhances security.

For example, with LotPilot, property managers can issue digital permits, restrict entry to unauthorized vehicles, and monitor every vehicle entering or exiting the premises.

3. Simplified Visitor Management

Managing guest parking can be chaotic. A smart system enables residents to pre-book visitor slots, and digital passes can be sent to guests for seamless entry. This reduces confusion at entry points and improves tenant satisfaction.

4. Revenue Optimization

For paid or mixed-use parking lots, LotPilot allows full automation of payment processing. Whether it’s pay-per-use, monthly subscriptions, or dynamic pricing during peak hours, the platform can manage it all.

Integrated reports give property owners full visibility into parking revenues, helping identify trends and maximize profitability.

5. Enhanced Security and Monitoring

With integrated surveillance, entry logs, and advanced analytics, LotPilot improves overall property security. Managers can get instant alerts for rule violations, overstays, or suspicious activity,  maintain order and safety in shared spaces.

Customizable Solutions for Different Property Types

LotPilot isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. It offers flexibility to adapt to various property settings.

Residential complexes: Allocate dedicated slots, manage visitors, and provide app-based access to residents.

Commercial properties: Enable tiered pricing, tenant management, and real-time space availability updates.

Mixed-use properties: Seamlessly manage both short-term and long-term parking needs, all in one platform.

Whether you're running a gated community, a shopping center, or a corporate office, LotPilot's scalable architecture can be tailored to your specific needs.

Real-time Insights and Reporting

One of the most powerful features of modern parking systems is data. LotPilot provides actionable insights into:

Peak usage times

Average duration of stays

Revenue per slot

Compliance metrics

This helps property owners make informed decisions—like when to expand capacity, increase rates, or change operational hours.

Cloud-based Control Anytime, Anywhere

Cloud technology ensures that you don’t need to be physically present to manage your property’s parking operations. Through LotPilot’s cloud dashboard, you can monitor, assign, and control access to your parking areas remotely—24/7.

Sustainable & Future-ready

Smart parking also contributes to sustainability goals. Efficient traffic flow, reduced idle time, and minimized emissions create a better environment for everyone. With the number of electric vehicles(EVs) on the road rising, platforms like LotPilot are already integrating EV charging station management—future-proofing the property.

Final Thoughts

A reliable parking solution for property owners and managers isn’t just a convenience, but a strategic advantage. By streamlining operations, increasing security, and unlocking new revenue streams, solutions like LotPilot help transform parking from a cost center to a profit generator.

Whether you're a developer planning a new project or a property manager looking to modernize your facility, investing in a smart parking platform is the way forward.

Explore LotPilot today and see how it can simplify parking management while enhancing tenant and visitor satisfaction.

[beeseverywhen]

This thing drove past me in the airport. I have no words

[rssecurityswingturnstile]

1: servo motor speed turntsile barriers

dc brushless speedlane turnstiles barrier is a typical door type, which generally includes door frames, door leaves, door handles and locks. Door frames are typically made of steel plates or wooden boards, and door leaves are made of cardboard, plastic plates or glass plates. The door handle is a device that pulls or pushes the door leaf open, and the lock is a gadget that prevents the door leaf from falling out of the door frame. There are normally 2 methods to open a door, one is to pull the door and the other is to push the door. The moving door is opened by the door manage pulling the door leaf away from the door frame, while the moving door is opened by the door manage pressing the door leaf away from the door frame.

2: dc brushless wing barrier gate

servo motor wing turntsile gates and dc brushless speedlane turnstiles barriers In contrast, metro flap barrier doors is designed to obstruct water flow through its horizontal position. In contrast, servo motor wing barriers gates merely manages the flow of water by changing the vertical position of the gate. city flap turnstiles The gate of gate is composed of two gates that can be moved horizontally to manage the flow of water. servo motor swing turnstiles Eviction of gate is composed of a gate that can control the flow of water by moving vertically.

3: city flap barrier doors

city flap barriers doors, also called movable gate, is a flood discharge center that avoids the water level from being expensive or too low. When the water level rises to the set worth, subway flap turnstile gate will immediately open. When the water level drops to the set value, metro flap barrier gate The door will close instantly. subway flap turnstile gate uses a water level sensing unit to keep track of water level changes and manages the opening or closing of eviction to accomplish the function of instantly controlling the water level.

4: What's the distinction?

dc motor wing barriers gate usually describes closing eviction, while servo motor speedgate turntsile barriers refers to opening eviction. subway flap barrier door and dc motor wing barriers gate is different from dc motor speed turntsile barrier. It is a gate set up on the water. And dc brushless swing barriers gates and servo motor speedlane gates barriers are gates mounted on the wall.

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps

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Lucid dreaming

Aka Caleb's standard myth

Spoilers:

First off- why did every myth not have a satisfactory ending?! Infold, you'll put every single girl in depression. I wasn't over Sylus's dragon myth and then this?

Onto main-

MC visits Skyhaven, for a mission with Farspace fleet .

Caleb is super smart. Hell, he'll give even Dr.Zayne a run for his money. Fucking sly fox this guy is.

He guesses her purpose, invites him over to his place.

Beautiful house. Beautiful place.

Long story short, he's nominated as a new Commander of Tuum fleet, with the previous commander and soldiers being placed under him. MC is there to investigate this and he gives her the files for clearance.

MC notices that things ain't adding up. People who were hostile, after medical examination are now docile. Before she can catch one person, Caleb comes in with food and tells her he has a meeting.

Caleb- knows MC better than she knows herself. And has planned down 20 steps ahead of her. Never give this man chess to play. He'll wreck everyone hands down.

Cue MC snooping around( again) and getting caught( again). Really girl? Really? Why the hell .... There's a reason you're on field and never in covert ops..but Pls Learn Subtlety

She manages to steal a chip and access his files before being revoked access and Caleb confronts her. Says either you be happy and stay out of this mess or I'll be dragged to HQ and questioned.

At this point- Caleb is shady af. Like so shady he makes Sylus pale in comparison.

Next up mega banquet to celebrate Caleb's promotion.

Caleb is attacked by the previously demoted colonel and company, he sends MC away to safety while he deals with them.

Guy has no qualms about manipulating her just so she can stay safe?! Like red flag but also green?

MC waiting for him realises she's been duped, and self implants a chip without him knowing.

The man that he is- goes to her- tells her she is his forever- and faints in her arms.

Guy is scary fine but absolutely down for her. Like yandere tendencies and controlling and possesive...gurl you down bad for him? It's toxic but...idk at this point. She enables him a lot ngl

Next- Caleb faints, has a seizure, and loses all his memories thanks to his chip

MC- she plays him and tells him he is hers. Gives no in lination of telling him anything about his lost memories. ( GURLL WHATT?!!)

They go to an amusement park- she faints thanks to her chip- turns out Caleb had all his memories and was playing her.

What in the 5D chess is this??!! Caleb my man. My amazing hunk of revived corpse and flesh. Wut. I'm shook. But very very impressed with your tactics ngl. Extremely well played.

MC is taken to infirmary to get her chip removed forcefully - she will lose her memories but will retain some recall of it.

cue her throwing a fit- refusing it- Caleb somehow convincing her ( slight gaslighting?)

She's done with him. Removes his tie and coat.

Those bite marks on his hand? Hers. Apparently he gives her his hand everytime she's sick so that she doesn't accidently bite her own tongue off. ( So sweet man but don't distract me)

MC is ultimately forced to have the chip removed. Has little recollection of ehatvexactly happened on Skyhaven. And goes back.

End note-

Infold I will curate every single myth and play it on loop till you cry.

Point is- amazing amazing portrayal of Caleb and backstory. Human experimentation for the ultimate weapon, Caleb being chosen and put through it( not all details revealed yet in myth) , him being forced to give up his emotions and humanity and yet, he never forgets MC.

Caleb is the walking red flag of LADS but.. idk even at this point. Guy's like the morally grey character with a solid backstory and reasoning for it. Can't wait for more.

To the fans thinking Sylus is a red flag? Brothers and sisters, compared to this Bucky Barnes inspired persona, he's a green forest.

More on analysis and emo dump later.

Toodaloo!! And thanks for reading this monster of a post.

[phoenixyfriend]

Hi how would people feel about me doing like... IDK maybe $5-$10 ko-fi commissions of Fun Facts And Trivia you can pull out when you visit NYC to sound smart to your family

Basically you send me a place, and I tell you (some of) The Cool Shit that you'd get from a tour guide.

For example: NYPL and Bryant Park.

This entire block used to be a water reservoir, called the Croton, which held water delivered by aqueduct from the Croton river in Westchester.

Prior to the Croton reservoir, the water in NYC was limited to that drawn from a single spring, which was controlled by mobs. Lots of price gouging.

The pipes were made of wood, and also introduced by, among others, Aaron Burr.

The reservoir was dismantled after decades due to its immense size being an eyesore and a waste of valuable real estate in the center of Manhattan. Instead, they built the Central Park reservoir, which is today a lake; it was decommissioned in 1993 and renamed after Jackie Kennedy shortly after.

Water now comes from upstate, in some massive underground tunnels. Which leak. One of them is the longest tunnel in the world. The ones that actually come into the city are the absolute deepest tunnels we have here. There are two major ones, which do both leak. They're building a third to replace it. They started construction in 1970. They expect it to finish by 2032.

You can still see some of the original bricks of the reservoir making up the foundation of the library; they are on display indoors

The library collection dates back to 1895, but the flagship building wasn't completed until 1911.

Those lions out front are so iconic they inspired their own PBS TV show, Between the Lions, designed to teach basic phonics to children in first or second grade.

There are displays in the library that are like a little museum exhibit, complete with deacons that give free tours!

Best NYC public institution merch shop at the moment (the Met downsized for some repairs).

Bryant Park has an ice skating rink in the winter!

There's an amazing holiday village (small business/crafter stands) in the winter, and similar makers fairs on some other holidays. Other parks and squares do the same thing!

It has a courtyard. Most NYC buildings don't.

While it's the flagship library and does technically loan out works, most of the collection in NOT publicly accessible. It's for specialized research these days, and most of the books are held underground in some heavy-duty mechanized bookshelves.

There is a "normal" library kitty-corner for the normal library needs.

Try the waffles.

[fight-nights-at-freddys]

antis always accuse proshippers of normalizing bad things when what I think is seemingly seen as normal in anti spaces is teenagers talking to each other, in general or with adults about sexual topics on public platforms

I’ve seen two 15 year olds talk to each other about NOMAPs, another minor believed the existence of proshippers/their “content” was “non contact grooming” and another one posted about having intrusive thoughts or that they had a paraphilia, and it just rang shrill alarm bells in my head because why in the world would you post these things on a public platform, and why does does none of them see this as weird and concerning?

It’s not like we should forbid minors from ever talking about topics like these but for gods sake, it is not safe to post about this stuff or being vulnerable or traumatized in general on a public platform. It’s even weirder when adults just pretend they don’t see it, or encourage them to be open about their fears or when they encourage minors to criticize kink/porn.

these teens need a better environment for grappling with this stuff

not an online platform like tumblr/social media in general.

The internet is not a safe place, there will always be people around who LOOK for easy targets (like vulnerable teenagers) to exploit.

agreed!

like, i know it's not a simple thing to fix, and there are genuinely benefits to teens being able to talk about paraphilias, and kinks, and whatever, but it HAS to be amongst themselves, and with the internet being anonymous, there's no way to be sure they're not being preyed upon.

I just WISH parents would understand how unsafe the internet is. they wouldn't take their kids to a park and let them go unsupervised (i hope), so i don't get why THEY don't get it's the same thing w the internet (and it's easier to control! just don't give kids access to smart phones/don't allow them on social media!)

[ragnarockz]

So um…. Dear sweet Beta, With all the Maya x reader content could we get some Agnes x reader with some spit play and dirty talk

😏💙

You had been assigned to help ease back in one of Westview's detectives that was put on leave for, what you could understand from all the water cooler chatter, disciplinary leave. It scared you at first, not knowing just how intense the detective was going to be. Were they still going to lash out and be aggressive? Would they bully you? It wasn't until you walked into the precinct on that first day of yours many months ago that you realized Detective Agnes O'Connor wasn't really much to be scared of.

Intimidated? Maybe. Smitten over? Absolutely.

And you let her know; as much as you could get away with it at work. She picked up on your signals, the little comments, the glances. She picked up on you always asking her out for drinks after work and for her personal number so you could 'keep in touch'.

She didn't really welcome it at first but the longer you remained partners, the more she started to soften around the edges. The second she opened up to you it was as if the floodgates had opened full force. She wanted to devour you; take everything you had to offer and then some.

She was trying so hard to hold herself back but you chalked her all up to being worried; maybe even scared. You doubted she ever really got to act on her desires and so maybe, just maybe, you had been the pass she was waiting for to come along and grant her access.

And you gave her access. Fully. Whenever and wherever she wanted you; all of you.

It was late as she drove with you in the car from work back to her place. She always took the road that went by the forest; the old abandoned lane that no one ever really used. It was more like a service road now; a way for hikers to come in from another angle. She used it to her advantage; was smart that way. Knew that no one would interrupt a unmarked police car pulled over to the side of the road in the dark of night.

Agnes parked and unzipped her coat; shrugged it off her broad and strong shoulders and flicked back her messy ponytail. She turned to look at you; really stare at you with her blue eyes. You couldn't help but to stare back and shrug off your own jacket. You heard the click of her seat belt coming undone and you mimicked her as you knew exactly where this was going.

"Get in the back, Sweetheart...don't make Daddy wait..."

Agnes whispered under her breath; low and steady like she and you had all the time in the world. You shifted your gaze just slightly to her lap and saw the bulge that she had used to press up against you at work hours ago. She was still packing from earlier in the day; laying in wait for this moment. She had silently asked with just her actions hours ago to make yourself available for her. Ready for her. How could you refuse?

You got yourself over the middle console as gracefully as you could and plopped down into the backseat. You waited; knowing that she liked to be in control. Agnes once punished you for undressing before she could get at you and do it herself. The punishment? She got you just to the brink of orgasm before she pulled right out and left you to your own devices.

She could be cruel that way; using her power to the highest degree and leaving you without any satisfaction and a deepening sense of embarrassment that of course, only turned into arousal.

You watched with hungry eyes as the detective got herself over the console and into the tight space on the backseat between your legs. You opened them for her so she could get her knees right in between; hunched forward and basically on top of you now. You watched the flash of her white teeth in the dark and felt a shiver run up your spine.

You wanted her in every way possible and you wanted her now.

Luckily for you; Agnes was feeling the same.

You watched in the stolen light that came through the car windows the way her steady and rough hands worked their way down herself to undo the button of her jeans and to zip down her fly. She coaxed the all-familiar purple silicone toy out as if it was actually hers; testing the waters beforehand. You held your breath and didn't dare to look away, eyes glued to the cock between her legs that stood proudly in its harness against her boxers.

You licked your lips in anticipation. She flashed her teeth once more in acknowledgement to your impatience. She was going to make you suffer just a little bit longer.

"Pull your pants down for me...let me see how badly you want this..."

And you watch as she tugs on the cock a little; pumping the shaft to warm it up for you. 'Getting it ready' you once heard her whisper into your ear. It was enough to make you moan then. It was still enough to make you moan now.

A tiny moan escapes your lips as your hands move as quickly as you allow them to to push down your pants. You get them to your knees and hope that's enough; the spot tight and awkward as your head rests against the rubber door handle. Agnes doesn't care as she gets a little closer. She helps take them off along with your shoes and you hear them all hit the floor of the car in a soft thud. You moan again knowing that the pace is going to pick up.

Agnes is fully above you now and you can feel the tip of her cock ever so gently rub against your underwear. You try to hold your attention to the space between you both; in between your legs and hers but it's dark and all you can really make out is her face. She's looking down at you; the end of her ponytail almost touching your neck.

Her teeth flash a third time and you realize you've seen this exact look before on her face; in her eyes.

She doesn't even have to say anything to you.

You open your mouth up wide; as wide as you can with a curl of a smile on your lips.

Her cheeks hollow out and you can make out her cheekbones before her lips pucker and that glint of ultimate arousal graces her eyes. You hold yourself steady along with your breath and watch as her puckered lips push out a string of spit.

Gravity does its job and it reaches your mouth. It's wet and warm and tastes like her; how you know she tastes when she kisses you. Sweet and a little tart; a donut mixed with coffee. You use your eyes to thank her as you close your mouth and swallow what she's given you. Agnes nods her head in approval before her left hand suddenly comes in between your legs to push your underwear aside so she can swiftly push her cock inside of you with one steady lunge.

She doesn't even need to wait for you to get used to being filled by her; you're already wet. She moans to herself, under her breath and you watch as her face scrunches up in concentration. You eye the shape of her nose; that bump that makes your heart swell. The way her brows knit together; her hair messy and loose around her face. You smile to yourself before your own face scrunches up in the sensation that finally takes over your body.

You feel your eyes start to roll back and the muscles in your legs go flaccid. You can only really focus on her grunting; the sound she's making as she pushes into you with precise movements of her hips. It's pushing you over the edge and a continuous noise comes from your mouth. It's a mix between a moan and a whine and you know it turns her on, gives her the stamina to keep going.

"OhfuckSweetheart....youfeelsofuckinggoodaroundmycock..."

You soak in her compliments; her sweet words. The pet names she calls you now. You want more of it; you crave it. You give her a louder moan as your legs tighten around her waist and lower back. You want her in as deep as you can have her; hitting up into your cervix.

"ComeonSweetthing...comeonDaddy'scock....Iknowyoucan...Iwanttofeelyouseeprightout..."

You can feel your muscles contract as tight as they can; holding her in place. She can barely move herself inside of you; just nudging up against you. She's biting her lip and waiting; praying silently to hear you break. Agnes wants to know that she's got you where she wants you the most.

Your muscles coil hot and fast inside your lower abdomen and the sudden release of them makes you moan loudly as you push towards her even more. You feel like she's going to break you in half; split you right open. There's a stabbing pain in your right side but you ignore it; the pleasure topping everything else.

"FuckBaby....ohfuckbaby..."

She's slipping over her own edge as she slowly pulls herself out of you and watches with wide eyes through the dark interior the slick coat of your cum covered on her cock. Her eyes dart now to catch a glimpse of the semi-opaque liquid literally dripping out of you and down the curve of your thigh to your ass cheek.

She moans in agreement; in pride.

You know she's been secretly and quietly keeping track of how many times she's brought you to orgasm.

You know behind that lazy, content smile as she brings her fingers to your wet cunt to wipe up your mess and bring it up to her mouth to suck clean, that she cannot wait to add another and another and another tally to her score.

You know that when she hovers back above you for the second time tonight it means that you instantly open your mouth to receive another string.

This time though, it's special.

This time though; Agnes moans before she gives it to you because, she knows that you won't only taste her, but yourself.

Agnes had made sure to clean her fingers of your cum with her tongue and lips and whole of her mouth before spitting it back into yours.

Because that means, ultimately, Agnes claimed ownership. Claimed control.

You are hers and she is yours and the pleasure she had given you? That pleasure was now swallowed with obedience down into the back of your throat.

You behaved for her. You listened to her.

You sighed as you lazily drop your right hand down to gather up whatever she may have missed and bring you fingers into your own mouth to suck and lick clean.

Her lips find yours and she moans into your mouth as she tastes you once more and you know, halfway through the kiss that she feels the movement against her lips as you smile.

Agnes loves to taste you; every inch of you. Especially when you have your own arousal in your mouth.

[muldj0rd]

https://www.tumblr.com/yuzuchupachups/743400160484327424/jenson-button-meets-lewis-hamilton-part-1-part-2

Slagclaren smut post interview maybe?🙏

Bedroom eyes || Slagclaren

Summary: "By average, a car is 1.7 meters wide- with the doors, we won't be able to fit," Jenson lifted his head to look at Lewis, who, for once, was saying something smart "I looked it up once," He shrugged.

"God, it's hot when you're smart,"

Warnings: Anal, anal fingering, top Jenson, bottom Lewis, Mercedes Lewis, retired Jenson, set at the 2018 British Grand Prix, car sex, semi public (empty parking lot)

God, Lewis felt good after his pole position at his home race. Jenson felt good too, not because Lewis was on pole- Well, also that, but more so that he got to interview him afterwards.

And the interview in the car afterwards? He could not keep his eyes off of him nor his thoughts clean. One of those thoughts was about how he just wanted to take Lewis right here and now in the car in front of every fan outside.

Lewis noticed this, because of course he did, Jenson wasn't exactly subtle about, but he tried to ignore it, even though it was so hard to do.

—

Lewis had to stay behind to do debrief, and knowing Lewis, he stayed even longer than that, watching qualifying and practice back to look at what he could improve.

Jenson stayed behind that long as well, not caring how long he had to wait, he just wanted a piece of Lewis, even if he had to wait an eternity.

"What are you still doing here?" Lewis chuckled softly, the empty parking lot almost dark as he walked up to Jenson standing by his car.

"I was waiting for you," He said as he shoved his phone into his pocket.

"For me?" Lewis asked confused. Jenson merely hummed before he had gripped Lewis, pushing him softly up against the car. He took Lewis' cap into his hand before kissing him passionately.

Lewis yelped softly at the motion but he immediately kissed Jenson back, his hands on the older's waist, trying to pull him closer.

"I want you. Right here, right now," Jenson mumbled as he mouthed down Lewis' neck.

"Here? Now? In the car?" Lewis panted confused, his hands going up to Jenson's biceps.

"Mhm," Jenson hummed, his hands squeezing Lewis' hips softly.

"By average, a car is 1.7 meters wide- with the doors, we won't be able to fit," Jenson lifted his head to look at Lewis, who, for once, was saying something smart "I looked it up once," He shrugged.

"God, it's hot when you're smart," Jenson chuckled, kissing Lewis more tenderly than he did before "Get in," He said, reaching behind Lewis for the door handle.

"Do you even-" "Yes, I have lube," Lewis didn't ask further questions, he just got into the back seat of the car, catching his cap that Jenson threw at him before he got into the car as well.

Jenson immediately moved Lewis to lay on his back, spreading his legs to make space for himself, leaning down to kiss at his neck, hands quickly unbuckling Lewis' belt.

"Jense, be slow. I have to race tomorrow," Lewis panted softly, arching his neck to give him more access.

"Don't worry, love. I'll go slow and soft," Jenson promised, pulling down Lewis' pants and boxers slowly, Lewis lifting his hips slightly.

Jenson reached into the front seat, getting the bottle of lube and turned back. The sight of Lewis like this, half naked, shirt pushed up to around his waist, was sure to make Jenson come if he didn't have the self-control he had.

"Fuck, you're beautiful," Jenson said breathlessly, squirting some of the lube onto his fingers.

Lewis whimpered at Jenson's words, covering his face with his hands as he pressed his fingers against his hole, smearing the lube around his rim, trying to relax him.

"Come on, love, let me see you," Jenson hummed, trying to pull Lewis' hands away from his face without falling forwards.

Lewis whined softly as he moved his hands, grabbing the edge and backrest of the seats, moaning softly as Jenson pushed in a finger, his back arching slightly.

He cursed softly as Jenson slowly started moving his finger, hips trying to ground down against his hands.

"Just lay still, love," Jenson hummed, slowly pushing in a second finger, making Lewis bite down onto his bottom lip, trying not to be too loud, they were still in public after all.

"Jense, please," Lewis gasped as Jenson curled his fingers up to hit his prostate "Please, need you," He moaned, trying so hard to keep quiet.

"You sound so beautiful, baby," Jenson chuckled softly, pulling his fingers out slowly when Lewis was stretched out enough.

Jenson leaned back, wiping his fingers clean on Lewis' inner thigh before his hands went to his belt, quickly pushing his pants and boxers down enough to get his dick out.

He poured some lube onto his hand, slowly stroking himself a few times to cover himself, making sure not to hurt Lewis in any way.

Jenson scooted closer in between Lewis' thighs, lining himself up with his hole. He slowly pushed into Lewis, holding eye contact with him as they both moaned softly.

Jenson stilled his hips, giving Lewis enough time to adjust before he slowly started moving, one hand grabbing the bag seat tightly, his other hand against the window that was fogged up from their body heat.

"Faster, please," Lewis moaned softly, his hands fisting in the back of Jenson's shirt, scrunching it up his body.

"Are you sure?" He asked softly, knowing that the younger had to drive tomorrow.

"Yes, fuck, just a little though," Lewis whimpered, bucking his hips up to meet Jenson half way.

Jenson gave in, moving a little faster and harder, but not enough for Lewis not being able to walk tomorrow, still keeping it rather slow.

Jenson groaned softly as he felt Lewis clench down around him, pulling him closer to his orgasm.

He took his wet hand from the window, pushing Lewis' shirt up further before wrapping his hand around Lewis' neglected dick, causing him to yelp from the sudden cold, but was quickly overwritten by pleasure as Jenson moved his hand.

"Jense, baby, please," Lewis moaned, his body shaking slightly as his dick was leaking down Jenson'd hand with pre-cum.

"Come for me, love. I'm not stopping you," Jenson moaned softly, his thrusts getting sloppy and uncoordinated as he got impossibly close to his orgasm, but he wanted Lewis to come first.

It didn't take long before Lewis came, his body shaking, nails digging into Jenson's back if it wasn't for his shirt between them, his cum spilling onto his stomach where Jenson had pushed it up, some running down onto the older's hand.

"That's it," Jenson praised in a groan, quickly coming after as well, pressing his hips against Lewis' behind, coming deep inside of him.

Jenson felt his arms weeks. He softly laid down ontop of Lewis, not even caring about the cum now sticking to his shirt.

"Should've done this a lot sooner," Jenson chuckled softly, his head in the crook of Lewis' neck, legs bent so he could fit.

[parkomax]

Entry Parking Terminals: Seamless Access Control for Modern Parking Facilities

Streamline Vehicle Access with Smart Entry Parking Terminals

Efficiency and convenience are key drivers of customer satisfaction, especially in parking facilities. Whether it's a commercial building, a residential complex, a shopping mall, or an airport, managing the flow of vehicles effectively at entry points is crucial. That’s where entry parking terminals play a transformative role.

At Parkomax, we offer advanced entry terminals that serve as the first touchpoint in any automated parking management system, delivering secure, smooth, and scalable vehicle entry solutions.

What are Entry Parking Terminals?

Entry parking terminals are automated devices installed at the entry gates of parking lots or structures. These terminals control access by authenticating vehicles or drivers using a variety of technologies such as:

RFID cards or tags

QR/barcode tickets

License plate recognition (ANPR)

Mobile app-based entry

Contactless payment or ID scanning

Once validated, the system automatically lifts the barrier gate or boom barrier, allowing authorised access into the premises.

Key Features of Smart Entry Parking Terminals

Modern parking entry terminals go beyond basic gate control. Parkomax’s entry terminals are equipped with smart features that redefine access management:

Touchless Entry Options: Supports QR code scanners, RFID, ANPR, and mobile app integrations for a hygienic and quick access experience.

High-speed Processing: Reduces wait times and queues, especially during peak hours.

Custom Display Panels: Real-time instructions, branding, and promotional content can be displayed.

Integrated Ticket Issuance: For ticket-based systems, terminals automatically issue barcode or RFID-enabled tickets upon vehicle entry.

Data Logging: Every vehicle entry is logged with a timestamp, user ID, and image (if needed), enhancing security and traceability.

Durable Build: Weather-resistant, vandal-proof design ensures reliability in all environments.

Applications of Entry Parking Terminals

Entry terminals are ideal for a wide variety of properties and use-cases:

Commercial Buildings & Offices: Manage employee and visitor vehicle entries efficiently with automated ID-based access.

Shopping Malls & Retail Centers: Enable a fast and intuitive parking experience that improves visitor satisfaction.

Residential Communities: Enhance safety with restricted access based on vehicle authorisation.

Hospitals & Educational Institutions: Control traffic and prevent congestion while maintaining high security standards.

Airports & Transport Hubs: Provide long and short-term parking access with dynamic integration into booking systems.

Benefits of Using Entry Terminals in Parking Facilities

By deploying smart vehicle entry terminals, operators and property owners can unlock multiple benefits:

Faster Entry & Reduced Congestion: Automated authentication processes minimise entry delays, ensuring smooth vehicle flow even during busy periods.

Enhanced Security: Access is restricted to authorised vehicles only, with real-time monitoring and data logging for added security and audit purposes.

Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for manual supervision, cutting labor costs while improving operational reliability.

Better User Experience: Touchless and fast access options enhance customer satisfaction, especially in high-traffic environments.

Real-time Monitoring & Analytics: Integrates with centralised parking management software for live tracking, usage insights, and operational decision-making.

Why Choose Parkomax Entry Parking Terminals?

Parkomax combines the latest technology with user-centric design to offer entry terminals that align with the needs of modern infrastructure. Our terminals are:

Fully compatible with ticket-based and ticketless parking systems

Easily integrable with barriers, payment kiosks, and guidance systems

Customisable to match your branding and operational workflows

Backed by expert support and local service availability

Whether you're upgrading an existing parking system or building one from the ground up, our entry terminals offer a scalable and secure solution tailored to your requirements.

Smarter Access, Seamless Parking Experience

Entry parking terminals are the gateway to a smarter, safer, and more efficient parking experience. By automating and optimising vehicle access, they help property managers enhance security, reduce costs, and provide seamless access to tenants, employees, and visitors.

Discover how Parkomax can enhance your entry process with advanced parking terminals. Explore Parkomax Entry Terminals

[mariacallous]

Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity. “Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!” “Biometric readers for enhanced accuracy!” “Offer staff benefits in a controlled way with Vending Machine Access!”

A new wave of return-to-office mandates has arrived since the New Year, including at JP Morgan Chase, leading advertising agency WPP, and Amazon—not to mention President Trump’s late January directive to the heads of federal agencies to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person … on a full-time basis.” Five years on from the pandemic, when the world showed how effectively many roles could be performed remotely or flexibly, what’s caused the sudden change of heart?

“There’s two things happening,” says global industry analyst Josh Bersin, who is based in California. “The economy is actually slowing down, so companies are hiring less. So there is a trend toward productivity in general, and then AI has forced virtually every company to reallocate resources toward AI projects.

“The expectation amongst CEOs is that’s going to eliminate a lot of jobs. A lot of these back-to-work mandates are due to frustration that both of those initiatives are hard to measure or hard to do when we don’t know what people are doing at home.”

The question is, what exactly are we returning to?

Take any consumer tech buzzword of the 21st century and chances are it’s already being widely used across the US to monitor time, attendance and, in some cases, the productivity of workers, in sectors such as manufacturing, retail, and fast food chains: RFID badges, GPS time clock apps, NFC apps, QR code clocking-in, Apple Watch badges, and palm, face, eye, voice, and finger scanners. Biometric scanners have long been sold to companies as a way to avoid hourly workers “buddy punching” for each other at the start and end of shifts—so-called “time theft.” A return-to-office mandate and its enforcement opens the door for similar scenarios for salaried staff.

Track and Trace

The latest, deluxe end point of these time and attendance tchotchkes and apps is something like Austin-headquartered HID’s OmniKey platform. Designed for factories, hospitals, universities and offices, this is essentially an all-encompassing RFID log-in and security system for employees, via smart cards, smartphone wallets, and wearables. These will not only monitor turnstile entrances, exits, and floor access by way of elevators but also parking, the use of meeting rooms, the cafeteria, printers, lockers, and yes, vending machine access.

These technologies, and more sophisticated worker location- and behavior-tracking systems, are expanding from blue-collar jobs to pink-collar industries and even white-collar office settings. Depending on the survey, approximately 70 to 80 percent of large US employers now use some form of employee monitoring, and the likes of PwC have explicitly told workers that managers will be tracking their location to enforce a three-day office week policy.

“Several of these earlier technologies, like RFID sensors and low-tech barcode scanners, have been used in manufacturing, in warehouses, or in other settings for some time,” says Wolfie Christl, a researcher of workplace surveillance for Cracked Labs, a nonprofit based in Vienna, Austria. “We’re moving toward the use of all kinds of sensor data, and this kind of technology is certainly now moving into the offices. However, I think for many of these, it’s questionable whether they really make sense there.”

What’s new, at least to the recent pandemic age of hybrid working, is the extent to which workers can now be tracked inside office buildings. Cracked Labs published a frankly terrifying 25-page case study report in November 2024 showing how systems of wireless networking, motion sensors, and Bluetooth beacons, whether intentionally or as a byproduct of their capabilities, can provide “behavioral monitoring and profiling” in office settings.

The project breaks the tech down into two categories: The first is technology that tracks desk presence and room occupancy, and the second monitors the indoor location, movement, and behavior of the people working inside the building.

To start with desk and room occupancy, Spacewell offers a mix of motion sensors installed under desks, in ceilings, and at doorways in “office spaces” and heat sensors and low-resolution visual sensors to show which desks and rooms are being used. Both real-time and trend data are available to managers via its “live data floorplan,” and the sensors also capture temperature, environmental, light intensity, and humidity data.

The Swiss-headquartered Locatee, meanwhile, uses existing badge and device data via Wi-Fi and LAN to continuously monitor clocking in and clocking out, time spent by workers at desks and on specific floors, and the number of hours and days spent by employees at the office per week. While the software displays aggregate rather than individual personal employee data to company executives, the Cracked Labs report points out that Locatee offers a segmented team analytics report which “reveals data on small groups.”

As more companies return to the office, the interest in this idea of “optimized” working spaces is growing fast. According to S&S Insider’s early 2025 analysis, the connected office was worth $43 billion in 2023 and will grow to $122.5 billion by 2032. Alongside this, IndustryARC predicts there will be a $4.5 billion employee-monitoring-technology market, mostly in North America, by 2026—the only issue being that the crossover between the two is blurry at best.

At the end of January, Logitech showed off its millimeter-wave radar Spot sensors, which are designed to allow employers to monitor whether rooms are being used and which rooms in the building are used the most. A Logitech rep told The Verge that the peel-and-stick devices, which also monitor VOCs, temperature, and humidity, could theoretically estimate the general placement of people in a meeting room.

As Christl explains, because of the functionality that these types of sensor-based systems offer, there is the very real possibility of a creep from legitimate applications, such as managing energy use, worker health and safety, and ensuring sufficient office resources into more intrusive purposes.

“For me, the main issue is that if companies use highly sensitive data like tracking the location of employees’ devices and smartphones indoors or even use motion detectors indoors,” he says, “then there must be totally reliable safeguards that this data is not being used for any other purposes.”

Big Brother Is Watching

This warning becomes even more pressing where workers’ indoor location, movement, and behavior are concerned. Cisco’s Spaces cloud platform has digitized 11 billion square feet of enterprise locations, producing 24.7 trillion location data points. The Spaces system is used by more than 8,800 businesses worldwide and is deployed by the likes of InterContinental Hotels Group, WeWork, the NHS Foundation, and San Jose State University, according to Cisco’s website.

While it has applications for retailers, restaurants, hotels, and event venues, many of its features are designed to function in office environments, including meeting room management and occupancy monitoring. Spaces is designed as a comprehensive, all-seeing eye into how employees (and customers and visitors, depending on the setting) and their connected devices, equipment, or “assets” move through physical spaces.

Cisco has achieved this by using its existing wireless infrastructure and combining data from Wi-Fi access points with Bluetooth tracking. Spaces offers employers both real-time views and historical data dashboards. The use cases? Everything from meeting-room scheduling and optimizing cleaning schedules to more invasive dashboards on employees’ entry and exit times, the duration of staff workdays, visit durations by floor, and other “behavior metrics.” This includes those related to performance, a feature pitched at manufacturing sites.

Some of these analytics use aggregate data, but Cracked Labs details how Spaces goes beyond this into personal data, with device usernames and identifiers that make it possible to single out individuals. While the ability to protect privacy by using MAC randomization is there, Cisco emphasizes that this makes indoor movement analytics “unreliable” and other applications impossible—leaving companies to make that decision themselves.

Management even has the ability to send employees nudge-style alerts based on their location in the building. An IBM application, based on Cisco’s underlying technology, offers to spot anomalies in occupancy patterns and send notifications to workers or their managers based on what it finds. Cisco’s Spaces can also incorporate video footage from Cisco security cameras and WebEx video conferencing hardware into the overall system of indoor movement monitoring; another example of function creep from security to employee tracking in the workplace.

“Cisco is simply everywhere. As soon as employers start to repurpose data that is being collected from networking or IT infrastructure, this quickly becomes very dangerous, from my perspective.” says Christl. “With this kind of indoor location tracking technology based on its Wi-Fi networks, I think that a vendor as major as Cisco has a responsibility to ensure it doesn’t suggest or market solutions that are really irresponsible to employers.

“I would consider any productivity and performance tracking very problematic when based on this kind of intrusive behavioral data.” WIRED approached Cisco for comment but didn’t receive a response before publication.

Cisco isn't alone in this, though. Similar to Spaces, Juniper’s Mist offers an indoor tracking system that uses both Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth beacons to locate people, connected devices, and Bluetooth tagged badges on a real-time map, with the option of up to 13 months of historical data on worker behavior.

Juniper’s offering, for workplaces including offices, hospitals, manufacturing sites, and retailers, is so precise that it is able to provide records of employees’ device names, together with the exact enter and exit times and duration of visits between “zones” in offices—including one labeled “break area/kitchen” in a demo. Yikes.

For each of these systems, a range of different applications is functionally possible, and some which raise labor-law concerns. “A worst-case scenario would be that management wants to fire someone and then starts looking into historical records trying to find some misconduct,” says Christl. "If it’s necessary to investigate employees, then there should be a procedure where, for example, a worker representative is looking into the fine-grained behavioral data together with management. This would be another safeguard to prevent misuse.”

Above and Beyond?

If warehouse-style tracking has the potential for management overkill in office settings, it makes even less sense in service and health care jobs, and American unions are now pushing for more access to data and quotas used in disciplinary action. Elizabeth Anderson, professor of public philosophy at the University of Michigan and the author of Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives, describes how black-box algorithm-driven management and monitoring affects not just the day-to-day of nursing staff but also their sense of work and value.

“Surveillance and this idea of time theft, it’s all connected to this idea of wasting time,” she explains. “Essentially all relational work is considered inefficient. In a memory care unit, for example, the system will say how long to give a patient breakfast, how many minutes to get them dressed, and so forth.

“Maybe an Alzheimer’s patient is frightened, so a nurse has to spend some time calming them down, or perhaps they have lost some ability overnight. That’s not one of the discrete physical tasks that can be measured. Most of the job is helping that person cope with declining faculties; it takes time for that, for people to read your emotions and respond appropriately. What you get is massive moral injury with this notion of efficiency.”

This kind of monitoring extends to service workers, including servers in restaurants and cleaning staff, according to a 2023 Cracked Labs’ report into retail and hospitality. Software developed by Oracle is used to, among other applications, rate and rank servers based on speed, sales, timekeeping around breaks, and how many tips they receive. Similar Oracle software that monitors mobile workers such as housekeepers and cleaners in hotels uses a timer for app-based micromanagement—for instance, “you have two minutes for this room, and there are four tasks.”

As Christl explains, this simply doesn’t work in practice. “People have to struggle to combine what they really do with this kind of rigid, digital system. And it’s not easy to standardize work like talking to patients and other kinds of affective work, like how friendly you are as a waiter. This is a major problem. These systems cannot represent the work that is being done accurately.”

But can knowledge work done in offices ever be effectively measured and assessed either? In an episode of his podcast in January, host Ezra Klein battled his own feelings about having many of his best creative ideas at a café down the street from where he lives rather than in The New York Times’ Manhattan offices. Anderson agrees that creativity often has to find its own path.

“Say there’s a webcam tracking your eyes to make sure you’re looking at the screen,” she says. “We know that daydreaming a little can actually help people come up with creative ideas. Just letting your mind wander is incredibly useful for productivity overall, but that requires some time looking around or out the window. The software connected to your camera is saying you’re off-duty—that you’re wasting time. Nobody’s mind can keep concentrated for the whole work day, but you don’t even want that from a productivity point of view.”

Even for roles where it might make more methodological sense to track discrete physical tasks, there can be negative consequences of nonstop monitoring. Anderson points to a scene in Erik Gandini’s 2023 documentary After Work that shows an Amazon delivery driver who is monitored, via camera, for their driving, delivery quotas, and even getting dinged for using Spotify in the van.

“It’s very tightly regulated and super, super intrusive, and it’s all based on distrust as the starting point,” she says. “What these tech bros don’t understand is that if you install surveillance technology, which is all about distrusting the workers, there is a deep feature of human psychology that is reciprocity. If you don’t trust me, I’m not going to trust you. You think an employee who doesn’t trust the boss is going to be working with the same enthusiasm? I don’t think so.”

Trust Issues

The fixes, then, might be in the leadership itself, not more data dashboards. “Our research shows that excessive monitoring in the workplace can damage trust, have a negative impact on morale, and cause stress and anxiety,” says Hayfa Mohdzaini, senior policy and practice adviser for technology at the CIPD, the UK’s professional body for HR, learning, and development. “Employers might achieve better productivity by investing in line manager training and ensuring employees feel supported with reasonable expectations around office attendance and manageable workloads.”

A 2023 Pew Research study found that 56 percent of US workers were opposed to the use of AI to keep track of when employees were at their desks, and 61 percent were against tracking employees’ movements while they work.

This dropped to just 51 percent of workers who were opposed to recording work done on company computers, through the use of a kind of corporate “spyware” often accepted by staff in the private sector. As Josh Bersin puts it, “Yes, the company can read your emails” with platforms such as Teramind, even including “sentiment analysis” of employee messages.

Snooping on files, emails, and digital chats takes on new significance when it comes to government workers, though. New reporting from WIRED, based on conversations with employees at 13 federal agencies, reveals the extent to Elon Musk’s DOGE team’s surveillance: software including Google’s Gemini AI chatbot, a Dynatrace extension, and security tool Splunk have been added to government computers in recent weeks, and some people have felt they can’t speak freely on recorded and transcribed Microsoft Teams calls. Various agencies already use Everfox software and Dtex’s Intercept system, which generates individual risk scores for workers based on websites and files accessed.

Alongside mass layoffs and furloughs over the past four weeks, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has also, according to CBS News and NPR reports, gone into multiple agencies in February with the theater and bombast of full X-ray security screenings replacing entry badges at Washington, DC, headquarters. That’s alongside managers telling staff that their logging in and out of devices, swiping in and out of workspaces, and all of their digital work chats will be “closely monitored” going forward.

“Maybe they’re trying to make a big deal out of it to scare people right now,” says Bersin. “The federal government is using back-to-work as an excuse to lay off a bunch of people.”

DOGE staff have reportedly even added keylogger software to government computers to track everything employees type, with staff concerned that anyone using keywords related to progressive thinking or "disloyalty” to Trump could be targeted—not to mention the security risks it introduces for those working on sensitive projects. As one worker told NPR, it feels “Soviet-style” and “Orwellian” with “nonstop monitoring.” Anderson describes the overall DOGE playbook as a series of “deeply intrusive invasions of privacy.”

Alternate Realities

But what protections are out there for employees? Certain states, such as New York and Illinois, do offer strong privacy protections against, for example, unnecessary biometric tracking in the private sector, and California’s Consumer Privacy Act covers workers as well as consumers. Overall, though, the lack of federal-level labor law in this area makes the US something of an alternate reality to what is legal in the UK and Europe.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act in the US allows employee monitoring for legitimate business reasons and with the worker’s consent. In Europe, Algorithm Watch has made country analyses for workplace surveillance in the UK, Italy, Sweden, and Poland. To take one high-profile example of the stark difference: In early 2024, Serco was ordered by the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), to stop using face recognition and fingerprint scanning systems, designed by Shopworks, to track the time and attendance of 2,000 staff across 38 leisure centers around the country. This new guidance led to more companies reviewing or cutting the technology altogether, including Virgin Active, which pulled similar biometric employee monitoring systems from 30-plus sites.

Despite a lack of comprehensive privacy rights in the US, though, worker protest, union organizing, and media coverage can provide a firewall against some office surveillance schemes. Unions such as the Service Employees International Union are pushing for laws to protect workers from black-box algorithms dictating the pace of output.

In December, Boeing scrapped a pilot of employee monitoring at offices in Missouri and Washington, which was based on a system of infrared motion sensors and VuSensor cameras installed in ceilings, made by Ohio-based Avuity. The U-turn came after a Boeing employee leaked an internal PowerPoint presentation on the occupancy- and headcount-tracking technology to The Seattle Times. In a matter of weeks, Boeing confirmed that managers would remove all the sensors that had been installed to date.

Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather than simply software designed to record work done on company machines. In the fall of 2022, students at Northeastern University hacked and removed under-desk sensors produced by EnOcean, offering “presence detection” and “people counting,” that had been installed in the school’s Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex. The university provost eventually informed students that the department had planned to use the sensors with the Spaceti platform to optimize desk usage.

OccupEye (now owned by FM: Systems), another type of under-desk heat and motion sensor, received a similar reaction from staff at Barclays Bank and The Telegraph newspaper in London, with employees protesting and, in some cases, physically removing the devices that tracked the time they spent away from their desks.

Despite the fallout, Barclays later faced a $1.1 billion fine from the ICO when it was found to have deployed Sapience’s employee monitoring software in its offices, with the ability to single out and track individual employees. Perhaps unsurprisingly in the current climate, that same software company now offers “lightweight device-level technology” to monitor return-to-office policy compliance, with a dashboard breaking employee location down by office versus remote for specific departments and teams.

According to Elizabeth Anderson’s latest book Hijacked, while workplace surveillance culture and the obsession with measuring employee efficiency might feel relatively new, it can actually be traced back to the invention of the “work ethic” by the Puritans in the 16th and 17th centuries.

“They thought you should be working super hard; you shouldn’t be idling around when you should be in work,” she says. “You can see some elements there that can be developed into a pretty hostile stance toward workers. The Puritans were obsessed with not wasting time. It was about gaining assurance of salvation through your behavior. With the Industrial Revolution, the ‘no wasting time’ became a profit-maximizing strategy. Now you’re at work 24/7 because they can get you on email.”

Some key components of the original work ethic, though, have been skewed or lost over time. The Puritans also had strict constraints on what duties employers had toward their workers: paying a living wage and providing safe and healthy working conditions.

“You couldn’t just rule them tyrannically, or so they said. You had to treat them as your fellow Christians, with dignity and respect. In many ways the original work ethic was an ethic which uplifted workers.”

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Apple has been granted a patent for “identity recognition utilising face-associated body characteristics,” which combines facial recognition technology with other body characteristics to identify people even when their faces are not visible to the camera.

Apple’s patent, filed in May 2022 and granted on 26 November 2024, describes a system that associates facial recognition with other body characteristics such as clothing, gait or gesture to recognise certain people.

The system works by linking a gallery of “body croppings” such as torso, arms or legs with their face biometrics, then comparing the data with a live video feed, and proceeds in a stepped approach to identify face, body parts and physical characteristics, which include body shape, skin colour, or the texture or colour of clothing.

The resulting data constitutes a cluster of “bodyprints” which can be assigned a confidence score against a person’s faceprint and other characteristics, with storage periods as brief as 24 hours for certain identifiers like clothing.

The system can recognise people based on their body characteristics, even if they are wearing different clothes, and can re-register their clothes periodically to maintain accurate identification.

“It all appears to add up to a smart camera system that knows a person’s face and walk but re-registers his clothes in the morning so that it is able to recognise him on his way home even if it can’t see his face because it knows his Hawaiian shirt,” Biometric Update reported.

Although the patent is primarily directed to performing identity recognition in a home environment setting, Apple notes that it should not be construed as being limited to this setting.

The technology can be used in various environments, including homes, office buildings, warehouses, parking lots, and public parks. And although Apple doesn’t say so, we shouldn’t be surprised if it turns up in applications in law enforcement, border control, intelligence, access management and event security.

As Biometric Update notes, Apple patents many technologies that it never makes but its interest in a smart AI camera that performs broad identity recognition is understandable given the growing markets for AI and facial authentication.

The above is a summary of the article ‘Apple patent uses FRT with ‘body data’ so cameras can ID people without seeing faces’ published by Biometric Update.  Read the full article HERE.

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Conclusion

Arvind Aqua City Plots represent more than land—they offer an aspirational lakeside, wellness-focused community in one of Ahmedabad's fastest-growing zones. With luxurious amenities, spiritual spaces, eco-friendly design, and trusted delivery, this is a township designed for the discerning homeowner and investor alike.

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A Sanctuary of Comfort and Elegance

TVS Emerald Verde Vista has been carefully planned to offer the ideal balance of comfort, luxury, and tranquility. In order to maximize space economy and create an open, airy atmosphere throughout the house, every apartment layout is carefully designed. Every element adds to a complete living space, from spacious balconies that let in natural light to kitchens designed for practical elegance.

Vastu principles are used in the design of homes, which makes them both aesthetically pleasing and spiritually uplifting. By fusing traditional knowledge with modern living standards, the design promotes peace and well-being.

Prime Location — Padur, Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR)

TVS Emerald Verde Vista, which is situated near Padur on the busy Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) in South Chennai, has good access to beaches, shopping centers, hospitals, schools, and IT parks. Working professionals, expanding families, and people who value easy access to city amenities while still savoring the tranquility of a lush, quiet neighborhood will find this location ideal.

Connectivity Highlights:

Kelambakkam Junction — 2.9 km (6 mins)

Hiranandani Upscale School — 3.6 km (7 mins)

Chettinad Health City — 4.4 km (9 mins)

Global Hospital — 8.1 km (16 mins)

Marina Mall — 7.8 km (14 mins)

Sathyabama University — 11.2 km (20 mins)

Kovalam Beach — 9.2 km (17 mins)

Whether you’re commuting to work, dropping your kids at school, or heading out for leisure, Verde Vista’s strategic location ensures you’re always well-connected.

Project Overview — TVS Emerald Verde Vista

Spread across 4.85 acres of lush greenery, TVS Emerald Verde Vista is a secure gated community that houses 355 beautifully crafted residences. The property stands out for its elegant architectural design, modern amenities, and serene landscape.

Project Highlights:

Spacious 2, 3 & 4 BHK apartments starting from 988 sq. ft.

Smart layouts with ample ventilation and natural lighting.

Vastu-compliant homes designed to promote harmony.

Legally clear project with T&CP, Panchayat, and major bank approvals.

Safety features including CCTV surveillance, fire safety systems, and 24x7 power & water supply.

This is a home you can trust — not just because of the design, but because it’s backed by the legacy of the TVS Group, known for quality, transparency, and reliability.

Lifestyle Amenities at TVS Emerald Verde Vista

At Verde Vista, every lifestyle need is addressed with a thoughtfully curated list of amenities. Whether you’re seeking recreation, relaxation, or personal development, you’ll find facilities tailored to every age and interest.

Key Amenities:

Kids Play Street — Safe & engaging zones for children.

Learning Hub — Encouraging young minds to thrive.

Miyawaki Dense Forest — Green, eco-friendly environment.

Swimming Pools — Refreshing leisure for all ages.

Adventure Play Zone — Perfect for active children & families.

Exclusive Clubhouse — For community events, wellness & more.

This ensures residents enjoy an enriching lifestyle within the community itself, without needing to step out for recreation.

Sustainable and Smart Living

TVS Emerald Verde Vista supports sustainable development methods in accordance with contemporary environmental requirements. Rainwater collection systems, a Miyawaki forest, and green spaces all work together to promote environmentally responsible living.

The smart floor designs also guarantee energy-efficient design and little space waste, which lowers your carbon footprint and keeps utility costs under control.

Why Choose TVS Emerald Verde Vista in Padur?

When you’re investing in a home, you’re not just buying property — you’re investing in your future. Here’s why Verde Vista stands out as the ideal choice:

✅ Excellent Location

Proximity to key IT hubs, educational institutions, hospitals, malls, and beaches.

✅ Spacious, Well-Planned Homes

From functional kitchens to relaxing balconies, enjoy intelligent design that caters to your daily needs.

✅ Premium Yet Affordable

Luxury doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag. Starting at ₹67.4L*, it offers outstanding value in a rapidly growing area.

✅ TVS Legacy

Developed by TVS Emerald, part of the trusted TVS Group, known for innovation, quality, and on-time delivery.

✅ Peaceful, Green Living

Live amidst nature without compromising urban convenience. Perfect for families, professionals, and retirees.

Who is this project ideal for?

Working Professionals: Quick commute to IT parks and tech corridors.

Young Families: Safe environment with schools, parks, and play areas nearby.

Retirees: Peaceful, green surroundings and thoughtful amenities.

Investors: Great rental yield potential and appreciation due to location.

Floor Plans & Pricing

TVS Emerald Verde Vista offers varied configurations to suit different lifestyle needs.

2 BHK — From 988 sq. ft. onwards

3 BHK — Spacious layouts ideal for families

4 BHK — Premium units for luxurious living

Price starts from ₹67.4 Lakhs*. Exact pricing and floor plans are available in the brochure. To download the TVS Emerald Verde Vista brochure, visit the official site or contact the sales team.

Customer Reviews

TVS Emerald projects, including Verde Vista, are highly rated by homebuyers for their timely delivery, build quality, and lifestyle features. Buyers appreciate the legal transparency, Vastu-compliant designs, and high usability of floor space.

Book Your Dream Home Today!

TVS Emerald Verde Vista ought to be at the top of your list if you’re looking for roomy 2, 3, and 4 BHK flats in Padur, Chennai. This is more than just real estate; it’s an opportunity to live your dream, complete with exquisitely built residences, top-notch amenities, and excellent connectivity.

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