Raanan Liebermann – Raanan Liebermann

Signtel’s Public Address and Emergency Alert System Improves Safety

For the past 20 years, Raanan Liebermann has served as president of Signtel, Inc., a North Haven, Connecticut-based company that creates innovative products for people who are deaf and blind. In addition to patented products such as Telephone for the Deaf and an electronic cane, Raanan Liebermann and Signtel that partnered with FEMA on the national Emergency Alert System developed a patented inclusive Public Address and Emergency Alert System. In a world where natural disasters and terrorist attacks are increasingly common, public alert systems need to be equipped to reach all people. Installed in public spaces such as schools, malls, bus stations, train stations and airports, the Emergency Alert System allows deaf and/or blind people to become aware of any publicly broadcast alert.

People who are deaf can view the alert on a screen, while people who are blind receive vibratory alerts on an eCane. The system utilizes the same technology as the Signtel Interpreter translation engine, which means it can translate over 30,000 words and over 1,400 idioms and phrases, as well as numerical systems. To date, the system has been successfully installed in public spaces including the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, a member of the Boston public school system.

How Technology Can Be Used to Combat Climate Change

An accomplished artificial intelligent innovator and a member of the academia, Raanan Liebermann is a long-time career professional and president of Signtel, Inc., a company he has headed for close to two decades. In addition, Raanan Liebermann has innovations that include Crowd-Sourced Clean Energy which aim is to utilize technology in combating climate change.

The threat of climate change is evident with the rapid increase of the global population, higher demand for food, and land and energy use. For this reason, climate scientists and other key stakeholders are increasingly voicing the need to utilize technology to help combat the effects of climate change using some of the techniques below.

1. Embrace the use of mobile apps that can help to effectively monitor and reduce carbon footprint and waste. There are some apps that track carbon footprint when traveling while others place a carbon value on everything that is purchased and consumed.

2. Clean energy is one of the most challenging issues to handle but technology can help to build a smarter energy grid which helps in the storage and transmission of energy once it’s captured.

3. Technology can help create livable cities by tech firms spearheading the transition to halve city emissions within the next decade or less and providing tools to help monitor emissions and reduce them.

4. Switching to plant-based meat replacements considering the livestock industry is a great contributor to climate change. Technology has made it easier to cut out animal-based foods.

The Crowd-Sourced Clean Energy is a paradigm shift new technology that turns around major polluting sources into generators of clean energy.

Touch Language Creates New Possibilities for the Blind/Deaf and Blind

Serving Signtel Inc. as president since 2000, research and development specialist Raanan Liebermann has performed several extensive studies that resulted in innovations that offer new possibilities for people with special needs. For instance, Raanan Liebermann has patented his developed Touch Language, a new technology that benefits the blind and the deaf and blind.

Touch Language is a new language based on concepts rather than vocabulary or grammar. The concepts are identified by portions of the hands and fingers, making Touch Language a universal language – that is, it allows the user to communicate regardless of his or her culture or native language. Although the user will need time to learn Touch Language, the rewards make the effort worthwhile.

Designed to help the blind and the deaf and blind to communicate, Touch Language lets the user wear electronic gloves that allow communication through pecking and vibrations on the hands and fingers. Although Touch Language is still being incorporated into TV broadcasting, once it is fully implemented, Touch Language will also allow the blind and the deaf and blind to enjoy TV broadcasts.

Although Touch Language utility for TV is in the public domain that may be downloaded and studied at anytime, its creator has patented the product to protect its integrity. The patent will guarantee users that no partisan modifications will be made to the product that might confuse them. Any changes to the language will need to be approved by the World Touch Language Forum, which is expected to be in operation soon.