Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by rbmktechik on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:25AM (#20312761)

This airport legendarily had all the lights on at night despite nobody being there for months because they couldn't figure out how to turn them off.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/berlin-airport-...

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by paulddraper on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:28AM (#20313099)

It wasn't that someone had installed a light switch and they couldn't find it....they just didn't a have a switch.

> "It has to do with the fact that we haven't progressed far enough with our lighting system that we can control it," Horst Amann, airport technical director, said on Wednesday during a rare public appearance.

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by Sharlin on Saturday June 29, 2019 @11:43AM (#20313207)

The equivalent of a fancy UI demo rigged up over a minimally functional backend.

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by ido on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:38PM (#20313470)

Isn't it more like functional backend with no UI?

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by Sharlin on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:31PM (#20314033)

I meant to equate the lighting with the UI. To a casual user (a traveller) everything looks fine and probably pretty fancy, but a lot of the more intricate functionality simply isn't there yet.

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by anoncake on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:26PM (#20315473)

They had to have circuit breakers though.

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Re:Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults by okr on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:38PM (#20315518)

Hm. How did they switch it on then?

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