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Smart Grid Basics: Turning Information Into Power
White Papers The Smart Grid is a vision of a better electricity delivery infrastructure. Smart Grid implementations dramatically increase the quantity, quality, and use of data available from advanced sensing, computing, and communications hardware and software.
[October 19, 2009, 14:14]
Microsoft develops utility smart-grid software
News Microsoft, angling for a bigger piece of the utility business, announced on Tuesday that it has developed an architecture tailored for utility smart-grid programmes. These smart-grid programmes can take many forms: smart meters that transmit...
[October 15, 2009, 11:12]
Creating Our 21st Century Economy Through a Smart Grid
White Papers New technologies are already available to deploy the Smart Grid now. Congress recently demonstrated its willingness to lead by passing the Energy Bill containing a Smart Grid Title. The US Conference of Mayors demonstrated their leadership by...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
IBM dives into 'smart grid for water'
News Upgrading the water utility infrastructure is analogous to the many smart-grid technologies now being tested to make the grid run more efficiently and use more renewable energy. Even as billions of dollars are being spent around the world to...
[September 8, 2009, 8:56]
AMI and Beyond: How Wireless Broadband Enables the Smart Grid Today and Tomorrow
White Papers As they plan to take their first step towards their Smart Grid vision, most utilities are beginning their journey with the implementation of an AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) system. More and more of these utilities are also realizing that...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Cisco details plans to join 'smart grid' revolution
News Other high-tech companies, including IBM, Intel and several start-ups, are ramping up smart-grid efforts to capitalise on expected investments from utilities and federal governments. The idea of the 'smart grid' is to modernise the electricity...
[May 19, 2009, 8:32]
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
News The report, The UK's digital road to recovery, presents an economic model for working out how many jobs could be created if the government put major investment into a high-speed broadband rollout, a smart power grid and intelligent transport systems.
[April 29, 2009, 16:19]
Google tool displays home energy consumption
News Search giant Google has entered the burgeoning smart-grid software business with a prototype web application that breaks down home energy consumption by appliance. US utilities are already running dozens of smart-grid trials.
[February 11, 2009, 12:12]
Cisco braced for torrent of smart-meter data
News The tech giant is developing a suite of smart-grid products designed to add networking smarts to the existing grid, including routers for substations and home energy-monitoring systems. But a large chunk of the $20bn (£12bn) per year in smart-grid...
[July 29, 2009, 13:17]
Report: US electricity grid hacked by spies
News Those security issues are mounting as utilities use more internet-based communications and software to control the grid through smart-grid technology. A report by security firm IOActive last month warned that people with $500 (£340) worth of...
[April 9, 2009, 9:25]
Epson Stylus Photo RX500 review
Reviews For example, Epson includes a plastic grid that holds slides and film negatives in place so that you can scan them; the grid can be stored inside the lid of the scanner when not in use. The graphical software interface (called the Smart Panel...
[February 10, 2004, 7:55]
Tech's future - smart dust and ratbots
News The researchers identified smart dust, lily pads, ratbots, nanotubes, nanomachines, quantum computing, plastic transistors, the Semantic Web and grid computing as technologies to watch, although they noted some of these were more likely to...
[January 16, 2003, 8:21]
Smart meters promised for UK homes by 2020
News It states: "The government believes smart meters will both change our energy habits in the short term and provide an essential stepping stone to smart grids in the future" — where micro-generation of renewable energy at household and/or community...
[May 12, 2009, 11:34]
Researchers devise energy-aware internet routing
News The idea of the 'smart grid' is to modernise the electricity industry by overlaying digital communications onto the grid. Some utilities are already testing technology from Cisco that will help its routers and switches more efficiently manage the...
[August 19, 2009, 9:41]
iWork '08 review
Reviews Apple has succeeded in getting Numbers to help you think outside the grid. With Numbers, you can pop little table grids and pictures onto a blank canvas instead of trying to fashion a canvas from a grid background.
[August 23, 2007, 12:09]
Intel seeds five energy start-ups with $10m
News Intel participated in a series C round for Grid Net, which makes network-management software for utilities to manage energy flow to buildings with smart meters. The company has licensed its WiMax smart meter design to General Electric, which is...
[July 30, 2009, 12:10]
Google PowerMeter hits the UK
News In addition, rival Microsoft has been working on smart-grid technology, and has developed guidelines to help utility companies cope with handling real-time energy data. PowerMeter works by tapping into a smart grid, in which smart meters and energy...
[October 30, 2009, 15:05]
BrainGym
Downloads The goal of the game is to solve the 9x9 cell grid of numbers, so that each row, column and 3x3 cell block contains numbers 1 through 9. Features: Most suitable interface for solving sudoku Real sudoku puzzles 4 puzzle difficulties Hint options...
[April 29, 2008, 8:00]
SuDoku Champ
Downloads Use logic to fill in the 9x9 grid where each number from 1 to 9 can only be used once for the columns and rows. Get this game now for your Pocket PC or Smart Device.NOTE: SuDoku Champ requires the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to be on the device.
[June 13, 2008, 8:00]
LetsSee X
Downloads Browse your files as a grid of resizable thumbnails. Smart filepropeties window LetsSee the perfect solution for people who regularly work with pictures or movie files. LetsSee is a graphics browser that gives you fast and easy access to your...
[August 2, 2003, 8:00]
