EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Smart Meters Smart Electrical Meters‚ Advanced Metering Infrastructure‚ and Meter Communications NOTE: This document is a free excerpt of a larger research report. If you are interested in purchasing the full report‚ please contact Pike Research at sales@pikeresearch.com. Published 4Q 2009 Bob Gohn Industry Analyst Clint Wheelock Managing Director Smart Meters Section 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The electrical metering industry is undergoing the largest transformation
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homes pertaining to actual usage. Smart grids allows for two way communications between the electricity company and the homes allowing both electric companies and homes to operate more efficiently. This two way communication will allow home users to cut costs by efficiently utilizing energy. Smart grids will also allow the electricity companies to raise prices when the demand is high and lower prices when the demand is low. Mirroring the price advantage‚ smart grids will allow the user to dictate
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SMART CLOTHES – “Clothes of the future” With this new time and age of technological advancements‚ the manufacturing of smart clothes has brought about a textile revolution. This involves the integration of electronic components and Nano-technology within fabrics and fibres resulting in the birth of intelligent fabrics possessing specific properties. Smart materials are capable of ‘thinking’ and ‘acting’ by sensing the conditions of the immediate environment. These are sensitive to the wearer’s body
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Smart devices. The first small phone was designed by IBM in 1992 and was called the Simon. It was displayed as a concept product that year at ODMEX expo. The phone was released for public in 1993 and marketed by a company named ‘Bellsouth’. As a smart device apart from being a mobile phone‚ it had calendar‚ address book‚ world clock‚ and calculator‚ address book entries‚ email‚ send and receive FAX and started the gaming revolution on phone. The most importatnt and attractive feature of that
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Many students’ street smarts greatly surpass their book smarts. I believe that instructors can strengthen students’ book smarts by encouraging them to write‚ read‚ think‚ and learn about personal areas of interest. They can accomplish this by taking students on field trips so they actively experience what their learning in the class room‚ and use these “street smarts” to build a stronger foundation of what their trying to teach. So what exactly are street and book smarts? There are many definitions
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INTRODUCTION Smart card is one of the greatest achievements in the world of information technology. Similar in size to today ’s plastic payment card‚ the smart card has a microprocessor or memory chip embedded in it that‚ when coupled with a reader‚ has the processing power to serve many different applications. As an access-control device‚ smart cards can be used to access server remotely over the Internet and they can make personal and business data available only to the appropriate users. Smart cards
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1. What is the difference between a. and a. Propaganda has historically been a fundamental component of war efforts due to its ability to shape public opinion‚ bolster morale‚ and mobilize support for the war cause. Throughout history‚ nations have recognized the power of propaganda in influencing perceptions‚ rallying citizens‚ and demonizing enemies. In times of war‚ governments often employ propaganda to justify their actions‚ manipulate public sentiment‚ and garner support for military endeavors
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SmartSockets: Solving the Connectivity Problems in Grid Computing Jason Maassen and Henri E. Bal Dept. of Computer Science‚ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands jason@cs.vu.nl‚ bal@cs.vu.nl ABSTRACT Tightly coupled parallel applications are increasingly run in Grid environments. Unfortunately‚ on many Grid sites the ability of machines to create or accept network connections is severely limited by firewalls‚ network address translation (NAT) or non-routed networks. Multi homing
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Virtual Reality Virtual reality has promise for nearly every industry ranging from architecture and design to movies and entertainment‚ but the real industry to gain from this technology is science in general. The money that can be saved examining the probability of experiments in an artificial world before they are actually carried out could be great‚ and the money saved on energy could be even greater. Virtual reality is something that personally excites me because uses and benefits of it are
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 WHAT IS VIRTUAL REALITY? 4 HOW DOES VIRTUAL REALITY WORK? 5 v The Three Levels of VR : 5 THE HISTORY OF VIRTUAL REALITY 7 VIRTUAL REALITY IN THE PRESENT 8 VIRTUAL REALITY IN THE FUTURE 9 THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND VIRTUAL REALITY 9 v Video Display Devices: 10 v Audio Output Devices: 10 v Tactile Response Devices: 11 v Interactive Input Devices: 11 v Computers and Software: 12 IMMERSIVE & NON IMMERSIVE VR 12 v The Cave: 13 v Head-Mounted Display (HMD):
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