Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Altera has introduced an FPGA-based reference design for smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with wireless networks firm Flexibilis Oy, the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant ...
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One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
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The robust M2M conference program will focus on topics that inform and educate its audience of the latest technologies, current and future regulatory policies, new verticals, new applications and all of the hottest topics in the ...
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Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23%, to $9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study. Global revenue from software and IT ...
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Revenue in the IT segment of the world’s smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study. Global revenue from ...
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Software is the driving force behind the “Internet of everything” says Tyson Tuttle, president and CEO, Silicon Laboratories. The dramatic growth of the Internet over the last 30 years has surpassed the estimates of even ...
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A survey has shown that consumers with more knowledge about the smart grid are more likely to accept it. The survey,from the IBM Institute for Business Value,was conducted across 15 countries.9,000 people were surveyed.Consumers were ...
Investment in smart grid improvements (such as smart metering, outage management and distribution management systems) by utilities companies in the US could have enabled Hurricane Sandy to be handled more effectively. Outages could have ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched a family of highly efficient front-end solutions for smart water and gas metering applications. The front-end solutions ...
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In fiscal 2012, revenue from Siemens' Environmental Portfolio climbed ten percent to EUR 33 billion. The company's ecofriendly products and solutions are now generating faster revenue growth than its other businesses. Green technologies, ...
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Our smart energy roundtable participants discuss evolutions that include the move to the cloud,communications standards,security(always a hot topic)and new technologies to watch. According to IMS Research,over 25 million smart ...
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December 12, 2012 - IEEE announced updates to four wireless communications technologies in the 802 family of standards, as well as a new 802 standards-development project. The new standards support the global utility industry’s needs ...
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Germany-based Siemens introduced an environmental portfolio in 2011 to help reduce gas emissions by 317 million tons. According to Peter Loscher, president and CEO of Siemens, climate change has been affecting people's lives and it is ...
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November 20, 2012 - Toronto’s Ryerson University launched what it calls Canada’s first business incubator and accelerator devoted solely to urban energy. Housed at the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE), the Innovation Centre for ...
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