Spokesman Art Perez,from Guam Power Authority has stated that new smart meters will now be able to reconnect power to homes and businesses within a few minutes;this used to take several days or hours. In the past,technicians would have to ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Smart electricity metering system design is looking to use completely novel power supply topologies,writes Tolga Aydemir. Smart electricity meters are big news a with cost savings promised for suppliers and consumers a but they ...
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Utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five-year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m. The deal will see Capgemini provide application lifecycle services for E.ON's ...
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UPL,a Cardiff-based utilities company and Opus Energy partner,is planning to create 70 new jobs following the acquisition of Meter-Mimic. Rhys Wynne,chief executive of UPL,said:"The acquisition fitted perfectly into our plans for ...
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The Government has asked the public about smart meters, and found that it is generally positive, but needs help in understanding the subject. For example, the survey indicates that half of energy bill-payers living in Great Britain had ...
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Infineon is to project manage a Euros 34m smart grid project called'Energy to Smart Grid(E2SG)aimed at reducing the power loss in energy distribution by 20%. Infineon's partners in E2SG are:the Fraunhofer Institute,Insta Elektro NXP,RWTH ...
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•GE technology included in all official London 2012 Olympic Games competition venues and commercial buildings totaling more than$100 million in sales •Infrastructure solutions provided in Torino 2006,Beijing 2008,Vancouver ...
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ARM on Thursday formed a group with other U.K.companies to create a reference design on how smart devices with Internet access should be deployed in coming years. ARM said 50 billion intelligent devices with Internet access would by ...
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Atmel is sampling its first 2Mbyte embedded flash Cortex-M4 processor-based microcontroller. The SAM4SD32 runs at 120MHz operating frequency and features cache memory for accelerated code execution out of flash. "We are continuing to ...
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Last week Opus Energy summarised a story from Pepco,which had used smart meters to help them restore power in Washington D.C.following Hurricane Sandy.Today,further examples of the benefits of smart meters in the wake of storms in the USA ...
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MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptive,interAptive and microAptive. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark ...
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MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptiv,interAptiv and microAptiv. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark Throndson ...
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According to an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle,electricity theft is a widespread problem across much of Latin America;in Brazil,for example,up to 20%of electricity is stolen. The workers of companies that take meter reads on ...
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Scottsdale, AZ - The smart grid is an enormous worldwide effort to modernize our electrical grid. The global scale alone makes this a colossal task. Complicating this effort is the incredible variety of electrical systems throughout the ...
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