April 29, 2013 - The EMerge Alliance—an industry association helping to adopt safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings—has announced 21 new members and 39 new products for DC power ...
Incentives in Canada have resulted in so much solar energy that only a move to smart grid can use it all. So claims National Instruments (NI), which is to provide monitoring and control equipment. "To promote conservation and ...
Tags: Smart Grid, Wasted Solar
The EMerge Alliance Group will present new members and new products and host an accredited educational session on DC power grids for LED-based lighting at Lightfair International. At Lightfair 2013, the EMerge Alliance is introducing 21 new ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and ...
An event concerning the energy and electronics sector, Smart Grids Paris, runs from 4 - 6 June at CNIT Paris La Défense. It promises to examing "key issues that affect the industry both up- and down-stream of smart meters", such as ...
Tags: Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
Tags: FPGAs, Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
Dialight has introduced integrated controls for its industry leading LED lighting fixture portfolio. The patent-pending, smart grid compatible control package is available in variety of communications protocols. These include powerline ...
Tags: UK Dialight LED Fixtures, LED, Lights, Lighting
Plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) installed with the vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology are expected to register total sale of 200,000 units from 2012 to 2020, according to the report by Navigant Research. The increase in sales is ...
Tags: PEVs, Vehicle-to-Building Report, Auto
A new project between two technology giants aims to develop a vision for the 'city of tomorrow', complete with innovative new outdoor lights and other advanced features. Toshiba Lighting will team up with smart meter and smart grid firm ...
Tags: Lighting Project, Lighting
The government's vision to have every home in the UK equipped with smart energy meters is getting closer. Next year comes the mass rollout stage but in the meantime, three remaining bidders are battling it out for the right to provide the ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Electrical, Electronics, Meters
Ontario's Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) announced the winners of its annual industry awards, and among the chosen few were: Burlington Hydro, Toronto Hydro, PowerStream, Niagara Peninsula Energy and Horizon Utilities. ...
The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has ruggedised power metrology so that it can be used in the field. Its briefcase-sized instrument, which it calls a 'digitiser', addresses a need from researchers preparing to convert national ...
Tags: Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
Three global partners with an interest in smart grids—International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and VDE (a European technical and scientific association)—have joined forces to ...
Tags: smart grids, International Electrotechnical Commission
The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
Tags: software ecosystem, ARM, microcontroller