Another kind of system, known as DCS, or Distributed Control Systems, is often used in isolated areas such as a chemical plant.
ECoS is an open software platform that can host a range of third-party applications that provide intelligent distributed control services to utilities and their customers.
In Step 7, with the complexity of distributed control of IT mastered, with a clear understanding of how IT serves the business, the CIO can start exercising leadership.
The main scientific objective of this research project is the design, implementation and control of a novel distributed robotic system.
From the changing ways music is made, distributed and sold to the greater control demanded by artists, the industry of the next decade may hardly resemble that o the last one.
Suvarnabhumi's international terminal is one long strip with retail outlets distributed throughout, and passengers leaving passport control emerge into the center of a kilometer-long stretch of duty-free shopping.
Omega sued Costco for selling its watches for prices below suggested retail, citing a tiny Omega logo on the goods that it said gave it the copyright holders power to control how creative works are distributed.
Yet as tens of thousands of authors self-publish their work, publishers' control continues to weaken over how titles are distributed and which books are offered for sale.
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This starts with the nature of how applications are distributed and extends right through to greater technology democracy among the workforce, all without losing control of the user environment.
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First, not only is distributed generation cleaner and more efficient, but to make it work requires elaborate electronic-control systems that will result in the commercialisation of the electronic home and business.
In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.
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Development picked up in the past decade, fueled by a move away from state control and by billions in tourist dollars, but analysts say its gains have been unevenly distributed.
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Because the HAA harnesses the vast pool of money that is today distributed inefficiently through the tax break for employer-provided care, and then couples it with clever cost-control mechanisms, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have judged that the HAA will be revenue neutral or even revenue-enhancing within a few years.
Because kits are now distributed to fewer centres and every ball is coded (so that inspectors can trace strays), manufacturers have better control of production.
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