The consumption data would be real-time from meters or monthly from utility bills or manual data entry.
Many suppliers are connected to HP via the Internet and get real-time consumption data and automatic replenishment orders.
This savings is occurring while providing them with a new, scalable method of aggregating customer energy consumption data, along with improved data security.
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The software analyzes the energy generation and consumption data and uses weather and other information to recommend actions that help match supply with demand closely.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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The energy consumption data also could help home and business owners take stock of their energy use and take actions to save money, such as putting in more energy efficient light bulbs and appliances or running washers and dryers only when electric rates are low.
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The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.
If it succeeds, the higher consumption of data in the home would also boost Cisco's business with service providers.
All that has happened in that intervening year is that the value of spectrum in the United States has increased in value as smartphone data consumption, and it is a data network Clearwire is building, has risen exponentially.
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"As data creation and consumption continue to get bigger, data storage needs to get smaller, all the way down to the atomic level, " he said.
This helps educate the homeowner about wise energy consumption choices, while given the researchers data about actual consumption.
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Energy management capabilities offer the ability to monitor weather and normalize energy consumption and cost data.
Now with Android releasing its own app for movie rentals, this could alter usage and spur more data consumption.
The company has a high forecast for data consumption over the next few years, and is preparing its network appropriately.
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There is thus reason to expect that the iPhone 5 may well boost data consumption levels by more than 100%.
Back in 2011, Nielsen reported that Android smartphone users have somewhat higher data consumption than iPhone users in America.
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Each one of these helpful features is displayed in Count's colorful and handsome interface, which makes monitoring data consumption even better.
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It is possible Finnish Android owners may be more mobile than iPhone owners and thus more exposed to mobile data consumption.
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Voice calling was a lucrative business for wireless companies for years, but voice traffic has declined as data consumption has grown.
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The monthly data consumption of Android owners was 2.07 GB in November 2012, while iPhone owners consumed 1.05 GB of mobile data.
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However, it's unclear how fast or consistently this alert feature will roll out, and whether it will include alerts related to data consumption.
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The mobile industry must evolve similarly, complementing the rising cost of data with access to clear breakdowns of data consumption that consumers can actually understand.
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Adobe Digital Marketing Suite is integral to Primetime, ensuring that media companies are able to combine consumption and revenue data to personalize their content and ads.
That does mean freeing up particular frequencies for 3G and 4G use, but it also means WiFi offloading and effectively managing data consumption on the device side.
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These latest phones have been designed to provide an incredibly rich, smartphone-like experience to consumers who want to be set free from excessive data consumption costs and short battery life.
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If Firefox OS has any chance of succeeding, it will have to deliver a rock-solid browsing experience at prices near that and figure out a way to efficiently manage data consumption.
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As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
So why is it that average consumers are now required to choose a data plan, deciding exactly how much data they will use per month, when understanding data consumption is near impossible for most people?
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