The objective: store massive quantities of electricity at low cost for grid applications safely and efficiently.
We can do this at a price which is viable for a few off grid applications.
They can be used for communications, border patrol initiatives, disaster response, relief missions, and much more, meeting the most demanding infrastructure requirements in on-grid applications and off-grid areas.
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Electric Utility companies want to know where motorists are charging their electric cars which could mean permit requirements for some chargers or smart-grid applications that alert utilities when a car is being charged.
Xtreme, which has attracted backing from venture capital firms and corporate investors like Dow Chemical, Fluor and BP Alternative Energy, is developing large-scale digital power systems for renewable energy and micro-grid applications.
Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. is an industry-led initiative with 70 member companies that creates specifications and certification logo programs for using the power lines for reliable home networking and Smart Grid applications.
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There will also be renewed activity in the fast-growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) community (there are more machines in the world than people), and a new category of devices for stationary types of applications such as video cameras, smart grid applications, smart parking meters, and other devices that will use these new networks.
Inventors and venture capitalists, in the meantime, are striving to create all manner of new technologies bugs for biofuels, revolutionary solar panels, smart-grid applications but it is hard to find anyone working on CCS in their garage (although some scientists are toying with pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air instead of from smokestacks: see Technology Quarterly in this issue).
The Internet is, in effect, a grid that dispenses applications rather than electricity.
These analysts think mHealth, the smart grid, and telematics applications will lead the charge.
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Enterprise software giants such as Oracle are writing applications around "grid computer" networks--i.e.
These are obvious applications of the Grid.
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This does not mean GigaSpaces will abandon the platform-independent version of its software, but it does mean encouraging new customers--or existing customers launching new projects--to consider Cisco UCS as a platform with significant advantages for grid or cloud-style applications.
It's still a three-element UI, with a central home screen showing running applications, an app grid, and the BlackBerry hub -- a feed of time sensitive notifications from email, calendar, BBM, social apps and more.
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Meanwhile, the FDA approved the world's first bionic eye and biotech researchers developed a painless sugar-covered vaccine bandage that could replace needles and doesn't require refrigeration -- which opens up groundbreaking applications for off-grid locations in the developing world.
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If you swipe across the display from the right edge, you're taken to the open applications view -- a grid of cards representing running apps.
Two rival metering models used in large commercial buildings to track the flow of electricity as it moves through a building shows the difference between upstream and downstream applications in the smart-grid space.
Alternatively, swipe from any edge across the lock screen to bring up the applications view -- a vertical grid of icons.
Sense also gets an overdue upgrade to the way it manages applications -- with the icon grid now scrolling up and down in a paginated fashion and being accompanied by subcategories for your downloaded and most frequently used apps -- but our overwhelming feeling remains that we've seen this all before.
Samsung pitted the famous "bounce back" feature against an old PocketPC interface called LaunchTile, which allowed users to navigate through 36 applications by zooming in and out and a panning across a grid-like "world view" of said apps.
It turns out that the smart grid will also enable solutions to the complex operational challenges associated with many industrial applications under extreme conditions.
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Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.
In a similar way, the Smart Grid is enabling the Energy Internet laying the groundwork that will enable all kinds of cool energy applications we cannot even think of today.
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