Some of the recent trials of trying to integrate smart grid technologies into homes have flopped too.

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The first step would be to integrate a smart fridge into the overall energy system as it is the first appliance opened by most users and real-time monitoring of beer temperature increases satisfaction with the energy environment for 78% of all customers.

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Most smart TV OEMs have started to integrate newer web presentation engines that use HTML5, which should means more apps and smart TV guides will be written with HTML5 in mind.

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Additionally, the Smart Ecosystem is architected to integrate with automotive infotainment and mobile network service platforms.

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The survey suggested that many utilities lack sufficient architectural and implementation guidance to ensure that future smart-grid advances will integrate existing grid systems and processes.

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The videos represent the most significant example of branded content by a NASCAR official partner on the NASCAR website, and integrate UPS in smart, creative and informative clips.

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In this email interview, Navin discusses what the tech behemoths got wrong about smart television, what customers can expect when television and the Internet fully integrate and how his company is addressing that transition through Smart TV apps.

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It would take four big changes, but the technology for all of them is already available: a new automotive DNA based on electronics and connectivity, a mobility internet to manage vast amounts of vehicle traffic and integrate vehicles into the internet of things, smart, clean renewable electric energy, and last but not least, it would require electronically managed, dynamically priced markets for electricity, roads, parking and vehicles, in other words, smart cities.

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