Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
In July, according a report in The Energy Daily, hackers broke into the system monitoring smart meters at a Puerto Rico utility and rolled back consumption readings.
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Also on the chopping block is PowerMeter, a free energy monitoring tool that pairs with smart power meters and other energy monitoring devices to help users better understand consumption habits and ultimately reduce costs.
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Now cars are crammed full of networks of computers with smart software controlling and monitoring things.
Equipped with new Bluetooth Smart Ready technology, the CORE 2 will enable live updates of body monitoring data captured with the armband to BodyMedia's mobile app on Smart Ready-enabled smartphones and tablets, eliminating the delays involved in computer upload.
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The scales, known as the Smart Body Analyzer, are the first-ever smart scale to feature heart rate measurement and air quality monitoring.
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There were also discussions around innovation that would be more relevant to utility markets such as smart metering, leak detection, pressure regulation, water quality monitoring and more.
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Receiving the most buzz however seemed to be the GE Nucleus, a home energy monitoring system that uses Brillion Technology to work with smart meters and help homeowners manage electricity consumption (and eventually water, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption after software upgrades).
MicroCHIPS, an American start-up, is developing smart, implantable microchips which have reservoirs to hold drugs or tiny monitoring devices.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, this has led to the development of a smart T-shirt that contains a web of wiring that is capable of monitoring a number of vital signs at once.
Beyond simply adding some variety to your daily bar graphs, monitoring the depth of your slumber is also key to the success of the Smart Alarm.
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Osborne, who heads Power Agent Systems, which makes battery-management and monitoring systems for data centers, has been paying enough attention to put forward a smart scenario, if not the most likely one.
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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