Accenture's researchers are also dreaming up ways for the elderly to share digital scrapbooks online with their grandchildren, and smart systems that talk you through simple home-improvement tasks, such as installing a new light fixture.
Which will be a problem for those trying to sell unsmart applications of smart systems at a premium (jeans that tweet, I am looking at you), but an opportunity for small companies looking to sell products with an aesthetic or emotional appeal augmented by their smartness.
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The move comes as Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) bids to take advantage of a drive to fit every UK home with a smart meter by 2020.
Net 1, he says, is working on smart card systems for Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Colombia.
Technologies including multi-core processor chips, more efficient power supplies and smart cooling systems are already available.
Smart software systems can analyze building information for trends and comparisons, and feed the results back into ever-improving energy reduction strategies.
Renewable resources to batteries and smart grid systems to store that -- and transmit that energy, to technologies like advanced lighting that help conserve energy.
Hospitals are almost always the most expensive place to deliver care so smart health systems are developing new models with a fresh start what I call the Xboxification of Healthcare.
Other California policies support storage more indirectly, she pointed out, including the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), the renewable portfolio standard, and incentive programs for self-generation, smart grid systems, and solar systems.
Now GE sells wind turbines, smart grid systems and oil and gas technology around the world, as well as the big gas power turbines that made it an industry leader in the U.S. a long time ago.
The HDD companies, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are participating in better management of storage device energy use, as are flash manufacturers such as SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba and many flash based storage equipment suppliers such as Skyera, Smart Storage Systems and Virident.
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 addition to netbooks, the Atom microprocessor is used in a variety of other places including smartphones, tablets, car infotainment systems, smart TVs, low power consuming servers, and energy management systems.
As utilities move from planning to implementation of smart-grid systems, they will face a clutch of financial, regulatory and technical challenges.
June 2011, right now, is a great time to be buying shares in the four companies that make smart phone operating systems.
Led by artificial-intelligence expert David Waltz, CCLS has created a clutch of compelling smart-grid systems for Con Edison over the past five or six years.
In January of last year, cybersecurity researcher Travis Goodspeed gave a presentation at the S4 conference in Miami where he described a way to bypass encryption on Zigbee wireless chips, which some smart electric metering systems would use to communicate.
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Audi has been at this Quattro thing a long time now, and the company's current all-wheel-drive architecture multiclutch Torsen center diff combined with electronically locking front diff and limited-slip rear diff, all girded together with the ever-evolving stability and smart-braking systems is excellent traction for money.
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Abtech has already sold Smart Sponge-based systems to dozens of municipalities, industrial sites and airports.
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Whether it is productivity in the workplace, efficiency in travel, staying in touch or enjoyment in our leisure time, computers, smart phones and networked systems make it possible.
The unprecedented proliferation of smart sensors and control systems over the last decade are now being used in buildings to detect or sense various conditions and emit alerts or responses.
In fact, antivirus firms in general have yet to prove that mobile devices even need extra security software, given the fractured operating systems on smart phones and the low rate of infection on the relatively new platforms.
Along with a range of chargers that includes the GE DuraStation, WattStation Wall and WattStation Connect, GE provides the full range of electrical systems and smart grid technology necessary to develop and manage a complete electric vehicle infrastructure.
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"They might jam a smart device to make systems not available in the airport, or play with the bar code of flight tickets, so that you can have access to a space you shouldn't have access to, " he says, while admitting that these scenarios are extreme.
But cybersecurity experts said some types of meters can be hacked, as can other points in the Smart Grid's communications systems.
In fact, our analog semiconductor solutions are increasingly at the heart of everything from smartphones to smart appliances to home security systems to satellites to medical sensors to hybrid vehicles.
These systems must be smart enough to independently switch back and forth from solar when the sun is out to fuel at night or when there is heavy cloud cover.
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The energy efficiency tools can be used with a network of assets such as smart meters, smart plugs and building management systems to keep a tab on real-time energy use of corporate assets.
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In its tenth year of operations, Hillcrest has designed its newest products to make the integration of natural user interfaces possible in a wide range of markets, such as television and digital media, smart boards, virtual reality systems, and many others.
So, good list, Forbes, but you left out the most important tools of all, the cognitive artifacts that have truly made us smart: writing and notational systems, objects of travel and information technology, which really picked up somewhere around the development of the telegraph, but could be argued to have developed earlier with the wide variety of signaling systems.
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