The smart money in the smart-grid space is swimming upstream and doing so as speedily as possible.
The sizeable investments flowing into the smart grid space have the need for deeper data infrastructure systems.
By taking the plunge on FMC Tech, GE is expanding its offerings in a particularly promising area of the smart-grid space: distribution automation.
Outfits operating in the smart-grid space like Accenture, IBM and General Electric would be reckless not to read the writing on the wall revealed by the report.
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.
Unlike Google and Microsoft, most of the remaining companies in the smart-grid space have targeted large electric utilities like Duke Energy and Consolidated Edison of New York with services and products that most consumers have no idea exist.
As interoperability and cyber-security standards become increasingly established over the next year, it will be easier to pick winners and losers in the smart-grid space and perilous for multinationals to sit on the sidelines as their competitors corral control over a promising growth industry.
"There's a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche, " says Nick Rosen, author of "Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America" and editor of www.off-grid.net.
The structural members of the building, cool and subdued against the warm pinks and dull gold of the walls, form a warped grid that at once suggests space and reasserts the flat expanse of the canvas.
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Because the grid is a total democratization of space, with no area designated as more important than any other, every neighborhood creates its own distinct identity, with the capability of reinventing itself, like people, and moving on.
Folders are represented by a smaller grid of icons within a single app icon space, with no other identifying characteristic, which makes them a bit hard to pick out amidst the sea of apps.
Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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