Smart Sensors
This article is part of the March 2014 special report on the Internet of Things, a network of items—each embedded with sensors—which are connected to the Internet. Sensors, actuators, and RFID tags have been around…
Setting the Stage for the Internet of Things
This article is part of the March 2014 special report on the Internet of Things, a network of items—each embedded with sensors—which are connected to the Internet. The IEEE Standards Association has been developing IoT…
Urban Computing Reveals the Hidden City
We want our tools to sing of not just productivity but of our love of curiosity, the joy of wonderment, and the freshness of the unknown. —Eric Paulos, “Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation” Illustration:…
A significant improvement in Demand Side Management communications technologies towards smart appliances direct control
Data has been transmitted across a national electricity grid for the first time, in what could be a significant step towards the creation of virtual power stations, where many thousands of homes and businesses combine…
The ELVIS (Electricity Verkko Information System) solution
Together, cognitive computing and Internet of Things are poised to transform whole industries — and nowhere is this more critical than the power industry where outages and system failures can have deep and lasting impacts. Fingrid,…
EV charging: Just another element in the Internet of Energy
Charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) are proliferating at an accelerating pace worldwide. While public charging networks have been available in North America and Europe for some time, efforts to provide PEV charging infrastructure…
50 billion connected Internet of Things devices by 2020
Even though there are only 15 billion devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) today, a new report found that there will be 50 billion devices by 2020 — according to a new report by…
Smart appliance market grows – security risks too?
Just a couple of years ago, many in the energy industry criticized the earlier models of smart appliances as something consumers could not possibly want — not yet and certainly not at those prices and…
