Discovering Potential Communities in an IoT-based Smart Home Environment
With the proliferation of IoT, multiple smart homes equipped with IoTs can interconnect with each other and form a community which we will call a smart home community. With the aid of a smart home…
How utilities are using big data
Utilities and grid operators are turning to experts to handle the big data they are gathering. Use of data about their systems and their customers varies widely. While it can inform transactive energy services…
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…
