Beacon Power Corporation announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the terms of its Smart Grid Stimulus Grant program to proceed to the second of three phases of funding for construction of the Company's next 20-megawatt (MW) flywheel energy storage plant, to be located in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania.
Green Energy Corp, a software technology company that enables traditional and emerging power providers to move to the Smart Grid, today announced that it has joined the MultiSpeak Initiative for software application integration and interoperability.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news release: The governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard and a set of guidelines important for making the long-planned "smart" electricity grid a reality. The two documents address the need for wireless communications among grid-connected devices as well as the ability to upgrade household electricity meters as the Smart Grid evolves.
Integrated Device Technology, the Analog and Digital Company delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced a new family of poly-phase power metering ICs that offer the widest dynamic range and lowest temperature coefficient in the industry. These new devices allow smart energy meter manufacturers to increase performance while consolidating functionality and lowering cost. The poly-phase power metering ICs expand on IDT’s award-winning 90E2x family of single-phase devices.
Netgear has announced the release of its N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (WNDR4000). At wireless data rate of up to 750 megabits per second (Mbps), the N750 powers through intense wireless tasks such as streaming HD video, multiplayer gaming and large file transfers. The N750 also acts as a DLNA Media Server for streaming video, music and photos from any storage device plugged into its USB port to DLNA-enabled.
As part of their intelligent home solution, Bang & Olufsen has release an Android version of their BeoLink Software for Mobile devices. Bang & Olufsen customers now have two options – iPhone release last year and now Android. With the new Android app you can access both your home automation and video equipment via the Bang & Olufsen masterlink gateway.
IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, recently announced the formation of three working groups to develop technology standards that will assure improved performance by key fiber-optic components in the Smart Grid.
On May 24 the connected home global summit returns to London. This year’s summit like last year will feature a host of industry key players from all area of the connected home sector. There will be presenters from BT, TiVo, Whirlpool, Google and many more; they will be looking at the 'technology choices and business models that will monetise the connected home'. Service providers and operators should attend to gain insight into how this growing market sector can be adopted to create new revenue streams. Users will learn how the devices and media services they buy are changing.
DSL gateway routers are being release all the time so why should we take any notice of the new Netgear N600 wireless Dual Band Modem Router - DGND3700 and WNDR3700)? Well, according to Netgear they are future proof and packed with features for today’s digital home, with speed and performance at their core. The N600 gives you complete access to your home network such as storage, television and other networked aware devices.
The time has come when you and I will be able to watch the same television program across all three screens (Television, Mobile and PC) without any break in transmission. All thanks to Videoscape and its ability to utilize the cloud, the network and our everyday IP-based (internet protocol) devices to deliver new video experiences over the internet to anywhere we are able to access it.