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Enabling Electronics for Smart Grid Technologies & Beyond

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The IEEE Spectrum Online Emerging Technology Forum Series
Event 1: Enabling Electronics for Smart Grid Technologies & Beyond

IEEE Spectrum and the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section got together to present the first in a series of forums on today’s emerging technologies on Nov 30th, 2009 in Mountain View, California.  The video and the panelist slides are now available for viewing to all IEEE members worldwide. Please register for the event or simply log in if you have registered for any Spectrum webinar, to view panelists' discussion and their viewpoints!

DESCRIPTION: The  leading software, database, and data processing companies—Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP among them—are getting seriously interested in the business opportunities that the smart grid will bring. And the platform technology and Si provider Intel sees smart grid as one of the key driving forces in the emerging “embedded internet”, which promises new business opportunities from the largest cloud computing datacenter to the smallest home appliances and everything in-between. But what are those opportunities exactly, and what engineering challenges must be met to seize the day successfully? Specifically, how do power system data differ from (say) travel, sales, or traffic data? What about storage and data security requirements? Are there processing problems that are essentially different from those encountered in other kinds of large, complex systems?

The Edison Electric Institute estimates that in the next five to six years, close to 60 million smart meters will be installed in the United States. Most of the country’s largest and best-known electricity distributors will be giving their customers a tool that they can use to conserve energy and save money—and that the companies themselves can use to improve reliability, maintenance, and book-keeping. The data requirements associated with the smart grid roll-out will be prodigious and a new business opportunity for semiconductor companies and the companies which partner with them.

These are the questions that were addressed by our panelists, representing hardware, software, energy and technology companies.


Host:             IEEE Spectrum
Moderator:   Bill Sweet, senior editor IEEE Spectrum magazine & IEEE Spectrum’s Energywise
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Speakers:     John Skinner, Intel Corporation, Intel Open Energy Initiative

                       Farrokh Albuyeh, Ph.D., Open Access Technology International Vice President,
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                       Shmuel Shaffer, Ph. D., Senior Director -Smart Grid, Cisco

                       Chris Knudsen , Director of the Technology Innovation
                      Center at Pacific Gas & Electric Company
       

 

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