Tag: energy efficiency
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Can Apple make Home Energy Management sexy?
Will Apple move into home energy management, and if they do, can they make it sexy and front-of-mind for everyone? I made this point in a reply to a post earlier on the IBM Global Eco Jam and I thought it could well do with being fleshed out to a full post here to see…
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IBM Eco Jam kicks off later today with an impressive line-up
Photo credit justmakeit The IBM Global Eco Efficiency Jam kicks off this afternoon (January 27th) at 9am EST (14:00 GMT, 15:00 here in CEST) and continues right on through until Friday afternoon. According to the IBM site the Jam is a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of public and private…
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Costs of running communication networks about to tumble?
Photo credit IronRodArt I saw a report on the Green Data Center Blog today that a new industry group called GreenTouch has been formed with the express aim of reducing the amount of energy communications networks (including the Internet) use. In fact their Global Mission is to, by 2015: deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap…
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There’s gold in them thar bills!
Photo credit Urban Jacksonville The output from smart meters is incredibly granular. Far more so than is obvious from the smart meter output graph above. In conversations with Dr Monica Sturm (Director of Siemen’s Center of Competence, Metering Services) last November (2008) she confirmed to me that it is possible to identify individual devices in…
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Psst! You wanna buy a data center?
Well, ok not an entire data center but my share of the CIX data center. As I have mentioned before, I am moving to Spain in July. When I move, I will no longer be able to make a meaningful contribution to the further development of CIX and in that scenario it would not be…
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CIX on Intruders.tv
We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…