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New York City's Grand Central Station is one of the busiest train terminals in the U.S. -– and sure to be even busier with the approaching July 4 holiday.When Grand Central was built in 1913, the massive 49-acre facility designed in a neoclassical...
Article - 06/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Instrumentation and control
Forecasts of 10 million homes with solar panels by 2020, electric vehicle sales increasing to 6.4 million by 2023 and increasing use of distributed generation is creating unprecedented challenges in managing energy consumption and generation across...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
For students with serious illnesses that keep them out of the classroom for extended periods of time, the consequences can reach beyond simply falling behind in their education. Deprived of the day-to-day social interaction with fellow students and...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Adapting EV battery technology for home and industrial energy storage plants isn’t a new concept. Several car makers have worked to develop the technology. But it took automotive upstart Tesla to successfully take EV battery-based energy storage to...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
You hear a lot of talk about Big Data. But what's really needed is Big Insights. You don't want to drown in the data tsunami. Rather you want your system to parse that data on its own and pull out the key alerts, issues, and opportunities for your...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Michael Edmonds, president of U.S. business for S&C, is at the podium during a plant opening event that included remarks by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (at left).The timing couldn’t have been better. Council Lead Partner S&C Electric opened its...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
When the water supply is short -- as it is now in regions around the world due to drought -- many fingers get pointed at groups that appear to be the biggest water wasters. But at least some of those fingers should be pointed at municipal water...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partners S&C Electric Company and Schneider Electric completed one of the most advanced microgrids in the North America for Oncor, an electric transmission and distribution company serving 10 million customers across Texas. The...
Resources - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When Kansas City Board of Public Utilities installed a water and electric AMI system in 2013, in addition to improving service and reliability, they hoped to empower customers to be wiser energy and water consumers. That goal prompted staff to make...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The Makkah Clock Tower, located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world’s largest clock tower and the second tallest building. It has 76 stories and is 577 meters high. It is a vast complex with hotels, shopping outlets, food courts, and...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
With a smarter grid and advanced outage management technologies, power interruptions can be avoided or the duration greatly reduced, as this video from Council Associate Partner Elster explains.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Nontechnical loss of energy and water is a problem that utilities around the world face. Watch this video from Council Associate Partner Elster to learn more about the problem and technology that can help solve it.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Learn about smart technologies that help utilities optimize transformer performance in this brief video from Council Associate Partner Elster.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
The need for increased spending paired with decreasing base water use, source of supply issues, and tighter regulations is proof that the water industry is in significant disarray. In the white paper linked below, West Monroe Partners, a Council...
Resources - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control