| GridWise seeks to modernize the nation's electric system - from central generation to customer appliances and equipment - and create a collaborative network filled with information and abundant market-based opportunities. Through GridWise, we can weave together the most productive elements of our traditional infrastructure with new, seamless plug-and-play technologies. Using advanced telecommunications, information and control methods, we can create a "society" of devices that functions as an integrated, transactive system. |
|
| IP Phones and Building Automation - An overview and case studies of the opportunities that the growth of IP telephony offers the Building Automation industry. Key issues addressed include an explanation of the use of XML within IP telephones, factors driving the growth of this technology, typical architectures, examples where BAS can leverage the IT infrastructure, and factors driving future solutions. |
|
| XML and Web Services in Retail Chains--XML & Web Services provide unprecedented connectivity between disparate systems. Retail chains are exceptionally positioned to take advantage of this new technology. Corporate control, more efficient operation through data sharing, and consolidation of digital systems in retail is inevitable in the coming years. Learn how to take advantage of these new opportunities.
|
|
| Selling systems to colleges and Universities is a frustrating long-sales-cycle low turn-around business. Frankly, we like to run our systems until we can no longer strap them together with baling wire because we see no real benefits from most upgrades. Universities are driven my information and social conscience, things that control systems do not often provide. The benefits of open systems based upon XML increase the value of controls upgrades to the University and will thereby drive upgrades and shorten sales cycles. |
|
|
