Date: April 29, 2013
Publication: ECN

In the April issue of Electronic Component News (ECN), Oleg Logvinov, senior IEEE member, and Director, Market Development, STMicroelectronics, offered his response to the question What home energy technology do you expect to see as a breakthrough in the next 12 months?

Oleg focuses on home energy management systems and the technological breakthrough needed to make them "as common as refrigerators". He notes that while these systems have existed for some time, their use has been limited to a small subset of the population. He suggests that a new generation of systems equipped with sophisticated software capable of learning necessary algorithms yet capable of adapting to environmental conditions and parameters will enable home energy systems to become an everyday household item. He further explains that this new generation of software must support better interaction with users, such as User Interfaces (UI) able to maintain a consistent look-and-feel across multiple access points, like smartphones, tablets, or big-screen televisions, and voice and gesture recognition.

Read the full text of Smart grid technology of the future: What home energy technology do you expect to see as a breakthrough in the next 12 months? now at ECN.

Date: April 4, 2013
Publication: Mission-Critical Communications

This article in Mission-Critical Communications discusses how utilities can use private and public networks to support mission-critical and ‘mission casual’ communications reliably and securely. This material is valuable to its readership in the power, communications, and public safety arenas, which in the case of a disaster-recovery situation will need to work together. The article presents technology and business case information on grid modernization today and in the future. Read more.

Date: February 27, 2013
Publication: Government Technology

Massoud Amin is a self-described geek on a mission. The multilingual brainiac is supercharged about transforming the electric grid into a self-healing, sustainable and resilient smart grid. Read more.