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by Robert Greene Because of the wealth of information presented by Big Data, businesses are asking more difficult questions of their data instead of searching for simple answers in tables that are found in traditional relational databases (RDBs). When presented with the amount of scale and complexity found in Big Data, RDBs often simply...
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by Angela Guess Sunil Soares recently outlined four data governance best practices that can be used by utility companies to better capitalize on their smart meter data. Soares states, “Over the past five years, utilities have been early drivers of big data analytics, largely through regional smart meter projects where it’s been proven that...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports, “The California Independent System Operator Corporation has installed an 80-foot by 6.5-foot screen in its control room to display real-time power-grid data from thousands of endpoints. Its new system is powered by software from Space-Time Insight, whose software melds real-time geospatial data with Google Maps to give...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports “Overlaying the power grid with a communications and control network will provide utilities with terrific new business capabilities. The Smart Grid figures to enable utilities to more effectively offset service theft, to monitor for and blunt the impact of outages, to better foresee and accommodate spikes in...
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by Angela Guess The Obama administration has revealed a policy framework for enabling a smart power grid or ‘smart grid’ that will foster consumer empowerment, reduce energy consumption, and guard against cyber threats: “The 108-page report—‘A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future’–outlines in detail four aspects of smart-grid...
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by Angela Guess We recently reported on the development of a utility smart grid. A new article discusses the inherent challenges in implementing such a grid: “The average big electric utility is a sprawling network that is buzzing with energy but contains surprisingly little data about that energy. Managers at utilities can’t ‘see’ very...
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by Angela Guess A new article takes a look at the application of Big Data in the energy industry, data gained from the so-called Smart Grid: “While utilities do have a learning curve to climb about data management and analytics, end users (residential, commercial, and industrial customers) also need to learn the ramifications of...
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