May 24, 2011, Connectivity Week, Santa Clara, CA—a panel of representatives from known brands looked at the issues facing Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS). What is the interest in energy management from both a monitoring and control viewpoint, and can the existing home network be leveraged? Glen Stone from CEA moderated the panel. Panel members…
May 12, 2011, Smart Power Grid Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Kishore Maghnani from Marvell talked about the other side of the smart grid, the user side of the meter. Currently, majority of people who have smart meters do not check for the information available at the utility’s site. Lifestyle changes are being driven by a…
May 12, 2011, Smart Power Grid Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Edward Cazalet, CEO of TeMix talked about the need to support and create infrastructure with emphasis on renewable energy in light of increased variability in demand. He suggested a new set of standards and protocols for energy transactions to address these new needs. Cazalet is…
April 5, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Tom Hammond-Doel from the SNIA discussed the new standards for storage system energy efficiency. The growing concerns about energy have driven the SNIA to develop ways to evaluate and rank the energy use of a storage system. The organization started to work on the issue in ’06…
March 16, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara,Ca—Manas Saksena, director of technology at Marvell Semiconductor looked at the opportunities and challenges for the semiconductor industry in “smart homes”. The combination of wi-fi integrated with a microcontroller and memory enables extensions into new markets and applications. The emergence of the iPad and other tablet computers opens the house…
February 21, 2011, ISSCC, San Francisco–The plenary session ended with a roundtable discussion entitled ” Beyond the Horizon: The Next 10X Reduction I Power- challenges and Solutions”. The panel looked at the challenges and changes needed to achieve a order of magnitude reduction in power consumption. Jan Rabaey from UC Berkeley moderated the discussion, assisted…
By Pallab Chatterjee May 18, 2010 – Santa Clara, CA. At today’s 6th annual Nanotechnology conference, the focus was on the directions for research and new applications for nanotechnology materials. Although the majority of the sessions were focused on NanoBio and NanoMedicine, there were several presentations on power that were related to the entertainment…