Industrial Safety: How Gas Sensors Can Save Lives
At gas plants and refineries, industrial safety is critical. Marathon Oil used gas sensors, wireless networks, and a location system to ensure
Topic: Energy
How the energy industry uses real-time analytics, such as through optimized energy production, weather forecasting, building-energy management, demand response, predictive maintenance for equipment, and other uses.
Real-Time Edge Analytics for Microgrids
Quickly deciding whether to store power, rely on a utility, or discharge a battery is difficult on a grid with variable energy sources such as solar. Here's …
Lessons Learned from Duke’s Smart Grid Program
How Duke Energy's smart grid effort improved outage detection, service restoration, voltage control, and reduced energy theft.
Why the Utility of the Future Is Real-Time
As smart grid projects take off, especially on the distribution network, utilities must make the case for real-time
Utilities Need to Get Smarter About Smart Grid
The ability to identify and sort vast quantities of data into the appropriate, actionable “buckets” will be the utilities’ key to success for smart grid …
GE Aims to Digitize Power Production
GE's "digital power plant" employs sensors and real-time analytics across the entire power-production ecosystem, enabling uses such as the optimization of …
Value of Real-Time Data Is Blowing in the Wind
Envision, a power producer, uses Parstream software to crunch real-time data from wind and solar panels. The predictive analytics solution enhances energy …
Building Energy Management: An Optimization Challenge
Using predictive software for building energy management usually entails solving an optimization problem--with the main tradeoff being cost versus comfort. One …
Real-Time Energy Monitoring Catches Commercial Office Building Glitches Before Costs Add Up
Many of today's commercial properties already have high degrees of energy efficiency. However, even the most finely tuned heating and air-conditioning systems …
Making the Smart Microgrid Even Smarter
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has launched an energy-focused test bed called the Communication & Control Testbed for Microgrid Applications. …