But EnerNOC also wants to use the equipment it has installed and the data it collects to offer something called "continuous commissioning": making sure that big buildings, for instance, do not start to waste energy.The other two technology stacks of a smart grid are more straightforward, but no less promising.
Also, to minimize the participation of puppy mills and other opportunistic sellers on the owner-side of things, Wagaroo doesn't give the fees it collects to whoever offers the dog for adoption; instead, it uses the money to sustain the shelter system and its own website.
The chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, Darvin M. Winick, said collecting information to offer a context for the test results -- for example, the time spent on homework -- was a "legitimate use".
"I view Orbit as a form of incubation, as a holding space, a collecting space to offer another batch of material to the driving questions of human capacity to destroy one another and this planet".
Belkin hopes crowdsourcing will help improve Echo Electricity's performance: the company is running a contest through the big-data site Kaggle, asking data scientists to pore over data collected thus far to offer improvements to its machine-learning algorithms.
In some cases, those plugins would collect browsing data to offer information to users about things like web rankings or reach of the sites they're on, but other plugins were not as obvious about their intentions.
1 The aims may be to detect recurrence of tumour, to monitor late effects of treatment, to collect data and to offer patients an opportunity to raise concerns or anxieties arising from their cancer.
She opened up the lot across the street to the strangers who came, and collected donations from neighbors to offer them food.
Collected data were designed to offer basic information on the assessment of coal quality and further to reveal possible factors controlling on coal quality.
