Furthermore, by leveraging this data, businesses will be able to offer personalised services for users, for example smart meter data could permit utilities to offer new tariffs, such as time-of use pricing which will encourage end-users to use energy in off-peak times when it is cheaper.
Member States should encourage end-users to take the necessary steps to protect their terminal equipment against viruses and spyware.
[Read the rest and come back.] Here's our chat: It's clearly smart to have policies that give incentives to utilities to benefit from, and thus encourage, end-user efficiency; but this has a "back to the future" feel, echoing the norm a couple decades ago, before deregulation split the electricity generation and distribution industry in ways that killed such incentives.
In addition to its university programs, CERIAS encourages end-users throughout Indiana to practice secure computing.
But the focus on patient advocacy groups encouraged end-user engagement, which over time generated meaningful collaboration opportunities and attracted investment from more-established players, including Motorola.
These efforts by the electricity transmission companies appear to be losing steam as countries all over the world introduce green feed-in tariffs to encourage millions of end users to produce their own green electricity and share it across an Energy Internet.
The main reason was that competing WMSN approaches that emerged in the last few years provide mesh capabilities (e.g., robustness, scalability, multi-hop mesh routing, or energy efficiency, among others) to conventional WSN-based applications, encouraging researchers and end users to adopt new perspectives and solutions.
Another design tweak meant to encourage participation is how the links are presented to end users.
Requiring a stand-alone structure for dealers will tend to encourage new entrants and bring the benefits of competition to end users in all sectors of the economy.
The Federal Reserve can make liquidity available but it cannot lend to end users, and in fact, through stress testing and reserve requirements, seems to encourage restraint.
