Smart grid companies that have exited through successful M&As, of late — including Mincom which was acquired by ABB this month, or Opal Software which was acquired back in October 2010 by GE Energy — have been involved in operating software, and back-end, IT management more than metering for the consumer, like that provided by Tendril or EnergyHub, or on metering in general.
Josh Pennell, IOActive's chief executive and founder, argues that smart meters in general are being pushed to market too fast to build them securely.
These popular experimental simulation methods are thus not able to investigate fluid flow at the nano-metre scale because the maximum precision of these techniques is on the micro-meter scale in general.
However, the spatial resolution achieved by these techniques is at best of the order of a few meters and, in general, spatial proximity or co-location of wearable devices are not necessarily a good proxy for a social interaction between the individuals carrying them.
Meters are not in general use and some rights-holders need report what they do with water only every three years.
During measurements, water temperatures in the measurement cell were logged continuously using a calibrated type-T thermocouple connected to a meter TC-10000, Systemsystems); in general, temperature deviated <0.5°C from the water bath's set point.
The boundary between 'shallow water' and 'deep sea' for stylasterid corals was defined at a depth of 50 meters, as previously adopted for corals in general [16].
Researchers say that, in general, niche stations suffer under the meter.
In general, to go from centimeters to meters, shift the decimal two places to the left, and to go from meters to centimeters, shift it two places to the right.
The report concluded: "In general, there has been good feedback about the smart meter trials, including positive comments about billing accuracy, reduced need for meter reads and improved ability to track household energy consumption".
In general, privacy concerns and communication overhead on the smart meter side are seldomly addressed.
