The transition to low carbon infrastructure systems required to meet climate change mitigation targets will involve an unprecedented roll-out of technologies reliant upon materials not previously widespread in infrastructure.
The authors of [8] predict further evolution of existing LTE/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems in parallel to the development of new radio-access technologies operating at millimetre wave frequencies even beyond the expected roll-out of 5G technologies by 2020.
The roll-out of new technologies like the GeneXpert MTB in South Africa is promising as its technology might also be used on non-respiratory samples [15]; whether this will change the diagnostic approach cannot be concluded yet as data on its sensitivity and specificity in pericardial effusions is still lacking.
However, abundant potential for implementing low-carbon technologies offers considerable emissions mitigation potential in this sector, and technology transfer is expected to play an important role in the widespread roll-out of these technologies.
The logic was that with a widespread roll-out of renewable technologies, their costs could be reduced and the need for subsidy eliminated.
To achieve the necessary reduction in carbon emissions will require the invention and mass roll-out of new technologies that do not exist yet.
That's why the first roll-outs of autonomous technologies are being deployed in controlled environments.
"At present, the relatively slow roll-out of smarter technology, real time data and network management across the energy, transport and water sectors respectively, is hindering the potential to do so".
The roll-out of new technology in McDonald's in the UK has led to a surge in contactless payments for fast food, with a third of cardholders using the system to pay for food in the last three months of 2011.
Today four collaborative robots work in the facility, and more are coming, in Spartanburg and elsewhere.BMW expects "a big, massive roll-out" of the technology in 2014 in Germany, despite the country's tighter restrictions on human-robot interaction, says Stefan Bartscher, BMW's head of innovation.
"They're joining more than 10 million premises now passed by our fibre network and becoming part of one of the fastest roll-outs of the technology anywhere in the world," he added.
