Smart homes are a starting point, but the next frontier will be smart communities, smart cities and smart regions.
Sharing the lessons we learn will give us a chance of creating more than smart homes - but also smart supply chains, smart regions and a smarter culture.
Energy systems for smart regions will require on the one hand a much higher share of renewable energy sources for heat and electricity and on the other hand a high standard integration of industry and utilities supplying households and businesses.
Our report Smarter regions, smarter Britain will be on his desk and outlines new ways to boost the role of universities and their work with small businesses.
PTS regions were identified either by SMART as regions of low complexity [ 19] or by hand by calculating the percentage of P + T (>40%) and S (>5%) residues in the repeats.
This shortcoming carries over to some of the internal systems that Leed endorses – and which may not be smart for every region.
In the following, we merged the domains as identified by SMART (the DID/DD region is covered by the Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for Drf_GBD and Drf_FH3; a single HMM exists for the FH2 domain).
"The region needs smart initiatives, not smart bombs," growled an editorial in Kuwait's daily al-Rai al-Am.Despite the wave of sourness in the Middle East towards Mr Bush's visit, signs were noted that his administration, albeit late in its tenure, was paying more attention to Arab concerns.
"People say dolphins are cute and smart, but some regions have a tradition of eating dolphin meat," said Toshinori Uoya, a fisheries official.
To manage risk, government spending priorities should be energy efficiency, interconnected grids to link up different power sources across wide regions, smart grids to smooth demand and absorb volatile wind and solar power, and electric cars.
